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1915 In India
Incumbents * Emperor of India – George V of the United Kingdom, George V * Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst Events * National income - 13,313 million * Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns to India from South Africa to spearhead the Indian independence movement. * Calcutta School of Music is established by Phillpe Sandre. The Indian Home Rule Movement, Home Rule League is founded by Annie Besant (it was formally launched in 1916 in India, 1916). Law *Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Baronetcy Act * Banaras Hindu University Act *Government Of India Act Births *6 March – Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, religious head (died 2014 in India, 2014). *11 March – Vijay Hazare, cricketer (died 2004 in India, 2004). *26 July – Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, yoga teacher (died 2009 in India, 2009). *15 August – Ismat Chughtai, writer (died 1991 in India, 1991). *31 August – Ali Ahmad Talpur, Mir Ali Ahmed Khan Talpur Prominent political figure and former Federal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri K
Shri (; , ) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific. The word is widely used in South and Southeast Asian languages such as Assamese, Meitei ( Manipuri), Marathi, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, Balinese, Sundanese, Sinhalese, Thai, Tamil, Telugu, Odia, Assamese, Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, Malayalam, Kannada, Sanskrit, Pali, Khmer, and also among Philippine languages. It is usually transliterated as ''Sri'', ''Sree'', ''Shri'', ''Shiri'', ''Shree'', ''Si'', or ''Seri'' based on the local convention for transliteration. In Tamil it evolved to Tiru. The term is used in Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia as a polite form of address equivalent to the English "Mr." in written and spoken language. "Shri" is also used as a title of veneration for deities or as honorific title for individuals. "Shri" is also an epithet for Hindu goddess Lakshmi, while a ''yantra'' or a mystical diagra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Years Of The 20th Century In India
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 By Country
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January *January – British physicist Sir Joseph Larmor publishes his observations on "The Influence of Local Atmospheric Cooling on Astronomical Refraction". *January 1 ** WWI: British Royal Navy battleship HMS ''Formidable'' is sunk off Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, by an Imperial German Navy U-boat, with the loss of 547 crew. **WWI: Battle of Broken Hill: A train ambush near Broken Hill, Australia, is carried out by two men (claiming to be in support of the Ottoman Empire) who are killed, together with four civilians. * January 5 – Joseph E. Carberry sets an altitude record of , carrying Capt. Benjamin Delahauf Foulois as a passenger, in a fixed-wing aircraft. * January 12 ** The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. ** '' A Fool There Was'' premières in the United States, starring Theda Bara as a ''femme fatale''; she quickly becomes one of early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 In India
Incumbents * Emperor of India – George V of the United Kingdom, George V * Viceroy of India – Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst Events * National income - 13,313 million * Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns to India from South Africa to spearhead the Indian independence movement. * Calcutta School of Music is established by Phillpe Sandre. The Indian Home Rule Movement, Home Rule League is founded by Annie Besant (it was formally launched in 1916 in India, 1916). Law *Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Baronetcy Act * Banaras Hindu University Act *Government Of India Act Births *6 March – Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, religious head (died 2014 in India, 2014). *11 March – Vijay Hazare, cricketer (died 2004 in India, 2004). *26 July – Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, yoga teacher (died 2009 in India, 2009). *15 August – Ismat Chughtai, writer (died 1991 in India, 1991). *31 August – Ali Ahmad Talpur, Mir Ali Ahmed Khan Talpur Prominent political figure and former Federal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pherozeshah Mehta
Sir Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta (4 August 1845 – 5 November 1915) was an Indian politician and lawyer from Bombay. He was knighted by the British Government in India for his service to law. He became the Municipal commissioner of Bombay Municipality in 1873 and its president four times – 1884, 1885, 1905 and 1911. Mehta was one of the founding members and President of the Indian National Congress in 1890 held at Calcutta. Early life Pherozeshah Merwanjee Mehta was born on 4 August, 1845 in Bombay City, Bombay Presidency, British India into a Gujarati-speaking Parsi Zoroastrian family. His father, a Bombay-based businessman who also spent plenty of time in Calcutta, was not highly educated, but he did translate a Chemistry textbook into Gujarati and wrote a Geography textbook. Graduating from the Elphinstone College in 1864, Pherozeshah obtained his Master of Arts degree with honors six months later, becoming the first such Parsi, from the University of Bombay (later re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopala Krishna Gokhale
