Exploring lesser known History
The unity which Ramkrishna and Vivekananda established between ‘the one’ and ‘the many’ in the spiritual world, Deshbandhu achieved or at least tried to achieve in the life of the nation and in the political sphere.
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It was an all-out devastating loss for the French in which only two ships out of thirteen managed to escape.
Less than a year after, Arthur Wellesley and his comrades stormed Srirangapatnam, putting an end to Tipu Sultan’s rule as well as his life.
Napoleon, meanwhile, recovered quickly from his defeat and went on to become the Emperor of France.
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This book is the first of a two-part book series, which was partly a result of a research project on the Indian National Movement supervised by the renowned historian Bipan Chandra and funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research.
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Jamhoor was published three times in a month, on 6th, 16th, and 26th days of the month. Owned and edited by Mohammad Umar Khan Chattarvi (1924-2003), a well-known literary and pro-Urdu figure from Aligarh who was also the founding Secretary of the Urdu Board Aligarh and Idara-e- Ilm-o-Adab, Aligarh, under which he organised various Urdu literary activities and worked to promote Urdu education.
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‘I do not want that sort of Swaraj which will be for middle class alone. I want a Swaraj which will be for the masses,not for the classes. I don’t care for the bourgeoisie. How few are they? Swaraj must be for the masses and must be won for the masses’
C.R.Das
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Gandhi, Nehru, Ansari, Zafar, Malviya, Sarojini & Azad in Film Theatres ?
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An excerpt written on Sir Ali Imam by Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha, in his book ‘Some Eminent Behar Contemporaries’, wherein he is described as an icon of nationalism.
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On the occasion of the birthday of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last ruler of the Mughal Dynasty, let us
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The Residency Agent at Sharjah wrote to the Political Agent, in Bahrain (both were representatives of the British Empire), “a British subject (Indian) in Dubai named Tiradas Dhamanmal, manager of the firm Dhamanmal Isardas is reported to be anti-British”. T
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Recently Sultan Palace of Patna has been in the news for the very same reason. The Bihar Government wants to demolish it while the people of Patna want to save this heritage building. For most of them, it is an issue concerning a heritage building but it is much more than that.
Sultan Palace was built by Sir Sultan Ahmed almost a century ago. Sir Sultan Ahmed is mostly remembered as a jurist and educationist but very few in India remember him as a person who campaigned against the partition and put his life in danger to keep India united.
Yes, you read it correctly. On 27 October, 1947, Sultan Ahmed was held hostage at his official residence in Hyderabad by 30,000 Razakars of Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen led by Qasim Rizvi, the leader of Razakars. Wielding swords this huge band of Razakars took an army battalion led by Brigadier Gilbert to stop.
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The people of the Metibruz locality of Kolkata, that comprised migrants from different parts of Uttar Pradesh, chased a senior official of the King’s Court and his family out of the precinct in 1887. The reason being his association to Wajid Ali Shah’s death.
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He participated in the Khilafat movement and served as the president of the Bhagalpur District Khilafat Committee. He organised Khilafat meetings and collected Turkish relief fund. He also took part in the Non-cooperation movement.
In his welcome address at Bihar Provincial conference at Bhagalpur on 28th August, 1920, he stressed the need of national unity for the success of Non-cooperation movement against the British Government. He was ardent believer of Hindu-Muslim unity and communal peace. He was a man of broad outlook and secular character.
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Shah Wajihuddin Minhaji has left a diary, Meri Tamanna, containing all these details. On February 1936, he noted in his diary, “meri tamanna hai k maadar e watan ki urban gah par meri jan qurban ho jaaye” I wish I could sacrifice my life for my motherland.
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[The court martial of Bahadur Shah Zafar sat for the last time on 9 March, (1858) and at 11 a.m.,
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If I tell you that the famous Urdu poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal was a supporter of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh and fought a legal battle for the great Indian revolutionary will you believe ? You should. Because, it is true.
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He was a peculiar and a very special representative in a high degree of that great composite culture that has gradually grown in India. I do not mean to say that everybody has to be like Maulana Azad to represent that composite culture. There are many representatives of it in various parts of India, but he here in Delhi or in Bengal or Calcutta, wherever he spent the greater part of his life-represented this synthesis of various cultures which have come one after another to India, rivers that had flowed in and lost themselves in the ocean of Indian life, India’s humanity affecting them, changing them and being changed themselves by them.
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Maulana Imdad Sabri was one of the most ardent followers and a comrade of Subhas Chandra Bose. He remained in Congress and held important positions until Netaji was in Congress.
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Maulvi Abdur Rasul, who actively participated in the movement opposing the division of Bengal, was born in 1872.
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Dr Jawaharlal Rohatgi, A Doctor who spent nine years in jail but never gave up his Medical Practice
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Under Netaji Bose, the INA’s motto of Ittefaq (Unity), Itmad (Faith), and Kurbani (Sacrifice) no doubt preferred Hindustani words of Persio-Arabic extraction, but the invocation of spiritually-charged terms such as “faith” and “sacrifice” remained.”
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