Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz was one of the two women representatives at the First Round Table Conference, one of the three women representatives at the Second Round Table Conference, and the only woman at the Third Round Table Conference. Later on, when the Joint Select Committee was formed to finalize the Government of India Act, of 1935, Jahanara was the only woman member of it.
According to historians, Begum Mahboob Fatima was the first Muslim woman in Delhi to have been sentenced to prison for waging ‘the war against the Crown’.
Nandini Satpathy served as a minister in the Indira Gandhi government before being chosen as CM of Odisha. In her long public career, she never lost an election.
It all began with that anti-British protest where, as an eight-year-old, Satpathy was beaten up by the police.
Syed Hasan Imam: A sketch of his life and career by G.A. Natesan & Co., Publishers, George Town, Madras
Zinat Un Nisa Masjid: Which was used by the British as barrack and later as a bakery.
Dr Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari belonged to a very well-known family of Hakims. To recognise and acknowledge his surgical skills, the Charing Cross hospital entitled a ward in his name which is known as the “Ansari ward”.
14 अगस्त 1942 को पटना शहर पर पुरी तरह से ब्रिटिश और […]
एक आम समझ ये रही है कि भारत छोड़ो आंदोलन कांग्रेस बल्कि महात्मा […]
भारत छोड़ो आंदोलन में महिलाओं की भरपूर भागीदारी थी। उन्होंने आंदोलन में न […]
भारत छोड़ो आंदोलन के समय ये तैय हो गया था के देश […]
बंबई से बिहार के प्रतिनिधियों के पहुंचने से पहले ही 9 अगस्त 1942 […]
1857 की क्रांति के बाद अगर भारत में आज़ादी की ख़ातिर किसी आंदोलन […]
Rakshabandhan is observed on the last day of the Hindu lunar calendar month […]
Reading history becomes more interesting when we realise the silences in the narratives we study or listen to. One such less talked about, but important, event is the Police Mutiny of Patna during the last week of March in 1947.
John Venables Sturt, who was stationed near Jhansi during 1857, claimed that the Muslim woman accompanying Rani was Moondar and that only Moondar was martyred on the spot while Rani Lakshmibai could not be killed by the British bullets.
William Tayler, Commissioner of Patna Division till August, 1857, thus, refers to it, “for some years past, this city (Patna) has been considered a very sink of disaffection and intrigue.
Here I am reproducing a letter written by Wahabi Leader Syed Ahmed Barelvi to a Maratha leader Raja Hindu Rai asking for his help in throwing away the foreign rule.
P.C Roy, implicitly, contends that the arrest and case against Sheikh Gulab may be one of the reasons that Khudiram Bose attacked Kingsford in Muzaffarpur.
Jaipal Singh Munda was born in 1903 in a tribal family of Bihar. Under the guardianship of Canon Cosgrave, principal St. Paul’s School in Ranchi, he took his initial education and got baptized in 1918. Cosgrave after retirement took him to England where he got admitted to Oxford for further studies. These were the formative years of a tribal leader in him. Here he got to study with the likes of Verrier Elwin, obviously which should have some impact over his later understanding.
Raj Narain Mishra, an Indian freedom fighter whose elder brother Baburam Mishra was sentenced for 38 years for fighting against the British, led raids on the British establishments with his group during the Quit India Movement, 1942. A resident of Lakhimpur Kheri, U.P he was charged with revolutionary raids in Unnao and was sentenced to death.
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.
Why do we celebrate the Republic Day of India on 26 January?
Zafaruddin Bihari: A scholar and Former Principal of Madrasa Shamsul Hoda
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
