Exploring lesser known History
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.
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First Ajmer Urs after the independence was Hindu Muslim unity example
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Kesava Shankar Pillai, considered to be the father of political cartoons in India, worked as a cartoonist for the Hindustan Times till 1946 before starting his own journal ‘Shankar’s Weekly’. Below is the text of a note written for the public by Jawaharlal Nehru (then the President of Congress) on 24 February 1937. Nehru had famously told him after becoming the Prime Minister, “Don’t Spare me, Shankar”.
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Following is an excerpt from the AMU’s Convocation Address delivered by Jayaparakash Narayan on 10 February 1968.
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Today he is posing to be a very honest man and a Champion of the farmers. All opposition parties also think that he can be their saviour. What did he do for the poor, the farmers and minorities when he was in the Government?
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Following is the text from the 15 June 1945 edition of Indian Information (a journal published by the British-controlled Government of India during the Second World War). The title of the item was ‘Imam’s Visit to Indian Troops in the Middle East’
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In a historic proclamation, Maulana Asad Madni, leader of Jamiat Ulamai Hind, shared the formation of the All India Palestine Committee. This committee was established in August 1967, to address the grave issue of the loss of the Holy Places, including Baitul Muqaddas, Palestine, and other Arab territories seized by Israel.
Jamiat Ulamai Hind played a significant role in the Indian Freedom struggle against British rule, stood firmly against the division of India and emphasized the importance of justice and the security of Arabia. The formation of this committee highlights the commitment of Jamiat Ulamai Hind to the cause of Arab victims of Israeli aggression and the freedom of Afro-Asian countries from imperialist control.
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A massive earthquake rocked Bihar on 15 January 1934 killing thousands of people. Mahatma Gandhi believed that the earthquake was a punishment from God because people in Bihar were agitating against his attempts to abolish untouchability.
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It was Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, who compelled the British Government at the peak of its power to remove the Black Hole Memorial-a stigma on the fair name of Nawab Siraj-ud Daula. Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan stand supreme among freedom-fighters-time and again they compelled British arms to surrender ignominiously.
When Ashfaqullah was asked to offer an apology to the British Government, he retorted sharply, ‘Let a Muslim also sacrifice his life for the country.’ Of such stuff were the brave souls who broke but would not bend made. In the military sphere, in modern India, there is one such person and his achievements require impartial and unbiased judgement. He is Nawab Amir Khan, the ruler of Tonk State in Rajasthan from A.D. 1817 to 1834. He is popularly known as Mir Khan or Amir Khan Pindari.
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“The city’s (Amritsar’s) residents feel Gandhi (Mahatma) had no role in Amritsar (Jallianwala Bagh tragedy). Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew, the local Punjabi leader, remains the most significant personality for them.”
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This Letter was submitted to Sub-Committee on Minorities of the Constituent Assembly of India by Abdul Qaiyum Ansari on July 24, 1947
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Gandhi, Nehru, Ansari, Zafar, Malviya, Sarojini & Azad in Film Theatres ?
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The Residency Agent at Sharjah wrote to the Political Agent, in Bahrain (both were representatives of the British Empire), “a British subject (Indian) in Dubai named Tiradas Dhamanmal, manager of the firm Dhamanmal Isardas is reported to be anti-British”. T
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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.
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If I tell you that the famous Urdu poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal was a supporter of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh and fought a legal battle for the great Indian revolutionary will you believe ? You should. Because, it is true.
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Under Netaji Bose, the INA’s motto of Ittefaq (Unity), Itmad (Faith), and Kurbani (Sacrifice) no doubt preferred Hindustani words of Persio-Arabic extraction, but the invocation of spiritually-charged terms such as “faith” and “sacrifice” remained.”
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People welcomed him, and his family, as a pilgrim coming back from one of the most sacred places of Islam. While in fact, he did not plan to visit Makkah and Medina.
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Following is an excerpt of the trial of Maulana Shaukat Ali at Karachi Court in September, 1929
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Often, different quotes from Maulana Azad are cherry picked by people on social media according to their political convenience without ever realizing the context. I am sharing his address from 17 April, 1946, where he talked about the idea of Pakistan in detail. Excerpts from this speech are often cherry picked to prove points entirely unrelated to the context. I hope the speech will clear many misconceptions regarding Azad’s views.
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Following is the text of a letter written by Raja Mahendra Pratap, published in Sirajul Akhbar, Kabul in 1916
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