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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 ...
Bal Gangadhar Tilak, the Indian nationalist, journalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and an independence activist who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement observed :”Twelve centuries ago Sankaracharya was the only great personality, who not only spoke of the purity of our religion, not only uttered in words that this religion was our strength and wealth, not ...
To realise Medieval India there is no better way than to dive into the eight volumes of the priceless History of India as Told by its Own Historians which Sir H. M. Elliot conceived and began and which Professor Dowson edited and completed with infinite labour and learning. It is a revelation of Indian life as seen through the eyes of the ...
The main traditions of Buddhist philosophy in India (from 300 BCE to 1000 CE) can be divided into Mahayana schools and non-Mahayana schools (sometimes called Śrāvakayāna schools, Nikaya Buddhism, "Mainstream" Buddhism or Hinayana, "inferior" or "lesser" vehicle, a term used only in Mahayana to refer to non-Mahayana traditions). [61]
In terms of religions of India with significant populations, only Islam has religious laws in form of Sharia which India allows as Muslim Personal Law. [43] These differences have led a number of scholars [ 13 ] [ 44 ] to declare that India is not a secular state, as the word secularism is widely understood in the West and elsewhere.
She was a queen of Sivaganga estate from c. 1780–1790. She was the first Indian queen to wage war with the East India Company in India.She is known by Tamils as Veeramangai ("brave woman"). Veerapandiya Kattabomman: He refused to accept the sovereignty of the British East India Company and waged a war against the British. [37] Vinayak Damodar ...
Nilakanta Sastri was born in a Telugu Niyogi Brahmin family, [2] in Kallidaikurichi near Tirunelveli, on 12 August 1892. [3] He completed his FA at the M.D.T Hindu College, Tirunelveli and his college education at the Madras Christian College.
Vijaya Raje Scindia (12 October 1919 – 25 January 2001), born Lekha Divyeshwari Devi in Nepal and known popularly as the Rajmata of Gwalior in India, was a prominent Indian political personality. In the days of the British Raj , as consort of the last ruling Maharaja of Gwalior , Jivajirao Scindia , she ranked among the highest royal figures ...