Exploring lesser known History
In October 1988, nearly five lakh farmers led by Mahendra Singh Tikait occupied Delhi’s Boat Club. By 1993 protest had moved to a narrow road beside an 18th-century observatory. This is how the state redesigned the geography of dissent.
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In 1909, Gandhi shared key ideas from G. K. Chesterton’s article on Indian nationalism in Indian Opinion. Explore the essay and its possible influence on Hind Swaraj.
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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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“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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“I have repeatedly given my community to understand that it is a folly to annoy our Hindu brothers by resorting to cowslaughter.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Mufti Kifayatullah said, “I have not joined the freedom movement for personal enrichment.”
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Would the Maharaja have received such considerate attention from the police if he had not been one of the leaders of the movement for the boycott of the Commission?
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Mahanth Lal Gir is said to have been much favoured by the Emperor of Delhi, and the villages of Mastipur and Taradih, in which the Buddhist Mahabodhi temple is situated, were made over to him by a Royal firman.
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The job of armed soldiers is to march ahead and repel the attacking enemy. They die in fighting but never retreat.
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This Indian mathematician was making news in Europe at least three decades before Srinivasa Ramanujan took birth.
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Some Pandits explain that the use of the dye solution originated in the time of Vikramaditya and is continued to commemorate his accession to the throne.
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