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Baba Kanshiram, Pahari Gandhi, a revolutionary poet from Himachal
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Baba Kanshiram, Pahari Gandhi, a revolutionary poet from Himachal

Posted on July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 by Saquib Salim
Tipu Sultan’s sons & Fakirs led Vellore Mutiny
Featured Posts Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Research Articles

Tipu Sultan’s sons & Fakirs led Vellore Mutiny

Posted on July 10, 2025July 10, 2025 by Saquib Salim
Kadir Cup at Meerut was the most prestigious hunting tournament
Featured Posts Research Articles

Kadir Cup at Meerut was the most prestigious hunting tournament

Posted on June 26, 2025July 9, 2025 by Saquib Salim
Iran & Indian freedom struggle: An untold history
Featured Posts Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Research Articles

Iran & Indian freedom struggle: An untold history

Posted on June 22, 2025July 9, 2025 by Saquib Salim
Allah Hafiz or Khuda Hafiz, which is older?

Allah Hafiz or Khuda Hafiz, which is older?

Posted on May 2, 2024March 19, 2025

Who was Kafir according to Nana Saheb?

Posted on May 9, 2024May 11, 2024

Mahatma Gandhi asked Indians to fight against Pakistani aggression

Posted on May 10, 2025

Jawaharlal Nehru’s First Court Trial and Jail

Posted on November 6, 2024

Freedom Movement

Iran & Indian freedom struggle: An untold history

Agashe was the first Indian revolutionary to go to Iran, and he reached there in late 1906. Amba Prasad too left India after his acquittal, on 11 January 1908, and reached Iran

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Tipu Sultan’s sons & Fakirs led Vellore Mutiny

Posted on July 10, 2025July 10, 2025

Sher Ali’s killing of Lord Mayo was part of the Freedom Struggle

Posted on March 10, 2025

Women

When Ismat Chughtai sent Aligarh boys to beat up a local cleric in Aligarh

Ismat Chughtai responded to Shahid Ahrarwi with an article which was published in Aligarh Gazette calling male students of Aligarh to save Women’s College. In response, male students had beaten up Ahrarwi.

Posted on August 25, 2024September 29, 2024
When Ismat Chughtai sent Aligarh boys to beat up a local cleric in Aligarh

Moondar : Muslim Friend of Rani Lakshmibai Who Martyred Herself For The Motherland

Posted on July 24, 2020September 19, 2023

Sati al-Nisa – The female medical practitioner in Shah Jahan’s court

Posted on June 3, 2023December 20, 2023

Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz: Who Won the Political Rights For the Indian Women

Posted on September 12, 2020September 15, 2023

Medicine

Hakeem Mohammad Kabiruddin – A 20th century academician of Unani Medicine

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.

Posted on September 19, 2020December 28, 2023
Hakeem Mohammad Kabiruddin – A 20th century academician of Unani Medicine

The history of Western Medicine and its rise in Colonial India

Posted on April 17, 2022December 22, 2023

A Doctor who spent nine years in jail but never gave up his Medical Practice

Posted on January 26, 2022December 22, 2023

DENTISTRY- A complete timeline

Posted on October 22, 2021December 22, 2023

Book Review

Rajendra Prasad, Premchand & Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui : Life in early 20th century in India

Rajendra Prasad, Premchand & Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui : Life in early 20th century in India

Posted on January 29, 2020December 7, 2023
Sawaneh-i Dehli: Delving into Dehli’s Enigmatic Past by Mirza A. Akhtar Gorgani

Sawaneh-i Dehli: Delving into Dehli’s Enigmatic Past by Mirza A. Akhtar Gorgani

Posted on September 15, 2023November 28, 2023
Book Review: India’s Struggle for Independence

Book Review: India’s Struggle for Independence

Posted on May 12, 2023November 28, 2023
No, Tawaif & Kotha Didn’t Belong To Elite Culture: An Experience Of Z. A. Bukhari

No, Tawaif & Kotha Didn’t Belong To Elite Culture: An Experience Of Z. A. Bukhari

Posted on May 5, 2024September 16, 2024

Sports

KD Jadhav: The First Individual Olympic Medalist From India

Posted on February 18, 2021December 11, 2023
KD Jadhav: The First Individual Olympic Medalist From India

In the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, Jadhav stunned the audience by defeating opponent after opponent with ease in the first 5 rounds of bantamweight freestyle wrestling. In the sixth round the adept was asked to fight Soviet Union’s Rashid Mammadbeyov.

Syed Abdul Rahim: The Visionary Architect of Indian Football

Posted on February 10, 2021December 11, 2023
Syed Abdul Rahim: The Visionary Architect of Indian Football

Under Syed’s managerial period from 1951 to 1962, Indian football reached new heights. The Indian team started the 1950s with victory in the 1951 Asian Games.

Moin Ul Haq: The Enduring Spirit of Sportsmanship

Posted on January 22, 2024January 29, 2024
Moin Ul Haq: The Enduring Spirit of Sportsmanship

Syed Mohammad Moin ul Haq, a name that resonated with brilliance and intellect, emerged from the humble town of Asthawan, Nalanda district in 1881.

Mehboob Shamsher Khan: A Forgotten tale of India’s First Olympic Swimmer

Posted on February 5, 2021December 11, 2023
Mehboob Shamsher Khan: A Forgotten tale of India’s First Olympic Swimmer

Mehboob Shamsher Khan became the first Indian swimmer in 1956 to represent India in swimming at the Olympics. Khan’s record remains intact today.

