Gandhi Jayanti Observation..

World Tourism Day

 

TEACHINGS OF GANDHI

TEACHINGS OF GANDHI JAYANTHI

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the most important historical figures since the Buddha.

Eric J Hobsbawm

Professor Eric J Hobsbawm  (1917–2012)

Eric J. Hobsbawm, who died on Monday(01-10-2012) at the age of 95, was the most influential Marxist historian of the contemporary age and one of the greatest and most encyclopaedic scholars in the humanities and social sciences. He had an extraordinary mastery of detail of historical events and contemporary politics, especially when these concerned the Left.Hobsbawm was perhaps the last survivor of the Communist Historians’ Group in Britain which made a seminal contribution to the writing of history.

Akeel Bilgrami

Akeel Bilgrami 

Akeel Bilgrami is an Indian-born philosopher of language and of mind, and the author of Belief and Meaning, Self-Knowledge and Resentment, and Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity, as well as various articles in Philosophy of Mind as well as in Political and Moral Psychology.

Robert Owen

Robert Owen(1771-1858)

• Was a Utopian Socialist and Social Reformer

• Was more a doer than a talker

• Born on 14th May, 1771 at Newton, Wales, England

• At 16 found work in wholesale and retail drapery

• At 19 borrowed 100 pounds and set up spinning mules with John Jones

• 1792 left the partnership and joined as a manager in Drinkwaters factory.

Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu or Sarojini Chattopadhyaya , also known by the sobriquet Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India), was a child prodigy, freedom fighter, and poet. Naidu was the first Indian woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress and the first woman to become the Governor of Uttar Pradesh.

James Cook

James Cook

The English navigator James Cook, possibly the greatest explorer of the 18th century, is known for his voyages to the Pacific Ocean and his application of scientific methods to exploration and to cartography.

Born on Oct. 27, 1728, he was the son of a poor Scotsman who had settled in Yorkshire as an agricultural labourer. After a short time in a haberdasher's shop at Stainthes, he became a bound apprentice to a Whitby ship owner, and spent several years in coasting and Baltic trade.

He joined the Royal Navy in 1755 as an able-bodied seaman, soon became a mate, and within four years became a master.

William Flinders Petrie

Sir William Flinders Petrie [1853-1942]

  

British archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie was one of the pioneers of the science, conducting archaeology primarily in Egypt and Palestine.

He excavated at the Pyramids of Giza between 1880 and 1882, and conducted surveys in the Fayyum Depression, and excavated at predynastic cemeteries of Naqada, Diaspolis Parva and Abadiya. 

Howard Carter-ARCHAELOGIST AND DISCOVERER OF TUTANKHAMUN

Howard Carter

Howard Carter is regarded as one of the leading figures in the history of archaeology. Howard Carter  was a British born Londoner. He was born the youngest son of eight, in 1874, and at age 17, set sail for Alexandria, where he began his service as archaeologist with the eminent Archaeological Survey of Egypt (ASE) expedition.

Charles Freer Andrews

Charles Freer Andrews 

1-Charles Freer Andrews was an English priest of the Church of England.

2-He was an educator and participant in the campaign for Indian independence, and became Mahatma Gandhi's closest friend and associate.

3-Andrews greatly admired the philosophy of the young Mohandas Gandhi, and was instrumental in convincing him to return to India from South Africa, where Gandhi had been a leading light in its Indian civil rights struggle.

Abhinash Chandra Bhattacharya

Dr Abhinash Chandra Bhattacharya 

1-Dr Abhinash Chandra Bhattacharya was an radical Indian nationalist noted for his role in the Indo-German Conspiracy of World War I. Born in Tripura India, Bhattacharya in his youth became involved with the works of the Anushilan Samiti.

2-In 1910, Abhinash Bhattacharya proceeded to Germany to qualify as a Chemist. During his stay in the country, Bhattacharya again became involved in the Indian nationalist movement there, reviving old acquaintances from his Anushilan days.

MPT Acharya

MPT Acharya 

1-MPT Acharya (1887–1951) was an Indian nationalist, a key member of India House, and one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India.

2-In a long political and activist life, Acharya was at various times associated with India House in London and the Hindu-German Conspiracy during World War I when, as a key functionary of the Berlin Committee, he along with Har Dayal sought to establish the Indian National Volunteer Corps with Indian prisoners of war from the battlefields ofMesopotamia and Europe.

Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion 

 

Jean-François Champollion (1790 -1832) was a French  classical scholar, philologist andorientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs .Champollion published the first translation of the Rosetta Stone  hieroglyphs in 1822, showing that the Egyptianwriting system was a combinationof phonetic and ideographic signs.

Ram Sharan Sharma

Ram Sharan Sharma

Eminent Marxist historian and Indologist Ram Sharan Sharma, known for his trenchant observations on institutions in ancient Indian society and his report on the Bihar-Bengal boundary dispute, passed away

Vallabhbhai Patel

Vallabhbhai Patel

1-Vallabhbhai Patel was born on October 31, 1875, in a farmer's family in Nadiad, Gujarat.

2-His father, Zaverbhai, had served in the army of Jhansi ki Rani, and his mother, Ladbai, was a deeply religious woman. 

3-Vallabhbhai's initial schooling was in Gujarati. His brother Vithalbhai, after completing middle school, had enrolled himself in English tutorial classes in a nearby town. Vallabhbhai followed suit.

VASUDEV BALWANT PHADKE

VASUDEV BALWANT PHADKE

                             Vasudeov Balwant Phadke was an Indian revolutionary and is widely regarded as the father of the armed struggle for India's independence. Phadke was moved by the plight of the farmer community during British Raj.

PANDITA RAMABAI (1858-1920) & SHARADA SADAN

PANDITA RAMABAI (1858-1920) & SHARADA SADAN

 1-Pandita Ramabai, the youngest daughter of Anant Shastri, was a social reformer, a champion for the emancipation of women, and a pioneer in education. 

2-Left totally alone by the time she was 23, Ramabai acquired a great reputation as a Sanskrit scholar.

Lala Lajpat Rai-ugc

Lala Lajpat Rai-ugc

 Born: January 28, 1865
Martyrdom: November17, 1928

Achievements

1-Popularly known as Lala Lajpat Rai; Founded the Indian Home League Society of America; became Congress President in 1920.

2-Lala Lajpat Rai was one of the foremost leaders who fought against British rule in India. He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari (Lion of the Punjab).

GOPAL KRISHNA GOKHALE-ugc

GOPAL KRISHNA GOKHALE-ugc

1-Political guru of MAHATMA GANDHI. 

2-He was the leader of moderate group in the Congress Party. 

3-He played a commendable role in the imperial Legislative Council of which he was a member in 1902.

4-He founded 'The Servants of India Society' and served as President of the Indian National Congress in 1907.

5-Until Mahatma Gandhi appeared, Gopalakrishna Gokhale was the national leader of the freedom struggle.