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  PAIKA REBELLION A LOST CHAPTER OF BRITISH INDIA SARASIJ MAJUMDER     On 24th December 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a commemorative stamp and coin on the PAIKA REBELLION .  Along with the stamp and coin, PM announced to set up a Chair on Paika Rebellion in Bhubaneshwar’s Utkal University. The Union Budget speech of 2017-18 mentioned about the commemoration of the 200 years of the Paika Rebellion. The NCERT has decided to include Paika rebellion of Odisha of the early 19th century in Class VIII history textbooks. ( NEHRU CABALS KEPT IT  BURIED. ) . REASONS, AND DETAILS OF PAIKA REBELLION . Paika Rebellion of 1817 is an armed revolt against the British Oppression (EIC), led by the Paikas of Khurda region in Orissa. The rebellion took form and shape under the leadership of Buxi Jagabandhu Vidyadhara. “Paika” literally translates to warrior/ fighter in Odiya. “Paika Akhada”, their style of fighting can be traced back to ancient Kalinga and was patronized by

  SETH RAMDAS JI GURWALA A FORGOTTEN HERO OF 1857 WAR SARASIJ MAJUMDER   Before hanging the great revolutionary and philanthropist Seth RAMDAS JI, in 1857, the British released hunting dogs on him who tore his body alive. Seth Ramdas Ji GURWALA was a billionaire businessman and banker of Delhi during   middle of eighteenth century. And he was a close friend of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar. He was born in an Agarwal family in Delhi. His family established the first textile mill there. There was a saying about his wealth, “RAMDAS JI GURWALE has so much gold, silver and jewels that he can even stop the water of Ganga ji from his walls.” When the spark of revolution starting from Barrackpore, via   Meerut reached Delhi in 1857, Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was declared the hero, and king of the military revolution of 1857. After the defeat of the British from Delhi, Indian armies of many princely states camped in Delhi. Providing    food and salary to the sol

  LAHORE CASE : 1928-31 BHAGAT- RAJGURU-SUKDEV HANGED   ANOTHER  BRITISH  JUDICIAL  SHAM ?? SARASIJ MAJUMDER Pak Lawyer Tries to Prove Their Innocence In 88-Year-Old Case. The Lahore police last week submitted in a Pakistan trial court the first information report (FIR) registered in the murder of British police official John Saunders (also known as the Lahore conspiracy case) claiming that the case was registered against "unidentified" persons. The court handed over a copy of the FIR to Lahore-based advocate and petitioner cum lawyer Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi, who is chairman of the Bhagat Singh Memorial Foundation .  Qureshi has also moved the Lahore High Court seeking reopening of the Saunders' murder case to prove that Bhagat Singh was "innocent". On the court's order   the Lahore police searched through the records of the Anarkali Police Station and managed to find the FIR in the Saunders' murder case. "Written in Urdu, the FIR was re

  20-LOAVES-A FORGOTTEN UPRISING INDIA’S LAST FREEDOM STRUGGLE SARASIJ MAJUMDER In March, 1976 Mr. P.V.Chakraborty, former Chief Justice of Kolkata HC wrote a letter, where he described a correspondence between him and the British Prime Minister Clement Atlee in 1956.And during his visit, Atlee met Chakraborty, who was then acting Governor of West Bengal, and was asked  “The Quit India Movement of Gandhi practically died out long before 1947 and there was nothing in the Indian situation at that time, which made it necessary for the British to leave India in a hurry. Why then did they do so?”.  Atlee gave out several reasons, one was Netaji Subash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army, which weakened British Indian   Army, and the other was the Royal Indian Navy UPRISING. Royal Naval Ratings UPRISING, or what is often called the forgotten UPRISING in India’s history, an event which unlike the 1857 UPRISING or the Quit India movement, does not really strike much resonance, except am

  OPERATION--   POLO ANNEXATION OF HYDERABAD SARASIJ MAJUMDER During the partition of India in 1947, the princely states governed their realms on their own but they were still subject to the Subsidiary Alliance system that gave the British control over their external affairs. With the Indian Independence Act 1947, the policy of subsidiary alliances was abandoned and the princely states were given three options to decide their future: Accede to India Accede to Pakistan Remain Independent By 1948 most of the Princely States had acceded to India but the state of Hyderabad had chosen to join neither Pakistan nor India. Hyderabad was ruled by the Nizam, Mir Sir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII. This was a case opposite to KASHMIR. He reigned over a large and MAJORITY Hindu population hoping to maintain his independence with an irregular army largely recruited from the Muslim aristocracy, known as the RAZAKARS. India was not letting a wealthy and powerful prince