Indian History
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Struggle of Walchand Hirachand Against British Shipping Laws
Walchand Hirachand wanted to build ships in India, fly planes over India and manufacture automobiles on Indian soil at a...
The Secret Letters Between G.D. Birla and Mahatma Gandhi
Between 1915 and 1948, Ghanshyam Das Birla and Mahatma Gandhi exchanged over 1,800 letters. They wrote about money, about the...
Kanaklata Barua: Assam’s Youngest Martyr of the Quit India Movement
On 20 September 1942 CE, a seventeen-year-old girl from a small village in Assam picked up the national flag, stepped...
Surya Sen: Chittagong Armoury Raid That Shook British India
On the night of April 18, 1930, a schoolteacher from Chittagong led sixty-five young men and women in a coordinated...
Bagha Jatin: German Plot That Shook Colonial India 1915
In the summer of 1915, a Bengali revolutionary with a reputation for fighting tigers with his bare hands was waiting...
Begum Hazrat Mahal: How She Held Awadh Together in 1857
Begum Hazrat Mahal was not supposed to lead a revolution. She had been a courtesan, then a royal wife, then...
The Romantic Soul of Kangra Miniature Paintings
The delicate strokes of Kangra miniature paintings reveal a world where the lush Himalayan landscape becomes a stage for eternal...
How Nandalal Bose Painted Artwork of Indian Constitution
The Constitution of India is much more than a foundational book of laws. It is a stunning national masterpiece of...
The Final Letters of Khudiram Bose and Soul of Young Bengal
Khudiram Bose was eighteen years old when he was hanged by the British colonial government in Muzaffarpur on 11 August...
How Madam Bhikaiji Cama Unfurled India’s Flag in Germany
Bhikaiji Cama stood before an international socialist congress in Stuttgart, Germany in August 1907 and unfurled a flag she had...
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