Ashfaqulla Khan was born on 22nd of October 1900 to Shafiqulla Khan in Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Ashfaq was in school when Mahatma Gandhi called the Non co-operation movement. A movement wherein he called the Indians not to pay taxes to the British and not to cooperate with the British government in any way. This […]
Sri Aurobindo was born of 15th August, 1872 in Calcutta. In 1879, at the age of seven, he was sent to England for education where he lived for fourteen years. He joined St.Paul’s school in London in 1884 and later went to King’s College Cambridge, where he studied for two years. He passed the open
Aruna Asaf Ali played a leading role during Quit India Movement; elected as Delhi’s first Mayor; awarded the Lenin Prize for peace in 1975 and the Jawahar Lal Nehru award for International understanding for 1991; honoured with Bharat Ratna in 1998.Aruna Asaf Ali was a legendary figure of India’s freedom struggle. Her moment of reckoning
Annie Besant, the daughter of William Wood and Emily Morris, was born in 1847 at Clapham, London. Annie’s father, who was a doctor, died when she was only five years old. Therefore she had an unhappy childhood. Mrs. Wood unable to take care of Annie persuaded her friend Ellen Marryat to take responsibility for her
“Nadir Shah looted the country only once. But the British loot us every day. Every year wealth to the tune of 4.5 million dollar is being drained out, sucking our very blood. Britain should immediately quit India.’’ That’s what the Sindh Times wrote on May 20, 1884, a year before the Indian National Congress was
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