Tag: Unsung heroes India

Jyotiba Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj in Pune on September 24, 1873, not as a gesture or a philosophical exercise ...

Syed Ahmad Khan watched the world that had shaped him collapse in 1857 and drew from the wreckage a conclusion ...

Pandita Ramabai earned the title of Pandita from the Sanskrit scholars of Calcutta at a time when no woman had ...

Gopal Hari Deshmukh wrote one hundred letters in Marathi between 1848 and 1850 under the pen name Lokahitawadi, meaning one ...

Thakkar Bapa gave up a comfortable career as a civil engineer in his forties to walk into the forests and ...

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay understood something about Indian handicrafts that the newly independent government of 1947 did not immediately grasp, that the ...

Walchand Hirachand wanted to build ships in India, fly planes over India and manufacture automobiles on Indian soil at a ...

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

Matangini Hazra was seventy-one years old when she walked to the front of a protest march in Tamluk and refused ...