Why did Abdus Salam donate his Nobel Prize to AMU?
In December 1979, Pakistan got its first Nobel. Dr. Abdus Salam was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with
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The Professor, the Prisoner, the Philosopher: Rediscovering Anilbaran Roy
To recover Anilbaran Roy is not simply to add another name to the history of Indian nationalism. It is to look again at the teachers, organisers, artists and thinkers through whom nationalism was actually lived, and at the ideas about history and India’s future that continued to shape their lives after the political struggle itself had changed.
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Ambedkar on Partition and Islam: Unpacking Thoughts on Pakistan
The partition of India in 1947 was not only a political event or bifurcation of a nation into two parts.
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Mughal hatred is a colonial construct
And the communal seed that has been sown in our hearts, in our lives by the British needs to be taken apart, needs to be called out.
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AMU to Freedom Movement: Mohammad Irtaza Hussain (1905-1966)
Arrested on August 9, 1942, alongside fellow leaders including Babu Banarsi Das, he was initially detained at Bulandshahr District Jail before being moved to Bareilly Central Jail. His incarceration later took him to Naini Jail in Allahabad, where he was imprisoned alongside prominent figures such as Rafi Ahmad Kidwai (1894-1954), Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-1966), and Gobind Sahai (190-1967).
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Partition & Radcliffe Boundary Commission of 1947
Partition remains a warning about the consequences of political polarisation, hurried constitutional engineering and the transformation of identity into territorial nationalism.
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Mohammed Rafi: Voice That Became the Soul of India
A Historical Tribute on the 46th Death Anniversary of the Legendary Playback Singer Mohammed Rafi (31 July 1980-31 July 2026)
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Rewriting history or decolonizing Eurocentric history
All parts of the East have done wonderful things for the world which the West have “discovered”,
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Journey of an AMU Student who became the Father of Indian molecular biology
Siddiqi, along with several student activists and a supportive faculty member, including Khalil Rahman, secretary of the Progressive Writer’s Association, Mirza Mumtaz Hussain, President of the students’ Federation, S.M. Tonki was arrested because of his leading role in the movement.
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Partition of Bengal,1905 & Nationalist Response
Contrary to British expectations, the partition strengthened rather than weakened nationalist sentiment.
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Madhusudan Das: The Maker of Odisha Who Was Bihar’s First Health Minister
Discover the untold story of Madhusudan Das, the Maker of Modern Odisha, who stepped up as the first Health Minister of the newly created Bihar and Orissa province in 1921. While history remembers his fight for the Oriya people, his legacy in Bihar includes battling devastating plagues, establishing vital medical infrastructure, and ultimately resigning over a matter of profound personal principle.
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The Real Story of the 1857 Revolt in Meerut: Beyond the Cartridge Myth
The 1857 uprising in Meerut was not a mere sepoy mutiny fueled by superstition, but a coordinated, secular, and nationalist war of independence. Explore how united Indian soldiers struck the first major blow against the British Empire.
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Prafulla Chandra Ghosh: The Forgotten First Chief Minister of West Bengal
Despite guiding West Bengal through the turbulent days of India’s partition as its very first Chief Minister, Prafulla Chandra Ghosh remains a largely forgotten figure in history. Explore the fascinating life of this brilliant chemist, revolutionary, and staunch Gandhian.
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Maulana Azad accused that 1946 elections were manipulated & rigged
In 1946, Congress President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad issued a scathing statement condemning the Bengal elections as a “mockery.” Read his complete, firsthand account detailing the unprecedented violence, religious manipulation by local ‘Pirs’, and the British government’s blatant complicity with the Muslim League.
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First Battle of Panipat: How Babur Established Mughal Empire
Let it suffice to say that he possessed eight fundamental qualities ; lofty judgment, noble ambition, the art of victory, the art of government, the art of conferring prosperity upon his people, the talent of ruling mildly the people of God, ability to win the hearts of his soldiers, love of justice.
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Ramadan or Ramzan: History of correct spelling
“In my findings the spelling Ramadan for the month was more common than Ramzan during the late 19th and early 20th century.
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The invitation to the First Indian National Congress, 1885
“Indirectly this Conference will form the germ of a Native Parliament and, if properly conducted, will constitute in a few years an unanswerable reply to the assertion that India is still wholly unfit for any form of representative institutions.”
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When Muslim MPs & Jamiat threatened Indira Gandhi of Civil Disobedience Movement
General Shah Nawaz Khan said to Indira Gandhi, “In case no satisfactory response is received before 21 February 1983, we shall be constrained to launch a civil disobedience movement in collaboration with other like-minded secular forces.”
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Vande Mataram in view of Congress Working Committee in 1937
At a session of the Bengal Provincial Conference held in Barisal in April 1906, under the Presidentship of Shri A. Rasul, a brutal lathi charge was made by the police on the delegates and volunteers and the Bande Matram badges worn by them were violently torn off.
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Sir Syed was against cow slaughter
“I have repeatedly given my community to understand that it is a folly to annoy our Hindu brothers by resorting to cowslaughter.”
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