Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was an Indian independence activist and served between 1977 and 1979 as the 4th Prime Minister of India and led the government formed by the Janata Party. During his long career in politics, he held many important posts in government such as Chief Minister of Bombay State, Home Minister, Finance Minister and 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of India. Following the passing of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Desai was a strong contender for the position of Prime Minister, only to be defeated by Indira Gandhi in 1966. He was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Indira Gandhi's cabinet, until 1969.
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Morarji Desai | Introduction
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Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
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President of the Indian National Congress, Union Minister of Steel and Mines, Union Minister of Transport, Civil Aviation, Shipping and Tourism, speaker of the Lok Sabha, etc.
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Indian National Congress Party in the Indian independence movement and Janata Party as a candidate for Parliament.
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23 January 1977
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A state of emergency enabled the central government to issue executive decrees without requiring the consent of Parliament.
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t launched the Sixth Five-Year Plan, aiming to boost agricultural production and rural industries.
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Jayaprakash Narayan, Jivatram Kripalani, George Fernandes, Morarji Desai, etc.
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It was organised by him and was President of the All India Railwaymen's Federation.
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Sir Nowroji Saklatwala, (also spelt Saklatvala; 10 September 1875 – 21 July 1938) was an Indian businessman who was the third chairman of the Tata Group from 1932 till his sudden death in 1938. He was born in Bombay into a Parsi family, the son of Bapuji Saklatwala and Virbaiji Tata. His maternal uncle was Jamsetji Tata, founder of the Tata Group. He completed his studies at St. Xavier College, joined the Tata Group in 1899 as a clerk in Svadeshi Mills in Bombay. Within twenty years, he rose to be the head of the firm. He worked closely with Dorabji Tata, the second chairman.
Nowroji Saklatwala | Introduction
Morarji Desai campaigned for the Janata Party in 1980 General Election as a senior politician but did not contest the election himself. In retirement, he lived in Mumbai and died on 10 April 1995 at the age of 99. When former French Prime Minister Antoine Pinay died on 13 December 1994, Desai became the world's oldest living former head of government. He was much honoured in his last years as a freedom-fighter of his generation. Morarji Desai was a strict follower of Mahatma Gandhi's principles and a moralist. He was a vegetarian "both by birth and by conviction."
Morarji Desai | Retirement and death
Leaders like C. N. Annadurai, M. P. Sivagnanam and Jeevanandham requested him to stop his hunger strike but he continued. His health deteriorated and he was admitted to a hospital in Madurai. After 76 days of fasting, he died on 13 October 1956.
Sankaralinganar | Hunger strike
He died on 11 June 1978 due to a heart attack. The people of Trikarpur have built a library in the town in his name as a memorial. The Janata Party National Executive council held on 11 July 1978 under the Prime Minister Morarji Desai honored him and a few other party leaders by observing a moment of silence, as per the minutes of the meeting.
C. M. Padmanabhan Nair | Death
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was an Indian independence activist and served between 1977 and 1979 as the 4th Prime Minister of India and led the government formed by the Janata Party. During his long career in politics, he held many important posts in government such as Chief Minister of Bombay State, Home Minister, Finance Minister and 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of India. Following the passing of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Desai was a strong contender for the position of Prime Minister, only to be defeated by Indira Gandhi in 1966. He was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Indira Gandhi's cabinet, until 1969.
Morarji Desai | Introduction
Giri was closely associated with the labour and trade union movement in India throughout his career. Giri was a founding member of the All India Railwaymen's Federation which was formed in 1923 and served as its general secretary for over a decade. He was elected president of the All India Trade Union Congress for the first time in 1926. Giri also founded the Bengal Nagpur Railway Association and in 1928 led the workers of the Bengal Nagpur Railway in a non violent strike for the rights of retrenched workers. The strike succeeded in forcing the British Indian government and the management of the railway company to concede the workers' demands and is regarded as a milestone in the labour movement in India.
V. V. Giri | Role in the labour movement
Sasipada Banerji was among the earliest Indians to work for the rights of the labour class in India, the Working Men's Club he established in 1870 has been described as the first labour organisation in Kolkata. The Brahmo Samaj established a Working Men's Mission in 1878 and established several schools for working men and the depressed classes and Banerji founded the Baranagar Institute the same year. In 1870 he founded the workers' organisation Sramajivi Samiti and established the newspaper "Bharat Sramajivi". The Bharat Sramajivi was the first Indian journal of the working class and its circulation peaked at 15,000 copies a remarkable number for its time.
Sasipada Banerji | Labour Movement
Kanji Morarji Rathor / Kanzi Morarji Rathore (1913–1989) was a Kutchi industrialist from Raipur, India. He is noted for founding first steel plant of Chhattisgarh.
Kanji Morarji Rathor | Introduction
Although not entirely accurate, they attempted to answer some of the criticisms. Ranjitsinhji visited England in 1930, to take part in talks on India's constitution. While there, he was well received by former cricketers and saw Duleepsinhji score 174 against Australia in a Test match at Lord's. At the request of Sussex, he was president of the county for the year. He continued to oppose Indian federation, despite support for the idea from the British and some of the princes. He was chancellor to the Chamber of Princes in 1933, shortly before he died. Ranjitsinhji died of heart failure on 2 April 1933 after a short illness.
Ranjitsinhji | Opposition to Federation and death
Desai died in Bombay in 1948. He was survived by his son, Lalitchandra C. D. Nanjee, who later became Chairman of Dena Bank, Devkaran Nanjee Insurance Co. and Devkaran Nanjee Investment Co.
Choonilal Devkaran Nanjee | Death
notes "though the radical peasant organisation that Javalkar projected did not come to fruition, but it's beginnings were suggestive." Indeed, Peasants and Workers Party of India was formed about a decade and a half after his death by the very own non-brahmin leaders - Keshavrao Jedhe and others - that were part of Indian National Congress during his lifetime.
Dinkarrao Javalkar | Death and legacy
15 June – Kushal Konwar, Indian National Congress President of Golaghat, First martyr of Quit India Movement.
1943 in India | Deaths
K Kamaraj and later Morarji Desai were the leaders of the INC(O). INC(O) led governments in Bihar under Bhola Paswan Shastri, Karnataka under Veerendra Patil, and in Gujarat under Hitendra K Desai. It was also a part of the Janata Morcha that ruled Gujarat under Babubhai J. Patel from 1975–1976 during the emergency era.
