Exploring lesser known History
A buried chapter of India’s First War of Independence, when hundreds of Indian soldiers who rebelled against the East India Company, captured Sehore and taken over administration.
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The mutiny in the RIAF (Royal Indian Air Force) occurred at almost the same time as the more serious uprisings
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Though not inspired by political reasons, the RIN mutiny did have political consequences. It was preceded by the RIAF mutiny and followed by several mutinies in the Army, including one at the Signal Training Centre at Jubbulpore. Together, these caused consternation and alarm in Delhi and London.
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Harendra Pal Gangwar The year 1757 marked the beginning of British power in India. Bengal was subjugated in June 1757,
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In January 1766, a Dutch East India Company ship called the Meermin left Madagascar carrying 147 slaves. The conditions were cramped, and the captain was concerned his cargo may not survive the journey, so he allowed some of the slaves on deck. One of the senior officers decided to take advantage and asked five of the slaves to clean some spears that the crew had taken as souvenirs. Handing five of the captives their own weapons went about as well as you’d imagine for the crew, and half of the Dutch sailors were killed. The remainder holed themselves up beneath deck and survived on raw bacon and potatoes.
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On 16 November 1915, along with Kartar Singh Sarabha, 7 Indian revolutionaries were executed by hanging at the Lahore Central Jail.
1. Kartar Singh (Sarabha)
2. Vishnu Ganes Pingle (Talegaon Dhamtera, Pune)
3. Harnam Singh (Bhatti Goraya, Sialkot)
4. Jagat Singh (Sur Singh)
5. Surain Singh -1 (Gilwali)
6. Surain Singh -2 (Gilwali)
7. Bakhshish Singh (Gilwali)
From founding the Muzaffarpur unit of the Congress to leading the Muslim Conference, Shafi Daudi was a prominent leader of the freedom struggle in Bihar.
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Jamia Millia Islamia is the only university whose teachers as well as students participated in the freedom movement. Described as the “Lusty child of the non-cooperation days” by Jawaharlal Nehru
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Asfaqullah Khan was born on 22 Oct 1900 in a military background family in Shahjahanpur. He have a great influence on poetry and the bravery of Ram Prasad Bismil. When Bismil was declared absconder after the Manipuri conspiracy, Ashfaq was very keen to meet Bismil because of his poetic and revolutionary attitude.
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He mobilized funds for construction of college buildings and hostels. He was passionate about it.
Reconstruction of Patna’s BN College building and its three storeyed hostel, the imposing building of the Science College (Patna), two storyed hostel for the Science College, the Patna College Hostel (later became famous as Iqbal Hostel), two storeyed PostGraduate Hostel of Ranighat (Patna), Patna Training College are his creations.
Besides, he also allocated fund for the buildings and hostels of the Muzaffarpur’s GBB (LS) College, Cuttack’s Ravenshaw College, Bhagalpur’s TNB Colllege, two big buildings for the Madrasa Shams-ul-Hoda, which was taken over by the government, and eight professors’ quarters in Ranighat (Patna) are also his creations.
For the cause of Urdu, he set up a Madrasa Board in 1922.
In 1920, it constructed two hostels, one named after Duke and another after Langat Singh but the Bihar Scientific Society and its founding Secretary, Syed Imdad Ali and the founding President, Mohd Taqi remains inexplicably un-acknowledged in the entire politics of the nomenclature of the college.
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Syed Mahmud was born in the village of Syedpur Bhitari, Ghazipur (UP). His father’s name was Mohammad Umar and his grandfather’s name was Qazi Farzand Ali. His ancestors had come to Bihar during the Lodis.
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This photograph shows the multi-national representatives of the Afghan Mission. From left to right, they are the Ottoman Sultan’s representative Kâzım Orbay, Leutnant von Hentig, the Hindu Indian Nationalist leader Mahendra Pratap, Oberleutnant Oskar Niedermayer and the Islamic Indian Nationalist Maulavi Barkatullah.
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Sultan Abdülhamid II made great efforts to ban theater plays targeting Prophet Muhammad and Islam in France during the Age of Enlightenment through Turkish embassies on European lands
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Muztar Khairabadi, the GRANDFATHER OF JAVED AKHTAR, was Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi’s grandson. Muztar Sahab was the son of HIMANI KHAIRABADI, A POETESS IN HER OWN RIGHT, and Fazl-e-Haq Sahab’s daughter.
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In their deaths, these young men showed the British what Gandhi meant when he raised the war cry of “Do or Die”.
Their martyrdom was the pivotal event of 1942 which resulted in a mass eruption in Bihar with widespread agitations and chaos.
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One of the letters seized from Waris Ali, informs William Tayler, expressed resentment against the wealth amassed by the European planters. The same day, he was hanged till death.
Read MoreJaved Akhtar Bhatti نام دھنپت رائے لیکن ادبی دنیا میں پریم چند مشہور ہیں 1885ء میں منشی عجائب لال
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The Media-Mullah Nexus, Darul Qaza; Progressive History of Imarat e Shariah
Read Moreاس سال ‘Quit India’ (بھارت چھوڑو) تحریک کے نعرہ کو لگائے ہوئے 75 سال پورے ہوگئے ہیں یہ ملک کی
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