Indian History

image source: incredibleindia.org The Great Rashtrakuta emperor Amoghavarsha I cut off the fingers of his left hand as a sacrifice to the Goddesses Mahalakshmi of Kolhapur to avert the calamites being faced his kingdom.

Image Source: Wikipedia An ancient rishi (sage), Jamadagni was the father of Parashurama (Rama with the axe), the sixth Avatar (“Descent”) or Incarnation of Vishnu. Once Jamadagni was robbed by the wicked King Kartavirya, the most famous of the Haihaya kings. As a result, Parashurama killed Kartavirya. Jamadagni was in turn killed by the sons of Kartavirya. This enraged Parashurama who exterminated all the males of the Kshatriya caste with the axe given to him by Shiva twenty-one times in succession. Some accounts say that Jamadagni was killed by Kartavirya himself. Jamadagni’s wife was Renuka who is known for her wifely fidelity.

Year Location of Session President 1885 Bombay Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 1886 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji 1887 Madras Badruddin Tyabji 1888 Allahabad George Yule 1889 Bombay William Wedderburn 1890 Calcutta Pherozeshah Mehta 1891 Nagpur P. Ananda Charlu 1892 Allahabad Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee 1893 Lahore Dadabhai Naoroji 1894 Madras Alfred Webb 1895 Poona Surendranath Banerjea 1896 Calcutta Rahimtulla M. Sayani 1897 Amraoti C. Sankaran Nair 1898 Madras Ananda Mohan Bose 1899 Lucknow Romesh Chunder Dutt 1900 Lahore Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar 1901 Calcutta Dinshaw Edulji Wacha 1902 Ahmedabad Surendranath Banerjea 1903 Madras Lalmohan Ghosh 1904 Bombay Henry Cotton 1905 Benares Gopal Krishna Gokhale 1906 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji 1907 Surat Rashbihari Ghosh 1908 Madras Rashbihari Ghosh 1909 Lahore Madan Mohan Malaviya 1910 Allahabad William Wedderburn ...

December 29, 1844 Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee or Umesh Chandra Banerjee, the first president of Indian National Congress in 1885, is born in Calcutta. He was also the first Indian to fight the election to British Parliament.

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons December 28 1885 The Indian National Congress (INC) is Founded by A.O. Hume in Mumbai. First session of INC was held in Mumbai from 28 –31 December in 1885.

·          The famous Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib during the Mughal period was born in Agra on 27 December 1797. Today is Ghalib's 215th birth anniversary.

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur Shah or Babur, as he is generally called, died on 26 th December at the age of 47 in 1530 in Agra. Babur was the founder of the Mughal dynasty in India in 1526. The Mughal rule in India came to an end in 1857 when it last ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to Burma by the British. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, founder of Young Bengal Movement, passes away on 26 th December 1831 at a young age of 22 in Calcutta.