Indian National Congress (Organisation) | Introduction
He died in 1944. Among his successors, Jyantilal Manishankar Ojha (1907-1986), mostly is noted for taking reins of Ojha group The Ojha business group suffered major set back after nationalization of coal mines in 1971–73, due to internal disputes and losses in other arms of their business.
Amritlal Ojha | Death and successors
He died in Lucknow on September 13, 1800. According to , he was buried in the vault prepared for his remains in the basement of the college in Lucknow.
La Martinière Lyon | The Founder
When Dorabji died in 1932, he became the Chairman of the Tata Group and had the task of consolidating the company during the Depression years. Closely connected with Indian cricket, Saklatwala played for the Parsees team during 1904-05, but stopped playing actively due to business pre-occupations. As a cricket player he represented the Parsees against the Europeans in 1904.
Nowroji Saklatwala | Introduction
Mashruwala, and later M.P. Desai. His contributions to "Harijan", accumulating to nearly thirty essays, were his primary source of income before his death in March 1954.
M. P. T. Acharya | Return to India
Raghubhai Morarji Nayak (1907–2003) was an Indian educationist, social worker and the founder principal of Sardar Patel Vidyalaya. He was the co-founder of "Saraswati Vidyamandal", which runs a number of educational institutions in the Indian state of Gujarat. Known to have been a student of Rabindranath Tagore, he also served as the chairman of "Saraswati Kelavani Mandal", the holding trust managing a group of schools. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 1976, for his contributions to education.
Raghubhai Morarji Nayak | Introduction
On 23 November 1858, he founded a printing press known as Munshi Nawal Kishor Press. From 1859, he started publishing weekly newspaper "Avadh Akhbar", also known as "Oudh Akhbar". He died on 19 February 1885 in Delhi. His body was buried instead of traditional cremation. The Government of India issued a postage stamp on him in his honour in 1970.
Munshi Nawal Kishore | Biography
So to gain Chhattisgarhi Leader's influence in State Politics He founded Chhattisgarh Swabhiman Manch (CSM) as a third front fighting for Chhattisgarhi Swabhiman.
Tarachand Sahu | Introduction
Morarji Desai was a Gandhian follower, social worker, institution builder and a great reformer. He was the Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith. Even during his term as the Prime Minister he used to visit and stay at Vidyapith during the month of October. He lived simply and used to write post cards himself even when he held the office of Prime Minister. Sardar Patel deputed him to conduct meetings of farmers in Kaira district which finally led to the establishment of the Amul Cooperative movement. During his rule, he withdrew intervention in Public Distribution System and rationing shops were literally lost due to cheap sugar and oil available in the market.
Morarji Desai | Social service
Sir Surendranath Banerjee (10 November 18486 August 1925) was one of the earliest Indian political leaders during the British Rule. He founded the Indian National Association, through which he led two sessions of the Indian National Conference in 1883 and 1885, along with Anandamohan Bose. Banerjee later became a senior leader of the Indian National Congress. Surendranath welcomed Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms, unlike Congress, and with many liberal leaders he left Congress and founded a new organisation named "Indian National Liberation Federation" in 1919. He was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress.
Surendranath Banerjee | Introduction
Sasipada Banerji (1840–1924) was a social worker and leader of the Brahmo Samaj who is remembered as a champion of women's rights and education and as one of the earliest workers for labour welfare in India. He was the founder of several girls' schools, a widow's home, temperance societies, a workers' organisation and the editor of the journal "Bharat Sramajibi".
Sasipada Banerji | Introduction
De Soysa, often referred to as a father of private enterprise was the pioneer native entrepreneur, philanthropist and social reformer who played the role of a path-finder. He died, leaving Charles de Soysa, aged 26, entrusted with the management of an estate worth millions. His infrastructure and tank building projects were commendable, considering the fact that it came after the abolition of the traditional rajakriya system of free compulsory labour and the devastation caused following the Kandyan convention. In 1853, de Soysa was appointed Gate Mudaliyar by the Governor George William Anderson. He was the first native headman to be appointed for public benefactions as opposed to government service.
Jeronis de Soysa | Legacy
Jayaben Desai (2 April 1933 – 23 December 2010) was a prominent leader of the strikers in the Grunwick dispute in London in 1976.
Jayaben Desai | Introduction
In December 1967, Upadhyaya was elected president of the BJS. In the evening of 10 February 1968, at Lucknow he boarded the Sealdah Express for Patna. The train reached Mughalsarai at about 2:10 am but Upadhyaya was not on it. His body was found near Mughalsarai Junction railway station in Uttar Pradesh 10 minutes after the train arrived, lying near a traction pole 748 feet from the end of the platform where the train halted. He was clutching a five-rupee note in his hand. He was last seen alive at Jaunpur after midnight. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation team found that Upadhyaya had been pushed out of the coach by robbers just before the train entered Mughalsarai station; a passenger travelling in the adjoining cabin of the same coach had seen a man (later identified as Bharat Lal) enter Upadhyaya's cabin at Mughalsarai and walk off with his file and bedding.
Deendayal Upadhyaya | Death
Narayan Malhar Joshi (5 June 1879 – 30 May 1955) was an Indian trade union leader and follower of Gopal Krishna Gokhale. Joshi got involved in labour issues and started the All India Trade Union Congress in 1920 along with Lala Lajpat Rai. He was the general secretary of AITUC from 1925 to 1929 and from 1940 to 1948. In 1931, he left AITUC and started the All India Trade Union Federation. In 1911 , Joshi established an organization called the Social Service League. The League conducted training programmes for volunteers, whose services were later utilized for relief work among people suffering form famines, epidemics, floods and other disasters, and also for welfare programmes among the poor and the destitute.
Narayan Malhar Joshi | Introduction
The Government of India also resumed him all his estates in 1953. Wasif Ali was also the founder and president of the Hindu-Muslim Unity Association in the year 1937, named "Anjuman-e-Musalman-e-Bangla", which promoted Hindu-Muslim unity. The Nawab also built the Wasif Manzil. Sir Wasif Ali died at the age of 84 at his Calcutta residence at 85 Park Street in Calcutta on 23 October 1959. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Waris Ali Mirza Khan Bahadur.
Wasif Ali Mirza | Introduction
Her death in middle age was a great blow to the whole family. All three of their children have followed their father into the family business. The eldest child, Anuradha Desai, who is married to Jitendra Desai, presently heads the Group as its non-executive chairperson.
B. V. Rao | Early and personal life
He had one son, Cursetji (1878–1893), who predeceased him at a young age, and was succeeded by his younger brother Cowasji, the fourth baronet, who came to be known as the leader of the Parsi community in Bombay. His only son, Rustamji, succeeded him as the fifth baronet in 1908, and was knighted as a KCSI and later served as vice-president of the Indian Legislative Assembly. The fifth baronet was succeeded by his only son Cowasji in 1931 as the sixth baronet. The sixth baronet only had three daughters, and upon his death in 1968, the main line of male descent from the first baronet failed.
Jejeebhoy baronets | Introduction
The Leader of the Opposition, P. Upendra was a General Secretary of the Front at its formation. In 1991, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha became a part of the Front. TDP split in 1995, with a minority faction siding with N. T. Rama Rao and the majority faction choosing to side with Chandrababu Naidu. The Front collapsed before the Lok Sabha elections of 1996, when NF tried to rope in both DMK and AIADMK, resulting in the DMK walking out. After NTR died of a heart attack in January 1996, Janata Dal stood by Rama Rao's widow Lakshmi Parvathi while Left parties formed an alliance with Chandrababu naidu.
Third Front (India) | National Front (1989–1991)
Jeevanjee died of a heart attack on 2 May 1936, in Nairobi, at the age of eighty. He was survived by his wife and two sons. At the time of his death he was a bankrupt, having lost his vast fortune by gambling in produce. One newspaper described him as the "Grand Old Man of Kenya", whilst another stated he was the "first man to demand equality and that "he laid the foundations of an organised political movement in Kenya". He was buried according to Islamic ritual on the day he died at the Bohra Cemetery in Nairobi.
Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee | Death
Rameshwar Banerjee (; 8 February 1925 - 21 November 1945) was a revolutionary and martyr of the Indian Independence Movement. He participated in the Quit India Movement in 1942. In November 1945, the trial of a number of officers of the Indian National Army began. Throughout India, widespread demonstrations were held. In Kolkata, students led the movement. During the rally organized by the students against British rule and for release of the officers of Indian National Army, he was killed by police firing. After his death, a two-mile-long procession was organized in the streets of Calcutta. The students marching along added this name to their slogans of ""Dilli chalo" (March to Delhi), "Lal-Kila tod do" (Break down the Red Fort)", and then ""Rameshwar Banerjee Zindabad"".
Rameshwar Banerjee | Introduction
He published two more issues of "Indian Sociologist" in August and September 1922, before ill health prevented him continuing. He died in hospital at 11:30 pm on 30 March 1930 leaving his wife, Bhanumati Krishnavarma. News of his death was suppressed by the British government in India. Nevertheless, tributes were paid to him by Bhagat Singh and other inmates in Lahore Jail where they were undergoing a long-term drawn-out trial. "Maratha", an English daily newspaper started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak paid tribute to him. He had made prepaid arrangements with the local government of Geneva and St Georges cemetery to preserve his and his wife’s ashes at the cemetery for 100 years and to send their urns to India whenever it became independent during that period.
Shyamji Krishna Varma | Death and commemoration
Sir Sorabji Nusserwanji Pochkhanawala (9 August 1881 – 4 July 1937) was an Indian Parsi banker and one of the founders of the Central Bank of India.
Sorabji Pochkhanawala | Introduction
Rao Bahadur T. Rattinasami Nadar was the founder of Nadar Mahajana Sangam. He founded the organisation with a number of leaders from Nadar community under the presidency of his uncle in 1910. The Sangam was founded to extend demands for membership in the Madras Legislative Council. Rettinasami Nadar died one year after the founding of the Sangam.
T. Rattinasami Nadar | Introduction
Nayak was born in 1907 at Chalthan, a small town in Surat, Gujarat, he did his schooling at Shantiniketan from where he graduated in 1929. Moving to Maharashtra, he started his career as a teacher at Pupils' Own School, Pune in 1932 where he taught Indira Gandhi who would later become the Prime Minister of India, among other students. Taking a sabbatical from work, he went to Germany to pursue his doctoral studies where he was known to have come in contact with Subhash Chandra Bose, which delayed his return to India as the German authorities confiscated his passport. He returned to India in 1940 and four years later, he founded "Saraswati Vidyamandal", in 1944, reportedly on borrowed money.
Raghubhai Morarji Nayak | Biography
Ramananda Chatterjee () (29 May 1865 – 30 September 1943) was founder, editor, and owner of the Calcutta based magazine, the "Modern Review" and a leader of the Hindu Mahasabha. He has been described as the father of Indian journalism.
Ramananda Chatterjee | Introduction
He completed Master of Arts in 1916 with English and Gujarati literature. He could not get second rank and thus he could not fulfill his dream to be a professor. He joined Shri Sayaji High School as a teacher, and few months later, in November 1916, he was appointed as the head clerk in the Baroda State, where he later held various positions before retiring in 1948. He died on 20 September 1954 due to heart failure. Desai was the president of Pragatishil Sahitya Mandal and also of the Baroda Sahitya Sabha in 1937.
Ramanlal Desai | Life
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (13 May 1905 – 11 February 1977) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the fifth President of India from 1974 to 1977. He was also the 2nd President of India to die in office.
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | Introduction
Javalkar mostly remained sick after his return from England. Meanwhile, his tours and speeches were still ongoing. After his release from prison in March 1931, he visited Nagpur on invitation of the non-brahmin movement there. He fell sick at Nagpur. On his way back, he participated in Kalaram Temple satyagraha at Nashik under the leadership of Dr. Ambedkar. At Nashik, his health deteriorated further and he returned to Pune where he saw no improvement. He died of consumption on 3 May 1932. He was survived by his wife Indutai and son Shivajirao. Javalkar strived to create a well-organized peasant's organisation within the non-brahmin party.
