Exploring lesser known History
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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He never considered himself only a Bengali. He had no use for parochialism or caste distinctions. In his eyes all were Indians and servants of India. He treated all alike.
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Violence that followed forced 200,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh. Bangladesh denied Rohingya admission into her territory and blocked food rations leading to death of 12,000 of them.
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The story of a second Taj is based on mere hearsay and seems to have been given currency by over-zealous guides with a view to multiply the magnitude of its magnificence as if that were needed !
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“How could I consider it a day of freedom and joy when I had to say goodbye to your father, Badshah Khan, at the Delhi Railway Station. He was my comrade, friend, companion, and fellow freedom fighter, and now that we have attained independence, we are parted. Perhaps we may never see each other. Now you see what joy this independence has brought for me?”
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During my (John Lindsay) residence in India, when our affairs were less prosperous than at present, the country was more
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On January 11, 2013, former President of India, Shree Pranab Mukherjee released a commemorative stamp on Silk Letter Movement. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that the sacrifices of individuals and groups, such as those associated with the Silk Letter Movement, constitute a glorious chapter of India’s history of Freedom struggle and need to be acknowledged and appreciated.
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There exist several monuments of the Sayyid and Lodi periods in the old Lady Willingdon Park, now popularly known as Lodi Gardens.
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Purana Qila originally lay on the bank of the Yamuna. It is believed that Sher Shah left the Purana Qila unfinished, and it was completed by Humayun.
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According to Karim Ghani, Japanese reports that Bose was flying to Japan were to mislead the enemy. According to him Japanese and Bose had tricked the enemy in the same fashion earlier also, which we already know that they did in March 1942.
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In all probability Muslims planning to slaughter cows were also paid agents of the British because cow slaughter was already banned by Bahadur Shah Zafar. So it was planned that on 2nd August cows will be slaughtered on Eid to fan communal tensions in Delhi. As soon as Hindus and Muslims started fighting the British army would attack the city.
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The journey of Dr Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed from a lawyer and activist to a prominent politician and eventually the fifth President of India
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Rooh Afza started as a medicinal drink and became popular as a summer drink in Delhi. By 1947, Rooh Afza was found in every Delhi kitchen.
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On the 4th of May 1799, the British army assembled around the fort of Seringapatnam, capital of the Kingdom of Mysore. The British army was supported by Nizam and Maratha infantry. The French intelligence, an ally of Tipu gave him a tip of ‘an eminent British attack’, they advised Tipu Sultan to escape the capital and live to fight for another day, Tipu replied, ‘Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep’.
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Doctor Zakir Hussain, who was the President of India (1967-1969), was born on 8 February, 1897 in Hyderabad, which is
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Syed Hasan Imam totally dedicated himself to the Indian freedom movement, after resigning from his job as Justice in the High Court.
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Professor Abdul Bari’s tomb bedsheeted in layers of dust, very much like his accomplishment: unsung, ignored ,awaiting a long pending ballad.
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This was the ritual of Khandan -e- Sharifi that the leader of the family will be the same leader who lives in the Sharif Manzil. After Sadiq Ali Khan, Ghulam Mahmood Khan was given the charge
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Colonel Mehaboob Ahmad, who declared ‘ I have only one birth. If I had another thousand births, I would voluntarily
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