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1913 In India
Events in the year 1913 in India. Incumbents * Emperor of India – George V * Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst Events * National income - 13,473 million * 3 May- Raja Harischandra, First full-length movie of India released. Beginning of Indian Film Industry. * 6 November – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. * Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali poet, got the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book of lyrics called Gitanjali translated into English by himself. Law *Official Trustees Act *White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act Births *5 March – Gangubai Hangal, Indian singer of the khyal genre of Hindustani classical music (died July y 25, 2009). *1 May– Balraj Sahni, Indian actor (died 13 April 1973) *Bhagwan Dada, actor and film director (died 2002). *Attia Hosain, writer, feminist and broadcaster (died 1998). *Chandrakant Mandare, actor and artist (died 2001). * 29 march Bhawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emperor Of India
Emperor or Empress of India was a title used by British monarchs from 1 May 1876 (with the Royal Titles Act 1876) to 22 June 1948, that was used to signify their rule over British India, as its imperial head of state. Royal Proclamation of 22 June 1948, made in accordance with thIndian Independence Act 1947, 10 & 11 GEO. 6. CH. 30.'Section 7: ...(2)The assent of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is hereby given to the omission from the Royal Style and Titles of the words " Indiae Imperator " and the words " Emperor of India " and to the issue by His Majesty for that purpose of His Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the Realm.'). According to this Royal Proclamation, the King retained the style and titles 'George VI by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith'''Indian Independence Act 1947'' (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 30) The image of the emperor or empress was used to signify British authority—his or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 In India
Events in the year 1998 in the Republic of India. Incumbents * President of India – K. R. Narayanan * Prime Minister of India – Inder Kumar Gujral until 19 March, Atal Bihari Vajpayee * Chief Justice of India – ** until 17 January – Jagdish Sharan Verma ** 18 January-9 October – Madan Mohan Punchhi ** starting 10 October – Adarsh Sein Anand Governors * Andhra Pradesh – C. Rangarajan * Arunachal Pradesh – Mata Prasad * Assam – Srinivas Kumar Sinha * Bihar – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai (until 27 April), Sunder Singh Bhandari (starting 27 April) * Goa – ** until 15 January: P.C. Alexander ** 15 January-18 April: T. R. Satish Chandran ** starting 18 April: J. F. R. Jacob * Gujarat – Krishna Pal Singh (until 25 April), Anshuman Singh (starting 25 April) * Haryana – Mahabir Prasad * Himachal Pradesh – V. S. Ramadevi * Jammu and Kashmir – K. V. Krishna Rao (until 2 May), Girish Chandra Saxena (starting 2 May) * Karnataka – Khurshed Ala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 By Country
Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteers, Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing Ulster loyalism, loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power. * January – Stalin (whose first article using this name is published this month) travels to Vienna to carry out research. Until he leaves on February 16 the city is home simultaneously to him, Hitler, Trotsky and Josip Broz Tito, Tito alongside Alban Berg, Berg, Freud and Jung and Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 In India
Events in the year 1913 in India. Incumbents * Emperor of India – George V * Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst Events * National income - 13,473 million * 3 May- Raja Harischandra, First full-length movie of India released. Beginning of Indian Film Industry. * 6 November – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. * Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Bengali poet, got the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book of lyrics called Gitanjali translated into English by himself. Law *Official Trustees Act *White Phosphorus Matches Prohibition Act Births *5 March – Gangubai Hangal, Indian singer of the khyal genre of Hindustani classical music (died July y 25, 2009). *1 May– Balraj Sahni, Indian actor (died 13 April 1973) *Bhagwan Dada, actor and film director (died 2002). *Attia Hosain, writer, feminist and broadcaster (died 1998). *Chandrakant Mandare, actor and artist (died 2001). * 29 march Bhawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1861 In India
Events in the year 1862 in India: Incumbents * Charles Canning, Viceroy Events * Girls' High School & College, Allahabad, is founded. * The Delhi Department of Police is founded. Law * Indian Councils Act 1861 * Indian Civil Services Act * Indian High Courts Act *Police Act *Stage-Carriages Act *Foreign Law Ascertainment Act (British statute) *East India Loan Act (British statute) *Malicious Damages Act (British statute) *Wills Act (British statute) *Domicile Act (British statute) Births *27 January: Baba Tajuddin Nagpuri, Sufi, saint, healer (died 1925). *6 May: Motilal Nehru (died 1931). *7 May: Rabindranath Tagore, poet, artist, playwright, novelist and composer (died 1941). *18 June: Devaki Nandan Khatri, first author of mystery novels in Hindi (died 1913). *18 July:Kadambini Ganguly, first female medical practitioner and one of the first female graduates of the then Indian subcontinent (died 1923). *2 Aug: Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray.(died 1944). *21 Sept: Sir Mokshagunda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been described as a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language, which itself is based primarily on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and neighbouring areas of North India. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the two official languages of the Government of India, along with English. It is an official language in nine states and three union territories and an additional official language in three other states. Hindi is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Hindi is the '' lingua franca'' of the Hindi Belt. It is also spoken, to a lesser extent, in other parts of India (usually in a simplified or pidginised variety such as Bazaar Hindustani or Haflong Hindi). Outside India, several ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mystery Novels
Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels. Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste Dupin, Sherlock Holmes, and Hercule Poirot. Juvenile stories featuring The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and The Boxcar Children have also remained in print for several decades. History Ancient Some scholars, such as R. H. Pfeiffer, have suggested that certain ancient and religious texts bear similarities to what would later be called detective fiction. In the Old Testament story of Susanna and the Elders (the Protestant Bible locates this story within the apocrypha), the account told by two witnesses broke down when Daniel cross-examines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devaki Nandan Khatri
Devaki Nandan Khatri (18 June 1861– 1 August 1913) was an Indian writer who lived in Varanasi and wrote the historic fiction fantasy novel ''Chandrakanta (novel), Chandrakanta''. Biography He was born on 18 June 1861 in a Punjabi family in Pusa village of Muzaffarpur district of Bengal Presidency, British India (present day Bihar, India). His father's name was Lala Ishwardas. His forefathers were residents of Punjab (Lahore) and held high positions during the reign of the Mughals. Lala Ishwardas settled in Varanasi, Benaras during the reign of Sher Singh, son of Ranjit Singh, Maharaj Ranjit Singh. Khatri's early education was in Urdu-Persian language, Persian. Later he also studied Hindi, Sanskrit and English. After finishing his early education, he reached Tekari Raj in Gaya (India), Gaya and got a job with the king there. Later, he established a printing press called 'Lahari Press' in Varanasi and started the publication of Hindi monthly ''Sudarshan'' in 1900. He died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
08 Feb 1995 In Calcutta, India
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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