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Jamadagni
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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.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Presidents of Indian National Congress
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 |
1911 | Calcutta | Bishan Narayan Dar |
1912 | Bankipur | Rao Bahadur Raghunath Narasinha Mudholkar |
1913 | Karachi | Nawab Syed Mohammad Bahadur |
1914 | Madras | Bhupendra Nath Bose |
1915 | Bombay | Satyendra Prasanna Sinha |
1916 | Lucknow | Ambica Charan Mazumdar |
1917 | Calcutta | Annie Besant |
1918 | Bombay | Syed Hasan Imam |
1918 | Delhi | Madan Mohan Malaviya |
1919 | Amritsar | Motilal Nehru |
1920 | Calcutta | Lala Lajpat Rai |
1920 | Nagpur | C. Vijayaraghavachariar |
1921 | Ahmedabad | Hakim Ajmal Khan |
1922 | Gaya | Chittaranjan Das |
1923 | Cocanada | Maulana Mohammad Ali |
1923 | Delhi | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
1924 | Belgaum | Mahatma Gandhi |
1925 | Kanpur | Sarojini Naidu |
1926 | Gauhati | S. Srinivasa Iyengar |
1927 | Madras | Mukhtar Ahmad Ansari |
1928 | Calcutta | Motilal Nehru |
1929 | Lahore | Jawaharlal Nehru |
1931 | Karachi | Vallabhbhai Patel |
1932 | Delhi | Madan Mohan Malaviya |
1933 | Calcutta | Nellie Sen Gupta/Madan Mohan Malaviya |
1934 | Bombay | Rajendra Prasad |
1935 | Lucknow | Jawaharlal Nehru |
1936 | Faizpur | Jawaharlal Nehru |
1938 | Haripura | Subhas Chandra Bose |
1939 | Tripuri | Subhas Chandra Bose |
1940 | Ramgarh | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
1946 | Meerut | J. B. Kripalani |
1948 | Jaipur | Pattabhi Sitaramayya |
1950 | Nashik | Purshottam Das Tandon |
1951 | New Delhi | Jawaharlal Nehru |
1953 | Hyderabad | Jawaharlal Nehru |
1954 | Kalyani | Jawaharlal Nehru |
1955 | Avadi (Madras) | U. N. Dhebar |
1956 | Amritsar | U. N. Dhebar |
1957 | Indore | U. N. Dhebar |
1958 | Gauhati | U. N. Dhebar |
1959 | Nagpur | U. N. Dhebar |
1960 | Bangalore | Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy |
1961 | Bhavnagar | Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy |
1962 | Patna | Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy |
1964 | Bhubaneswar | K. Kamaraj |
1965 | Durgapur | K. Kamaraj |
1966 | Jaipur | K. Kamaraj |
1968 | Hyderabad | S. Nijalingappa |
1969 | Faridabad | S. Nijalingappa |
1969 | Bombay | Jagjivan Ram |
1972 | Calcutta | Shankar Dayal Sharma |
1975 | Chandigarh | Dev Kanta Borooah |
1978 | New Delhi | Indira Gandhi |
1983 | Calcutta | Indira Gandhi |
1985 | Bombay | Rajiv Gandhi |
1992 | Tirupati | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
Today in India History (29th December)
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.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Today in India History (28th December)
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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.
Today in India History (27th December)
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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.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Today in India History (26th December)
- Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur Shah or Babur, as he is generally called, died on 26th 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 26th December 1831 at a young age of 22 in Calcutta.
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