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Feb 19

Rani Rashmoni founder of the Dakshineshwar Temple in Kolkata, a lady whom Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa regarded as his own mother, a woman who took on the British, and in a way contributed to the Bengal Renaissance.

Thread on her death anniversary today.

The widow of a wealthy businessman, Raja Chandra Das, Rashmoni was born into a humble Mahishya family on September 28, 1793 near Halisahar in the Northern Paraganas, to Harekrishna Biswas and Rampyari Devi.

With her mother passing away when she was just 7 years old, Rashmoni was married off at 11 years to a much older Raja Chandra Das, of Janbazaar, one of Kolkata’s wealthy zamindars, and a successful businessman too.

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Feb 18

#TodayInHistory The Naval Ratings Mutiny begins in 1946, as Indian naval officers, sailors revolt against the British, in one of the biggest challenges ever they faced. A forgotten mutiny that deserves to be known more about.

Royal Naval Ratings Mutiny, or what is often called the forgotten mutiny in India’s history, an event which unlike the 1857 revolt or the Quit India movement, does not really strike much resonance, except among hard core historians.

Like the 1857 Revolt, the 1946 Royal Naval ratings mutiny had a rather mundane beginning. It was not an overnight event however, the resentment was building up among the naval ratings, and other Indian members of the Army.

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Feb 17

Vasudev Balwant Phadke, often called as the father of the Indian armed revolt, passes away on this date in 1883 in a prison in Aden.

Thread on a great revolutionary.

A Chitpavan Brahmin from Konkan, who rallied the lower peasant castes like Dhangars, Kolis, Bhils as well as warrior communities like Ramoshis against British rule. He often attacked rich English businessmen or zamindars, to raise funds for his liberation struggle.

Phadke was born in the coastal Konkan village of Shirdhon, in Raigad district, on November 4, 1845. He showed no interest in regular school education, and preferred to learn wrestling, horse riding.

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Feb 11

Mahadji Shinde, the Great Maratha, the greatest ruler ever of the Scindia dynasty, who expanded his kingdom, routed the Rohillas and was one of the most powerful Maratha rulers in the North.

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The 3rd Battle of Panipat, had dealt one of the worst blows ever to the Maratha empire, Balaji Baji Rao, the Peshwa, could not recover from the debacle and died broken hearted in the very city of Pune, that he so lovingly built.

The Marathas lost the entire Northern territories of India from Delhi onwards, and the empire ran up into huge debts. It was at such a critical juncture that Madhavrao I, became the Peshwa on June 23, 1761, at a very young age of 16.

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@sadaashree

Jan 30

The #RazakarMovie ending credits features many of those who fought against the Nizam and Razakars. One thing to be noted that in Hyderabad State, the fight was more with the Nizam, who in turn was propped up by the British.

The sacrifice of these people is the reason why Hyderabad is now part of the Indian Union. Again this is not a very exhaustive list, what am sharing are the well known names. #RazakarMovie

Some are well known, like Komaram Bheem, of the Gond tribe, who led an intense uprising against the British rule and Nizam in the jungles of North Telangana. You can check out my article on him here.

historyunderyourfeet.wordpress.com/2021/08/30/kom…

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@sadaashree

Jan 29

Of late there is a narrative being floated primarily by Left Libs that the Nizam was essentially a benevolent ruler who got misled by Rizvi. And that the Razakars was not a Hindu-Muslim issue.

This thread attempts to debunk those theories. #RazakarMovie

Osman Ali Khan, became the Nizam in 1911 and the first thing he did was getting the Hindu dewan Kishan Prasad resign. Urdu was the primary medium of education when hardly 10% of the state spoke it, the majority languages Telugu, Kannada and Marathi were completely suppressed.

And this led most Hindus to drop out of schools, leaving Hyderabad State with one of the lowest literacy rates of just 28% , compared to other princely states like Mysore or presidencies like Bombay, Madras.

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