She became the first Indian woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, giving her life to social work.
Kalpana Chawla:
She became the first Indian woman in space. The first time Kalpana Chawla went into space on a space shuttle was in 1997 as a mission specialist and a primary robotic arm operator.
Justice M. Fathima Beevi:
In 1989, Justice M. Fathima Beevi became the first female judge who was appointed to the Supreme Court of India.
Kiran Bedi:
Joining Indian Police Service (IPS) in1972, Kiran Bedi became the 1st woman officer in India. Later in 2003, Kiran Bedi also became the 1st woman who was appointed as the United Nations Civil Police adviser. She is presently the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.
Indira Gandhi:
She became the first woman Prime Minister of India and served from 1966 to 1977. Indira Gandhi was named as the 'Woman of the Millennium' in a poll which was organised by BBC in 1999. In 1971, she became the first woman to receive the Bharat Ratna award.
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This day also has a reference in the Hindu epic of Mahabharata, according to which Bhishma had declared his intention to leave his body today. He kept lying on a bed of arrows till this day and then left his body on Makar Sankranti.
In the Holy Scriptures it is believed that Surya Bhagwan visits the house of his son Shani on this day. Despite some differences between each other, lord Surya makes it a point to meet his son on sankaranti. Thus, symbolising a special bond between a father and his son.
Sankranti is a Hindu festival celebrated in various cultures in almost all parts India & Nepal.
This Harvest festival has different names in different states but the essence of this festival is same accross the country. Respect the #Farmer,
Farm Animals & the Farm Harvest.
This temple is also called as Raja Rajesvaram temple or Brihadeeswarar Temple or Gangaikonda Cholapuram Temple.
There are around 107 paragraphs written here. The king himself gave instructions on how to carve the inscriptions.
This is the only temple in the whole of India, wherein the king himself has left behind a very large number of inscriptions on the temple's construction, the daily rituals to be performed for the Linga, the details of the offerings such as jewellery, flowers, textiles.etc
I am sure, you know about Mangal pandey, Bhagat singh and their great heroic sacrifice. But most of us doesn't even have heard about the Maruthu Pandiyar brothers, the rulers of Sivaganga kingdom.
On Oct 24,1801,they were publicly hanged to death at Tirupputhur fort by British.
On October 24, 1801, along with maruthu brothers, their sons, their young grandsons, fellow rebels, commanders and servants, were publicly hanged to death at the Tirupputhur fort of southern #TamilNadu. supposedly from palmyra trees around the fort.
With those mass executions, the British East India Company and its allies successfully put an end to a fierce rebellion by the Southern kingdoms of India – a revolt that is little remembered, and barely finds mention in history textbooks. Not even #NCERTS
Everyone knows about "The Rani of Jhansi, Lakshmibai". But only few of us know about the Kittur Chennamma, the Queen of Kittur.
She was one of the first Indian rulers to lead an armed rebellion against the British in 1824, for implementing the Doctrine of Lapse.
She was born in 1778, 56 years before the 1857 revolt led by Rani Lakshmi Bai, thus becoming, one of the first women freedom fighters to have fought against the British rule in India.
She belonged to the #Lingayat community and received training in horse riding, sword fighting and archery from a young age. She was well known throughout her village for her bravery. She was married to the king of Kittur.
This large rectangular, water-filled structure may look like a small reservoir, but in fact, it is an ancient dock which is the oldest in the world. Yes, the World’s Oldest Dock is at #Lothal#Gujarat
Lothal is 85km from Ahmedabad. It is one of the Indus valley civilization site
Lothal is believed to be at least 5,000 yrs old & was the only port-town of the Indus Valley Civilization. Lothal’s dock connected the city to the Sabarmati river which was an important trade route between Harappan cities in Sindh (now in Pakistan) & the peninsula of Saurashtra..
At that time, the surrounding Kutch desert of was a part of the Arabian Sea.
The dock is roughly 200 meters long and about 35 meters wide. During high tides, the dock would have filled with seawater allowing ships and boats to move in an out of the dockyard...
Back in the 19th cent, British separated Eastern India from the westn India by an impenetrable belt of trees mostly made up of thorny plants. British formed a man-made barrier, all the way from Layyah in Punjab (now in Pakistan) to Burhanpur, on the banks of Narmada, 1000km long.
Why do you think #British had planted these trees accross 1000's of kms. ??
These plants were planted by the British in the 1840s to strengthen the Inland #customs Line, so that the British can exploit one of the most basic ingredients of every Indian food—salt.
This1000+ km strech of thorny plantation is called the Great Hedge of India.