Dinkarrao Javalkar | Death and legacy
Abid Ali Jaferbhai (1899/1900 - 26 June 1973) was a leader of Congress(I) from Bombay, Maharashtra. He became a member of the Bombay Legislative Council in 1947. He was a founder member of the Indian National Trade Union Congress and its Vice-President. As such, he was closely related to the Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO). For four terms during 3 April 1952 to 3 April 1970 Abid Ali served as member of Rajya Sabha. He was Union Deputy Minister for Labour during 1952-1962. He was born on in 1899 or 1900. He died in 1973 and survived by three sons and one daughter.
Abid Ali Jaferbhai | Introduction
Shankar Guha Niyogi (14 February 1943 – 28 September 1991) was the founder of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a labor union run in the town of Dalli Rajhara Mines in Chhattisgarh.
Shankar Guha Niyogi | Introduction
Post his death The Education Board under the presidency of eminent educationist and Judge, Sir Erskine Perry, put below resolution before the committee and passed ""Framji Cowasji, Esq., resigned his seat in consequence of his advanced time of life. The eminent and good citizenship, and zeal in supporting every measure for public improvement, which distinguished our late much esteemed colleague, are too well-known to your Lordship (Governor of Bombay) in Council to need any notice from us, but in recording his death, which subsequently occurred, the Board feel a melancholy pleasure in thus publicly expressing the respect in which they hold his memory.”" ON the evening of September 22, 1852, The Framjee Cowasji Testimonial gathering was called to discuss a suitable memorial to erect in his name.
Framji Cowasji Banaji | Commemoration
The founder of the institution, Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya, was born on 20 September 1911 in the village of Anwalkhera, Uttar Pradesh, India. In 1935, he embarked upon the task of social upliftment through spiritual means with the blessings of Mahatma Gandhi. He started a Hindi magazine, "Akhand Jyoti", in 1940. He established Gayatri Pariwar and for more than 20 years conducted its activities from Mathura. In 1971, he moved its head office to Shantikunj in Haridwar and spent his remaining life there, writing literature and directing the activities of the organisation.
Brahmavarchas Shodh Sansthan | Patron founder
Desigar Ramanujam (17 July 1907 – 4 June 1968) was a Ceylonese trade unionist and politician. Desigar Ramanujam was born in Ramanathapuram, India on 17 July 1907. Upon completing his higher studies he having commenced a career in journalism. In the late 1920s, Ramanujam, an accomplished writer, came to Sri Lanka joining the editorial staff of a Tamil newspaper, "Desa Bakthan". In 1934 he joined the teaching staff at Dharmaraja College in Kandy. He went on to form an association to safeguard the rights of the Indian workers, Bose Sangam, whose membership encompassed the villages of Mahaiyawa and Asgiriya. This association was subsequently dissolved following the formation of Ceylon Indian Congress in 1950, of which Ramanujam was a founding member.
Desigar Ramanujam | Introduction
B. Ahmed Hajee Mohiudeen (18 June 1933 – 16 August 2020) was the Founder Chairman of B A Group, headquartered at Thumbay, Mangalore, Karnataka state, India. He died at the age of 87 on 16th August, 2020 at Mangalore, India.
B. Ahmed Hajee Mohiudeen | Introduction
He was one of the founders of the Hind Mazdoor Sabha, and its president at the state and central levels. Basawon Singh was actively involved with the All India Railwaymen's Federation since 1936 onwards. He was the President of the Oudh Tirhoot (O.T.) Railway Union and the North East Railway Mazdoor Union for several years and since 1946 the Vice-President (acting President because Subhas Chandra Bose was the President and he had escaped from India by then) of the All-India Railwaymen's Federation.
Basawon Singh | Trade union movement
After his investiture in 1912, Dring left India for a six-month holiday in England and returned by mail steamer on 22 November. As Agent of the East Indian Railway Company, Dring had his own saloon car, being the second last carriage, followed only by the brake van. The saloon car had a bedroom, dining room, office and kitchen, with servants' quarters at the rear. At the end it had an observation platform with a three-foot railing. On the morning of 24 November 1912, Dring was still in his pyjamas when the train arrived at Gujhandi 33 minutes late. Dring advised the Station Master to telegraph ahead to the next station to ensure that there was plenty of water available for the engine.
William Arthur Dring | Death at Gujhandi
Former president of the IHF, MAM Ramaswamy expressed great shock and described him as one of the finest gentlemen he had come across. He said his death is a great loss to Indian Hockey, particularly as a coach and that he produced good players for the Railways. Former Olympian R S Gentle, on his death said "besides being the greatest right winger I have ever seen, he was a gentleman player and a coach of outstanding merit". Gurbux Singh, another Olympian said "Railways in particular have been orphaned". Joe Antic said "there will never be another". Similar sentiments were expressed by leading officials including the Bombay Hockey Association President, Mr Baptist D’Souza and the President of the Maharashtra State Olympic Association, Mr Magan Singh.
Kishan Lal | Death
Rao Bahadur Shripad Subrao Talmaki (25 December 1868 - 28 January 1948) was a social reformer and early pioneer of the Cooperative movement in India and is known as the father of India's cooperative movement. He was a member of the Chitrapur Saraswat community. He was the main architect for the founding of The Shamrao Vithal Co-operative Bank Ltd (now known as SVC Cooperative Bank Limited), which was registered on 27 December 1906, and he named it after Late Shamrao Vithal Kaikini, who was his main guiding force and Guru. It was set up with the primary objective of assisting the less fortunate members of the community in its economic enterprises, to encourage savings and to create funds for providing financial aid to deserving members.
Shripad Subrao Talmaki | Introduction
He was also the first cabinet minister to head the Special Emergency Committee, which was formed as a reaction to the communal riots breaking out in the capital. He died suddenly of a heart attack in London on 29 June 1986. At his death, he was one of the last surviving original members of the first cabinet of independent India; Jagjivan Ram, the last surviving original cabinet member, died one week later.
C. H. Bhabha | Introduction
Born in 1900, Thapar died in 1963 and was survived by four sons: Inder Mohan Thapar, Brij Mohan Thapar, Lalit Mohan Thapar, and Man Mohan Thapar. Following Thapar's death, his third son Lalit was made head of the business, with the undertaking that the latter would ensure that Inder Mohan's son would be given the reins after he would turn 65 and that all of Lalit's brothers would be given their due share of the family business. Lalit stood by his word to his dying father and did over the years divide the group among his brothers; his not marrying helped his cause by not adding more claimants to the group assets.
Karam Chand Thapar | Personal life
Almost 400 people are killed and more than a thousand are injured. After the Bibighar Gardens Massacre, Colonel Rudyard is retired with a half-million pound pension. An unnamed Nobel Prize-winning poet (an allusion to Rabindranath Tagore) returns his knighthood. Gangaji kicks off the Quit India Movement (an allusion to the Quit India Movement started by Mahatma Gandhi). Bungling assassins kill a Professor Kipling instead of Colonel Rudyard. This Professor Kipling was the racist teacher whom a young Pandu had struck, resulting in the end of Pandu’s formal education.
The Great Indian Novel | The Fourth Book: A Raj Quartet
The wound being stated was caused by the three bullets fired by British soldiers under their contingent military operation at Maheshkhunt , district of Monghyr in August 1942. He was even incarcerated and held as one of the captives led by seizure for a year. On 24 August 1942 his grandfather Chulhai Sah faced the bullet of a British soldier in a raid at his house for extirpating railway track of Maheshkhunt station and met a martyr death. But in the midst of struggle and persistent hardship of all fellow-Indians they succeeded. A freedom fighter who had to flee his hometown to avoid arrest for hoisting the Tricolour in his school during the Quit India Movement, joined Ranchi University after a brief stint at the Patna University and University of London.
Devendra Prasad Gupta | Early life and education
Ismail Yusuf was the son of Haji Hasham ("Haji Ismail Hasham") and the father of Sir Mohamed Yusuf, born into an influential Kutchi Memon family who trace their origins to the modern Gujarat. He was the proprietor of Bombay Steam Navigation company, a shipping company which was founded by his father, Haji Hasham. It was the first Indian owned shipping company. Later he went on to establish a Marine College at Rashid Mansion, Worli Point, Bombay, as a charitable institution in debt of gratitude to the mercantile seafaring community who had served bravely and loyally on the Company's ships. He died in 1915 and is buried in a mausoleum in the family estate at Samandar mahal, Mumbai, beside the grave of Ma Hajiani.
Haji Ismail Yusuf | Life and family
The foundation of INTUC on 3 May 1947 just 3 months before India attained independence. Acharya JB Kripalani, who was then President of the Indian National Congress inaugurated the Founding conference of INTUC. Among the distinguished leaders who attended the opening session were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Shankarrao Deo, Jagjivan Ram, B. G. Kher, OP Mehtab, Aruna Asaf Ali, Ram Manohar Lohia, Ashoka Mehta, Ramchandra Sakharam Ruikar, Maniben Patel and other prominent trade unionists. Under the guidance of Mahatma Gandhi, the founding fathers in their wisdom preferred to let the INTUC have an independent identity with its own constitution, while at the same time functioning as an arm of the Congress.
Indian National Trade Union Congress | Birth and growth of INTUC
He is known to have donated generously to Hindu temples. During the First War of Independence of 1857, the British suspected his involvement, but acquitted him due to lack of evidence. He died in Mumbai on 31 July 1865. A year after his death a marble statue was erected at the Asiatic Society of Bombay. Erstwhile Girgaum Road and chowk (Nana Chowk) at Grant Road are named after him in South Mumbai. The Bombay Association was the first political organization in Bombay Presidency founded by Jagannath Shankarsheth on 26 August 1852. Various members were Sir Jamshedji Jejeebhoy, Jagannath Shankarsheth, Naoroji Fursungi, Dr.
Jagannath Shankarseth | Development Works
Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje (7 November 1884 – 22 January 1967) was an Indian revolutionary, scholar, agricultural scientist and historian who was among the founding fathers of the Ghadar Party.
Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje | Introduction
Ramchandra Sakharam Ruikar was a pioneer of the Indian labour movement. He was born on 8 January 1895 in Rui, Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He went graduated from college from Pune and Nagpur with a masters in history and economics. He created a legal service in Nagpur, where he founded the Nagpur Textile Union. The union was the first to registered under the Trade Unions Act. He went on to help create more unions around India. He was elected as president of the All India Trade Union Congress twice. He was arrested and imprisoned many times for his beliefs. In 1938, he joined the All India Forward Bloc and soon became general secretary of that party.
Ramchandra Sakharam Ruikar | Introduction
Tarak was among those who suffered emotionally from the Partition of India in 1947 and vehemently opposed the process of balkanisation of South Asia till his last day. After forty-six years in exile, he revisited his motherland in 1952, as a Visiting Professor of the Watumull Foundation. He founded the Vivekananda Society in Calcutta. On 9 September 1952, he presided over the public meeting to celebrate the 37th anniversary of Bagha Jatin's heroic martyrdom, urging the youth to revive the values upheld by his mentor, "Jatindâ". He died upon return to the United States on 22 December 1958, aged 74.
Tarak Nath Das | Later life
Padama Vibhushan (Late) Dharma Vira Ji (ICS Retd.) the founder President of the Society was a distinguished Civil Servant of India. He made his remark not only as an administrator during his tenure as the Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India and Governor of three states one after the other but also as an educationist and was associated with several educational institutions of high repute. His father was Raja Jwala Prasad, the first Indian Chief Engineer in the British Regime. Raja Sahib devoted fifteen years of his life to BHU, first in building the campus and later serving it as its Pro Vice Chancellor.
Veera College of Engineering | About the founder
Govindram Seksaria died in 1946 at the age of 58. All the major markets in Mumbai, including the bullion exchange, cotton exchange and stock exchange remained closed that day as a tribute to this leader of industry. He established many schools and colleges and this trend continued with his son, the late Kudilalji Seksaria, who donated toward the Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science. His sons, Rajkumar Seksaria and Nandkumar Seksaria, in turn, went on to establish the Govindram Seksaria Institute of Management and Research.
