Dr. Rajendra Prasad Dr. Rajendra Prasad Date of Birth : Dec 3‚ 1884 Date of Death : Feb 28‚ 1963 Place of Birth : Zeradei‚ Bihar Tenure Order : 1st President Took Office : Jan 26‚ 1950 Left Office : May 13‚ 1962 Successor : Dr.S Radhakrishnan Subhash Chandra Bose Date of Birth : Jan 23‚ 1897 Date of Death : Aug 18‚ 1945 Place of Birth : Orissa Subhash Chandra Bose (January 23‚ 1897 – August 18‚ 1945?)‚ also known as Netaji‚ was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence
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brought under the influence education depends upon it...” The above words are the part of the resolution which Gopal Krishna Gokhale moved in Imperial Legislative Council on 18th march‚ 1910 for seeking provision of ‘Free and Compulsory Primary Education” in India. Irony is that one hundred years have passed but the right to education still remains a distant dream. Gopal Krishna Gokhale in fact represents many of our freedom fighters who had dreamed of the right to education to in independent India
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Nightingale of India". Sarojini Naidu was born on February 13‚ 1879 in Hyderabad National Movement Sarojini Naidu was moved by the partition of Bengal in 1905 and decided to join the Indian freedom struggle. She met regularly with Gopal Krishna Gokhale‚ who later introduced her to the stalwarts of the Indian freedom movement. She met Mahatma Gandhi‚ Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru‚ C. P. Ramaswami Iyer and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. With such an encouraging environment‚ Sarojini later moved on to become
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Sarojini Naidu began writing at the age of 12. Her play‚ Maher Muneer‚ impressed the Nawab of Hyderabad. In 1905‚ her collection of poems‚ named "The Broken Exes" was published. Her poems were admired by many prominent Indian politicians like Gopal Krishna Gokhale. ------------------------------------------------- Death In 1949 she fell ill. Her physician came and gave her a sleeping
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excessive land-taxes.He brought an international reputation as a leading Indian nationalist‚ theorist and organizer. He joined the Indian National Congress and was introduced to Indian issues‚ politics and the Indian people primarily by Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Gokhale was a key leader of the Congress Party best known for his restraint and moderation‚ and his insistence on working inside the system. Gandhi took Gokhale’s liberal approach based on British Whiggish traditions and transformed it to make
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Sarojini Naidu Sarojini Naidu‚ also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India‚ Naidu was born in 13 February 1879 in Hyderabad to a Bengali Hindu Kulin Brahmin family of Agorenath Chattopadhyay and Barada Sundari Devi. Her father was a doctor of science from Edinburgh University‚ settled in Hyderabad State‚ where he founded and administered the Ahmadabad College‚ which later became the Nizam’s College in Ahmadabad. Her mother was a poetess baji and used to write poetry in Bengali. Sarojini
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that‚ she published two other collections of poems--"The Bird of Time" and "The Broken Wings". "Feast of Youth" followed in 1918. Her poetry was admired by the likes of Rabindranath Tagore and Jawaharlal Nehru. Soon after‚ she met Shree Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Gandhi and was influenced by them. Sarojini was now whole-heartedly working for India’s freedom movement. Her poems poured enthusiasm and hope in the hearts of the masses as they became united in the struggle for freedom. Naidu also travelled
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The struggle for freedom can be broadly divided into four phases each contributing towards the sharpening of the divide between the rulers and the ruled. The first phase began when the British won the Battle of Plassey in 1757‚ and Robert Clive‚ the representative of the East India Company‚ became the Governor of Bengal. From then onwards‚ the British succeeded in consolidating their presence in India. This was the first phase‚ in which the British Governor-Generals and the Indian leaders both collaborated
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Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah My Topic is about any Leader‚ so In this world there are many leaders. We know most of them‚ but my speech is about “Quaid-e-Azam”. He was a Great politician and statesman of 20th century. He was generally known as the father of state of Pakistan. He was the leader of The Muslim League and served as the first Governor General of Pakistan. Quaid-e-Azam was his official names.His real name is Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Quaid-e-Azam (“The Great Leader”) and
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Lokmanya Tilak was born at Chummakachu Lane (Ranjani Aaleea) in Chikhalgaon‚ Ratnagiri‚ Maharashtra to a Chitpavan Brahmin family. His father‚ Mr.Gangadhar Tilak was a famous schoolteacher and a Sanskrit scholar. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a bright child and very good at mathematics. The problems the teacher gave to work our on paper‚ Bal would do them mentally and give the answer. He also had a sense of fairness and justice from very early age. He was very independent minded and did not falter at expressing
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