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Oct 14

Lala Hardayal, the man who co founded the Ghadar Party in US, along with Sohan Singh Bhakna. A legend among revolutionaries, one of the key members of India House in London along with Shyamji Krishna Varma, Veer Savarkar and Madame Bhikaji Cama.
Thread on his Jayanti today.

A brilliant polymath who turned down a lucrative career in the Civil Services, as he plunged into the revolutionary movement. A leader who inspired many expat Indians in UK, US and Canada to rise against British imperialism. #lalahardayal

Lala Hardayal, was born on October 14, 1884, the 6th child of a large Kayastha Mathur family in Delhi, to Gauri Dayal Mathur, a district court reader and Bholi Rani. Influenced by the ideals of the Arya Samaj at an early age.

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Oct 13

Bhagini Nivedita, the loyal disciple of Swami Vivekananda, who spread his message, actively supported the revolutionary movement, and one of the driving forces behind the Bengali Renaissance.
Thread on her death anniversary today.

She had close contacts with many revolutionaries, was one of the forces behind the Anti Bengal partition movement against Curzon. Apart from that she made contribution to women’s education, revived Indian art forms, promoted science, and worked on relief.

The woman who created such an impact was born as Margaret Elizabeth Nobel in Dungannon, a small town currently in Northern Ireland. Her father, Samuel Richmond Noble, was a pastor himself who taught her “Service to mankind is service to God”.

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Oct 12

In my series on Andhra Pradesh today looking at the famous Chenna Kesava Swamy temple in Macherla, now part of Palnadu district.

Macherla was one of the main cities of the Palnadu region, and the famous battle was fought in 1182, with Gurazala, that saw the demise of many smaller kingdoms and rise of the Kakatiya empire.

During the time of the ruling Haiheyas, there was a huge lake, with a temple dedicated to Mahadevi in it's midst. The place was named as Mahadevicherla, which in due course of time became Macherla.

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Oct 12

The British come up with the Criminal Tribes Act on this date in 1871. One of the most draconian acts ever that classified entire communities as "criminal" , created ghettos, stigmatized them permanently.
Thread on this.

The CTA has been one of the most atrocious colonial legislations, on par with how the Aborgines in Australia were pushed off into enclaves, or the native Indian children forcibly resettled in Christian schools in Canada.

As per the CTA, certain ethnic communities in India were identified as "addicted to systematic commission of non bailable offences", they were resettled forcibly, their movements were restricted.

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Oct 11

Jayaprakash Narayan and Nanaji Deshmukh. Two men, from different backgrounds, whose lives would come together during the Emergency. Both born on the same date.
Thread on their Jayanti.

#JayaprakashNarayan was from Bihar’s Saran district, his father was a lower Government official, and he later went on to study in the US too. Nanaji on the other hand, was from Maharashtra’s Hingoli district, had a tough childhood., and later rose up the ranks of the RSS.

Their ideologies too differed, where JP was socialist, left leaning, Nanaji’s was more rooted in the Integral Humanism of the Jan Sangh. And yet their paths came together during the Emergency and events preceeding it.

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Oct 6

Meghnad Saha, whose Theory of Thermal Ionisation, is one of the landmarks of modern astronomy. Also introduced nuclear physics as a discipline in India. One of the great Indian scientists of modern era. Thread on his Jayanti today.

One of the most important scientific theories during the 20th century, has been the theory of thermal ionization. Basically an expression, that relates the ionization state of a gas, in thermal equilibrium to the temperature and pressure.

It combined the theories of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics and is used to explain the spectral classification of stars. Arthur Stanley Eddington, called it as one of the most important landmark in the history of astronomy.

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