Govindram Seksaria | Death and legacy
Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 4th Baronet, (25 November 1852 – 17 June 1908) was an Indian businessman. Born Cowasjee Cursatjee, he was the son of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, the second baronet. Jejeebhoy inherited the baronetcy from his brother, Menekjee. It was the fourth Baronet who came to be viewed as the leader of the Parsi community throughout the world. He was a well-known Bombay businessman, and in 1902 was chosen to represent the city at the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 4th Baronet | Introduction
He pioneered the laying down and operations of Martin's Light Railways. He visited England for the first time in 1901 and later several times more in connection with his business. Beside Business he Also Founded Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) with inspiration of Prasanta Chandra Mohalanobis
Rajendra Nath Mookerjee | Achievements
Ganesh Dāmodar Sāvarkar (13 June 1879 – 16 March 1945), also called Babarao Savarkar, was an Indian freedom fighter, nationalist, and founder of the Abhinav Bharat Society. Ganesh was the eldest of the Savarkar brothers, Ganesh, Vinayak, and Narayan, they also had a sister Mainabai, who was the penultimate child of their parents, Narayan being the youngest. His parent's death laid the liability of his family at an age of twenty years. He led an armed movement against the British colonial government in India, he was sentenced to transportation for life as a result. The then collector of Nasik, Jackson was assassinated by Anant Laxman Kanhere in retaliation.
Ganesh Damodar Savarkar | Introduction
Dinkarrao Javalkar (, born - 1898, died - 1932 ) was a social activist and a leader of non-brahmin movement in Maharashtra. He, along with Keshavrao Jedhe, first emerged as a young leader of non-brahmin movement in Pune, and later gained state-wide reputation for his scathing critic of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Vishnushastri Chiplunkar in his book "Deshache Dushman (Enemies of the Country)." Started as a principled follower of Mahatma Phule, he further turned more towards communism and worked to bring communist principles together with teachings of Satyashodhak Samaj.
Dinkarrao Javalkar | Introduction
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (14 July 1856 – 17 June 1895) was an Indian social reformer, educationist, and thinker from Maharashtra, India. At one time a close associate of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, he was co-founder of multiple educational institutes such as the New English School, the Deccan Education Society and Fergusson College along with Tilak, Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi, V. S. Apte, V. B. Kelkar, M. S. Gole and N. K. Dharap. He was the first editor of the weekly "Kesari" and founder and editor of a periodical, "Sudharak". He was the second Principal of Fergusson College and served that post from August-1892 until his death.
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar | Introduction
At the height of Punjab insurgency in the 1980s, founder Jagat Narain, who opposed terrorism was killed by terrorists in 1981, his son Ramesh Chander, an editor of the paper formed a 'Shaheed Parivar Fund' (Martyr Family Fund) for victims of terrorism in 1983, though a year later he himself was killed by terrorists. In all the newspaper lost 62 newspaper agents, hawkers, sub-editors and senior-sub editors to terrorists. Even today, the 'Shaheed Parivar Fund' continues to disburse funds to terrorist victims across India. In August 2009, Vijay Kumar Chopra, Editor-in- Chief of the Hind Samachar group, was elected by the Chairman of the Press Trust of India.
Hind Samachar | History
Anant Ramachandra Gokhale's life took a new turn in the 1930s when he was influenced by the preachings of great scholar of mathematics and leader Namdar Gopal Krishna Gokhale and joined the Servants of India Society which was founded by him in Pune. The Servants of India Society was running an English Daily "The Hitavada" since 1911. With his flair for journalism and great command over English, Marathi and Sanskrit, Gokhale went on deputation to Delhi in early 1930s as a special correspondent for the newspaper and covered the proceedings of Central Legislative Assembly (Now known as Lok Sabha). He had a great opportunity to closely observe and meet leaders like Pandit Motilal Nehru, Barrister Muhammad Ali Jinnah who then represented the Indian National Congress, Vithalbhai Patel, the co-founder of Swaraj Party, Barrister M.
Anant Ramachandra Gokhale | Servants of India Society
Desai then joined the freedom struggle under Mahatma Gandhi and joined the civil disobedience movement against British rule in India. He spent many years in jail during the freedom struggle and owing to his sharp leadership skills and tough spirit, he became a favourite amongst freedom-fighters and an important leader of the Indian National Congress in the Gujarat region. When provincial elections were held in 1934 and 1937, Desai was elected and served as the Revenue Minister and Home Minister of the Bombay Presidency.
Morarji Desai | Freedom fighter
Mayur is the youngest son and lastborn of Muljibhai Madhvani (1894 -1958), the family patriarch who founded the Madhvani Group in 1930. Mayur's four older brothers are Jayant, Manubhai, Pratap and Surendra. Jayant, the eldest, died at age 49 of a heart attack in 1971 while on a business trip to India. Manubhai, the second born, died in May 2012 at the age of 81.
Mayur Madhvani | Background
Sir Muhammad Mahabat Khanji III Rasul Khanji, (Gujarati:મુહમ્મદ ખાન ત્રીજાની, Urdu: 2 August 1900 – 7 November 1959), was the last ruling Nawab of Junagadh of the princely state of Junagadh in British India/India from 1911 to 1948. He was the father of Muhammad Dilawar Khanji – Former Governor of Sindh and his claimed successor. Famed for his extravagant lifestyle and his love of dogs, his decision to accede Junagadh to the Dominion of Pakistan following India's Independence led to the Indian Army taking military action. He is credited with pioneering a conservation effort in what is now the Gir National Park that saved India's last few lions from almost certain extinction.
Muhammad Mahabat Khan III | Introduction
V. Ramaswamy Aiyer (4 August 1871 – 22 January 1936) was a civil servant in the Madras Provincial Service. In 1907, along with a group of friends, he founded the Indian Mathematical Society with headquarters in Pune. He was the first Secretary of the Society and acted in that position until 1910. Ramaswamy Aiyer also served the Society as its President from 1926 to 1930.
