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1927 In India
Events in the year 1927 in India. Incumbents * Emperor of India – George V * Viceroy of India – The Lord Irwin Events * National income - 33,467 million * 18 January – Council House in New Delhi is opened. * 28 September – Fatal communal riots in Dehra Dun, U.P.''Everyman's Dictionary of Dates''; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 262-63 * 12 November – Mahatma Gandhi made his first and last visit to Ceylon. * The Simon Commission is formed to consider further steps toward self-rule of India. No Indian member is included. Law *Indian Forest Act *Light House Act Births * 24 January – J. Om Prakash, film producer. (died 2019) * 30 January – Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, dermatologist (died 2005) * 3 February - Vasant Sarwate, cartoonist and writer (died 2016) * 28 February – Krishan Kant, politician, Vice President of India (died 2002) * 3 June – M. Narasimham, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (died 2021) * 1 July – Chandra Shekhar, politician, 8th Prime ... [...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] |
Rajendra Kumar
Rajendra Kumar Tuli (20 July 1927 – 12 July 1999) was an Indian actor who starred in Bollywood films. Starting his career in 1949, he appeared in more than 80 films in a career spanning over four decades. He was popularly known as the 'Jubilee Kumar' during the 1960s when he starred in several commercially successful films. He also produced several films starring his son Kumar Gaurav. The Government of India honored him with the Padma Shri in 1970. Career Rajendra Kumar was born in a Punjabi Hindu Khatri family in Sialkot, in the Punjab province of British India. His grandfather was a successful military contractor and his father had a textile business in Karachi, Sindh, British India. During the Partition of India, the family had to leave all the land and property behind and move to India. When they came to Bombay, Kumar decided to try his luck in the Hindi film industry. He never wanted to be a hero and took up work with director H. S. Rawail as an assistant. For nearl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 In India
Events in the year 1927 in India. Incumbents * Emperor of India – George V * Viceroy of India – The Lord Irwin Events * National income - 33,467 million * 18 January – Council House in New Delhi is opened. * 28 September – Fatal communal riots in Dehra Dun, U.P.''Everyman's Dictionary of Dates''; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 262-63 * 12 November – Mahatma Gandhi made his first and last visit to Ceylon. * The Simon Commission is formed to consider further steps toward self-rule of India. No Indian member is included. Law *Indian Forest Act *Light House Act Births * 24 January – J. Om Prakash, film producer. (died 2019) * 30 January – Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, dermatologist (died 2005) * 3 February - Vasant Sarwate, cartoonist and writer (died 2016) * 28 February – Krishan Kant, politician, Vice President of India (died 2002) * 3 June – M. Narasimham, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (died 2021) * 1 July – Chandra Shekhar, politician, 8th Prime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Prasad Bismil
Ram Prasad Bismil ( Hindi: राम प्रसाद "बिस्मिल") (11 June 1897 — 19 December 1927) was an Indian poet, writer, revolutionary and an Indian freedom fighter who participated in the Mainpuri Conspiracy of 1918, and the Kakori Conspiracy of 1925, and fought against British Raj. He also had a good command over Urdu and the Hindi languages and was an accomplished poet, composing in these languages using the pen names Ram, Agyat and Bismil, the latter through which he became famously known by. He was also a multilingual translator and his Hindi poem "Manipuri ki Pratigya" became very famous. Bismil was hanged on 19 December 1927 by the British for his revolutionary activities. He was associated with Arya Samaj where he got inspiration from ''Satyarth Prakash'', a book written by Swami Dayanand Saraswati. He also had a confidential connection with Lala Har Dayal through his guru Swami Somdev, a preacher of Arya Samaj. Bismil was one of the founding me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashfaqulla Khan
Ashfaqulla Khan (22 October 1900 – 19 December 1927) was an Indian independence activist in the Indian independence movement and co-founder of the Hindustan Republican Association. Early life Khan was born in the Shahjahanpur district of the United Provinces to Shafiq Ullah Khan and Mazharunissa, Muslim Pathans of the Khyber tribe who belonged to the landlord class. He was the youngest among his five siblings. In 1918, while Khan was in the seventh standard, police raided his school and arrested the student Rajaram Bhartiya in relation to the Mainpuri Conspiracy, in which activists organised looting in Mainpuri to fund the publication of anti-colonial literature. The arrest spurred Khan's engagement in revolutionary activities in the United Provinces. Khan met Ram Prasad Bismil, a revolutionary who was closely involved in the Mainpuri Conspiracy, through a friend. He soon became closely tied to Bismil and joined him in activities related to non-cooperation, the Swaraj Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adoor Bhasi
K. Bhaskaran Nair (1 March 1929 – 29 March 1990), known by his stage name Adoor Bhasi, was an Indian actor and film director from Kerala. Adoor Bhasi was almost always cast as the man who stands next to the hero. His hilarious actions and roles became the cynosure of comic scenes in the Malayalam films of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, especially with Ever Green Hero of Malayalam Cinema, Shri Prem Nazir. He is also famous for his eloquent speeches in fluent English. He directed three Malayalam films during the late 1970s. Early life Adoor Bhasi was born on 1 March 1929 in Peringanadu, Adoor, Travancore, with a rich lineage to boast of. His father, E. V. Krishna Pillai, was a renowned Malayalam humourist writer, dramatist, pioneering short story writer and essayist, a lawyer and a Member of the then Travancore Legislative Assembly (M.L.C.). His mother, Maheshwari Amma, was the youngest daughter of C. V. Raman Pillai, one among the greatest Malayalam novelists, being the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Narayan
