In all probability Muslims planning to slaughter cows were also paid agents of the British because cow slaughter was already banned by Bahadur Shah Zafar. So it was planned that on 2nd August cows will be slaughtered on Eid to fan communal tensions in Delhi. As soon as Hindus and Muslims started fighting the British army would attack the city.
अरूण सिंह 1857 में स्वाधीनता संग्राम की पहली लड़ाई या सिपाही विद्रोह […]
आप अजनबी हैं, नही तो ऐसा सवाल नही करते, ये सब झूठी कहानियाँ हैं, ये कहानियाँ भड़काने के लिए फैलाई जाती हैं, नफ़रत तो पहले से भी कम नही, ये बात बिलकुल सही है कि अंग्रेज़ बच्चों और औरतों का ख़ून बहाया गया है लेकिन किसी की आबरु पर हमला नही किया गया, ये हमारी तहज़ीब और रस्म व रिवाज के ख़िलाफ़ है, हिंदुस्तान से लेकर लंदन तक की अख़बारों में जो ये ख़बरें हैं; ये सब बे बुनियाद हैं!
हफ़ीज़ किदवई कुछ तारीख़ें सिर्फ़ तारीख़ भर नही होती बल्कि पूरे एक ज़माने […]
क़ाज़ी ज़ुल्फ़ीक़ार अली बिहार के जहानाबाद ज़िला के क़ाज़ी दौलतपुर के रहने […]
A buried chapter of India’s First War of Independence, when hundreds of Indian soldiers who rebelled against the East India Company, captured Sehore and taken over administration.
Md Umar Ashraf बाबरी मस्जिद और राम मंदिर का असली खेल 1857 […]
Maulvi Muhammad Baqir was the first Indian journalist to be executed by the British for spreading messages and news of Mutiny against the British.
One of the letters seized from Waris Ali, informs William Tayler, expressed resentment against the wealth amassed by the European planters. The same day, he was hanged till death.
Indian Mutiny, Fate of Jama Masjid and other Islamic Buildings of Delhi:
Madarsah-i-Rahimiya was the most important Islamic research institution of India. It was established by Shaikh Abdur Rahim, a Sufi and great theologian of his time.
Akbarabadi Mosque was demolished; two other were desecrated but not demolished. No photographic documentary evidence of this mosque existed until few years back it was surfaced in Felice Beato’s 1858 series of photography of Delhi
History of Indian subcontinent Zinat-un-Nissa masjid was commissioned by Zinat-un-Nissa begum, daughter of […]
Charity is one of the five basic tenets of Islam and it was […]
The Fatehpuri mosque and its platform were released for worship, but the quadrangle and shops below were sold by auction.
Extensive looting during the Siege of Delhi is described: “On one occasion… he came back with thirteen wagons loaded with spoil, and among other valuables, eighty thousand rupees- in English money eight thousand pounds.”
An account provided by Mirza Asadullah Ghalib in his many letters to his friends and students about the misfortunes that descended upon the women after the Indian Rebellion of 1857
After taking the king and his family as prisoners, Hodson left his Sikh cavalry to guard the Humayun Tomb. They were assigned to keep an eye on the nobles who were still taking refuge at the tomb area and were under arrest. Their destiny looked much shoddier after the arrest of Bahadur Shah Zafar.
Begum Hazrat Mahal challenged the British force by inspiring patriotism among the people and their fellow native rulers. She issued a historic statement challenging the proclamation issued by Queen Victoria
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
