Was reading about recently died Hyderabad Nizam Mukharram Jah & found this interesting part of history which nobody wants to tell.
Following the partition of India, Mir Osman Ali Khan, the then reigning Nizam and Mukarram Jah's grandfather, wished to remain independent,
much against the wishes of the local populace.
Pakistan actively supported the Nizam, hoping it could be the third subregion of Pakistan — East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was the second.
Anticipating a military action from India, Osman Ali Khan sought arms and weapons from
Pakistan. To procure the weapons, Nizam's finance minister, Moin Nawaz Jung, transferred a sum of £1,007,490 and nine shillings to the account of Pakistan's High Commissioner, Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola, in National Westminster Bank, London.
Thanks to Operation Polo, Hyderabad
was integrated into Indian Union in 1948.
During the military operations, Mukarram escaped to Karachi with his mother Princess Durrushehvar, brother Muffakhan Jah. The princess and her sons moved to a suite at the Savoy Hotel in London, where they lived for the next two years.
In 1954, Osman Ali Khan moved the UK court seeking to release the money deposited with the Pakistani high commission. But Pakistan refused to oblige and invoked sovereign immunity. This meant the case could not proceed further.
Osman Ali Khan claimed that his minister
transferred money without his approval.
Pakistan refused his contention and said that the weapons were bought and dropped off in Hyderabad by a British pilot, Frederick Sidney Cotton, in 35 trips from Karachi and thus, the money was payment for services rendered.
(Thanks to Godse, if he hadn't eliminated MKG, there would've been no Operation Polo)
History tells us about Mangal Pandey, but not #ChakkiKuntia, the priest for the Hindu Sepoys who rebelled against British in the war of 1857...
Isn't it surprising to know that this priest belonged to Puri Jagannath Mandir?
Does anybody knows that, he was the family priest or
Panda of Meropanth, the father of Manubai/Manikarnika who was renamed Laxmibai after her marriage to Gangadhar Rao, the king of Jhansi.
Chakhi Khuntia was born on the eve of the sacred Shamba Dasami in Puri in the year 1827. His father, Raghunath Khuntia, was a devotee of
Bhagwan Jagannath. He named his son Chandan Hajuri, after the sandal paste (Chandan) with which he used to dress the Bhagwan at the moment of his birth.
His mother was Kamalabati. After early education in his village, he learned Sanskrit from Pandit Harihar Brahma.
He asked the PM if two different Nehrus reside in him—the idealist of 1926, who was moved to tears by the plight of the British working class or the PM of 1960, unmoved by the tearful appeals of his own employees.
Story of an Unsung MP, Barrister Nath Pai (1922-1971)
whose research-backed speeches shook Nehru.
Pai may not be a name read too often in history books, but in parts of Maharashtra, especially the Konkan region comprising Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg, his loss is still mourned by people. He is widely hailed as the man who championed
the cause of the Konkan railway, who toiled to ensure facilities such as roads and post-offices in the remote areas of the region, and who brought attention to his Lok Sabha constituency with his dazzling debates and arguments inside Parliament.
They had such vengeance that when he got captured, the British broke his teeth with hammer, pulled out all his nails, they broke his limbs & joints, and on 12th January 1934, British hanged #MasterDaSuryaSen and later threw it in the sea.
who literally shook up the British, With a raid on their Trading NervePoint, even to this day #ChittagongArmoryRaid is considered as one of the most daring act of Bharatiya Revolutionary in the history of Bharat's Independence.
Suryasen was born on 22/03/1894 near Chittagong.
Until his Graduation, Surya is
Relatively unknown.
It was in 1916, he got himself involved in Freedom Activities while pursuing BA at Behrampore College.
On his Jayanti a tribute to the legendary #Kannadiga who proved Bharatiya Civilization had robust Ancient Political & Economic policy & not copied from Greek as Europeans
claimed.
R Shamashastry’s modern translation of Arthashastra is a prescribed text at Harvard, Yale and Oxford for students of Political Science, International Relations and Economics today.
Until this discovery, the Arthashastra was known only through references to it in works,
including those by Dandin, Bana, Vishnusarma, Mallinathasuri, Megasthenes, as well as others. This discovery was "an epoch-making event in the history of the study of ancient Indian polity".
It altered the perception of Ancient Bharath and changed the course of history studies,
As usual, somebody at Left Rag "The Hindu", didn't like him expose Christian Convert Pandita Ramabai in his novel "Indira", which incidentally happens to be one of the earliest novels in Navodaya Sahitya in Kannada.
ಕೆರೂರು ವಾಸುದೇವಾಚಾರ್ಯ (೧೫-೧೦-೧೮೬೬ – ೧೧-೧-೧೯೨೧): ಹೊಸಗನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭದ ಗಮನಾರ್ಹ ಕಾದಂಬರಿಗಳಲ್ಲೊಂದಾದ ‘ಇಂದಿರೆ’ಯ (೧೯೦೮) ಕರ್ತೃಕೆರೂರು ವಾಸುದೇವಾಚಾರ್ಯರು ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ್ದು ಬಿಜಾಪುರ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಬಾಗಲಕೋಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ. ತಂದೆ ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸಾಚಾರ್ಯರು, ತಾಯಿ ಪದ್ಮಾವತೀಬಾಯಿ. ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಕ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ-ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಾಭ್ಯಾಸ ಮನೆಯಲ್ಲಿಯೇ.
ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಿಕ ವಿದ್ಯಾಭ್ಯಾಸ ಧಾರವಾಡದಲ್ಲಿ.
೧೮೮೪ರಲ್ಲಿ ಮೆಟ್ರಿಕ್ಯುಲೇಷನ್ ಪಾಸು. ಪ್ರೌಢವ್ಯಾಸಂಗಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಸೇರಿದ್ದು ಪುಣೆಯ ಫರ್ಗುಸನ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು. ಅನನುಕೂಲತೆಯಿಂದ ವಿದ್ಯಾಭ್ಯಾಸಕ್ಕೆ ಅಡಚಣೆ. ಖಾಸಗಿಯಾಗಿ ವ್ಯಾಸಂಗ ಮಾಡಿ ಎಚ್.ಪಿ. ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ತೇರ್ಗಡೆ. ಪುಣೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾನೂನು ವ್ಯಾಸಂಗ ಮಾಡಿ ವಕೀಲಿ ವೃತ್ತಿ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭ.