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1915 In India
Incumbents * Emperor of India – George V * Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst Events * National income - 13,313 million * Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns to India from South Africa to spearhead the Indian independence movement. * Calcutta School of Music is established by Phillpe Sandre. The Home Rule League is founded by Annie Besant (it was formally launched in 1916). Law *Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Baronetcy Act * Banaras Hindu University Act *Government Of India Act Births *6 March – Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, religious head (died 2014). *11 March – Vijay Hazare, cricketer (died 2004). *26 July – Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, yoga teacher (died 2009). *15 August – Ismat Chughtai, writer (died 1991). *31 August – Mir Ali Ahmed Khan Talpur Prominent political figure and former Federal Minister for defense Government of Pakistan (died 1987 in london) Full date unknown *M. F. Husain, artist. Deaths *19 February – Gopala Krishna ... [...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] |
2004 In India
Events in the year 2004 in the Republic of India. Incumbents * President of India: Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam * Prime Minister of India: Atal Bihari Vajpayee to 22 May Manmohan Singh * Vice President of India - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat * Chief Justice of India – ** until 2 May – V. N. Khare ** 2 May-1 June – S. Rajendra Babu ** starting 1 June – Ramesh Chandra Lahoti Governors * Andhra Pradesh – Surjit Singh Barnala (until 4 November), Sushilkumar Shinde (starting 4 November) * Arunachal Pradesh – V.C. Pande till 15,DECEMBER,2004 and Shilendra Kumar Singh from 16,DECEMBER, 2004 * Assam – Ajai Singh * Bihar – ** until 31 October: M. R. Jois ** 1 November-4 November: Ved Marwah ** starting 4 November: Buta Singh * Chhattisgarh – Krishna Mohan Seth * Goa – ** until 2 July: Kidar Nath Sahani ** 2 July-16 July: Mohammed Fazal ** starting 16 July: S. C. Jamir * Gujarat – ** until 2 July: Kailashpati Mishra ** 2 July-24 July: Balram Jakhar ** starting 24 Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 In India
Incumbents * Emperor of India – George V * Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst Events * National income - 13,313 million * Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns to India from South Africa to spearhead the Indian independence movement. * Calcutta School of Music is established by Phillpe Sandre. The Home Rule League is founded by Annie Besant (it was formally launched in 1916). Law *Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Baronetcy Act * Banaras Hindu University Act *Government Of India Act Births *6 March – Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, religious head (died 2014). *11 March – Vijay Hazare, cricketer (died 2004). *26 July – Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, yoga teacher (died 2009). *15 August – Ismat Chughtai, writer (died 1991). *31 August – Mir Ali Ahmed Khan Talpur Prominent political figure and former Federal Minister for defense Government of Pakistan (died 1987 in london) Full date unknown *M. F. Husain, artist. Deaths *19 February – Gopala Krishna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pherozeshah Mehta
Sir Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta (4 August 1845 – 5 November 1915) was an Indian politician and lawyer from Bombay. He was knighted by the British Government in India for his service to the law. He became the Municipal commissioner of Bombay Municipality in 1873 and its president four times – 1884, 1885, 1905 and 1911. Mehta was one of the founding members and President of the Indian National Congress in 1890 held at Calcutta. Early life Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta was born on 4 August, 1845 in Bombay City, Bombay Presidency, British India into a Gujarati-speaking Parsi Zoroastrian family. His father, a Bombay-based businessman who also spent plenty of time in Calcutta, was not highly educated, but he did translate a Chemistry textbook into Gujarati and wrote a Geography textbook. Graduating from the Elphinstone College in 1864, Pherozeshah obtained his Master of Arts degree with honors six months later, becoming the first such Parsi, from the University of Bombay (later r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopala Krishna Gokhale
Gopal Krishna Gokhale ( ɡoːpaːl ˈkrɪʂɳə ˈɡoːkʰleː9 May 1866 – 19 February 1915) was an Indian 'moderate' political leader and a social reformer during the Indian independence movement. Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and the founder of the Servants of India Society. Through the Society as well as the Congress and other legislative bodies he served in, Gokhale campaigned for Indian self-rule and for social reforms. He was the leader of the moderate faction of the Congress party that advocated reforms by working with existing government institutions, and a major member of the Poona Association or the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha. Early Biography Gokhale was born in a Chitpavan Brahmin family on 9 May 1866 of the British Raj in Kotluk village of Guhagar taluka in Ratnagiri district, in present-day Maharashtra (then part of the Bombay Presidency). Despite being relatively poor, his family members ensured that Gokhale received an English educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Ahmad Talpur
Mir Ali Ahmed Khan Talpur (died April 1987) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 15th defence minister of Pakistan from 1978 to 1985 in the government of general Zia-ul-Haq. Prior to his appointment as defence minister, he served as agriculture and food minister in East Pakistan from 1955 to 56. Biography Mir Sahib was born on 31st August 1915 in his hometown Tando Mir Mahmood Hyderabad,Sindh in the house of Mir Nabi Bakhsh Khan Talpur. He started his political career when he joined Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind in 1936. Later in 1939, he joined Khaksar movement when Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi invited him. When Mashriqui was imprisoned in 1941, Talpur was elected as the acting head of the movement for the 22 months. However, in 1944 he disassociated himself from the movement after Allama wrote a letter to him concerning his role in forming Fidayeen-e-Ameer (Islamic military organisation) in Sindh against the movement, and he subsequently joined the Indian National Congress to parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 In India
