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How Gandhi became a house hold name.
As part of Champaran programme Gandhi was doggedly pursued by Rajkumar Shukla who met him at least thrice to coax him to accede to his demand and reach Chamaparan to understand what was happening there. So, Gandhi moved over to Muzaffarpur from Patna and began acquainting himself thoroughly with the legal position that existed between the zamindars, the planters, and the tenants.Read More
The sehore uprising - a joint hindu-muslim fight against the british
We all are greatly pained at the killing of hundreds in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 where the cruelty of British general R Dyre reigned supreme, in killing 379 unarmed civilians. The place now is a memorial of national importance. But we for sure forgot that a similar or even bigger massacre was led by General Hugh Rose in Sehore in Madhya Pradesh 163 years back after rebels stood up against the colonial army. Read More
The Sepoy Mutiny Of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, 64 km northeast of Delhi. It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east. Read More
The Vellore Mutiny Of 1806
The Vellore mutiny, or Vellore Revolution, occurred on 10 July 1806 and was the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company, predating the Indian Rebellion of 1857 by half a century. The revolt, which took place in the South Indian city of Vellore, lasted one full day, during which mutineers seized the Vellore Fort and killed or wounded 200 British troops.Read More