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The Bandit Queen of India: 2006: L. K. Advani: My Country My Life: 2008: V. R. Krishna Iyer: Wandering in Many Worlds: 2009: Abhinav Bindra: A Shot at History: 2011: I K Gujral: Matters of Discretion: 2011: Arjun Singh: A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time: 2012: Hay House Verghese Kurien: The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance: 2012 ...
Rashsundari Devi was born c. 1809 in the village of Potajia, in Pabna district. [3] Her father, Padmalochan Roy, died when Rassundari was a small child. She never saw her father and was raised by her mother and relatives.
Gulamgiri is a seminal work authored by Jyotirao Phule, a prominent Indian social activist, anti-caste reformer, thinker, and writer from Maharashtra.Originally published in Marathi in 1873, with a preface in English, the book addresses issues related to caste, slavery, and social reform, making it one of the earliest critiques of the caste system.
Statue of Vivekananda at the Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre. Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Datta (name shortened to Narendra or Naren) [18] in a Bengali Kayastha family [19] [20] in his ancestral home at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street in Calcutta, [21] the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival. [22]
Journalist Ian Jack described this book, and its description of the "intellectual foundations" of the modern Indian state, as "indispensable" reading. [3]Abraham Verghese in The New York Times writes, "[the book] argues that politics, more than culture or religious chauvinism, shaped modern India."
Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, [4] are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well-known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin ...
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Ali Manikfan was born to Musa Manikfan and Fatima Manika in Minicoy Island of Lakshadweep on 16 March 1938. His father Musa sent him to Kannur for formal education. As he was not interested in formal education, he left his studies and returned to his home land.