Exploring lesser known History
From the beginning the history of Urdu Novel writing was pegged around women and their issues. The first one – Maulvi Nazeer Ahmad’s Mirat-ul-Uroos, – published in 1869, and its sequel Binat-un-Nash included, most early novels/stories were about the women, their education and social status.
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Mahatma Gandhi visited Dargah of Qutubbudin Bakhtiyar Kaki, Mehrauli, Delhi amidst the communal riots on 27th January, 1948. He was killed two days later on 30th January by Nathuram Godse. Generally women were not allowed in the innermost shrine but the condition was waived off in order to allow women with Gandhi inside.
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7th March, 1941, two Special Operations Executives (SOE), of the British Intelligence, stationed in Turkey received official communication from the
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With the surrender of Germany, Italy and Japan the Second World War ended in a victory for the Allied forces,
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In December 1923, after securing a resounding win in elections Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das (C.R Das) led Swaraj Party signed a pact with Muslim leaders of Bengal.
It must be noted that Swaraj Party was a breakaway faction of Indian National Congress (INC) led by Motilal Nehru and C.R Das.
Gandhi and his followers wanted to boycott the elections while the Swarajists were of the opposite opinion.
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When India gained independence it had only 18 Brigadier rank officers and Brigadier Muhammad Usman was one of them. Being
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अमेरिका खुलेआम पाकिस्तान का पक्षधर था लेकिन इंदिरा गांधी ने उसकी सुनना तो बहुत दूर उसको खरी-खरी सुनाई भी मेरा
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“Come! God has called you into paradise.” An old woman wearing green clothes, which fully covered her body (Burqa), carrying
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On 15th August, 1958, when the mouthpiece of Congress, A.I.C.C Economic Review, carried an article written by Jawaharlal Nehru severely
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‘Meri na-kaam Mohabbat’ (My failed love), a story written by Begum Hijab Imtiaz Ali when she was 12 years old is often considered as one of the best romantic stories ever written in Urdu. The family she was married into was one of the most progressive Muslim families and encouraged her to learn flying after marriage and becoming mother.
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Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz was one of the two women representatives at the First Round Table Conference, one of the three women representatives at the Second Round Table Conference, and the only woman at the Third Round Table Conference. Later on, when the Joint Select Committee was formed to finalize the Government of India Act, of 1935, Jahanara was the only woman member of it.
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A Muslim Lady, charged with the act of waging ‘the war against the Crown’, was brought into the court of
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On 10th March, 1934, Nabakumar Singh Dudhoria, a representative of Calcutta, raised the issue of German doctors practising in India
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सब बुरे मुझ को याद रहते हैं जो भला था उसी को भूल गया 1930 की दिसंबर थी और इंग्लैंड
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John Venables Sturt, who was stationed near Jhansi during 1857, claimed that the Muslim woman accompanying Rani was Moondar and that only Moondar was martyred on the spot while Rani Lakshmibai could not be killed by the British bullets.
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Yesterday, while discussing a cigarette advertisement from an Urdu magazine I told one of my friend and colleague that the
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In 1845-46, when in course of the first Anglo- Sikh War the English were faced with a grave situation due
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British writers and historians have portrayed the movement started by Syed Ahmed Barelvi of Rai Bareilly as an Islamic fanatic
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Colonial historians and scholars often claim that the Indian Freedom Movement was a disjointed movement with no nationalistic feeling among
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History of Monger’s Traditional Gun Factories Ruler of Monger Mir Qasim caused an all-round and drastic reorganization to be made
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