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History Under Your Feet
@HistorifyToday
Exploring History as it happened, from the ancient to the medieval to the modern. .Curated by @sadaashree Also curating @pages_stories
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Aug 16, 2023 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
#TodayInHistory Direct Action Day begins in Kolkata in 1946, in response to the Muslim League's call for a separate homeland. More than 4000 were murdered and around 100,000 left homeless, in one of the worst ever anti Hindu pogroms. #LestWeForget


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Image "We do not want war. If you want war we accept your offer unhesitatingly. We will either have a divided India divided or a destroyed India."-

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, August 16, 1946 Image
Jul 15, 2023 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
While Vikram Sarabhai rightly gets the credit for
@isro , one person whose contribution is somewhat under appreciated is Satish Dhawan, the 3rd chairman after whom the Sriharikota space center is named. Thread on him. Image Satish Dhawan built on the foundation laid by Vikram Sarabhai, put down the processes and structure that would define it and was a major reason for it's success. ISRO follows his management style to date.
Jun 26, 2023 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee ,composer of our national song Bande Mataram, one of the finest writers of modern India, who wrote atire, scientific, critical treatises too apart from novels.
Thread on his Jayanti today. Bankim Da is widely regarded as one of the key figures in Bengal's literary renaissance, as he forged a new style, breaking away from the traditional verse oriented one, and becoming an inspiration for modern writers.
May 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Indian cities are just cash cows for Netas, Babus, Govt officials. Keep inaugurating glam projects like flyovers,glass and chrome buildings. Who cares about "boring, mundane" stuff like decent roads, drainage systems, wahan Paisa nahi Hain. We won't invest in boring mundane stuff like drainage systems, decent roads. Paise nahi milta wahan pe, and no scope for photoshoots either. I mean who wants to be photographed inaugurating a drainage system or some colony road.
May 19, 2023 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
The man who dared to take on Gandhi for his support to the Khilafat movement, was born on November 7, 1858, in a small village, near to Habibganj in Sylhet division( now in Bangladesh). His father was a leading lawyer, and came from a well to do Zamindari family. Though not a very good student, he however read extensively, and was a great admirer of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, whose works along with the early Vaishnava poets, influenced his thoughts a lot.
Nov 4, 2021 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
Vasudev Balwant Phadke, often called as the father of the Indian armed revolt. He was an inspiration for Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s landmark novel Anand Math, which incorporated many references from his life.
Thread on his Jayanti today. Image 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.
Oct 19, 2021 • 32 tweets • 9 min read
With that Udham Singh movie by Shoojit Sarkar in the news of late, my thread on one of the great revolutionaries of our freedom struggle, whose life needs to be known more.
#SardarUdhamSingh Image His real name was Sher Singh, born on Dec 26, 1899, to a poor peasant family in Punjab’s Sangrur district. His father, Tehl Singh, worked as a railway gate keeper at a level crossing in the Uppali village of Punjab.