Exploring lesser known History
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad laid the foundations of modern Indian education as the country’s first Education Minister, from IIT Kharagpur and the UGC to the national cultural academies. Yet with ASER 2024 showing weak foundational learning and gaps persisting for Muslims and women, his dream of educational equality remains unfinished.
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Born in Delhi in 1817, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan believed that Muslims could not rebuild their future by recalling past glory alone. On his 209th birth anniversary, a look at the Scientific Society, the Aligarh Movement and the college that became Aligarh Muslim University.
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In October 1988, nearly five lakh farmers led by Mahendra Singh Tikait occupied Delhi’s Boat Club. By 1993 protest had moved to a narrow road beside an 18th-century observatory. This is how the state redesigned the geography of dissent.
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More than four decades back when media people, of course the print media journalists, were seen with high respect, would
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In 1909, Gandhi shared key ideas from G. K. Chesterton’s article on Indian nationalism in Indian Opinion. Explore the essay and its possible influence on Hind Swaraj.
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In December 1979, Pakistan got its first Nobel. Dr. Abdus Salam was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with
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To recover Anilbaran Roy is not simply to add another name to the history of Indian nationalism. It is to look again at the teachers, organisers, artists and thinkers through whom nationalism was actually lived, and at the ideas about history and India’s future that continued to shape their lives after the political struggle itself had changed.
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The partition of India in 1947 was not only a political event or bifurcation of a nation into two parts.
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And the communal seed that has been sown in our hearts, in our lives by the British needs to be taken apart, needs to be called out.
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Arrested on August 9, 1942, alongside fellow leaders including Babu Banarsi Das, he was initially detained at Bulandshahr District Jail before being moved to Bareilly Central Jail. His incarceration later took him to Naini Jail in Allahabad, where he was imprisoned alongside prominent figures such as Rafi Ahmad Kidwai (1894-1954), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-1966), and Gobind Sahai (190-1967).
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Partition remains a warning about the consequences of political polarisation, hurried constitutional engineering and the transformation of identity into territorial nationalism.
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The Struggle of Bihari Muslims Against the Muslim League and the Partition of India The history of Bihar’s Muslims during
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A Historical Tribute on the 46th Death Anniversary of the Legendary Playback Singer Mohammed Rafi (31 July 1980-31 July 2026)
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All parts of the East have done wonderful things for the world which the West have “discovered”,
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Siddiqi, along with several student activists and a supportive faculty member, including Khalil Rahman, secretary of the Progressive Writer’s Association, Mirza Mumtaz Hussain, President of the students’ Federation, S.M. Tonki was arrested because of his leading role in the movement.
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Contrary to British expectations, the partition strengthened rather than weakened nationalist sentiment.
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Daudnagar, a historic town in the Aurangabad district of Bihar, stands as a forgotten testimony to the rich political, economic,
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Discover the untold story of Madhusudan Das, the Maker of Modern Odisha, who stepped up as the first Health Minister of the newly created Bihar and Orissa province in 1921. While history remembers his fight for the Oriya people, his legacy in Bihar includes battling devastating plagues, establishing vital medical infrastructure, and ultimately resigning over a matter of profound personal principle.
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The 1857 uprising in Meerut was not a mere sepoy mutiny fueled by superstition, but a coordinated, secular, and nationalist war of independence. Explore how united Indian soldiers struck the first major blow against the British Empire.
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Despite guiding West Bengal through the turbulent days of India’s partition as its very first Chief Minister, Prafulla Chandra Ghosh remains a largely forgotten figure in history. Explore the fascinating life of this brilliant chemist, revolutionary, and staunch Gandhian.
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