Bal Gangadhar Tilak became the leader of extremists group in the Congress. He was born in 1856 in Maharashtra also in a Brahmin family. He was a meritorious student. For a time being he worked as a Professor in Ferguson College, Poona. But his patriotic zeal led him to politics and he joined the Indian National Congress. From the very [...]
The Delhi Durbar held in 1877 to proclaim Queen Victoria as the Empress of India witnessed a grand gathering of hundreds of Indian princes that gave an idea to organize a similar gathering of Indian patriots. The National conference of 1883 at Calcutta was another occasion to develop the same idea among the elite class. The Hindu wrote that "Time [...]
The glory of the culture of the Gupta Age rests on its many-sided and comprehensive character. Almost every branch of culture got enriched during that splendid epoch. In some of its spheres, like art and literature, the ancient culture of India reached almost its zenith. The cultural attainments of the age of the Guptas are like the proud heritage of [...]