Exploring lesser known History
Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz was one of the two women representatives at the First Round Table Conference, one of the three women representatives at the Second Round Table Conference, and the only woman at the Third Round Table Conference. Later on, when the Joint Select Committee was formed to finalize the Government of India Act, of 1935, Jahanara was the only woman member of it.
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According to historians, Begum Mahboob Fatima was the first Muslim woman in Delhi to have been sentenced to prison for waging ‘the war against the Crown’.
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Among these refugees a few were doctors. In fact, there were less than ten German doctors practising in India, all in Bombay, when the issue was raised by the All-India Medical Council (AIMC) and hence members of the assembly.
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Nandini Satpathy served as a minister in the Indira Gandhi government before being chosen as CM of Odisha. In her long public career, she never lost an election.
It all began with that anti-British protest where, as an eight-year-old, Satpathy was beaten up by the police.
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Hip hop and Rap Culture The emergence of the hip-hop culture in 1970 in the Bronx lies in the political
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The door of the factory is always open and plays host to school children, exhibiting their benefits of herbal medication. They also allow pharmacy students to conduct their research and studies on their medicine.
Currently, the third generation of this prominent Unani Hakeem Mohammed Moizuddin Farooqui is running the company and are striving to maintain their reputed family business.
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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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By, Saba Tabassum Beauty cannot be analyzed with ease. Balancing beauty; externally and internally, is in fact quite rare. In
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Zinat Un Nisa Masjid: Which was used by the British as barrack and later as a bakery.
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Dr Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari belonged to a very well-known family of Hakims. To recognise and acknowledge his surgical skills, the Charing Cross hospital entitled a ward in his name which is known as the “Ansari ward”.
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The Original work of George Sale was published in 1734, which is in two volumes. The translation of the Quran by Sale has his own commentary along with notes in with an extra 200 pages; not particularly on the Quran but rather upon the history of Islam. Perhaps, this could be argued that this may encourage the reader to understand the Qur’an’s historical context.
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Rakshabandhan is observed on the last day of the Hindu lunar calendar month of Shravan. It is deeply imbibed in
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This article throws light on one such Hajj expedition undertaken by Nawab Sikandar Begum of Bhopal.
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Lady Evelyn Murray spent her later days travelling and preaching Islam. Her book “Pilgrimage to Mecca” is the oldest record of the trip to Hajj.
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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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Medicine in the Ottoman Empire can trace its roots back to the Greeks and such famous physicians as Hippocrates, Galen and Discoride.
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The trust organized a special premier of ‘Gomti ke Kinare’, the last movie of Meena Kumari, and raised Rupees 50,000 through it. For the other Rupees 50,000 several film personalities promised to donate, which they never did.
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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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