Gardner‚ Gerald B. (1884-1964) Gerald Brousseau Gardner‚ an English hereditary Witch and allegedly responsible for reviving Witchcraft in the modern Western world‚ was born in Blundellands‚ near Liverpool‚ England‚ on June 13‚ 1884. His father served as a justice of the peace‚ being a member of a family in the timber trade business. The family was of Scottish descent‚ tracing its roots to a woman named Grissell Gardner who had been burned as a Witch in 1610 at Newburgh. Gardner’s grandfather marred
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Male |The first President of Indian Republic |Dr. Rajendra Prasad | |The first Prime Minister of free India |Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru | |The first Indian to win Nobel Prize |Rabindranath Tagore | |The first President of Indian National Congress |W.C. Banerjee
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by Mrs. Annie Besant at Madras in September 1916. The aim of the Movement was to get selfgovernment for India within the British Empire. It believed freedom was the natural right of all nations. Moreover‚ the leaders of the Home Movement thought that India’s resources were not being used for her needs. The two Leagues cooperated with each other as well with the Congress and the Muslim League in putting their demand for home rule. While Tilak’s Movement concentrated on Maharashtra‚ Annie Besant’s
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flag except that the top strip had only one lotus but seven stars denoting the Saptarishi. This flag was also exhibited at a socialist conference in Berlin.The third flag went up in 1917 when our political struggle had taken a definite turn. Dr. Annie Besant and Lokmanya Tilak hoisted it during the Home rule movement. This flag had five red and four green horizontal strips arranged alternately‚ with seven stars in the saptarishi configuration super-imposed on them. In the left-hand top corner (the
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stirred by a political issue‚ the imprisonment of Annie Besant‚ an Irish theosophist devoted to Indian freedom. As a result‚ Nehru became active in the Home Rule League. His involvement in the nationalist movement gradually replaced his legal practice. In 1916 Nehru was married to Kamala Kaul‚ of an orthodox Kashmiri Brahmin family. They had one daughter (later Indira Gandhi‚ third prime minister of independent India). Apart from his father and Besant‚ the greatest influence on Nehru politically was
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Sarojini Naidu Sarojini Naidu‚ also known by the sobriquet as The Nightingale of India‚ Naidu was born in 13 February 1879 in Hyderabad to a Bengali Hindu Kulin Brahmin family of Agorenath Chattopadhyay and Barada Sundari Devi. Her father was a doctor of science from Edinburgh University‚ settled in Hyderabad State‚ where he founded and administered the Ahmadabad College‚ which later became the Nizam’s College in Ahmadabad. Her mother was a poetess baji and used to write poetry in Bengali. Sarojini
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The reform activities united people and the attack on institutions like caste which hampered social unity created a sense of oneness in the people. But most of these reform movements had certain limitations. The questions to which they gave primacy concerned only small sections of Indian society. Some of them failed to emphasize or even recognize that colonial rule was inimical to the interests of the Indian people. Most of them worked within the framework of their respective communities in a way
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Gopal Krishna Gokhale‚ (9 May 1866 – 19 February 1915) was one of the founding social and political leaders during the Indian Independence Movement against the British Empire in India. Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and founder of the Servants of India Society. Through the Society as well as the Congress and other legislative bodies he served in‚ Gokhale promoted not only primarily independence from the British Empire but also social reform. To achieve his goals‚ Gokhale
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at home by private governesses and tutors.[8] Under the influence of a tutor‚ Ferdinand T. Brooks‚ Nehru became interested in science and theosophy.[9] Nehru was subsequently initiated into the Theosophical Society at age thirteen by family friend Annie Beasant. However‚ his interest in theosophy did not prove to be enduring and he left the society shortly afterwards Brooks departed as his tutor.[10] Nehru wrote: "for nearly three years [Brooks] was with me and in many ways he influenced me greatly
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Women education in India : With special reference to advent of modern education amongst women in Assam Mrs. Anuradha Baruwa Astt. Prof. Dept. Education Jorhat Kendriya Mahavidyalaya Introduction. Education is the only device by which the contemporary society may be moulded to meet the current challenges. With women forming fifty percent of the entire population‚ it is essential that they match their strides with the male population. Only then can a nation advance. Keeping this in mind‚ many of
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