Revolutionary nationalist inspired by their principled and heroic direct resistance to the injustices of the British colonial regime. The early phase of the Indian National Congress led freedom struggle was moderate in approach epitomized in three Ps, viz., prayer, petition and protest. After the partition of Bengal in 1905, many INC leaders led by Bal […]
Lal- Bal- Pal Lal- Bal- Pal refer to three great leaders of Indian freedom struggle Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Bipin Chandra Pal were a triumvirate of assertive nationalists. They believed in a more direct and aggressive movement against the British rule for realizing the goal of Purna Swaraj (complete independence or self rule). They inspired and […]
Ramakrishna Mission-Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) is a Hindu religious and spiritual organisation which forms the core of a worldwide spiritual movement known as the Ramakrishna Movement or the Vedanta Movement. The mission is named after and inspired by the Indian spiritual Guru Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and founded by Ramakrishna’s chief disciple Swami Vivekananda on 1 May 1897. The organisation mainly propagates the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta–Advaita Vedanta and four yogic ideals– Jnana, Bhakti, Karma, and Raja yoga The organisation […]
Salt Satyagaraha Salt March, also called Dandi March or Salt Satyagraha was a major nonviolent protest action in India against the British rule. It was led by Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi in March–April 1930. The march was the first act in the series of the campaign of civil disobedience (Satyagraha). The civil disobedience movement was extended into early 1931. The movement garnered Gandhi widespread support […]
Chandragupta Maurya Chandragupta Maurya (321–297 BCE) was the founder of the Maurya Empire in ancient India. Chandragupta built one of the largest empires on the Indian subcontinent. Greek writer Phylarchus (c. third century BCE), who is quoted by Athenaeus, calls Chandragupta “Sandrokoptos”. The later Greco-Roman writers Strabo, Arrian, and Justin (c. second century) call him “Sandrocottus”. In Greek and Latin accounts, Chandragupta is known as Sandrakottos and Androcottus. Chandragupta Maurya was an important […]
Swami Vivekananda In one word, this ideal is that you are divine. All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. May He who is the Brahman of […]
Gandhi’s Home Coming Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa on January 9, 2015. His return galvanized the Indian freedom movement. Armed with novel ideas—non-violence and civil disobedience—the “little brown man in the loincloth”, as he was described by a British commentator, brought the mighty British colonial administration to its knees and eventually secured […]
Establishment of Indian National Congress To give expression to the political aspirations of Indians and articulate their wish for participation in governance in India in order to ultimately realize the goal of self rule, the Indian National Congress was established at Bombay in 1885. The Englishman Allan Octavian Hume, a former British civil servant and W. C. Bonnerjee […]
In ancient India, temples played a very important role in life by acting as acting as Religious institutions, administrative and educational centres and centres for pursuing classical arts. etc. Hindu temple architecture reflects a synthesis of arts, the ideals of dharma, beliefs, values and the way of life cherished under Hinduism. The architectural principles of […]
