Saquib Salim

Saquib Salim is a well known historian under whose supervision various museums (Red Fort, National Library, IFFI, Jallianwala Bagh etc.) were researched. To his credit Mr. Salim has more than 400 published articles on history, politics, culture and literature in English and Hindi. Before pursuing his research and masters in modern Indian History from JNU, he was an electrical engineering student at AMU. Presently, he works as a freelance/ independent history researcher, writer and works at www.awazthevoice.in

Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Historical Archive

Netaji Subhas : The Only Indian Whose Assassination Was Ordered By The British

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date January 22, 2021

There was a reason that the British intelligence officers wanted to confirm the authenticity of the order. It was one …Read more »

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

2 min read

Bengal Education

Nalini Ranjan Sarkar : The Real Father of IIT

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date January 8, 2021

As recommended, the first IIT was inaugurated by the then Education Minister, Abul Kalam Azad, on 18th August 1951 in …Read more »

Nalini Ranjan Sarkar : The Real Father of IIT

4 min read

Bengal Communalism Featured Posts

Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das: Who Solved the Communal Problem in Bengal

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date January 7, 2021

In December 1923, after securing a resounding win in elections Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das (C.R Das) led Swaraj Party signed a …Read more »

4 min read

Brigadier Muhammad Usman : A Forgotten Hero of Kashmir War

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date December 29, 2020

With the fall of Jhangar Usman vowed that he would not sleep on a bed till the day Jhangar was …Read more »

Brigadier Muhammad Usman

4 min read

Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Women

A Burqa Clad Woman Commander of Indians in 1857

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date October 7, 2020

Hudson paid tribute to the bravery of this woman by comparing her with Joan of Arc of France. He contended …Read more »

Hudson paid tribute to the bravery of this woman by comparing her with Joan of Arc of France. He contended that the courage, leadership, and valour of this green-wearing Muslim woman was no less than Joan of Arc.

2 min read

Jawaharlal Nehru : A PM Who Called Communists anti-Indian & Terrorists

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date September 26, 2020

For an observer, who had studied Jawaharlal Nehru’s handling of communist movements, the 1958 article did not come as ‘a …Read more »

Jawaharlal Nehru : A PM Who Called Communists anti-Indian & Terrorists

6 min read

Begum Hijab Imtiaz Ali: The First Indian Muslim Pilot

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date September 13, 2020

‘Meri na-kaam Mohabbat’ (My failed love), a story written by Begum Hijab Imtiaz Ali when she was 12 years old …Read more »

Begum Hijab Imtiaz Ali: The First Indian Muslim Pilot

3 min read

Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Women

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

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date September 12, 2020

Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz was one of the two women representatives at the First Round Table Conference, one of the three …Read more »

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

4 min read

Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Women

Begum Mahboob Fatima: The First Muslim Woman Jailed by the British in Delhi

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date September 11, 2020

According to historians, Begum Mahboob Fatima was the first Muslim woman in Delhi to have been sentenced to prison for …Read more »

Begum Mahboob Fatima: The First Muslim Woman Jailed by the British in Delhi

2 min read

Europe Medicine

German Jewish Doctors in India, Refuge, Opposition and Success

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date September 9, 2020

Among these refugees a few were doctors. In fact, there were less than ten German doctors practising in India, all …Read more »

3 min read

Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Women

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

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date July 24, 2020

John Venables Sturt, who was stationed near Jhansi during 1857, claimed that the Muslim woman accompanying Rani was Moondar and …Read more »

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

1 min read

When The Indian Rupee had 64 Paise instead of 100

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date July 22, 2020

1 Anna coin from 1950

3 min read

Bihar Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement

Patna Conspiracy of 1846 : Before 1857 a Revolt that could not happen

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date July 19, 2020

William Tayler, Commissioner of Patna Division till August, 1857, thus, refers to it, “for some years past, this city (Patna) …Read more »

Patna Conspiracy of 1846

3 min read

Bihar Communalism Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement Historical Archive

Wahabi Leader Syed Ahmad Barelvi Wanted Marathas to Rule Instead of the British

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date July 18, 2020

Here I am reproducing a letter written by Wahabi Leader Syed Ahmed Barelvi to a Maratha leader Raja Hindu Rai …Read more »

Wahabi Leader Syed Ahmad Barelvi Wanted Marathas to Rule In stead of the British

3 min read

Bihar Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement

Khudiram Bose & Sheikh Gulab : The Holy Alliance of Freedom Fighters

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date July 17, 2020

P.C Roy, implicitly, contends that the arrest and case against Sheikh Gulab may be one of the reasons that Khudiram …Read more »

Khudiram Bose & Sheikh Gulab : The Holy Alliance of Freedom Fighters

4 min read

Munger : Which Produced Arms & Guns Superior to Europe

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date July 16, 2020

Munger's traditional gun factories

4 min read

Caste Discrimination in Mosques & My Grandfather, Mohammad Hashim

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date July 15, 2020

5 min read

Bihar Freedom Movement

Jaipal Singh Munda : Man who organised Adivasis

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date July 14, 2020

Jaipal Singh Munda was born in 1903 in a tribal family of Bihar. Under the guardianship of Canon Cosgrave, principal …Read more »

Jaipal Singh Munda

11 min read

Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement

Rajnarayan Mishra: A Forgotten Hero Who Wanted A Classless Society In India

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date July 12, 2020

Raj Narain Mishra, an Indian freedom fighter whose elder brother Baburam Mishra was sentenced for 38 years for fighting against …Read more »

Raj Narain Mishra : A Forgotten Hero Who Wanted A Classless Society In India

3 min read

Bihar Freedom Fighter Freedom Movement

Yogendra Shukla : Lest We Forget the Great Revolutionary from Bihar

Post Author By Saquib Salim
Post Date July 10, 2020

3 min read

You May Also Like:

The invitation to the First Indian National Congress, 1885

“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.”

When Muslim MPs & Jamiat threatened Indira Gandhi of Civil Disobedience Movement

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.”

Vande Mataram in view of Congress Working Committee in 1937

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.

Inside Hamdard Dawakhana Patna: Healing, Poetry, and a Surprising Link to Nitish Kumar

Patna’s Hamdard Dawakhana: With links to Hakim Abdul Hameed and CM Nitish Kumar, this pharmacy is more than just a landmark

Sir Syed was against cow slaughter

“I have repeatedly given my community to understand that it is a folly to annoy our Hindu brothers by resorting to cowslaughter.”

Heritage buildings of Bhopal tell a story of negligence & detachment from history

In Bhopal, there is an immediate need to seek attention and preservation methods to safeguard the historical sites from collapsing.

Hasrat Mohani : A Revolutionary Voice of the Freedom Movement

This year marks the 150th birth anniversary of Maulana Hasrat Mohani (1875–1951) — […]

More Than a Poet: My Father, Hasan Naim

Shahira Naim ‘An indicator of one’s growing up is acceptance of one’s […]

Celebrating a Century of Educational Book House: An Enduring Legacy of Literature and Learning in Aligarh

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.