Bhagwat Chandrasekhar : The Wizard of Leg Spin

Posted on February 13, 2021December 11, 2023
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar : The Wizard of Leg Spin

Bhagwat Chandrasekhar made his test debut for India against England at Mumbai in 1964. He was able to pick 4 wickets in the match.

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Baba Kanshiram, Pahari Gandhi, a revolutionary poet from Himachal

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date July 11, 2025
It is decidedly too difficult to pronounce any judgement at the present juncture whether Pahari Gandhi’s stature was higher as …Read more  »
Estimated read time 6 min read
Featured Posts Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Research Articles

Tipu Sultan’s sons & Fakirs led Vellore Mutiny

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date July 10, 2025
For some reasons best known to historians Indians don’t know much about Vellore Mutiny and whatever we are told is …Read more  »
Estimated read time 8 min read
Featured Posts Research Articles

Kadir Cup at Meerut was the most prestigious hunting tournament

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date June 26, 2025
The Cup given by the Meerut Tent Club is called the “ Kadir Cup,” after the Kadir or river-bed country …Read more  »
Estimated read time 5 min read
Featured Posts Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Research Articles

Iran & Indian freedom struggle: An untold history

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date June 22, 2025
Agashe was the first Indian revolutionary to go to Iran, and he reached there in late 1906. Amba Prasad too …Read more  »
Estimated read time 8 min read
Featured Posts Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Research Articles

Mufti Kifayatullah never wrote a mercy or took favour in the freedom struggle

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date June 14, 2025
Mufti Kifayatullah said, "I have not joined the freedom movement for personal enrichment."
Estimated read time 3 min read
Featured Posts Research Articles

Maharaja of Mahmudabad led the anti-Simon Commission protests

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date May 20, 2025
Would the Maharaja have received such considerate attention from the police if he had not been one of the leaders …Read more  »
Estimated read time 7 min read
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Bodh Gaya: A Brief History of the temple (math)

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date May 18, 2025
Mahanth Lal Gir is said to have been much favoured by the Emperor of Delhi, and the villages of Mastipur …Read more  »
Estimated read time 9 min read
Featured Posts Historical Archive

Mahatma Gandhi asked Indians to fight against Pakistani aggression

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date May 10, 2025
The job of armed soldiers is to march ahead and repel the attacking enemy. They die in fighting but never …Read more  »
Estimated read time 7 min read
Book Reviews

Book Review: Bihar Aur Sufivad by Syed Amjad Hussain

  • Post Author By Souhardya De
  • Post Date May 1, 2025
Another great strength is the book’s ecumenism: Hussain respects Sufism in its pluralistic and rich varieties, transcending sectarian divisions to …Read more  »
Estimated read time 4 min read
Featured Posts Freedom Movement Research Articles

Bihar’s First Revolt against the British in 1781

  • Post Author By Md Umar Ashraf
  • Post Date March 21, 2025
Raza Quli Khan rose up in revolt against the foreign rule with his armed loyalists. Mr. Grome, Collector of Saran, …Read more  »
Estimated read time 4 min read
Education Featured Posts Research Articles

Before Ramanujan there was a Ramchundra

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date March 19, 2025
This Indian mathematician was making news in Europe at least three decades before Srinivasa Ramanujan took birth. 
Estimated read time 6 min read
Featured Posts Historical Archive Research Articles

Holi, Gulal and Abir: What do they exactly mean?

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date March 14, 2025
Some Pandits explain that the use of the dye solution originated in the time of Vikramaditya and is continued to …Read more  »
Estimated read time 5 min read
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Lord Mayo’s assassin Sher Ali’s Patna Connection & Larger Conspiracy

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date March 11, 2025
This, I need hardly say, makes it still more probable that he (Sher Ali) was urged on to the deed …Read more  »
Estimated read time 10 min read
Featured Posts Freedom Fighter Research Articles

Sher Ali’s killing of Lord Mayo was part of the Freedom Struggle

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date March 10, 2025
“The murderer is a ticket-of-leave man, a Mahomedan from the borders of Afghanistan, called Shere Ali; the only reason given …Read more  »
Estimated read time 6 min read
Featured Posts Research Articles Women

Less known Muslim Women Freedom Fighters

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date March 8, 2025
Sultana Saleem was one of the officers of Azad Hind Fauj, or INA, of Subhas Chandra Bose.
Estimated read time 5 min read
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Muslim Women makers of Modern Bihar

  • Post Author By Md Umar Ashraf
  • Post Date March 8, 2025
The British government fined Mahmooda for breaking the salt law but, a committed Congress worker, she denied paying any fine.
Estimated read time 4 min read
Featured Posts Historical Archive

Rajendra Prasad on Hindi-Urdu controversy

  • Post Author By Md Umar Ashraf
  • Post Date February 20, 2025
We do not consider Hindustani to be different from Hindi or Urdu.
Estimated read time 8 min read
Featured Posts Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Historical Archive

Interview of M. S. Khan, leader of RIN Mutiny 1946

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date February 18, 2025
The ‘RIN mutiny’ which started from HMIS Talwar was led by a 14 men committee headed by the Leading Signalman …Read more  »
Estimated read time 13 min read
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The Real Story Behind Photo of Soldiers Being Executed in Singapore in 1915

  • Post Author By Saquib Salim
  • Post Date February 15, 2025
The soldiers, 41 in total, were shot dead by a firing squad across several public ceremonies to instill fear amongst …Read more  »
Estimated read time 6 min read
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Election of Rajendra Prasad as the President

  • Post Author By Md Umar Ashraf
  • Post Date January 25, 2025
The returning officer informed the Assembly, “I have to inform honourable Members that only one nomination paper has been received …Read more  »
Estimated read time 5 min read

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