Exploring lesser known History
(Following is a letter written by Sajjad Zaheer to his family in Lucknow, as published by the Tribune (Sydney, NSW), 28 November, 1951. In this letter he quotes two couplets of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, who was also imprisoned with him. These two couplets are still quoted during the different protests in subcontinent.)
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During the First World War the British India Government had enacted a Defence of India Act, 1915 in order to
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Following is the text of the statement submitted by Mahatma Gandhi while explaining his call of satyagraha against Rowlatt Act
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Following is the speech delivered by V.S Srinivasa Sastri on 7 February, 1919 before the Imperial Legislative Council as the Rowlatt Bill was introduced. He protested against the bill which was later passed and whole of India protested. Jallianwala Bagh massacre was carried out by the British when the Indians were protesting against the Black Act
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Following is an excerpt from, My Life Story of Fifty Five Years, an autobiography of Raja Mahendra Paratp. The book had been written in 1943 and was first published in 1947 from Japan. Here I am presenting his account of the formation of the Provisional Government of India.
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Sardar Patel resigned from his office of Home Minister and only after much persuasion from Jawaharlal Nehru he remained in the office. In this letter to Jawaharlal Nehru on 3 February, 1948 he took the responsibility, as the Home Minister, of failure in Gandhi’s security and reiterated his resignation
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Following is the text of the speech made by Sardar Patel in front of a large gathering at Amritsar on 30 September, 1947. He appealed people to stop violence against the defenseless Muslims who were trying to crossover to Pakistan.
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It is the message given by the then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi paying homage to Dr. Zakir Husain
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This is an excerpt from a Pen Portrait ‘Mohammad Ali Jinnah: An Ambassador of Unity’ written by Sarojini Naidu in November 1917
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Following is the English translation of Hindi speech addressed to a prayer meeting by Mahatma Gandhi on 12 November, 1947. It was the first Diwali of Independent India.
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Obituary Of Rafi Ahmed Kidwai from the President of India : Published on 25 October, 1954
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While one regrets the assassination of Gandhi, one can’t help finding in his heart the echo of the sentiments expressed by Cicero on the assassination of Caesar. Gandhi had become a positive danger to this country. He has choked all free-thought. He was holding together the Congress, which is combination of all the bad and self-seeking elements in society who agreed on no social or moral principles governing the life of society except the one of praising and flattering Mr. Gandhi. Such a body is unfit to govern a country. As the Bible says ‘that sometimes good cometh out of evil,’ so also I think that good will come out of the death of Mr Gandhi. It will release people from bondage to a superman. It will make them think for themselves and it will compel them to stand on their own merits.
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(Following text is a reproduction of the news report published by The Tribune (Philippines) reporting on the formation of the
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PAKISTAN has ceased to be a dream and has become reality, but it is still undecided what the word really
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This is the article first published in The Guardian & later reproduced in the Canberra Times after the Babri Mosque demolition
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An appeal was made to the Muslim University of Aligarh and the Hindu University of Benares to refuse Government grants and tear to pieces the ‘Charters’ granted them by the Government.
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This constitution was drafted by Mahatma Gandhi for the Congress on the eve of his assassination. His intention was to show how the Congress which was till now mainly concerned with achieving political independence might convert itself into an association for the Service of the People (Lok Sevak Sangh), and work for the establishment of a nonviolent society.
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Following is an excerpt from ‘BUDDHA AND FUTURE OF HIS RELIGION’ authored by B.R Ambedkar & first published in ‘Maha Bodhi’: Maha Bodhi Society Journal, Culculta ; Vaishak Number, Vol. 58, May 1950
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Nehru flew from London in President Traman’s own plane, and at Washington military airport. Truman himself was there to meet the plane with a delegation from Cabinet and Congress.
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Islam does not bifurcate the unity of man into an irreconcilable duality of spirit and matter. In Islam God and the universe, spirit and matter, Church and State, are organic to each other. Man is not the citizen of a profane world to be renounced in the interest of a world of spirit situated elsewhere. To Islam, matter is spirit realising itself in space and time.
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