Ram Narayan (; born 25 December 1927), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician who popularised the bowed instrument ''sarangi'' as a solo concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and became the first internationally successful ''sarangi'' player. Narayan was born near Udaipur and learned to play the ''sarangi'' at an early age. He studied under ''sarangi'' players and singers and, as a teenager, worked as a music teacher and travelling musician. All India Radio, Lahore, hired Narayan as an accompanist for vocalists in 1944. He moved to Delhi following the partition of India in 1947, but wishing to go beyond accompaniment and frustrated with his supporting role, Narayan moved to Mumbai in 1949 to work in Indian cinema. Narayan became a concert solo artist in 1956 and has since performed at the major music festivals of India. After ''sitar'' player Ravi Shankar successfully performed in Western countries, Narayan followed his example. He recorded so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deputy Prime Minister Of India
The deputy prime minister of India ( IAST: ''Bhārat Ke Upapradhānamantri'') is the second highest ranking minister of the Union in the executive branch of the Government of India and is a senior member of the Union Council of Ministers. The office holder also deputises for the prime minister in their absence. The office has since been only intermittently occupied, having been occupied for a little more than 10 years out of the 75 years since its inception. Since 1947 India has had 7 deputy prime ministers, of which none having at least one full term. The first was Vallabhbhai Patel of the Indian National Congress party, who was sworn in on 15 August 1947, when India gained independence from the British Raj. Serving until his death in December 1950, Patel remains India's longest-serving deputy prime minister. The post was vacant until Morarji Desai became the second deputy prime minister in 1967 and has the second-longest tenure. Morarji Desai and Charan Singh were the deputy p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lal Krishna Advani
Lal Krishna Advani (born 8 November 1927) is an Indian politician who served as the 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 2002 to 2004. Advani is one of the co-founders and a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a longtime member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a volunteer organisation. He also served as Minister of Home Affairs in the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government from 1998 to 2004. He was the Leader of the Opposition in the 10th Lok Sabha and 14th Lok Sabha and also the longest serving person of this post. He is widely considered architect of Hindutva politics and was the power centre of BJP in 1990s. He was the Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP in 2009. Advani began his political career as a volunteer of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a volunteer organisation.He is credited for rise of BJP from 2 seats in 1984 to 182 seats in 1998. In 2015 he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian honour. He has held numerous po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Emergency (1975–77)
The Emergency in India was a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had a state of emergency declared across the country. Officially issued by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed under Article 352 of the Constitution because of prevailing "internal disturbance", the Emergency was in effect from 25 June 1975 to its withdrawal on 21 March 1977. The order bestowed upon the Prime Minister the authority to rule by decree, allowing elections to be cancelled and civil liberties to be suspended. For much of the Emergency, most of Gandhi's political opponents were imprisoned and the press was censored. Several other human rights violations were reported from the time, including a mass campaign for vasectomy spearheaded by her son Sanjay Gandhi. The Emergency is one of the most controversial periods of Indian history since its independence. The final decision to impose an emergency was proposed by Indira Gandhi, agreed upon by the President of India, and ratifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bansi Lal
Bansi Lal Legha (26 August 1927 – 28 March 2006) was an Indian independence activist, senior Congress leader, former Chief Minister of Haryana, former Defence Minister of India, and the architect of modern Haryana. Bansi Lal was part of the famous Lal trio of Haryana which also included 'Tau' Devi Lal and Bhajan Lal, that form the major Political families of Haryana. Lal was elected to the Haryana State Assembly seven times, the first time in 1967 from Tosham. He served three separate terms as Chief Minister of Haryana: 1968–75, 1986–87, and 1996–99. Bansi Lal was considered a close confidante of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi during the Emergency era of 1975 -1977. His younger son died at 59 in 2005 He served as the Defence Minister of India from December 1975 to March 1977, and had a brief stint as a Minister without Portfolio in the Union government in 1975. He also held the Railways and Transport portfolios. He set up Haryana Vika ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 In India
1999 in the Republic of India. Incumbents * President of India – K. R. Narayanan * Prime Minister of India – Atal Bihari Vajpayee * Chief Justice of India – Adarsh Sein Anand Governors * Andhra Pradesh – C. Rangarajan * Arunachal Pradesh – Mata Prasad (until 16 May), S. K. Sinha (16 May–1 August), Arvind Dave (starting 1 August) * Assam – Srinivas Kumar Sinha * Bihar – ** until 15 March: Sunder Singh Bhandari ** 15 March-5 October: B.M. Lal ** 6 October-22 November: Suraj Bhan ** starting 22 November: V. C. Pande * Goa – J. F. R. Jacob (until 22 November), Mohammed Fazal (starting 22 November) * Gujarat – ** until 16 January: Anshuman Singh ** 16 January-18 March: K.G. Balakrishnan ** starting 18 March: Sunder Singh Bhandari * Haryana – Mahabir Prasad * Himachal Pradesh – V. S. Ramadevi (until 1 December), Vishnu Kant Shastri (starting 1 December) * Jammu and Kashmir – Girish Chandra Saxena * Karnataka – Khurshed Alam Khan (u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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