Subject: History Context: Home minister pays tributes to Swami Sree Narayana Guru ji on Jayanti Concept: Shree Narayana Guru (1856–1928), also known as Shree Narayana Guru Swami, was a saint & social reformer of India. The Guru was born into an Ezhava family, in an era when people from backward communities like the Ezhavas faced social […]
Subject: History Context: A rare inscription dating back to the RenatiChola era has been unearthed in a remote village of Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh Concept: The inscription was written in archaic Telugu, which was readable in 25 lines — the first side with 11 lines and the remaining on the other side. It was […]
Subject: History Context: Tamil Nadu Department of Archaeology released an interim status report with the sixth phase of the excavations at the Keeladi cluster and the excavations at other sites to come to a close in September for the year. Concept: In the current season of excavations, a fine variety of red-slipped ware containing Tamizhi letters […]
Subject: History Context: Ministry of Tourism presented Webinar on “Jallianwala Bagh: A turning point in the Freedom struggle” under DekhoApnaDesh Series as a run up to the Independence Day Celebrations. Concept: The Rowlatt Act or Black Act which was a Draconian Act passed by the British Government which gave powers to the Police to arrest any person without any […]
Subject: History Context: SC has ruled that a Hindu woman’s right to be a joint heir to the ancestral property is by birth and does not depend on whether her father was alive or not when the law was enacted in 2005. Concept: The Dayabhaga and The Mitakshara are the two schools of law that […]
Subject: History Context: For almost two decades before India actually became independent, the country’s freedom fighters had been celebrating January 26 as “Poorna Swaraj Day” Concept: The Indian National Congress held its annual session in December 1929. It voted for “purnaswaraj” or complete independence as against a dominion statusfor India and passed a resolution fixing […]
Subject: History Context: Dadabhai Naoroji presented the first estimates of poverty in his 1877 paper ‘Poverty in India’, subsequently published in his book Poverty and Un-British Rule in India in 1899. These estimates were closely linked to the idea of freedom not just from the British rule but also from a life of poverty. Concept: […]