Today In Indian History (30th January)

1948 - Death of Mahatma Gandhi on 30 January, 1930. Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse on 30 January, 1948. 

Today In Indian History (29th January)

1780 - On 29 January 1780, India's and Asia's first printed newspaper 'Hicky's Bengal Gazette' began its publication. Started by an Irishman named James Augustus Hicky, Hicky's Bengal Gazette was a weekly English newspaper which ran for two years from 1780 to 1782. It was published from Kolkata.

1791- Lord Cornwallis had assumed command of the British troops on 29th January, 1791 during the Third Anglo-Mysore War. 

Today In Indian History (28th January)

1865  - Birth of Lala Lajpat Rai on 28 January in 1865.   

Today In Indian History (27th January)

1556- Death of the second Mughal ruler, Humayun, on January 27 in 1556. He died in Delhi from falling down the stairs of his library, known as the "Sher Mandal," within the Purana Qila (Old Fort) in Delhi.

Today In Indian History (26th January)

1620 - Death of Amar Singh, the ruler of Mewar Kingdom and eldest son of Maharana Pratap, on 26th January 1620. 

1915 –  Birth of Gaidinliu Pamei (26 January 1915 – 17 February 1993), popularly known as Rani Gaidinliu, who was a Naga woman revolutionary leader and successor to the political movement launched by the Naga leader Haipou Jadonang (1905-31) to drive away the British from Manipur.

Born in the present day Tamenglong district of Manipur Rani Gaidinliu led a popular rebellion against the British rule at the young age of sixteen after Jadonang was executed by the British. 

In 1932, she was arrested by the British government who sentenced her to life imprisonment. This tribal freedom fighter spent fourteen years in different jails of Guwahati, Shillong, Aizawl, Tura and others between 1932 and 1947 making her one of India’s longest incarcerated political prisoners by the British.

Rani Gaidinliu was finally released from the prison after India’s independence in 1947. She died in 1993.

Jawahar Lal Nehru gave her the title of "Rani" ("Queen") whom he has met at Shillong Jail in 1937.

1950- The Constitution of independent India came into force on 26th January 1950.

Today In Indian History (25th January)

1824 - Michael Madhusudan Dutt, famous Bengali poet and playwright, was born on 25th January in 1824. 

One of the greatest poets of the Bengali language, Dutt wrote his magnum opus Meghnad Badh Kavya (The Slaying of Meghnada) in 1861. Meghnad Badh Kavya is based on an episode from the Ramayana in which Meghnad (also known as Indrajit), son of Ravana, is killed by Rama's brother Lakshmana.  

Dutt introduced in Bengali poetry amitrakshar chanda, or what is known as Blank Verse. The celebrated epic Meghnad Badh Kavya was written in blank verse. In 1860, he had used amitrakshar in his work Padmabati.  He also replaced deva mahima, or praise for the divinity, with humanism. He had introduced the sonnet, or chaturdashpadi kabita, in Bengali literature. 

Michael Madhusudan Dutt died on June 29, 1873 in Calcutta, 

Today In Indian History (24th January)

1950- On 24 January 1950, Constituent Assembly in India adopts the Indian national anthem from a song written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore.

The first stanza of the song Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India as the National Anthem on 24 January 1950.