Sibnath Banerjee was an Indian revolutionary and trade union leader [1] who founded Hind Mazdoor Sabha [2] and served as President of All India Trade Union Congress. [3]
He was born on 11 July 1897. [4] In 1935, he was arrested by the British government. [5] He died on 16 February 1937. [6]
Events in the year 1943 in India.
Charu Mazumdar, popularly known as CM, was an Indian Communist leader, and founder and General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). Born into a progressive landlord family in Siliguri in 1918, he became a Communist during the Indian Independence Movement, and later formed the militant Naxalite cause. During this period, he authored the historic accounts of the 1967 Naxalbari uprising. His writings, particularly the Historic Eight Documents, have become part of the ideology of a number of Communism-aligned political parties in India.
Mamata Banerjee is an Indian politician who is serving as the eighth and current chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal since 20 May 2011, the first woman to hold the office. Having served multiple times as a Union Cabinet Minister, Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time in 2011. She founded the All India Trinamool Congress in 1998 after separating from the Indian National Congress, and became its second chairperson later in 2001. She often refers to herself as Didi.
Asaf Ali was an Indian independence activist and noted lawyer. He was the first Indian Ambassador to the United States. He also served as the Governor of Odisha.
Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, popularly known by his pen name Ghanshyam Vyas, was an Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer from Gujarat state. A lawyer by profession, he later turned to author and politician. He is a well-known name in Gujarati literature. He founded Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, an educational trust, in 1938.
Bezawada Gopala Reddy was an Indian freedom fighter, writer and politician. He was the Chief Minister of the erstwhile Indian state, Andhra State from 1955 to 1956 and later served as the Governor of Uttar Pradesh from 1967 to 1972. He was popularly known as "Andhra Tagore" in recognition of his literary works.
Kalluri Chandramouli was an Indian politician and independence activist from the state of Andhra Pradesh, South India. He held ministerial posts in three states: Madras State, Andhra State and Andhra Pradesh. Served as the Minister of Endowments and as the President of the Board of Trustees of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam. He renovated Srisailam and Bhadrachalam temples.
Barabasti or BarahBasti initially had a group of 12 villages but later it exceeds and now they are more than 12 lying in Bulandshahr district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. These villages are located adjacent to each other within an area of seven square miles, and noted for a high population of Pathans, in addition to other Muslims and Hindus.
Events in the year 1926 in India.
Bulusu Sambamurthy was an Indian lawyer, politician, and freedom fighter who played a key role in the Indian independence movement. He served as the President of the Madras Legislative Council from 1937 to 1942. Sambamurthy was also an advocate for the Andhra movement, which sought the creation of a separate Telugu-speaking state. He is often referred to by the honorific title of Maharshi Bulusu Sambamurthy.
K. T. Kosalram (1915-1985) was an Indian politician. He was also a freedom fighter and a congressman. He owned Dina Sethi, a newspaper from Purasawakkam, Chennai.
Jubba Sahni (1906–1944) was an Indian freedom-fighter and revolutionary. He accepted hanging at the age of 38 years on 11 March 1944. He is remembered as the bravest revolutionary in Bihar.
Lal Pratap Singh was a member of the Bisen Rajput dynasty of Kalakankar. He was prominent leader in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was killed during the 1858 Battle of Chanda. The Government of India issued a postage stamp on 17 December 2009 to commemorate him.
Rani Lila Ramkumar Bhargava was an Indian freedom fighter, social worker, educationist and a former leader of the Indian National Congress. She was an associate of Indian prime minister, Indira Gandhi and was married into the family of Munshi Nawal Kishore, the founder of reportedly the oldest printing press in Asia, Nawal Kishore Press, to Munshi Ramkumar Bhargava, a fourth generation member of the family and the holder of the title of Raja from Lord Wavell, then Viceroy of India,
Raja Radhika Raman Prasad Sinha (1890-1971) was a Bihari zamindar, prominent writer of Hindi literature, as well as a Padma Bhushan awardee. Born into a royal family in the district of Shahabad, in the Indian state of Bihar on 10 September, 1890 as the eldest son of Raja Rajrajeshwari Sinha, he was the pioneer of Hindi fiction and authored several books including The Gandhi Cap and Other Short Stories, Purush Nari, and Purva Aur Paschim. When he was 12 years old, his father died in 1903 and his entire estate came under the control of the Court of Wards. He was a friend of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna and gave him Rs. 2000 for business purposes in the late 1940s. He was the secretary of Bihar's United Party, a party representing the interests of the zamindars. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1962, and was bestowed a honorary D.Litt. degree by Magadh University in 1969.
Bhima Nayak or Bheema Nayak was an Indian revolutionary. He fought against the British in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. When Bhima was convicted by the British government, he was kept in Port Blair and Nicobar.
Moji Riba(1911–1973) was the eldest son of Gomo Riba and Nyapu Riba, and was an Indian freedom fighter from a village called Dari in the Lepa Rada district of Arunachal Pradesh, previously known as North-East Frontier Tracts/North-East Frontier Agency, who participated in the Indian independence movement.
Sohanlal Pathak was an Indian revolutionary from Punjab, and a member of Ghadar Party. Remembered for his martyrdom and for his propagation of the ideals of the Indian nationalism in Burma.
Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav or 75th Anniversary of Indian Independence was an event, in which the 75th anniversary of the independence of India was celebrated in India and abroad. It was the 76th Independence Day of India.
Lala Ram Saran Das (1888–1963) was a Ghadar Party revolutionary involved in the Ghadar Mutiny.