Exploring lesser known History
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“In my findings the spelling Ramadan for the month was more common than Ramzan during the late 19th and early 20th century.
“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.”
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.”
At a session of the Bengal Provincial Conference held in Barisal in April 1906, under the Presidentship of Shri A. Rasul, a brutal lathi charge was made by the police on the delegates and volunteers and the Bande Matram badges worn by them were violently torn off.
Patna’s Hamdard Dawakhana: With links to Hakim Abdul Hameed and CM Nitish Kumar, this pharmacy is more than just a landmark
“I have repeatedly given my community to understand that it is a folly to annoy our Hindu brothers by resorting to cowslaughter.”
In Bhopal, there is an immediate need to seek attention and preservation methods to safeguard the historical sites from collapsing.
This year marks the 150th birth anniversary of Maulana Hasrat Mohani (1875–1951) — a towering figure in India’s struggle for
Shahira Naim ‘An indicator of one’s growing up is acceptance of one’s parents as persons’. This is what I
Responding to this need, Abdul Shaheed Khan, an alumnus of MAO College Aligarh from Meerut, opened a small stationery shop in 1925, named this establishment “Educational Book House”, marking the beginning of a new chapter in Aligarh’s literary landscape.
It is decidedly too difficult to pronounce any judgement at the present juncture whether Pahari Gandhi’s stature was higher as a freedom fighter or as a poet.
For some reasons best known to historians Indians don’t know much about Vellore Mutiny and whatever we are told is never related to Tipu Sultan, Marthas, Fakirs, Sanyasis, Hindu Muslim Unity and 1857.
The Cup given by the Meerut Tent Club is called the “ Kadir Cup,” after the Kadir or river-bed country in which it is competed for. The contest first took place after pig in 1874.
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