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1908 In India
Events in the year 1908 in India. Incumbents * Emperor of India – Edward VII * Viceroy of India – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto Events * National income - 10,373 million * March 17 – the Tinnevely Riot of 1908, Tinnevely riot breaks out in Tirunelveli * May – the trial of the Alipore bomb case commences (and continues until 1909 in India, 1909) * September 28 – the Great Musi Flood of 1908, Great Musi flood kills 15,000 people * The Diwan-Ballubhai School is established in Ahmedabad * Mohmand incursions which are joined by the Afghans Law *Registration Act *Indian Ports Act *Limitation Act *Code Of Civil Procedure *Explosive Substances Act Births January to June *17 January – L. V. Prasad, actor, producer and director (died 1994 in India, 1994). *26 February – Leela Majumdar, writer (died 2007 in India, 2007). *2 March – Mahadeva Subramania Mani, entomologist (died 2003 in India, 2003). *5 April – Jagjivan Ram, freedom fighter and social ... [...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] |
1986 In India
Events in the year 1986 in the Republic of India. Incumbents * President of India – Zail Singh * Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi * Chief Justice of India – Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati (until 20 December), Raghunandan Swarup Pathak Governors * Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi * Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh * Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah * Gujarat – Braj Kumar Nehru (until 26 February), Ram Krishna Trivedi (starting 26 February) * Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney * Himachal Pradesh – ** until 7 March: Hokishe Sema ** 7 March-16 April: Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai ** starting 16 April: R. K. S. Ghandhi * Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra * Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji * Kerala – P. Ramachandran * Madhya Pradesh – K.M Chandy * Maharashtra – Kona Prabhakara Rao (until 2 April), Shankar Dayal Sharma (starting 2 April) * Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao * Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh * Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isha Basant Joshi
Isha Basant Joshi (born Isha Basant Mukand; 31 December 1908, date of death unknown) was an Indian Administrative Service officer and author. She published books under the name of Esha Joshi. She was the first Indian to be accepted into the "Bastion of the British" school of La Martiniere Girls High School in Lucknow, India.Uncivil Treatment Shahira Naim ''The Tribune'' 14 November 2004, Chandigarh, India accessed July 2007 She was the first woman Indian Administrative Services officer of British India. Early life and education Joshi was born on 31 December 1908. After attending the La Martinere Girls High School, , She went to |
2005 In India
Events in the year 2005 in the Republic of India. Incumbents Governors Events * National income - 36,321,247 million * Kerala State Horticulture Mission is founded. * 10 January – The Delhi High Court says that a "high claim ratio" cannot be grounds to turn down medical insurance contract renewal requests. The court said that medical policies were liable to be renewed on the same terms and conditions as the old ones. However, insurance companies could load the premium to a limited extent if high payments were sought by a consumer. * 23 January – In line with the suggestions of the Supreme Court, the Election Commission asks the chief electoral officers of Bihar, Jharkhand and Haryana to do videography of proceedings inside polling stations without violating the secrecy of vote. * 25 January – A stampede at the Mandher Devi temple, Satara district during a religious pilgrimage in India kills at least 215, mostly women and children. * 29 January – The Bharatiya Janata P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramakrishna Math
Ramakrishna Math is the administrative legal organization of the Ramakrishna Order, considered part of the Hindu reform movements. It was set up by sanyasin disciples of Ramakrishna Paramhansa headed by Swami Vivekananda at Baranagar Math in Baranagar, a place near Calcutta (now Kolkata), in 1886. India. The headquarters of Ramakrishna Math and its twin organisation, Ramakrishna Mission is at Belur Math (in West Bengal, India). Although Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission are legally and financially separate, they are closely inter-related in several other ways and are to be regarded as twin organizations. All branch centres of Ramakrishna Math come under the administrative control of the Board of Trustees, whereas all branch centres of Ramakrishna Mission come under the administrative control of the Governing Body of Ramakrishna Mission. The Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission have 221 centers all over the world: *167 in India, *15 in Bangladesh, *14 in the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swami Ranganathananda
Swami Ranganathananda (15 December 1908 – 25 April 2005) was a Hindu swami of the Ramakrishna Math order. He served as the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission. Biography Swami Ranganathananda, (pre-monastic name Shankaran Kutty), was born on 15 December 1908 in a village called Trikkur near Trichur, in Kerala to Neelakanta Sastry and Lakshmikutty Amma . As a teenager, he was attracted by the teachings of Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna and joined the Mysore centre of Ramakrishna Order as a Brahmachari in 1926. He served the Mysore Centre for 9 years and was under Swami Siddheswarananda and another 3 years under him in the Bangalore centre. He was initiated as a ''Sannyasi'' (monk) in 1933, on the 70th anniversary of Vivekananda's birth by Shivananda, a direct disciple of Ramakrishna. Between 1939 and 1942, he served as the secretary and librarian at the Rangoon branch of Ramakrishna Mission. In 1942, during the Second World War, when Japan bombed Burma (Myan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 In India
