ARCHITECTS OF MODERN INDIAN HISTORY

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ARCHITECTS OF MODERN INDIAN HISTORY-I

ARCHITECTS OF MODERN INDIA

In today's fast-moving world and tough competitive day-to-day life, the youth hardly find time for remembrance of our rich heritage and past.
This becomes most crucial whilst the nation celebrates Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav (commemoration of 75 years of Indian Independence).
The fight against colonial rule in India constitutes a unique narrative, one which is not marred by violence.
Rather a narrative that is full of variegated stories of valour, bravery, Satyagraha, dedication, and sacrifice across the length and breadth of the subcontinent.
These stories compose the rich Indian cultural heritage and traditions.
Thus, the unsung heroes need not necessarily define the lesser-known freedom fighters.
They may, at times, be the leaders whose ideals delineate the Indian value system.

Sheel Bhadra Yajee joined Subhas Chandra Bose to found the All India Forward Bloc and actively associated with the INA movement.
Sheel Bhadra Yajee was a social activist from Bihar who was associated with the non-violent and violent form of the Indian independence movement.
Pandit Sheel Bhadra Yajee's birth took on 22 March 1906 at Bhaktiyarpur village in Patna district of Bihar.
He was the only child of Pandit Shivtahal Yajee and Smt. Reshma Yajee.
Sheel Bhadra's mother died when he was just 10 years old.
Yajee's involvement in the freedom movement began in 1928 when, as a student, he attended the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
He affixed to the Congress Socialist Party four years later and became involved in the Kisan movement.
Later, he came in near touch with Subhas Chandra Bose and Mahatma Gandhi.

The inaccessibility of education for girls perturbed Chandraprabha and prompted her to take up this cause.
Chandraprabha Saikiani was deeply affected by how ingrained the caste system was in India.
When she saw that evils were not being eliminated, she took the matter into her own hands and started the Hajo Hayagriva Madhava temple, which was open to every person irrespective of caste, gender and class.

The tribal society of Odisha has made an immense contribution to the national cause.
With their courage and patriotism, they constantly challenged the foreign rulers.
Laxman Nayak is one such great tribal hero who sacrificed his life for the country during the Quit India Movement.
Nayak followed Gandhian principles of truth, non-violence and peaceful non-cooperation throughout his life to oppose the cycle of repression by the British and strengthened the principle of Swaraj by advocating the use of Charkha through door-to-door campaigns.
He spread the message of Quit India among the tribals of Odisha, which helped in intensifying the movement.
In such a scenario, the administration framed Laxman Nayak in a murder case, and eventually, he was sentenced to death.
He was so sure about the country's independence that he always used to say, "If the sun is true, the moon is also true, then it is equally true that India will also be free."

She was born on 23 March 1880 and was married to the fiery nationalist Chittranjan Das at the age of 17 years.
She also took part in the freedom struggle and was arrested in the non-cooperation movement of 1921.
She was President of Bengal Congress during 1921-22.
After the death of her husband C R Das, she took care of the journal Bangaler Katha.
It was she who exhorted Indian youth to assert Indian dignity after the British police attack on Lala Lajpat Rai.
Netaji Subhas Bose considered her as an ‘adoptive mother’.
She was honoured with Padam Vibhushan in 1973 and passed away on 7 May 1974 at the age of 94 years.

Ayyangar was drawn into the freedom movement at a very early age. Within his home state, he was one of the leading figures of the Indian National Congress which were spearheading the National Movement against British colonialism.
Responding to Gandhi's call for 'Non-cooperation' with the British establishment, Ayyangar suspended his legal practice for one year from 1921-to 22.
When Congress withdrew its policy of boycott of Councils and decided to contest the elections for the Central Legislative Assembly in 1934, Ayyangar was elected to the House with an overwhelming majority. The objective of the Congress is contesting the election was to fight the Government from within.
Ayyangar initiated several programmes for the economic and social uplift of the Harijans.

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