Recently, the Union Ministry of Culture, announced that January 23rd, would be celebrated as Parakram Divas. on the occassion of the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, was born on January 23, 1897. On the occassion of his 125th Birth Anniversary, the Government of India has announced to celebrate January…
The fifth Inspiration story that we would be talking about today is about Dakshyani Velayudhan, an Indian Parliamentarian and one of the members of the Framing Committe of the Indian Constitution. Dakshyani Velayudhan, was the first Scheduled Caste woman graduate in India, a science graduate, a member of the Cochin Legislative Council and of being one of…
Ammukutty Swaminathan (22 April 1894 – 4 July 1978) was an Indian social worker and political activist during the Indian independence movement and a member of the Constituent Assembly of India. She was the youngest of their thirteen children. Ammu never went to school and received only a rudimentary education at home, which consisted of minimal reading and writing in…
The Third Story that we are going to read in this series is about a strong 30 year old woman, who bravely fought against the Portugese with limited Man Power and ammunition, Rani Abbaka Chowta. Story of a Woman from the 15th Centurary. The Portuguese Colonial power was at its peak in the 1500’s. They…
During the medieval and modern times, the independence movement of the country grew rapidly and gained much more importance. Maharana Pratap is known to be the first freedom fighter of India. He was the bravest and the most courageous warrior that India has ever produced. He was the only Rajput Ruler who did not surrender…
Importance of, but difficulty in implementing, constitutions A new constitution can take root easily if the country has a commitment to and the infrastructure necessary for the rule of law. But other social and political orders of authority may compete with it where charismatic politics or the tradition of the ‘strongman’ prevails, where high authority…
INDIA’S FREEDOM STORY INRODUCTION- India the land of opportunities, the land of immeasurable wealth and knowledge, the land where there was lavish greenery and had many great civilizations, like Indus Valley Civilization and famous cities of ancient times such as Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Lothal etc was engulfed in chains first by the Greeks, then the Muslim…
Gandhiji’s moral examples are applicable for more than two generations of Indians in all walks of life. He was not a politician by choice and certainly he never aspired for power in the formal sense. He gave direction to the freedom movement post the death of Lokmanya Tilak. He was responsible for several innovations like…
Republican form of governments were well estabilished in ancient India. At the time of the invasion of Alexander of Macedonia ( 4th century B.C.) there existed a large number of independent Ganas ( Republics ) like Agrasenies in the Indus Valley , Kambhoj in the West, Panchals in the North etc.( Sen 1920: Ch3 ,…
Indo-Islamic Architecture is the Indic architecture and engineering of the Indian Subcontinent often embedding some elements of architecture carried over from various parts of West and Central Asia, produced for and by Islamic Regimes. Such foreign elements come from regions themselves influenced earlier by the spread of Indian architectural vocabulary with the spread of Buddhism…