Events in the year 1957 in the Republic of India. Incumbents * President of India – Dr. Rajendra Prasad * Prime Minister of India – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru * Vice President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan * Chief Justice of India – Sudhi Ranjan Das Governors * Andhra Pradesh – Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (until 1 August), Bhim Sen Sachar (starting 1 August) * Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali * Bihar – R. R. Diwakar (until 5 July), Zakir Hussain (starting 5 July) * Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar * Kerala – Burgula Ramakrishna Rao * Madhya Pradesh – Pattabhi Sitaramayya (until 13 June), Hari Vinayak Pataskar (starting 13 June) * Maharashtra – Sri Prakasa * Odisha – Bhim Sen Sachar (until 31 July), Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar (starting 31 July) * Punjab – Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh * Rajasthan – Gurumukh Nihal Singh * Uttar Pradesh – Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi * West Bengal – Padmaja Naidu Events * National income - 137,104 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In India
Events in the year 2006 in the Republic of India. Incumbents * President of India: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam * Prime Minister of India: Manmohan Singh * Vice President of India – Bhairon Singh Shekhawat * Chief Justice of India – Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal Governors * List of governors of Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh – Sushilkumar Shinde (until 29 January), Rameshwar Thakur (starting 29 January) * List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh – Shilendra Kumar Singh * List of governors of Assam, Assam – Ajai Singh * List of governors of Bihar, Bihar – Buta Singh * List of governors of Chhattisgarh, Chhattisgarh – Krishna Mohan Seth * List of governors of Goa, Goa – S. C. Jamir * List of governors of Gujarat, Gujarat – Nawal Kishore Sharma * List of governors of Haryana, Haryana – Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai * List of governors of Himachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh – Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje * List of governors of Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir – Syed Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raja Rao
Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. '' The Serpent and the Rope'' (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964. For the entire body of his work, Rao was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1988. Rao's wide-ranging body of work, spanning a number of genres, is seen as a varied and significant contribution to Indian English literature, as well as World literature as a whole. Biography Early life Raja Rao was born on 8 November 1908 in Hassan, in the princely state of Mysore (now in Karnataka in South India) into a Kannada-speaking Brahmin family and was the eldest of 9 siblings, with seven sisters and a brother named Yogeshwara Ananda. His father, H.V. Krishnaswamy, taught Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 In India
Events in the year 1963 in the Republic of India. Incumbents * President of India – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan * Prime Minister of India – Jawaharlal Nehru * Vice President of India – Zakir Husain * Chief Justice of India – Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha Governors * List of governors of Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh – Satyawant Mallannah Shrinagesh * List of governors of Assam, Assam – Saiyid Fazal Ali * List of governors of Bihar, Bihar – Vishnu Sahay * List of governors of Gujarat, Gujarat – Mehdi Nawaz Jung * List of governors of Karnataka, Karnataka – Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (until 4 May), S. M. Shrinagesh (starting 4 May) * List of governors of Kerala, Kerala – V. V. Giri * List of governors of Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh – Hari Vinayak Pataskar * List of governors of Maharashtra, Maharashtra – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit * List of governors of Nagaland, Nagaland – Vishnu Sahay (starting 1 December) * List of governors of Odisha, Odisha – Ajudhia Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasumpon U
''Pasumpon'' is a 1995 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Bharathiraja, starring Prabhu, Sivaji Ganesan, Sivakumar, Raadhika and Saranya Ponvannan. It was released on 14 April 1995. Plot For several years, Thangapandi is in feud with his stepbrothers Sellasamy and Raasa. In the past, Durairasu Thevar, the village chief was very rich and highly respected in his area. His only heir Nachiyar married a rich man of neighbouring village as per Durairasu's wishes. A few years later, Nachiyar has a boy and he is named Thangapandi. Within weeks of Thangapandi's birth, nachiyaar's husband dies, and Durairasu Thevar becomes distraught. Seeing the young widow, his health deteriorates. He then forces her daughter to remarry with her maternal cousin Kathiresan Thevar, so that she may have a safe life. Thangapandi who was aged 8 by then, hated his step-dad. Two years later, Nachiyar has another boy baby, and Thangapandi became jealous of the newborn Sellasamy. He leaves the house ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 In India
Events in the year 1931 in India. Incumbents * Emperor of India – George V of the United Kingdom, George V * Viceroy of India – E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, The Lord Irwin * Viceroy of India – Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, The Earl of Willingdon (from 18 April) Events * National income - 26,389 million * 25 January – Mohandas Gandhi released again. * January – The All-Asian Women's Conference (AAWC) takes place in Lahore. * 13 February – New Delhi becomes the capital of India. * 27 February – Chandrasekhar Azad martyrdom in an encounter with the British in Allahabad. * 4 March – British viceroy of India and Mohandas Gandhi negotiate. * 23 March – Independent India leaders Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru, Rajguru and Sukhdev are hanged by the United Kingdom, British Government. * October, November – Mohandas Gandhi visits England.''Everyman's Dictionary of Dates''; 6th ed. J. M. Dent, 1971; p. 263 * 4 November – Inauguration of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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