Modern India

Princely States in India When India became independent there were more than 500 princely states, big and small. Some like Travancore, Cochin and Mysore in the South and Gwalior, Baroda and Patiala in the North, had done a great deal for…

Swami Dayananda Saraswati was and no doubt still is one the most important reformers and spiritual forces India has known in recent times. The dominant personality of Dayananda Saraswati had found extraordinary reflection in the virility…

Arya Samaj Arya Samaj is one of the most powerful organization for socio-religious reforms India has ever seen. It took up rather a strong and militant policy towards many matters. The Arya Samaj did not want to derive any inspiration…

Allan Octavian Hume Allan Octavian Hume was a political reformer in British India. He founded ‘The Indian National Congress’ along with others. It was the Indian National Congress which ultimately destroyed the British rule in India.…

Good or bad, the work for which Lord Curzon earned an immortal fame in Indian history was his Partition of Bengal. That was the greatest event of his rule. Around that event there began in India an organized national movement, for the first…

Satyagraha by Gandhiji Mahatma Gandhi adopted the Satyagraha Movement as a real and active weapon of winning violence. He believed that Satyagraha is a particular form of struggle where there is no question of victory or defeat. It is…

Gopabandhu Das Pandit Gopabandhu Das pioneered Modern politics in Orissa. He was primarily a social service-oriented man. He entered politics for social service. He was a product of the movement of amalgamation of Orissa. He was a member…

The first ‘Forest Act’ in India was enacted in 1927. Many provisions of that Act were inimical to the interests of the tribal and the common folk living in the forests. A big rally was held to protest against such issues at Tilari in 1930.…

Third Carnatic War The Second Carnatic War did not settle the issue between the English and the French and with the outbreak of the Seven Year’s War in 1756 AD. The war, known as the Third Carnatic War, broke between the British and the…