Exploring lesser known History
In December 1923, after securing a resounding win in elections Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das (C.R Das) led Swaraj Party signed a pact with Muslim leaders of Bengal.
It must be noted that Swaraj Party was a breakaway faction of Indian National Congress (INC) led by Motilal Nehru and C.R Das.
Gandhi and his followers wanted to boycott the elections while the Swarajists were of the opposite opinion.
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He founded an academic institute with hospital, named Faiz- e-Kabir, in Lahore and became the Head of Department (HOD) of Tarjuma (tarjuma is an Arabic as well as an urdu word for “translation”) at Tibbia college, New Delhi.
Later on May 16, 1917 he joined as a professor of anatomy at the Tibbia college.
Hakeem Kabiruddin established Dar al Masih in New Delhi in 1921 and in the same year he published a Tibbi journal “Risala ul Masih” which continued over a span of seven years until 1928.
Also, in 1926, he designed syllabus for the research centre at the Tibbia college of New Delhi.
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Syed Hasan Imam: A sketch of his life and career by G.A. Natesan & Co., Publishers, George Town, Madras
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On 11th August 1880, the whole World woke up to the shocking news that SS Jeddah, a ship carrying 953 hajjis (pilgrims for Mecca), had drowned in the sea near Cape Guardafui, near the easternmost point of Africa, on 8th August. All on board perished except the captain, his wife, the chief officer, the chief engineer, the assistant engineer, and 16 Indian crew members. The survivors were rescued by SS Scindia and landed at Aden in Yemen.
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Grave of The First Prime Minister of Bihar lies at Woking, England.
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The ouster of Indira Gandhi in 1977 and the formation of the Janata Party-led government at the centre resulted in renewed social and economic tensions in Indian society. The cleavages, which were invisible, came out in the open. On 27th May, 1977, occurred what can be termed as one of the first major massacres of Dalits (lower castes) in Bihar.
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Reading history becomes more interesting when we realise the silences in the narratives we study or listen to. One such less talked about, but important, event is the Police Mutiny of Patna during the last week of March in 1947.
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William Tayler, Commissioner of Patna Division till August, 1857, thus, refers to it, “for some years past, this city (Patna) has been considered a very sink of disaffection and intrigue.
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Here I am reproducing a letter written by Wahabi Leader Syed Ahmed Barelvi to a Maratha leader Raja Hindu Rai asking for his help in throwing away the foreign rule.
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P.C Roy, implicitly, contends that the arrest and case against Sheikh Gulab may be one of the reasons that Khudiram Bose attacked Kingsford in Muzaffarpur.
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History of Monger’s Traditional Gun Factories Ruler of Monger Mir Qasim caused an all-round and drastic reorganization to be made
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Jaipal Singh Munda was born in 1903 in a tribal family of Bihar. Under the guardianship of Canon Cosgrave, principal St. Paul’s School in Ranchi, he took his initial education and got baptized in 1918. Cosgrave after retirement took him to England where he got admitted to Oxford for further studies. These were the formative years of a tribal leader in him. Here he got to study with the likes of Verrier Elwin, obviously which should have some impact over his later understanding.
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I am surprised at the name as there did not arise any dispute (Jhagda) as such. The munificence of Maharaja can be gauged further that since all the Muslim population got shifted to new places, the Maharaja granted a piece of land to start a Madarsa in front of the mosque so that the mosque is taken care of well and is populated.
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In July, 1937, ‘United Press’ reported that Sri Krishna Sinha, Prime Minister of Bihar Province, had decided to revoke the
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During the 1942, Quit India Movement at 122 different places, police fired upon the peaceful unarmed Indian patriots martyring around 2000 people in Bihar alone.
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(Following is a reproduction of the account written by P.C Roy Choudhury)
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Text is a reproduction from the foreword written by Dr. Rajendra Parsad in 1935 for a compilation of Sachchidananda Sinha’s writings.
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Attitude of the British government towards India after the First World War, where the Indians backed the British war efforts
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Shah Muhammad Umair, a Muslim Congress leader of Arwal in Bihar, wrote a letter to Dr. Rajendra Prasad about the Anti-Congress activities of Kisan Sabha.
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The mango grove witnessed an unprecedented win of Indians over the British, around 200 soldiers were killed there.
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