Indian History

1531 - Mahmud Shah II of Malwa surrendered to Bahadur Shah, the sultan of Muzaffarid dynasty of Gujarat after the fort of Mandu fell to Bahadur on 28th March 1531. 

Death of Syed Ahmad Khan on 27th March in 1898. Sayyid Ahmad Khan was an Indian Muslim reformer and educationist. He is credited for originating the two-nation theory, founding the Aligarh Movement and being a founding father of Pakistan.  Syed Ahmad Khan began publishing the journal Tehzeeb-ul-Akhlaq (Social Reformer) on 24 December 1870 to spread awareness and knowledge on modern subjects and promote reforms in Muslim society. He was born on 17 October in 1817 in  Delhi, 

1552   -  Amar Das became the third Sikh Guru on 26 March 1552 at the age of 73. Born on 5 May 1479 at Basarke in Amritsar district, Guru Amar Das was raised in an orthodox Hindu family. He established his headquarters in Goindwal. He introduced the ceremony of the Anand Karaj Marriage . He died on 1st September 1574, at the age of 95. 

1931 - Death of Indian journalist and politician Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi on 25 March in 1931 .  Founder-editor of the Hindi language newspaper, Pratap, Vidyarthi was killed in 1931 in the communal violence between Hindus and Muslims in Kanpur.

1946 - Cabinet Mission arrives in India on 24 March 1946 . In September 1945 , the newly elected Labour government under Clement Atlee in Britain expressed its intention of creating a Constituent Assembly for India, that would frame India’s Constitution. The Cabinet Mission was sent to India to make this happen. Cabinet Mission arrives in New Delhi on 24 March 1946 The members of the Cabinet Mission were Lord Penthick-Lawrence , Secretary of State for India, Sir Stafford Cripps , President of the Board of Trade, and A.V Alexander , First Lord of Admiralty. The Cabinet Mission's plan failed due to the disagreement between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League.  1776 - Death of Carnatic classical music composer Muthuswami Dikshitar on 24 March in 1776. He was one of the trinity of Carnatic music. Tyagaraja and Syama Sastri are the other two. Dikshitar mainly composed in Sanskrit with the exception of a few kritis in Telugu and Manipravalam. Manipravalam is a combina...

1351 - Firuz Shah Tughlaq , the third ruler of the  Tughlaq dynasty, succeeded the throne on 23 March 1351 at the age of forty-six.  He became sultan after the demise of his cousin Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq who had become second Tughlaq sultan in 1325 AD.  Firuz Shah Tughlaq is credited with the founding of the cities of Jaunpur in 1359 (Uttar Pradesh), Hissar and Fatehabad (Haryana), Firozpur (Punjab). Jaunpur was named after Muhammad bin Tughluq who was known by the name of Juna Khan before his accession to the throne. Firuz Shah Tughlaq was a religious bigot and this prevented him from being just to his non–Muslim subjects by imposing Jizya tax on them. Firuz died in 1388 , aged eighty-two.  His tomb is located in Hauz Khas in Delhi. 1931 - Death of revolutionary leaders Bhagat Singh , Raj Guru and Sukhdev on 23rd March, 1931. They were were hanged to death by the British government at the Lahore Central Jail in Lahore in 1931. They were given the death sentenc...

1739 - Military leader Nader Shah sacks Delhi on 22 March 1739 during the reign of Mughal emperor Mohammad Shah by killing thousands of the inhabitants of the city.   1894 - Birth of Surya Sen , an Indian revolutionary, on 22 March 1894 . He is best known for leading the Chittagong Armoury Raid in 1930. A revolutionary leader from Bengal, Surya Sen had founded the Chittagong Republic Army with a view to freeing Chittagong (now in Bangladesh) from the British rule. A teacher by profession, Surya Sen led an armed uprising and organized simultaneous attacks on the British strongholds. On April 18, 1930, the Chittagong (or Indian) Republican Army, founded by  Surya Sen, raided two government armories. The telegraph, telephone and railway station were disrupted. As a result, Chittagong was completely cut of from the rest of India. After these daring raids and attacks, Surya Sen declared the formation of a free National Revolutionary Government. But his venture did not last l...