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 Chhatrapati Shivaji  Leadership, Bravery (1627 - 1680) INTRODUCTION BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS MILESTONES • The history of India is incomplete without the history of Marathas and Shivaji is the nucleus of Maratha history. • Shivaji Bhosle, also known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhosle was the founder of Maratha empire in western India in 1674. • He inspired and united the common man to fight against the tyranny of Mughal ruler Aurangzeb, by inculcating a sense of pride and nationality in them. He used guerrilla tactics in attacks. • He was a brave and able administrator, and established a government that included such modern concepts as cabinet (Ashtapradhan Mandal), foreign affairs (Dabir), and internal intelligence. Shivaji was born in the fort of Shivneri on 19th February 1627. The child was named Shiva, after the local Goddess Shivai. Shahaji, Shivaji's father appointed the young Shivaji under the care of his mother Jijabai to manage the Pun...

Contribution of Indian Mathematicians                                                             (1) Aryabhatta was born in 476 A.D. Kusumpur, India.He was the first in the line of great mathematicians from the classical age of Indian Mathematics and Astronomy. (2) His famous work are the” Aryabhatiya “and the”Arya‐siddhanta”.The Mathematical part of the Aryabhatiya covers arithmetic. algebra, plane and spherical trigonometry.The Arya‐siddhanta, a lot work on astronomical computation . (3) Approximation of Pi: Aryabhata work on the approximation for pi (π) and may have come to the conclusion that π is an irrational number.In the 2nd part of Aryabhatiya, he writes the ratio of circumference to diameter is 3.1416. (4) Aryabhata given the formula for area of a triangle .He also discussed the concept of sine in his work...

RABINDRANATH TAGORE NOT only in Bengal’s arena of transcendental culture and heritage, Rabindranath Tagore, the peerless Nobel laureate spread his iridescent, omnipresent spectrum of literary genius in all the segments of Indian psyche. However, few would know that apart from the fragrant greenery of literary excellence, Tagore had also dabbled in popular writing on several scientific topics, too. Tagore with P.C. Mahalanobis (right) KOUSHIK ROY Although Bengali literature is replete with the writings of a galaxy of popular science writers like Acharya Ramendra Sundar Tribedi, Akshay Kumar Dutta, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy, Jagadananda Roy, and Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, by dint of his inquisitive insight and cerebral prowess, Rabindranath Tagore easily emulated them to convince the laypersons about the intricate facts and inventions of science . The palatial, ancestral house at Jorasanki, that nurtured waves of socio-cultural Renaissance within...

The famous freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was born on January 23, 1897 at Oriya bazaar of Cuttack district Orissa. His father Janaki Nath Bose was a famous lawyer and his mother Prabhavati Devi was a devout and religious lady. Unlike other prominent leaders of the Indian freedom struggle, Subhas strongly believed that an armed rebellion was necessary to wrest independence from the British. Subhas Chandra Bose is popularly known as 'Netaji'. In the year of 1902, when he was only 5 year old, he got admission in Cuttack Protestant School and then he started his educational career. In the year of 1909 he got admission in Ravenshaw Collegiate School, Cuttack. In 1913, he started his higher secondary educational academic career in Presidency College, Calcutta. On 21st October 1943, Netaji formed the Indian National Army (I.N.A). Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is remembered for his Salutation and slogan of 'Jai Hind'. The famous words of Subash...

Biography Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, was born as a royal prince in a place called Lumbini, which was originally in northern India, but is now part of Nepal. His exact lifetime is uncertain, yet most historians date his lifetime from 563 BC to 483 BC. The meaning of the word Buddha is "The Enlightened One", or "The Awakened One", and refers to one who has become enlightened. Siddhartha Gautama is regarded as the Supreme Buddha of all eras. Gautama enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, and when he reached the age of 16, his father arranged his marriage to his cousin. According to tradition, she gave birth to a son. Siddhartha Gautama was provided with everything he could want or need. However, he was not satisfied with his life, and felt that material wealth was not his life's goal. One day, he left the palace to see the world outside, and was confronted with the sufferings of life, which he never knew before. The next day, at the ...

PREFACE Swami Vivekananda's inspiring personality was well known both in India and in America during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. The unknown monk of India suddenly leapt into fame at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893, at which he represented Hinduism. His vast knowledge of Eastern and Western culture as well as his deep spiritual insight, fervid eloquence, brilliant conversation, broad human sympathy, colourful personality, and handsome figure made an irresistible appeal to the many types of Americans who came in contact with him. People who saw or heard Vivekananda even once still cherish his memory after a lapse of more than half a century. In America Vivekananda's mission was the interpretation of India's spiritual culture, especially in its Vedantic setting. He also tried to enrich the religious consciousness of the Americans through the rational and humanistic teachings of the...

CASTES IN INDIA.                                                                                        Many of us, I dare say, have witnessed local, national or international expositions of material objects that make up the sum total of human civilization. But few can entertain the idea of there being such a thing as an exposition of human institutions. Exhibition of human institutions is a strange idea ; some might call it the wildest of ideas. But as students of Ethnology I hope you will not be hard on this innovation, for it is not so, and to you at least it should not be strange.                     You all have visited, I believe, some historic place like the ruins of Pompeii, and listened with curiosit...