Exploring lesser known History
To recover Anilbaran Roy is not simply to add another name to the history of Indian nationalism. It is to look again at the teachers, organisers, artists and thinkers through whom nationalism was actually lived, and at the ideas about history and India’s future that continued to shape their lives after the political struggle itself had changed.
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Arrested on August 9, 1942, alongside fellow leaders including Babu Banarsi Das, he was initially detained at Bulandshahr District Jail before being moved to Bareilly Central Jail. His incarceration later took him to Naini Jail in Allahabad, where he was imprisoned alongside prominent figures such as Rafi Ahmad Kidwai (1894-1954), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-1966), and Gobind Sahai (190-1967).
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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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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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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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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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Sultana Saleem was one of the officers of Azad Hind Fauj, or INA, of Subhas Chandra Bose.
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The soldiers, 41 in total, were shot dead by a firing squad across several public ceremonies to instill fear amongst the local population as well as soldiers. The first execution was held on 7 March 1915 where Rasulah, Imtiaz Ali and Rakhmudin were shot dead.
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Mazharul Haque alongwith Gokhale and others were demanding Right to Education in 1911.
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What people do not appreciate at first is the importance of Christmas week in the formation of the Indian National Congress and its further development.
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