Events in the year 1991 in the Republic of India. Incumbents * President of India – R. Venkataraman * Prime Minister of India – Chandra Shekhar Singh until 21 June, P. V. Narasimha Rao * Vice President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma * Chief Justice of India – ** until 24 November – Ranganath Misra ** 25 November-12 December – Kamal Narain Singh ** starting 13 December – Madhukar Hiralal Kania Governors * Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant * Arunachal Pradesh – ** until 16 March: Devi Das Thakur ** 16 March-25 March: Loknath Mishra ** starting 25 March: Surendranath Dwivedy * Assam – Devi Das Thakur (until 17 March), Loknath Mishra (starting 17 March) * Bihar – ** until 13 February: Mohammad Saleem ** 14 February-18 March: B. Satya Narayan Reddy ** starting 18 March: Mohammad Shafi Qureshi * Goa – Khurshed Alam Khan (until 17 March), Bhanu Prakash Singh (starting 18 March) * Gujarat – Sarup Singh * Haryana – Dhanik Lal Mandal * Himachal Prade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismat Chughtai
Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a significant voice in the Urdu literature of the twentieth century, and in 1976 was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. Biography Early life and career beginnings (1915–41) Ismat Chughtai was born on 21 August 1915 in Badayun, Uttar Pradesh to Nusrat Khanam and Mirza Qaseem Baig Chughtai; she was the ninth of ten children—six brothers and four sisters. The family moved frequently as Chughtai's father was a Indian Civil Services, civil servant; she spent her childhood in cities including Jodhpur, Agra, and Aligarh—mostly in the company of her brothers as her sisters had all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 In India
Events in the year 2009 in the Republic of India. Incumbents Governors Events * National income - 63,664,065 million * 1 January – National Investigation Agency (NIA) Bill and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment (UAPA) Bill, the new anti-terror regime came into force with President Pratibha Patil giving her assent(The Hindu)* 1 January – 2009 Guwahati bombings: Five persons, including a boy and a woman, were killed and about 50 injured in serial bomb blasts in Guwahati, Assam. * 1 January – Indian Government decides to place officers in the rank of lieutenant colonel and their equivalents in the other two services on a higher pay band and constitute a separate pay commission in a move to redress the grievances of Indian Armed Forces personnel over anomalies in pay structures(The Hindu)* 2 January – Indian Government in tandem with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announces the much-awaited second Stimulus Package aimed at reversing the economic slow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoga
Yoga (; sa, योग, lit=yoke' or 'union ) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind ('' Chitta'') and mundane suffering (''Duḥkha''). There is a wide variety of schools of yoga, practices, and goals in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism,Stuart Ray Sarbacker, ''Samādhi: The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga''. SUNY Press, 2005, pp. 1–2.Tattvarthasutra .1 see Manu Doshi (2007) Translation of Tattvarthasutra, Ahmedabad: Shrut Ratnakar p. 102. and traditional and modern yoga is practiced worldwide. Two general theories exist on the origins of yoga. The linear model holds that yoga originated in the Vedic period, as reflected in the Vedic textual corpus, and influenced Buddhism; according to author Edward Fitzpatrick Crangle, this model is mainly supported by Hindu scholars. According ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri K
Shri (; , ) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific. The word is widely used in South and Southeast Asian languages such as Marathi, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, Balinese, Sinhala, Thai, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Nepali, Malayalam, Kannada, Sanskrit, Pali, Khmer, and also among Philippine languages. It is usually transliterated as ''Sri'', ''Sree'', ''Shri'', Shiri, Shree, ''Si'', or ''Seri'' based on the local convention for transliteration. The term is used in Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia as a polite form of address equivalent to the English "Mr." in written and spoken language, but also as a title of veneration for deities or as honorific title for local rulers. Shri is also another name for Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth, while a ''yantra'' or a mystical diagram popularly used to worship her is called Shri Yantra. Etymology Monier-Williams Dictionary gives the meaning of the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vijay Hazare
Vijay Samuel Hazare (11 March 1915 – 18 December 2004) was an Indian cricketer. He captained India in 14 matches between 1951 and 1953. In India's 25th Test match, nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status, he led India to its first ever Test cricket win (and the only victory under his captaincy) in 1951–52 against England at Madras, winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that began on the day that King George VI died. Early life Hazare was born in Sangli, into Marathi Christian family, in the then Bombay Presidency of British India in 1916, one of eight children of a school teacher. Career Primarily a right-hand batsman, Hazare was also a right-hand medium-pace bowler. A "shy, retiring" man (according to ''Wisden'' in 1952), it was widely thought that he was not a natural captain and that his batting suffered as a result. His rival, Vijay Merchant said that the captaincy prevented Hazare from becoming India's finest batsman: "It was one of the tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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