Exploring lesser known History
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.
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Patna’s Hamdard Dawakhana: With links to Hakim Abdul Hameed and CM Nitish Kumar, this pharmacy is more than just a landmark
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“I have repeatedly given my community to understand that it is a folly to annoy our Hindu brothers by resorting to cowslaughter.”
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In Bhopal, there is an immediate need to seek attention and preservation methods to safeguard the historical sites from collapsing.
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This year marks the 150th birth anniversary of Maulana Hasrat Mohani (1875–1951) — a towering figure in India’s struggle for
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Shahira Naim ‘An indicator of one’s growing up is acceptance of one’s parents as persons’. This is what I
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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.
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It is decidedly too difficult to pronounce any judgement at the present juncture whether Pahari Gandhi’s stature was higher as a freedom fighter or as a poet.
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For some reasons best known to historians Indians don’t know much about Vellore Mutiny and whatever we are told is never related to Tipu Sultan, Marthas, Fakirs, Sanyasis, Hindu Muslim Unity and 1857.
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The Cup given by the Meerut Tent Club is called the “ Kadir Cup,” after the Kadir or river-bed country in which it is competed for. The contest first took place after pig in 1874.
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Agashe was the first Indian revolutionary to go to Iran, and he reached there in late 1906. Amba Prasad too left India after his acquittal, on 11 January 1908, and reached Iran
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Mufti Kifayatullah said, “I have not joined the freedom movement for personal enrichment.”
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Would the Maharaja have received such considerate attention from the police if he had not been one of the leaders of the movement for the boycott of the Commission?
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Mahanth Lal Gir is said to have been much favoured by the Emperor of Delhi, and the villages of Mastipur and Taradih, in which the Buddhist Mahabodhi temple is situated, were made over to him by a Royal firman.
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The job of armed soldiers is to march ahead and repel the attacking enemy. They die in fighting but never retreat.
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Another great strength is the book’s ecumenism: Hussain respects Sufism in its pluralistic and rich varieties, transcending sectarian divisions to celebrate the universal spirit of love, tolerance, and adoration.
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Raza Quli Khan rose up in revolt against the foreign rule with his armed loyalists. Mr. Grome, Collector of Saran, informed Ross that he was aamil (administrator) of Sasaram and supported Chait Singh’s revolt.
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This Indian mathematician was making news in Europe at least three decades before Srinivasa Ramanujan took birth.
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Some Pandits explain that the use of the dye solution originated in the time of Vikramaditya and is continued to commemorate his accession to the throne.
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This, I need hardly say, makes it still more probable that he (Sher Ali) was urged on to the deed by the Wahabis.
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