V. Ramaswamy Aiyer | Introduction
He assisted the Raja of Panagal in organising an All-India Non-Brahmin Confederation at Victoria Hall, Madras on 19 December 1925. Mudaliar supported the candidature of B. V. Jadhav who was eventually appointed president. On 26 December 1925, he organised a second conference at Amaravati. The conference comprised two sessions. The Maharaja of Kolhapur presided over the first while the Raja of Panagal presided over the second. In the second session of the Conference, Mudaliar said: Mudaliar's utterances at this conference became the target of "The Hindu", which criticised him by saying that "the Speaker was desiring to produce an effect in another province, forced him to draw rather freely on his imagination".
Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar | All India Non-Brahmin Movement
The jail authority took measures to forcibly feed him and the other independence activist. Eventually, the jail committee recommended his unconditional release, but the government rejected the suggestion and offered to release him on bail. Jatin died on 13 September 1929. Durga Bhabhi led the funeral procession, which went from Lahore to Calcutta by train. Thousands of people rushed to the railway stations to pay homage to Das. A two-mile long procession in Calcutta carried the coffin to the cremation ground. It was Subhash Chandra Bose, who received the coffin of Das at Howrah Railway Station and led the funeral procession to the cremation ground.
Jatindra Nath Das | Hunger strike
The assassination attempt failed, and subsequently, on 24 March 1886 AD, Gosaiji resigned his position from the Kolkata Brahmo Samaj and on the invitation of the members of the Dhaka Brahmo samaj travelled to Dhaka, Bangladesh to take over the duties of an acharya.
Bijoy Krishna Goswami | Return to society as <a href="Acharya">Acharya</a> Bijoy Krishna
In 1931 he established Shivaji Education Society at Amravati. This education society grew to become the second largest in Maharashtra. This society operates 24 degree colleges, 54 intermediate colleges, 75 high schools, and 35 hostels. An agricultural university bearing his name operates at Akola, i.e. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth. He strengthened the foundation of education throughout Maharashtra.
Panjabrao Deshmukh | Educational activist
Narayan Meghaji Lokhande was a prominent colleague of Mahatma Jotirao Phule. He was born in a Mali family from Thane. He had been educated up to high school. He learned of the Satyashodhak movement early enough to become a member in its second year in 1874. Lokhande is acclaimed as the Father of the Trade Union Movement in India. From 1880 onwards he took over the management of "Deenbandhu" which was published from Mumbai. At this time he also quit his job as head clerk in a cotton mill in Mumbai and founded Millhands' Association, devoting himself fully to social service.
Narayan Meghaji Lokhande | Social contribution
Rang Bahadur Singh was the first president of Ranvir Sena. He came from Ichari village, Jagdishpur, Bihar. Brahmeshwar Singh of Khopira became the group's leader a few months after it was formed. Brahmeshwar Singh was killed by unidentified gunmen on 1 June 2012 while on his morning walk in the Bhojpur district headquarters of Ara. He was facing life imprisonment for coordinating various massacres but was acquitted and released from jail in April 2012. A day-long curfew was clamped on Ara as tension escalated following his murder. Prohibitory orders under section 144 CrPC were also enforced in the district.
Ranvir Sena | History
J. R. D. Tata was born as Jehangir on 29 July 1904 into a Parsi family. He was the second child of businessman Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata and his French wife, Suzanne "Sooni" Brière. His father was the first cousin of Jamsetji Tata, a pioneer industrialist in India. He had one elder sister Sylla, a younger sister Rodabeh and two younger brothers Darab and Jamshed (called Jimmy) Tata. His sister, Sylla, was married to Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, the third baronet of Petits. His sister's sister-in-law, Rattanbai Petit, was the wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who later became the founder of Pakistan in August 1947.
J. R. D. Tata | Early life
Malayapuram Singaravelu (18 February 1860 – 11 February 1946), also known as M. Singaravelu and Singaravelar, was a pioneer in more than one field in India. In 1918, he founded the first trade union in India. On 1 May 1923 he organised the first ever celebration of May Day in the country. Singaravelar was a major leader of the Indian independence movement, initially under the leadership of Gandhi, but later, joining the budding communist movement. In 1925, he became one of the founding fathers of the Communist Party of India; and chaired its inaugural convention in Kanpur. Though the British Government arrested him along with other leaders on charges of conspiring to wage war against the Crown, he was set free, soon after, on account of his failing health.
Malayapuram Singaravelu | Introduction
Shapurji Saklatvala was born 28 March 1874 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, the son of a merchant, Dorabji Saklatvala, and his wife Jerbai, a sister of Jamsetji (aka J.N.) Tata, the owner of India's largest commercial and industrial empire. He was educated at St. Xavier's School in Bombay before moving to St. Xavier's College for his collegiate education. He worked briefly as an iron and coal prospector for Tata successfully unearthing iron ore and coal deposits in the states of Bihar and Orisha (previously called Orissa) . His health suffered with malaria which led to his moving to England in 1905 to convalesce and run Tata's Manchester office.
Shapurji Saklatvala | Early years
Bhulabhai Desai died on 6 May 1946. His immense wealth led to the creation of the Bhulabhai Memorial Institute in Bombay.
Bhulabhai Desai | Death
He was one of the founders of Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Society of India, which was founded in 1924. He served as executive committee member of the Geological Society from 1924 till his death in 1944 and presided over it for the years 1928-29 and 1928-30 In 1930, he attended International Labour Conference as Employers delegate. He was also one of the founders of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Calcutta and also later served as its President and Chairman in 1940. He also served as Chairman of the Indian Mining Federation, was the President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry for years 1940-41 and The Indian Merchants' Chamber also He was a member of the Bihar and Orissa Legislative Council in 1926; President of the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry, member of the Mining Board and was one of the founders of The Indian Colliery Owners' Association.
Amritlal Ojha | Public life
Chaman Lall was born on 30 October 1892 to Dewan Bahadur Daulat Rai. He received an honors degree in jurisprudence from Jesus College, Oxford, later called to the bar at Middle Temple in London. He worked a journalist, first for the art and literature quarterly magazine "Coterie", in London, then as editor and Chief Leader Writer for the newspaper "The Bombay Chronicle". Lall was a founder and first general secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress in 1920, later becoming its President in 1927. He established himself as a leader of workers' unions, serving as president of the Federation of Posts and Telegraphs Union, All India telegraph Workmen's Union, All India Postal and R.M.S.
