Biography

For three decades, Walchand Hirachand built Indian industries the colonial government forbade. But when India became free, the nation that...

Over thirty-three years, Gandhi and Birla exchanged 1,800 letters about money, morality, and the political movement that changed India—a candid...

Abanindranath Tagore looked at the oil paintings filling the walls of colonial Calcutta and made a deliberate decision to turn...

On the night of April 18, 1930, a schoolteacher from Chittagong led sixty-five young men and women in a coordinated...

In the summer of 1915, a Bengali revolutionary with a reputation for fighting tigers with his bare hands was waiting...

Begum Hazrat Mahal was not supposed to lead a revolution. She had been a courtesan, then a royal wife, then...

The brilliant poet Rabindranath Tagore found a new voice in his old age when his pen suddenly stopped writing and...

Khudiram Bose was eighteen years old when he was hanged by the British colonial government in Muzaffarpur on 11 August...

Bhikaiji Cama stood before an international socialist congress in Stuttgart, Germany in August 1907 and unfurled a flag she had...

Ramkinkar Baij grew up in a small town in Bankura, the son of a barber, with no inherited wealth and...