May 10:153rd anniversary of the first war of Indian independence | GroundReport

• May 10:153rd anniversary of the first war of Indian independence | GroundReport

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  • By Dipin Damodharan

  • The revolt of 1857 (May 10)- the British historians termed it Sepoy Mutiny, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India labeled it a feudal revolt, but the prince of Indian revolutionaries, Vinayak Damodhar Savarkar rightly described it as the first war of Indian Independence. It was exactly 153 years ago on this day (May 10, 1857) that the first upheaval had erupted against the British.

    
    

     The uprising started on May 10, 1857 in Meerut, when Mangal Pandey, a soldier in the Army shot his commander for forcing the Indian troops to use the controversial rifles. Indians constituted 96% of the 300,000 British Army and the violence against British swiftly spread (hence the name Sepoy Mutiny). The local chiefs encouraged scattered revolts. The rebellion spread across the country by peasants, artisans and soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the sake of others.

  • It was Veer Savarkar who redefined the 'Sepoy mutiny' as the first war of Indian Independence. Savarkar was motivated by the passionate zeal, the heroism, bravery, suffering and tragic fate of the leaders of 1857.  He decided to re-interpret the story and to relate it in full with the help of all the material available to him at the time. He spent days and months at the India Office Library (London) for studying the revolt. Savarkar wrote the story as a book. It was originally in Marathi and completed it in 1908. As it was impossible to get this book published in India, the manuscript was returned back to Savarkar. Attempts to get this book published in Germany also failed. Some Indian students staying in India House translated this book into English.

    
    

    Finally, the work was published in Holland in 1909, under the title “The Indian War of Independence –1857”. The second edition was published by Lala Hardayal on behalf of the Gadar Party in America; the third edition was published by Sardar Bhagat Singh, while the fourth edition was published by India’s national hero, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the Far East. The book was translated into Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Tamil.

  • Historians, inside and outside India, also recognized on the effect Savarkar's book had in redefining the 1857 struggle. Lahore-based historian Dr Mubarak Ali once said, "Savarkar's book was instrumental in redefining the 1857 event which, till then, was termed a localized rebellion." He also added that there is a lot of hero worship in the book and despite the fact that Savarkar used history as a tool to glorify the struggle, the book, nevertheless correctly interpreted the 1857 struggle as the war of independence.

    
    

    However, the revolt of 1857 marked a defining moment in the history of India. The revolt brought many changes in the British system of governance in the country. The immediate result of the revolt was the end of the East India Company as the ruling power. The East India Company was substituted by the British Crown with Queen Victoria as the Empress of India. It was the beginning of a new age.

  • While remembering the heroes of the revolt, like Mangal Pandey, Jhansi Rani, and Tantya Tope etc, we must remember Swantatra Veer Vinayak Damodhar Savarkar also, one of the great revolutionaries, who heralded  India’s dawn.

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Call for Hindu Nepal at Mumbai meet

• Call for Hindu Nepal at Mumbai meet

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  • A three-day religious meet that kicked off in India is seeking fresh action to restore Nepal as a Hindu state.

    The international meet on Hinduism that began Sunday in Mumbai is being addressed by the chief of Nepal's only openly royalist party, Kamal Thapa, and Indian politicians like Bal Thackeray, former chief minister of Maharashtra Manohar Joshi and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Gopinath Munde.

    Thapa heads the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal, the only party that contested the historic election in 2008 campaigning for a Hindu kingdom in Nepal, going against the popular political wave led by the former Maoist guerrillas. The election resulted in the abolition of monarchy and Nepal being declared a secular republic.

    'At the Mumbai meet, to be attended by over 1,500 delegates from all over the world, Thapa will be arguing for the restoration of a Hindu state in Nepal,' said Rajaram Shrestha, former mayor of Kathmandu and prominent leader of the royalist party.

    The Mumbai meet is also being addressed by former Nepali minister Khum Bahadur Khadka, whose ruling Nepali Congress party is divided over the issues of state religion and monarchy.

    Khadka has been advocating the restoration of monarchy and a Hindu state in Nepal.

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हिंदू से दोस्ती पर युवती को घर में कैद किया

• हिंदू से दोस्ती पर युवती को घर में कैद किया

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  • सउदी अरब में भारतीय मूल की एक कनाडाई युवती ने अपने अभिभावकों पर आरोप लगाया है कि वे उसकी एक हिंदू युवक से दोस्ती की बात से नाराज होकर उसे कैद कर दिया गया।
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  • नाजिया काजी(24) का परिवार वर्ष 2001 में कनाडा चला गया था। उसने अपनी हाई स्कूल की पढ़ाई कनाडा से की। यूनीवर्सिटी आफ कनाडा में उसकी मुलाकात एक हिंदू युवक बी सिंघल से हुई थी।

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जात पूछो तो बात बनेगी

• जात पूछो तो बात बनेगी

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  • प्रियदर्शन
  • वाकई समाज को बचाने के लिए जाति को तोड़ना होगा। लेकिन जाति आसानी से नहीं टूटती। राम मनोहर लोहिया कहा करते थे कि जाति तोड़नी है तो भारत को रोटी और बेटी का नाता जोड़ना होगा। रोटी का नाता मन मार कर सामाजिक मजबूरियों में हम जोड़ने को तैयार हो गए बेटी का नाता जोड़ने में अब भी हिचक दिखाई पड़ती है। सारे अगर-मगर के बावजूद फिलहाल हमें मानना होगा कि जाति अब भी एक बड़ी संरचना है जिससे हमारे निजी पारिवारिक सामाजिक और यहां तक कि राजनीतिक रिश्ते तय होते हैं। इस संरचना का विद्रूप यही है कि अगड़ी जातियों का एक छोटा सा तबका राष्ट्रीय संपत्ति के बड़े हिस्से पर काबिज है।

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आस्था की करामात या कोई और चमत्कार! stones that changing in image

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  • जयपुर
  • यदि घर में रखे पत्थर स्वत: ही कोई आकृति लेने लगें तो क्या आप विश्वास करेंगे। आम तौर पर हर किसी का जवाब होगा- यह संभव नहीं है। विज्ञान तो कतई विश्वास नहीं करेगा। मगर शहर के एक श्रद्धालु की बात पर विश्वास करें तो उसके घर में रखे साधारण-से तीन पत्थर स्वत: ही कुछ धार्मिक प्रतीकों की आकृतियां ले रहे हैं। इनमें जो आकृतियां उभर रही हैं, वे गणेशजी, हनुमानजी और मां दुर्गा के रूप में दिखाई देती हैं। इनमें गणेशजी की आकृति तो स्पष्ट दिखाई देती हैं।
  • वैसे हिंदू मान्यता है कि यदि अपने ईष्टदेव में दृढ़ आस्था, समर्पण और भक्ति हो तो पत्थर भी बोलने लगते हैं।
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BAMULAHIJA: कार्टून : ...बस!!! कसाब की गर्दन ठीक रहना चाहिए

• Cartoon, Hindi Cartoon, Indian Cartoon, Cartoon on Indian Politcs: BAMULAHIJA: कार्टून : ...बस!!! कसाब की गर्दन ठीक रहना चाहिए

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