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Khudiram Bose Martyrdom Day 2017

At the time of his hanging, he was 18 years, 8 months and 8 days old.

By Subrato Paul | August 11, 2017 filed in Anniversary, My India |
Tags: , anniversary, bengali, bomb attacks, british, british gallows, British raj, freedom fighter, hanging, India, khudiram bose, kingsford, martyrdom, muzaffarpur, national day, national-day-india, prafulla chaki, revolution, revolutionary, shaheed, vandemataram

Khudiram Bose was an Indian Bengali freedom fighter, who was the youngest revolutionary early in the Indian independence movement. At the time of his hanging, he was 18 years, 8 months and 8 days old. He was born on December 3, 1889 in the village of Mohoboni at Keshpur Block in Paschim Midnapore district of West Bengal. Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki were chosen by Barindra Kumar Ghosh and tasked with the murder of Kingsford, the District Magistrate of Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Prafulla shot himself dead, and Khudiram was arrested. He was hanged to death at 6 am on August 11, 1908.

Ten Rare and 100-Year-Old Photos of Calcutta

A century old photos of Calcutta from British Raj found in a shoe box.

By Subrato Paul | December 29, 2016 filed in My India, Video & Image Post |
Tags: , 100-yr-old photos, 1900s, amazing photos, art, bengal, British raj, calcutta, ganges, general india, image post, king george V, kolkata, old photos, photography, queen mary, RCAHMS, shoe box, video post, vintage photos, wip

A size-nine Peter Lord shoe box full of 178 photographs capturing life in India at least a century ago had been discovered in the archives of Scotland’s national collections in 2012. The plate-glass negatives were found inside a shoe box by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) in Edinburgh. The negatives, believed to be dating back to 1912, were found in a fragile condition and were wrapped in copies of the Statesman newspaper dating from 1914, the RCAHMS said in a statement.

British India and Freedom Struggle

The pictorial story of Company Rule and British Raj

On India’s 64th Independence Day, I bring you the pictorial story of British India (1757–1947), featuring Company Rule (1757–1858) and British Raj (1858–1947). I am publishing a series of historical and rare pictures in chronological order to give you an idea of British India and freedom struggle.