In all probability Muslims planning to slaughter cows were also paid agents of the British because cow slaughter was already banned by Bahadur Shah Zafar. So it was planned that on 2nd August cows will be slaughtered on Eid to fan communal tensions in Delhi. As soon as Hindus and Muslims started fighting the British army would attack the city.
आप अजनबी हैं, नही तो ऐसा सवाल नही करते, ये सब झूठी कहानियाँ हैं, ये कहानियाँ भड़काने के लिए फैलाई जाती हैं, नफ़रत तो पहले से भी कम नही, ये बात बिलकुल सही है कि अंग्रेज़ बच्चों और औरतों का ख़ून बहाया गया है लेकिन किसी की आबरु पर हमला नही किया गया, ये हमारी तहज़ीब और रस्म व रिवाज के ख़िलाफ़ है, हिंदुस्तान से लेकर लंदन तक की अख़बारों में जो ये ख़बरें हैं; ये सब बे बुनियाद हैं!
A buried chapter of India’s First War of Independence, when hundreds of Indian soldiers who rebelled against the East India Company, captured Sehore and taken over administration.
Maulvi Muhammad Baqir was the first Indian journalist to be executed by the British for spreading messages and news of Mutiny against the British.
One of the letters seized from Waris Ali, informs William Tayler, expressed resentment against the wealth amassed by the European planters. The same day, he was hanged till death.
Indian Mutiny, Fate of Jama Masjid and other Islamic Buildings of Delhi:
Madarsah-i-Rahimiya was the most important Islamic research institution of India. It was established by Shaikh Abdur Rahim, a Sufi and great theologian of his time.
Akbarabadi Mosque was demolished; two other were desecrated but not demolished. No photographic documentary evidence of this mosque existed until few years back it was surfaced in Felice Beato’s 1858 series of photography of Delhi
The Fatehpuri mosque and its platform were released for worship, but the quadrangle and shops below were sold by auction.
Extensive looting during the Siege of Delhi is described: “On one occasion… he came back with thirteen wagons loaded with spoil, and among other valuables, eighty thousand rupees- in English money eight thousand pounds.”
An account provided by Mirza Asadullah Ghalib in his many letters to his friends and students about the misfortunes that descended upon the women after the Indian Rebellion of 1857
After taking the king and his family as prisoners, Hodson left his Sikh cavalry to guard the Humayun Tomb. They were assigned to keep an eye on the nobles who were still taking refuge at the tomb area and were under arrest. Their destiny looked much shoddier after the arrest of Bahadur Shah Zafar.
Begum Hazrat Mahal challenged the British force by inspiring patriotism among the people and their fellow native rulers. She issued a historic statement challenging the proclamation issued by Queen Victoria
It is no secret that hand-spinned clothes and secularism became the cornerstone of Mahatma Gandhi’s movement. Gandhi was actually a fulfilment of Ganesh Kolhatkar’s prophecy made in 1868 that “those who wish to be remembered in the future history of India, ought not to shrink back from undertaking this work (of making clothes in India and boycott British made cloth)”.
In the areas where war is waged or which the Japanese occupy or where they infiltrate, the foreigner’s civil rule will weaken or come to an end. In these areas we must establish a Swaraj Government. In the name of this Government we must appeal to retreating units of the Indian Army to stay behind and become the people’s army.
He stayed in America for nearly eight years and studied at five different Universities. He started as a student of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and then devoted years to the study of Biology, Psychology, Economics and Sociology. He had several times interrupted his studies in order to earn enough to carry on at his University for a term or two. He had worked as a farm labourer for ten hours a day, as a packer in a jam factory, as a mechanic in an iron concern, as a waiter in a restaurant. He had tried his hand as a salesman. When, therefore, he returned to India in 1929, it was not as a raw student looking forward to a comfortable life, but as one who had seen life at close quarters and was fully determined to devote himself to public life.
The machine (EVM) could also eliminate booth-capturing as it would become possible for the Election Commission to introduce mobile polling stations to take the machines to the doorsteps of the people, especially the weaker sections.
Akbar Allahabadi was senior to Iqbal and he wrote a reply to Sare Jahan Se Achcha in form of another poem.
The idea of reservation to OBCs (Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs) came about in 1990 after the Mandal Commission recommendations were implemented. The reservation under article 341 defined only SC community and most of these Pasmanda castes don’t come under this identification.
“This is the Congress radio calling on 42.34 meters from somewhere in India,” spoke Usha Mehta after the Quit India Movement had been silenced by the Britishers.
Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan plays Usha Mehta in her movie Ae Watan Mere Watan.
Read our special feature about India’s bravest Radio Jockey ,fondly known as Radio Ben
CAPTAIN LAKSHMI SAHGAL – Doctor by Job, Freedom Fighter by Will
During the Bengal famine, Sahir Ludhianvi wrote a poem which has a couplet:
