Caste Discrimination in Mosques & My Grandfather, Mohammad Hashim
Caste system among Muslims in India is often debated among academic circles and […]
Caste system among Muslims in India is often debated among academic circles and […]
Jaipal Singh Munda was born in 1903 in a tribal family of Bihar. Under the guardianship of Canon Cosgrave, principal St. Paul’s School in Ranchi, he took his initial education and got baptized in 1918. Cosgrave after retirement took him to England where he got admitted to Oxford for further studies. These were the formative years of a tribal leader in him. Here he got to study with the likes of Verrier Elwin, obviously which should have some impact over his later understanding.
Raj Narain Mishra, an Indian freedom fighter whose elder brother Baburam Mishra was sentenced for 38 years for fighting against the British, led raids on the British establishments with his group during the Quit India Movement, 1942. A resident of Lakhimpur Kheri, U.P he was charged with revolutionary raids in Unnao and was sentenced to death.
In July, 1937, ‘United Press’ reported that Sri Krishna Sinha, Prime Minister of […]
During the 1942, Quit India Movement at 122 different places, police fired upon the peaceful unarmed Indian patriots martyring around 2000 people in Bihar alone.
(Following is a reproduction of the account written by P.C Roy Choudhury) […]
Mr. Sachchidananda Sinha has had a distinguished and varied public career. He started […]
Attitude of the British government towards India after the First World War, where […]
Shah Muhammad Umair, a Muslim Congress leader of Arwal in Bihar, wrote a letter to Dr. Rajendra Prasad about the Anti-Congress activities of Kisan Sabha.
The mango grove witnessed an unprecedented win of Indians over the British, around 200 soldiers were killed there.
Peer Ali concluded his speech by saying, ‘‘You may hang me, or such as me, every day, but thousands will rise in my place, and your object will never be gained.”
(Following is a reproduction of a chapter from ‘Inside Bihar’ written by P.C […]
13 August, 1980 – Muslim festival of Eid was being celebrated across India […]
It is a reproduction of a portion from A Critical Review of the Basic Facts in the History of Cinchona by Dr. Jaime Jaramillo-Arango, former Rector of the National Faculty of Medicine of Bogota.
Asrar Jaamayee, a well known Urdu Poet of satire and humour left for […]
They have created an army of preachers, who have become a common sight in the subcontinent with their white topi and kurta-pajama, and their beds rolled on their backs.
They have reached to remote corners of the Muslim society, often residing in slums and providing religious education to inspiration to the most downtrodden.
(Following is a reproduction of a report published in ‘The British Medical Journal’ […]
(Following is the text of the speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on […]
(It is reported that a man named Abbad ibn Qays asked Ali, “Commander […]
(Following is a reproduction of a story filed by the Reuters and […]
In the areas where war is waged or which the Japanese occupy or where they infiltrate, the foreigner’s civil rule will weaken or come to an end. In these areas we must establish a Swaraj Government. In the name of this Government we must appeal to retreating units of the Indian Army to stay behind and become the people’s army.
He stayed in America for nearly eight years and studied at five different Universities. He started as a student of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and then devoted years to the study of Biology, Psychology, Economics and Sociology. He had several times interrupted his studies in order to earn enough to carry on at his University for a term or two. He had worked as a farm labourer for ten hours a day, as a packer in a jam factory, as a mechanic in an iron concern, as a waiter in a restaurant. He had tried his hand as a salesman. When, therefore, he returned to India in 1929, it was not as a raw student looking forward to a comfortable life, but as one who had seen life at close quarters and was fully determined to devote himself to public life.
The machine (EVM) could also eliminate booth-capturing as it would become possible for the Election Commission to introduce mobile polling stations to take the machines to the doorsteps of the people, especially the weaker sections.
Akbar Allahabadi was senior to Iqbal and he wrote a reply to Sare Jahan Se Achcha in form of another poem.
The idea of reservation to OBCs (Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs) came about in 1990 after the Mandal Commission recommendations were implemented. The reservation under article 341 defined only SC community and most of these Pasmanda castes don’t come under this identification.
“This is the Congress radio calling on 42.34 meters from somewhere in India,” spoke Usha Mehta after the Quit India Movement had been silenced by the Britishers.
Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan plays Usha Mehta in her movie Ae Watan Mere Watan.
Read our special feature about India’s bravest Radio Jockey ,fondly known as Radio Ben
CAPTAIN LAKSHMI SAHGAL – Doctor by Job, Freedom Fighter by Will
During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
In 1839, Samuel Morse, reputed as the telegraph pioneer, laid the first telegraph lines connecting Washington to Baltimore. In India, the same year, O’Shaughnessy completed 21 miles of a telegraph line wrapped around trees and vast stretches which included a river crossing of 4 miles as an experiment.