Gopal Krishna Gokhale ( ɡoːpaːl ˈkrɪʂɳə ˈɡoːkʰleː9 May 1866 – 19 February 1915) was an Indian political leader and a social reformer during the Indian independence movement, and political mentor of Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi. Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and the founder of the Servants of India Society. Through the Society as well as the Congress and other legislative bodies he served in, Gokhale campaigned for Indian self-rule and for social reforms. He was the leader of the moderate faction of the Congress party that advocated reforms by working with existing government institutions, and a major member of the Poona Association or the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha. Early biography Gopal Krishna Gokhale hailed from a Marathi Hindu Brahmin family of Ratnagiri, Bombay Presidency, now Maharashtra. He was born in a Chitpavan Brahmin family on 9 May 1866 of the British Raj in Kotluk village of Guhagar taluka in Ratnagiri di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baji Jamalunnisa
Baji Jamalunnisa (1915 2016) was an Indian freedom fighter, social worker and advocate. Early life and background She was born in 1915 in Hyderabad, she matured into a young woman with a strong sense of independence, thanks to the liberal upbringing and complete freedom bestowed upon her by her parents. Life At the age of 13, she began reading the banned newspaper, ''Nigaar''. She held strong resentment towards the British Government, conservative religious traditions, and the Nizam establishment, which had become affiliated with the British. Despite the narrow-mindedness of her in-laws, she remained steadfast in her independent ideas and practices. Hasrat Mohani, known as the Thunder bolt in the Indian freedom movement, had a profound influence on her. Inspired by him, she actively participated in national and anti-imperialist movements. As a communist, Baji adhered to the decision of the Communist party not to join the Quit India Movement, but she provided shelter to fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Ahmad Talpur
Mir Ali Ahmed Khan Talpur (died 5 April 1987) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 15th defence minister of Pakistan from 1978 to 1985 in the government of general Zia-ul-Haq. Prior to his appointment as defence minister, he served as agriculture and food minister in East Pakistan from 1955 to 56. Biography Mir Sahib was born on 31 August 1915 in his hometown Tando Mir Mahmood Hyderabad, Sindh in the house of Mir Nabi Bakhsh Khan Talpur. He started his political career when he joined Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind in 1936. Later in 1939, he joined Khaksar movement when Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi invited him. When Mashriqui was imprisoned in 1941, Talpur was elected as the acting head of the movement for the 22 months. However, in 1944 he disassociated himself from the movement after Allama wrote a letter to him concerning his role in forming Fidayeen-e-Ameer (Islamic military organisation) in Sindh against the movement, and he subsequently joined the Indian National Congress to par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 In India
Events in the year 1991 in the Republic of India. The year 1991 was a watershed moment in the history of Economy of India. It was the year in which India formally announced its shift towards Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization from hitherto existed Mixed economy that was predominantly a Planned economy. Incumbents * President of India – R. Venkataraman * Prime Minister of India – Chandra Shekhar Singh until 21 June, P. V. Narasimha Rao * Vice President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma * Chief Justice of India – ** until 24 November – Ranganath Misra ** 25 November-12 December – Kamal Narain Singh ** starting 13 December – Madhukar Hiralal Kania Governors * List of governors of Andhra Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh – Krishan Kant * List of governors of Arunachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh – ** until 16 March: Devi Das Thakur ** 16 March-25 March: Loknath Mishra ** starting 25 March: Surendranath Dwivedy * List of governors of Assam, Assam – Devi Das ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismat Chughtai
Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1911 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a significant voice in the Urdu literature of the twentieth century, and in 1976 was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. Biography Early life and career beginnings (1911–41) Ismat Chughtai was born on 21 August 1911 in Badayun, Uttar Pradesh to Nusrat Khanam and Mirza Qaseem Baig Chughtai; she was the ninth of ten children—six brothers and four sisters. The family moved frequently as Chughtai's father was a civil servant; she spent her childhood in cities including Jodhpur, Agra, and Aligarh—mostly in the company of her brothers as her sisters had all got married when sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 In India
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. How the numbers got to their Gupta form is open to considerable debate. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
