Matangini Hazra: The Flag She Would Not Drop Under Gunfire
Matangini Hazra was seventy-one years old when she walked to the front of a protest march in Tamluk and refused ...
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Jyotiba Phule: Why He Built the Satyashodhak Samaj
Jyotiba Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj in Pune on September 24, 1873, not as a gesture or a philosophical exercise ...
Syed Ahmad Khan: How the Aligarh Movement Remade Muslim Education
Syed Ahmad Khan watched the world that had shaped him collapse in 1857 and drew from the wreckage a conclusion ...
Pandita Ramabai: How She Built a Mission for Women’s Education and Welfare
Pandita Ramabai earned the title of Pandita from the Sanskrit scholars of Calcutta at a time when no woman had ...
Gopal Hari Deshmukh: The 100 Letters That Challenged Maharashtra’s Social Order
Gopal Hari Deshmukh wrote one hundred letters in Marathi between 1848 and 1850 under the pen name Lokahitawadi, meaning one ...
Thakkar Bapa: The Engineer Who Built Institutions for Tribal Communities
Thakkar Bapa gave up a comfortable career as a civil engineer in his forties to walk into the forests and ...
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: How She Saved India’s Living Craft Traditions
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay understood something about Indian handicrafts that the newly independent government of 1947 did not immediately grasp, that the ...
Walchand Hirachand: How He Fought Colonial Rules to Build Indian Industry
For three decades, Walchand Hirachand built Indian industries the colonial government forbade. But when India became free, the nation that ...
Bhikaiji Cama: Freedom Raised in Exile
Bhikaiji Cama stood before an international socialist congress in Stuttgart, Germany in August 1907 and unfurled a flag she had ...
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