history of India has made such a powerful 74 impact on the minds of the Indian people as the Rani of Jhansi‚ Lakshmi Bai. She was the second wife of the ruler of Jhansi Raja Gangadhar Rao who protested against the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’. She refused to surrender Jhansi and fought bravely attired as a male during the Revolt of 1857 and died in the battle field fighting the British forces. Her courage inspired many Indians to rise against the alien rule. Another woman whom we remember in this context
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2‚ 1869 in Porbander on the west coast of India. He came from a middle class family where his father‚ Karamchand‚ was prime minister of a small Indian state (Porbandar). At the age of 13‚ he married Kasturbai Makanji who was also 13. The fact that he finished middle school‚ high school and went to law school as a married man deserves some kind of recognition. In 1888‚ Gandhi sailed to London‚ England to continue his legal education. Gandhi became a
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Blessed Teresa of Calcutta‚[1] born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Albanian: [aˈɲɛs ˈɡɔɲdʒa bɔjaˈdʒiu]) and commonly known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997)‚ was an ethnic Albanian‚ Indian Roman Catholic nun. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto‚ an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months’ training in Dublin she was sent to India
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Mulk Raj Anand was a distinguished writer‚ critic‚ editor‚ journalist and political activist. Born into the Kshatriya (warrior) caste in the Punjabi city of Peshawar‚ he was educated at cantonment schools before completing a degree at the University of Punjab‚ Amritsar‚ where his involvement in the 1921 Civil Disobedience campaign against the British resulted in a short period of imprisonment. He was just nineteen years old when he left India for England on a scholarship to mark the silver wedding
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Mahatma Gandhi was an anti-war activist and the primary leader of India’s independence movement and also the architect form of non-violent civil disobedience that would influence the world. He was born on October 2‚ 1869‚ in Porbandar‚ India. He grew up worshiping the Hindu god Vishnu and following Jainism‚ an ancient Indian religion that espoused non-violence‚ fasting‚ meditation‚ and vegetarianism. At the age of 13‚ he married Kasturba Makhanji‚ in an arranged marriage. In his teenage years he
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she met Shree Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Gandhi and was influenced by them. Sarojini worked whole-heartedly for India ’s freedom movement and rights of women. In 1925‚ Sarojini became the first Indian woman president of the National Congress. . When India became free in 1947‚ she become the first Indian woman governor of United Province. The Nightingale passed away on March 2‚ 1949. However the legacy that she has left behind will continue to inspire future generations of India. Her birthday
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African Americans were employed soon after‚ allowing everyone to have equal opportunity. Lastly‚ is the current Muslim protest. The protest was form in last efforts to dismantle the Muslim Discriminatory Registry. Thousands of American Muslims and activists from progressive’s groups‚ will march in last efforts to persuade Obama to dismantle a discriminatory program. The program singled out Arabs and Muslims for surveillance‚ protesters are trying to get it dismantled before Trump gets into office. Obama
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waging war‚ you may want to know that‚ for all his abhorrence of violence as a means to an end‚ yet Gandhi insisted that the non-violent activist‚ like any soldier‚ has to be ready to die for the cause. Indeed‚ during India’s decades long struggle for independence‚ thousands of Indians were killed by the British. The difference was that the non-violent activist‚ while willing to die‚ was never willing to kill.1 [Sound like anybody else we know?] In Gandhi’s view‚ there are three possible responses
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one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj. Subhash Chandra Bose was born to an affluent family in Cuttack‚ Orissa. His father‚ Janakinath Bose‚ was a public prosecutor who believed in orthodox nationalism‚ and later became a member of the Bengal Legislative Council. His mother was Prabhavati Bose‚ a remarkable example of Indian womanhood. Bose was educated at Cambridge University. In 1920‚ Bose took the Indian Civil Service entrance examination and
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Waiting For Mahatma Sriram is a high school graduate who lives with his grandmother in Malgudi‚ the fictional Southern Indian town in which much of Narayan’s fiction takes place. Sriram is attracted to Bharati‚ a girl of his age who is active in Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India movement‚ and he becomes an activist himself. He then gets involved with anti-British extremists‚ causing much grief to his grandmother. Sriram’s underground activity takes place in the countryside‚ an area alien to him‚ and
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