Sir Ali Imam, an icon of nationalism, as remembered by Sachchidananda Sinha
An excerpt written on Sir Ali Imam by Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha, in his book ‘Some Eminent Behar Contemporaries’, wherein he is described as an icon of nationalism.
An excerpt written on Sir Ali Imam by Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha, in his book ‘Some Eminent Behar Contemporaries’, wherein he is described as an icon of nationalism.
Bibi Soghra was an “enlightened, socially conscious, and wise woman” who chose to donate her property in the service of the community and the country instead of giving it to her relatives.
Recently Sultan Palace of Patna has been in the news for the very same reason. The Bihar Government wants to demolish it while the people of Patna want to save this heritage building. For most of them, it is an issue concerning a heritage building but it is much more than that.
Sultan Palace was built by Sir Sultan Ahmed almost a century ago. Sir Sultan Ahmed is mostly remembered as a jurist and educationist but very few in India remember him as a person who campaigned against the partition and put his life in danger to keep India united.
Yes, you read it correctly. On 27 October, 1947, Sultan Ahmed was held hostage at his official residence in Hyderabad by 30,000 Razakars of Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen led by Qasim Rizvi, the leader of Razakars. Wielding swords this huge band of Razakars took an army battalion led by Brigadier Gilbert to stop.
He participated in the Khilafat movement and served as the president of the Bhagalpur District Khilafat Committee. He organised Khilafat meetings and collected Turkish relief fund. He also took part in the Non-cooperation movement.
In his welcome address at Bihar Provincial conference at Bhagalpur on 28th August, 1920, he stressed the need of national unity for the success of Non-cooperation movement against the British Government. He was ardent believer of Hindu-Muslim unity and communal peace. He was a man of broad outlook and secular character.
Syed Ali Hussain, widely regarded as the chief architect of Pakistan’s Public Works Department, oversaw the development of Islamabad.
Shah Wajihuddin Minhaji has left a diary, Meri Tamanna, containing all these details. On February 1936, he noted in his diary, “meri tamanna hai k maadar e watan ki urban gah par meri jan qurban ho jaaye” I wish I could sacrifice my life for my motherland.
The life and works of Mr. Syed Raza Imam of Chapra. An active participant in the social and political movements of his time, he made effective contributions to them.
October 30 is the first death anniversary of noted economist, former head and chairman of the Department of Economics at McMaster University, Canada, Prof Syed Ahmad. An alumnus of Jamia Millia, Patna University, Aligarh Muslim University and London School of Economics, Ahmad taught at universities in Aligarh, Khartoum (Sudan), Kent (England) and McMaster (Canada), was visiting professor at many other institutions and has left a legion of students and admirers across the globe.
As PUSU president (elected in alliance between Samajwadi Yuvraj Sabha and Vidyarthi Parishad), Lalu was member of government committees of Patna district and had successfully persuaded the administration to have special counters for students in all cinema halls. PUSU president was entitled with telephones in the office and residence and hostel room.
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Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha, a close friend of Mazharul Haque writes about him giving a clear picture of amicable relationship between Hindus and Muslims in London in the late 19th century. During this period when Indians were engaged in political activism in England; religion was merely an issue let alone sectarianism among Muslims being Shia or Sunni.
chaapa’s. It’s a traditional Bihari bridal dress with silver block print. This dress was especially designed to be worn by the bride on the day of Nikah.
No Bihari Muslim nikah ceremony is complete without the chaapa & so even I got a chance to wear it in one of the cousins wedding.
The word chaapa came from chaap
The biggest achievement of Khuda Baksh was creating a public library from the precious collections of his father and making his own valuable collection of books, which was later named as “Oriental Public Library”.
He started constructing a separate special building for the library, which was completed in two years. The library was inaugurated by the Lieutenant Governor of Bangal Sir Charles Elliot in 1891. At that time it was having around 4000 hand written books in the library.
In January 1883 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan delivered a speech in Patna, emphasizing the need for cordial relations between Hindus and Muslims. Excerpts from this speech follow.
It is important to revisit the many monuments that have been destroyed in the past five years, under Mr. Nitish Kumar’s chief-ministry.
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The Nazareth Hospital needs an hour to treat people, suffering from COVID-19, residing in this community where patients struggle at home as hospitals choke.
During my (Bipin Chandra Pal) college life in Calcutta, the country was passing through great political changes that had a lasting effect upon social and political evolution. During the closing years of my school days, Lord Mayo was the Indian Viceroy. His brief Viceroyalty was noted for the deportation of the Wahabi leader, Amir Khan.
The seminars, workshops, elocution and essay competitions and poetry recitation sessions Dr Bedar held at KBL provided fuel to the minds in an atmosphere which was redolent with communalisation and criminalisation of politics and politicisation of crime. The library kept us informed, engaged and entertained too.
During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
In 1839, Samuel Morse, reputed as the telegraph pioneer, laid the first telegraph lines connecting Washington to Baltimore. In India, the same year, O’Shaughnessy completed 21 miles of a telegraph line wrapped around trees and vast stretches which included a river crossing of 4 miles as an experiment.
Democracy is an occidental idea. A Hindu cannot comprehend it as long as he is a Hindu. It is against his religious belief. The divisions of Varna are the basis of his religion. He cannot see without distress a Brahman or Kshtriya serving a Sudra. A Brahman may beg or even may die, yet he will never touch a dish from which a Sudra has partaken food.
Allama Iqbal Letter to Mahatma Gandhi, declining the offer of Vice-chancellorship of Jamia Millia Islamia, Aligarh, 29th November 1920.
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Syed Mohammad Moin ul Haq, a name that resonated with brilliance and intellect, emerged from the humble town of Asthawan, Nalanda district in 1881.
The photograph shows Mirza Ilahi Bakhsh, or Shahzada Muhammad Hideyat Afza, in 1862. This man was from the Royal house of Mughals who had helped the British in 1857 and played an instrumental role in the surrender of Bahadur Shah Zafar at Humayun’s Tomb. For his ‘services’, the British recognized him as the Chief Representative of the Royal Mughal Family in 1858. Mirza was also granted jagirs at Meerut and Delhi with a pension of Rupees 22,830 P.A.
The report was prepared by Reuters and shows that Indian Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs living in Europe did not accept the partition in 1948