This blog is a comprehensive and in-depth guide to the events, people and places throughout the history of India
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Sharqi Dynasty of Jaunpur
Friday, May 6, 2011
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
One of the pioneers of social reforms in British India, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856-1895) was born at Tembhu in Satara district of Maharashtra. He was one of the founders of the Deccan Education Society in 1884, with Lokmanya Tilak, Vishnushastri Chipalunkar and Madhavrao Namjoshi being the other members. Agarkar was also one of the founder members of the Fergusson College in Pune in 1885. In 1891 he became the Principal of the Fergusson College in 1892 and held that office till his unexpected death in 1895.
Agarkar was the first editor of Marathi weekly the Kesari and English weekly the Mahratta started by Lokmanya Tilak. Following his differences with Tilak, he started his own weekly the Sudharak In 1888. Gopal Krishna Gokhale used to contribute to this weekly.
Throughout his life, Agarkar fought to raise the age of marriage for boys and girls.
Samudragupta: The Greatest Gupta Emperor
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Origin of the word ‘Sufi’
Generally, authorizes are of the opinion that virtuous people were called safa. Hence the nomenclature Sufi. According to another school of though, the term has been derived from the Greek word Sophia meaning wisdom or knowledge.
Jahiz of Basra was the first writer to use the word Sufi in 869 A.D. Jami mentions that sufi was first applied to Abu Hashim of Kufa in the 8th century while Aul-Kusheri opines that this term was introduced in A.D.811.
Famous Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
“A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.”
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
“Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.”
“But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.”
“I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.”
“I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.”
“I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.”
“I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.”
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tukaram: 17th century Marathi and Saint
Keshab Chandra Sen: The doyen of Social Reforms in Pre-independent India
Cosmas Indicopleustes
World map by Cosmas Indicopleustes / Image Credit: upload.wikimedia.org Cosmas Indicopleustes (literally: "who sailed to India") ...
-
Books Authors Abhigyan Shakuntalam (Recognition of Shakuntala) Kalidasa Aihole ...
-
Amir-i-Chahalgani, known variously as Turkan-i-Chahalgani and Chalisa (The Forty), was a group of 40 faithful slaves which came into existen...
-
Women occupied a very honourable position in the Viajayanagr society. Some of them were very learned and were eminent litterateurs. Monogamy...