Diwan Chaman Lall | Biography
Jadunath Majumdar, Rai Bahadur (October 1859–23 October 1932) was an Indian journalist and writer. He was the editor of the Tribune in Lahore, United India, and the "Hindu Patrika" of Jessore. Majumdar was the founder of the journal, "Sanmilani", in Jessore. He was also a member of the first Legislative Assembly and the Bengal Legislative Council. He was born in October 1859 in the village of Dasani near Khulna to Taraprasanna Majumdar. He died on 23 October 1932 at Rajbati Magura in modern-day Bangladesh.
Jadunath Majumdar | Introduction
He eventually became the Corporation’s President [the post was renamed later as Mayor] in 1909. Jaffer Rahimtoola was also fellow of the Bombay University – a position he held till his death. At the fourth Indian Industrial Conference held at Madras during 1908 Jaffer Rahimtoola was present in representation of the Anjuman-e-Islam Bombay along with Abbas Tyabhi, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, Kazi Kabiruddin and Yusuf Ismail.
Jaffer Rahimtoola | Career
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904) was an Indian pioneer industrialist, who founded the Tata Group, India's biggest conglomerate company. He founded what would later become the Tata Group of companies. Tata is regarded as the legendary "Father of Indian Industry". He was so influential in the world of industry that Jawaharlal Nehru referred to Tata as a One-Man Planning Commission. Tata, who in his early life was a merchant, went on to change the business world of India through his many ventures within the cotton and pig iron industry, and is known as one of the most important builders of the modern Indian economy.
Jamsetji Tata | Introduction
Rungacharlu fell seriously ill at the end of 1882. When the illness became critical, Rungacharlu resigned as Diwan. He was moved to Madras where he died on 20 January 1883.
C. V. Rungacharlu | Death
Kanailal Niyogi (1924 - 19 May 1961) () was an employee of the Indian Railways who took part in the Bengali Language Movement in the Barak Valley in 1961. On 19 May 1961, Niyogi became a martyr when he was shot dead by the paramilitary forces at the Tarapur railway station in Silchar.
Kanailal Niyogi | Introduction
He died at Raipur at age of 87 and was survived by several sons and daughters. By the time of his death the mill business was already in trouble and after his death, the descendants could not carry on his legacy and most of the estates and business were sold off.
Kalyanji Ramji Rathod | Death
At this juncture, Suranath is reported to have formed a central committee at the Sandhya office with the help of his disciple Jatin Banerjee alias Niralamba Swami (who had returned from Upper India, to succeed Upadhyay as editor) and Kartik Datta; Mokhada, Shamsundar Chakravarti, Sri Aurobindo, Tarakshepa, Annada Kaviraj and some others as members, they all seemed to share Upadhyay's political principles. ("Terrorism" V, p150). While on 6 December 1907, Barin's men attempted to wreck with explosives the Lieutenant-Governor's special train at Naraingarh, on the same evening, arranged by Mokhoda, Naren Bhattacharya alias M.N. Roy, Bhushan Mitra alias Gulay and Sailen Basu committed a hold-up at Chingripota Railway Station, and were arrested.
Mokshadacharan Samadhyayi | Political outrages
Mr. Bhagabati Charan Ghosh was the first Indian to occupy the post of a Personal Assistant to the agent of B.N. Railway and he was the founder and first chairman for eleven and half years(1909-1920) of the B.N. Railway Employee's Urban Bank since it's inception. He was the father of world renowned great yogi SRI SRI PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA.
Bengal Nagpur Railway | History
The Indian Railway Committee was constituted in 1920, under the chairmanship of Sir William Mitchell Acworth, with 10 members including 3 Indians viz. V. S. Srinivasa Sastri (Elected Member of the Viceroy's Legislative Council), Purshottam Das Thakurdas (representing Indian Commercial Interests) and Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee. The committee recommended setting up a Railway Staff College which came up at Dehradun but soon closed down. Later the Indian Military Academy IMA came up on the same campus. The Railway Staff College was re established in 1952 at Pratap Vilas Palace Vadodara built by Maharaja Sayaji Rao for his eldest son Fatehsing Rao.
National Academy of Indian Railways | History
The founder and president is Lal Bihari, who was "dead" from 1976 to 1994 and used the word "Mritak" (, ) in his name during the period.
Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People | Introduction
Narayan Meghaji Lokhande (1848–1897) was the father of trade union movement in India. He is remembered not only for ameliorating the working conditions of textile mill-hands in the 19th century but also for his courageous initiatives on caste and communal issues. The Government of India issued a postage stamp with his photograph in 2005.
Narayan Meghaji Lokhande | Introduction
On 3 May 1765 Clive landed at Calcutta to learn that Mir Jafar had died, leaving him personally £70,000 (£21 million in 2009). Mir Jafar was succeeded by his son-in-law Kasim Ali, though not before the government had been further demoralized by taking £100,000 (£30 million in 2009) as a gift from the new Nawab; while Kasim Ali had induced not only the viceroy of Awadh, but the emperor of Delhi himself, to invade Bihar. At this point a mutiny in the Bengal army occurred, which was a grim precursor of the Indian rebellion of 1857, but on this occasion it was quickly suppressed by blowing the sepoy ringleader from a gun.
Robert Clive | Third journey to India
Sardar Inder Singh (1890 -1983) was the leading sikh industrialist of India from the late fifties to his death in 1983.In 1928 he founded Indias first steel re rolling mill at Singh Engineering works kanpur and laid the foundation of the Secondary steel sector.Singh engineering went on to become a leading steel group and the largest Sikh owned industrial group in India.It set up many units and diversified by setting up North Indias largest railway wagon plant Singh Wagon Factory and becoming the largest manufacturer of Tie bars for the railways. He was an MLA from Punjab in undivided India (1946 to 1951) and later became a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha).The film Raid is based on a raid carried out on his group.
Sardar Inder Singh | Introduction
Shivashanmukha Rao died at Sandur on 3 May 1878 after a long illness. As he did not have sons of his own, Shivashanmukha Rao was succeeded as Raj by his younger brother Ramachandra Vitthala Rao
Shivashanmukha Rao | Death