Chittranjan Das was born on November 5, 1870 in Calcutta. Das descended from a family of ‘vaidyas’ or physicians. His father, Bhuben Mohan Das, was a lawyer and journalist. His mother’s name was Nistarini Devi.After school, Das entered the Presidency college. He excelled at English but did poorly in Mathematics. Das developed a keen interest […]
Born on November 7, 1858, in a village in Sylhet (now Banglagdesh), of well-to-do parents, Pal had to cut short his education at the Intermediate stage. He came under the influence of eminent Bengali leaders of his time such as Keshab Chandra Sen and Pandit Sivanath Sastri. He was imprisoned for six months on the
Bidhan Chandra Roy was born on July 1, 1882, at Bankipore in Patna, Bihar. His father Prakash Chandra was an Excise Inspector. Bidhan was the youngest of five children and was greatly influenced by the simplicity, discipline and piety of his parents. His parents inculcated in him the idea of service by taking care of
Bhulabhai Desai, a lawyer politician, was born on October 13, 1877 in Valsad, Gujarat. Being the only child of his parents, Bhulabhai was pampered a great deal.Initially Bhulabhai was schooled by his maternal uncle. Later, he studied at the Avabai School in Valsad and the Bharada High School in Bombay from where he matriculated in
Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born on 14th April, 1891. He was born in Central India as the fourteenth child to parents who belonged to the very lowest caste of Hindu society who are known as the dalits or untouchables. In 1908, Ambedkar passed the Matriculation exam from Bombay University. After graduating from Elfinstone College,
Bhagat Singh was born into a Jat Sandhu family to Sardar Kishan Singh Sandhu and Vidyavati in the Khatkar Kalan village near Banga in the Lyallpur district of Punjab. He came from a patriotic Sikh family, some of whom had participated in movements supporting the independence of India and others who had served in Maharaja
Hazrat Mahal was a queen of the deposed Wajid Ali Shah. After the Indian victory at Chinhut on July 30, 1857, when Oudh’s forces captured Lucknow, the royal insignia was borne with amazing courage by the Begum. She crowned her minor son, Brijis Qadar, as King and became his Regent.Unlike Rani Lakshmi Bai Jhansi, the
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, born on June 26, 1838, was educated at the Hoogly College and belonged to an orthodox family. He was offered the government post of Deputy Magistrate and Collector which he accepted and held until he retired 1891.He did for Bengali fiction what Michael Madhusudan Dutt had done for Bengali poetry, that is,
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, born July 22, 1856, was universally recognized as the Father of Indian Unrest. He was one of the prime architects of modern India and heralded Asian nationalism. His philosophy could not survive after his death as India came under sway of Mahatma Gandhi.Tilak was a brilliant politician as well as a profound
Bagha Jatin Mukherjee (1879-1915) revolutionary activist. Bagha Jatin’s real name was Jatindra Nath Mukherjee. He hailed. It is said that he came to be called ‘Bagha Jatin’ after killing a tiger single-handed and without any arms. He learnt short hand and type writing after passing the Entrance Examination and was appointed a stenographer to the
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