Exploring lesser known History
Discover the untold story of Madhusudan Das, the Maker of Modern Odisha, who stepped up as the first Health Minister of the newly created Bihar and Orissa province in 1921. While history remembers his fight for the Oriya people, his legacy in Bihar includes battling devastating plagues, establishing vital medical infrastructure, and ultimately resigning over a matter of profound personal principle.
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The 1857 uprising in Meerut was not a mere sepoy mutiny fueled by superstition, but a coordinated, secular, and nationalist war of independence. Explore how united Indian soldiers struck the first major blow against the British Empire.
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Despite guiding West Bengal through the turbulent days of India’s partition as its very first Chief Minister, Prafulla Chandra Ghosh remains a largely forgotten figure in history. Explore the fascinating life of this brilliant chemist, revolutionary, and staunch Gandhian.
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Let it suffice to say that he possessed eight fundamental qualities ; lofty judgment, noble ambition, the art of victory, the art of government, the art of conferring prosperity upon his people, the talent of ruling mildly the people of God, ability to win the hearts of his soldiers, love of justice.
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“In my findings the spelling Ramadan for the month was more common than Ramzan during the late 19th and early 20th century.
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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.”
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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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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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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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“The murderer is a ticket-of-leave man, a Mahomedan from the borders of Afghanistan, called Shere Ali; the only reason given by him was that God ordered him to kill the enemy of his country.”
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Sultana Saleem was one of the officers of Azad Hind Fauj, or INA, of Subhas Chandra Bose.
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The British government fined Mahmooda for breaking the salt law but, a committed Congress worker, she denied paying any fine.
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