Exploring lesser known History
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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According to historians, Begum Mahboob Fatima was the first Muslim woman in Delhi to have been sentenced to prison for waging ‘the war against the Crown’.
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Nandini Satpathy served as a minister in the Indira Gandhi government before being chosen as CM of Odisha. In her long public career, she never lost an election.
It all began with that anti-British protest where, as an eight-year-old, Satpathy was beaten up by the police.
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Syed Hasan Imam: A sketch of his life and career by G.A. Natesan & Co., Publishers, George Town, Madras
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Zinat Un Nisa Masjid: Which was used by the British as barrack and later as a bakery.
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Dr Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari belonged to a very well-known family of Hakims. To recognise and acknowledge his surgical skills, the Charing Cross hospital entitled a ward in his name which is known as the “Ansari ward”.
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Rakshabandhan is observed on the last day of the Hindu lunar calendar month of Shravan. It is deeply imbibed in
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Reading history becomes more interesting when we realise the silences in the narratives we study or listen to. One such less talked about, but important, event is the Police Mutiny of Patna during the last week of March in 1947.
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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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William Tayler, Commissioner of Patna Division till August, 1857, thus, refers to it, “for some years past, this city (Patna) has been considered a very sink of disaffection and intrigue.
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Here I am reproducing a letter written by Wahabi Leader Syed Ahmed Barelvi to a Maratha leader Raja Hindu Rai asking for his help in throwing away the foreign rule.
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P.C Roy, implicitly, contends that the arrest and case against Sheikh Gulab may be one of the reasons that Khudiram Bose attacked Kingsford in Muzaffarpur.
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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.
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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.
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Hakim Ajmal Khan supplemented the Tibbia School by opening a Female Midwifery School and Hospital by getting it formally inaugurated by the wife of the Governor of Punjab, Lady Dane on 13 January 1909. It was a radical step taken by Hakim Saheb towards the professional courses in the direction of female education.
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In July, 1937, ‘United Press’ reported that Sri Krishna Sinha, Prime Minister of Bihar Province, had decided to revoke the
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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.
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Dr. Boyd was much impressed and he congratulated Hakim Ajmal Khan Saheb on his correct diagnosis. He arranged a dinner in Hakim Saheb’s honor and introduced him to Mrs. Boyd as “one who had defeated him in the surgical duel.”
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Attitude of the British government towards India after the First World War, where the Indians backed the British war efforts
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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.
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