Saturday, March 20, 2010

Legacy of Raja Rammouhan Roy




Bill upgrading Presidency College to university passed- Education

The link above is about raising Presidency College to University Status. Presidency College has a long prestigious legacy in which it has remained associated with every stage of history of Modern India since 1817. It was started as Hindu College by Raja Rammouhan Roy, the father of Indian Renaissance and Nationalism. There are some references in the news report also.



Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Elite talking history Phulkian Versus Sindhawalia

Refer to the following report.

Amarinder Talks about his family

S Amarinder Singh is an ex-CM of Punjab and descendant of rulers of Patiala. The following report is a journalistic report talking nothing much except the usual stuff. However, the person who is the author he is definitely a part of history and directly related to Maharaja Ranjit Singh also.

The blogger had learnt that the family library of Amarinder Singh contains such documents which had hidden many secret not only from pre-colonial period but also from post independence period. Hence, this report is a befitting selection for reviving posting which had remained suspended for long only because of long and erratic electric supply in Punjab where only British ruled. (The Indian Punjab remained outside the control of Lahore Darbar after the Amritsar Treaty of 1809 between Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Metcalfe).

As the topic taken in report is highly controversial as why the Punjab was annexed by Dalhousie after the Anglo-Sikh war, the issue is of Conspiracy History which sadly not undertaken seriously in India. But in the report, those events had been mentioned which had been behind the final annexation of Punjab.

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