𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗵 𝗔𝘁𝗮 𝗨𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗵 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗵 𝗕𝘂𝗸𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗵𝗶𝗿 𝗟𝘂𝗱𝗵𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗶
During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
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.
Shah Muhammad Zubair studied law in England. He was the founding President of the first farmers’ organization Kisan Sabha in 1922.
Following is an excerpt from the AMU’s Convocation Address delivered by Jayaparakash Narayan on 10 February 1968.
Maulana Syed Sulaiman Ashraf Bihari (1878-1939), a prominent figure in Indian history, dedicated his life to education, theology, and the pursuit of national unity.
A voice against partition and a champion of syncretic India, Shah Muhammad Umair and his story of resistance & unity continue to inspire.
Syed Mehdi Imam was renowned for his legal expertise and is among the elite barristers of his era. In 1937 he published his collection of poems which comprised both poetry as well as philosophy.
Maulvi Mohammad Yahya – One Of The Founding Members Of All India Momin Conference & Publisher Editor Al Momin
Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana, a politician belonging to the Punjab Unionists party, opposed the Partition of India and the ideology of the Muslim League.
On 27th September 1978, Syed Mohammad Advocate, my grandfather and one of the famous lawyers of North Bihar passed away in Muzaffarpur leaving a deep void in the legal profession at that time. As a little over six years of age, I have a faint memory of his huge funeral procession being attended by men cutting across religion and caste and sect.
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.
From the beginning the history of Urdu Novel writing was pegged around women and their issues. The first one – Maulvi Nazeer Ahmad’s Mirat-ul-Uroos, – published in 1869, and its sequel Binat-un-Nash included, most early novels/stories were about the women, their education and social status.
Sher Shah Suri was the founder of the Sur Empire in India. He was the regent and later sole ruler of Bihar from 1529-1540 until he defeated the Mughal Empire in 1540, founding the Sur Empire, establishing his rule in Delhi, and crowning himself as Emperor.
The building was made around 1872 and the renovation was done later in 1964, the year of Nehru’s death. The Darwaza is said to be made by the brothers Munshi Qamruddin and Munshi Sirajuddin. Today, it is maintained and taken care of by the children and grandchildren of Abdus Salam Sahab and Haji Akhtar Sahab.
Born on December 24, 1918, in Patna to Abdus Sami and Mahmuda Sami, he came from a lineage of freedom fighters, with his grandfather, Syed Hasan Imam, and grandmother, Muniba Imam, also actively involved in the struggle for India’s independence.
According to Humayun Nama, the only reason he made it to the imperial capital at all was because of the assistance provided on the route by Raja Birbhan of Arail.
This Letter was submitted to Sub-Committee on Minorities of the Constituent Assembly of India by Abdul Qaiyum Ansari on July 24, 1947
Yusuf Chak of the Chak Dynasty was the last independent ruler of Kashmir before it was taken over by Emperor Akbar in 1585. He then took Yusuf Chak as a political prisoner and exiled him to Bihar.
Babur Arafat who hailed from Patna, Bihar, India, is also amongst the brave examples. Born on December 5, 1985, with an intellectual disability, Babur has also proven to the world that one can achieve anything they wants in life with sheer handwork and determination.
He stayed in America for nearly eight years and studied at five different Universities. He started as a student of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and then devoted years to the study of Biology, Psychology, Economics and Sociology. He had several times interrupted his studies in order to earn enough to carry on at his University for a term or two. He had worked as a farm labourer for ten hours a day, as a packer in a jam factory, as a mechanic in an iron concern, as a waiter in a restaurant. He had tried his hand as a salesman. When, therefore, he returned to India in 1929, it was not as a raw student looking forward to a comfortable life, but as one who had seen life at close quarters and was fully determined to devote himself to public life.
The machine (EVM) could also eliminate booth-capturing as it would become possible for the Election Commission to introduce mobile polling stations to take the machines to the doorsteps of the people, especially the weaker sections.
Akbar Allahabadi was senior to Iqbal and he wrote a reply to Sare Jahan Se Achcha in form of another poem.
The idea of reservation to OBCs (Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs) came about in 1990 after the Mandal Commission recommendations were implemented. The reservation under article 341 defined only SC community and most of these Pasmanda castes don’t come under this identification.
“This is the Congress radio calling on 42.34 meters from somewhere in India,” spoke Usha Mehta after the Quit India Movement had been silenced by the Britishers.
Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan plays Usha Mehta in her movie Ae Watan Mere Watan.
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CAPTAIN LAKSHMI SAHGAL – Doctor by Job, Freedom Fighter by Will
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.