Exploring lesser known History
To recover Anilbaran Roy is not simply to add another name to the history of Indian nationalism. It is to look again at the teachers, organisers, artists and thinkers through whom nationalism was actually lived, and at the ideas about history and India’s future that continued to shape their lives after the political struggle itself had changed.
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The partition of India in 1947 was not only a political event or bifurcation of a nation into two parts.
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And the communal seed that has been sown in our hearts, in our lives by the British needs to be taken apart, needs to be called out.
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Arrested on August 9, 1942, alongside fellow leaders including Babu Banarsi Das, he was initially detained at Bulandshahr District Jail before being moved to Bareilly Central Jail. His incarceration later took him to Naini Jail in Allahabad, where he was imprisoned alongside prominent figures such as Rafi Ahmad Kidwai (1894-1954), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-1966), and Gobind Sahai (190-1967).
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Partition remains a warning about the consequences of political polarisation, hurried constitutional engineering and the transformation of identity into territorial nationalism.
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The Struggle of Bihari Muslims Against the Muslim League and the Partition of India The history of Bihar’s Muslims during
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A Historical Tribute on the 46th Death Anniversary of the Legendary Playback Singer Mohammed Rafi (31 July 1980-31 July 2026)
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All parts of the East have done wonderful things for the world which the West have “discovered”,
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Siddiqi, along with several student activists and a supportive faculty member, including Khalil Rahman, secretary of the Progressive Writer’s Association, Mirza Mumtaz Hussain, President of the students’ Federation, S.M. Tonki was arrested because of his leading role in the movement.
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Contrary to British expectations, the partition strengthened rather than weakened nationalist sentiment.
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Daudnagar, a historic town in the Aurangabad district of Bihar, stands as a forgotten testimony to the rich political, economic,
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Discover the untold story of Madhusudan Das, the Maker of Modern Odisha, who stepped up as the first Health Minister of the newly created Bihar and Orissa province in 1921. While history remembers his fight for the Oriya people, his legacy in Bihar includes battling devastating plagues, establishing vital medical infrastructure, and ultimately resigning over a matter of profound personal principle.
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The 1857 uprising in Meerut was not a mere sepoy mutiny fueled by superstition, but a coordinated, secular, and nationalist war of independence. Explore how united Indian soldiers struck the first major blow against the British Empire.
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Despite guiding West Bengal through the turbulent days of India’s partition as its very first Chief Minister, Prafulla Chandra Ghosh remains a largely forgotten figure in history. Explore the fascinating life of this brilliant chemist, revolutionary, and staunch Gandhian.
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In 1946, Congress President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad issued a scathing statement condemning the Bengal elections as a “mockery.” Read his complete, firsthand account detailing the unprecedented violence, religious manipulation by local ‘Pirs’, and the British government’s blatant complicity with the Muslim League.
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Let it suffice to say that he possessed eight fundamental qualities ; lofty judgment, noble ambition, the art of victory, the art of government, the art of conferring prosperity upon his people, the talent of ruling mildly the people of God, ability to win the hearts of his soldiers, love of justice.
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The Medical College was officially opened on 25 February 1927 by Sir Henry Wheeler. Though the teaching had started before this. The General Medical Council had already reviewed the course being taught at the college in January 1927 and gave a favourable report.
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“In my findings the spelling Ramadan for the month was more common than Ramzan during the late 19th and early 20th century.
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“Indirectly this Conference will form the germ of a Native Parliament and, if properly conducted, will constitute in a few years an unanswerable reply to the assertion that India is still wholly unfit for any form of representative institutions.”
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General Shah Nawaz Khan said to Indira Gandhi, “In case no satisfactory response is received before 21 February 1983, we shall be constrained to launch a civil disobedience movement in collaboration with other like-minded secular forces.”
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