About Sri Samartha Ramadas

He saw the suffering of people caused by the invaders like Moghuls and Adilashaha's and considered that people have to become united and fight the evil instead of accepting it as their destiny.   When people went to temple for a solution, he opined that Sri Rama, himself showed the path of the solution in...

Ganga Baba – An Unsung hero of 1857 War Of Independence

Born - Bithoor, Uttar Pradesh, India Died - 8th Sept.1859, Chunniganj, Uttar Pradesh Organization - Nana Saheb Peshwa's Army, Movement - First war of independence, 1857   Ganga Baba or Gangu Baba was a local hero of the National Uprising of 1857 who belonged to the Dalit community living around Bithoor village of Uttar Pradesh....

Gruesome Killing of Sambhaji Maharaj

Sambhaji's astonishing resistance to the suffering inflicted by Aurangzeb on him is commendable. Likes of Sambhaji Maharaj prove that mind is superior to the body. The Hindu Theory that mind is the separate entity from the body is proved right everytime great souls like Sambhaji Maharaj, Bhagat Singh and our brave soldiers at the border...

Veerapandiya Kattabomman

Veerapandiya Kattabomman was born in a Nayakkar family to Aadi Kattabommu and Aarumugathammal on January 3, 1760, and became the 47th king of Panchalankurichi at an age of 30. Veerapandiya Kattabomman's father Aadi Kattabomman was a minister in the court of Jagaveera Pandiyan, a descendant in the Pandya line. Jagaveera pandiyan was issueless and declared...

Kittur Rani Chennamma

Kittur Rani Chennamma was the Queen of the princely state of Kittur, Karnataka. Because there was no male heir to the throne, British conspired to take control of Kittur under the Doctrine of Lapse. She led an armed rebellion against the British East India Company in AD 1824. She defeated the British in the 1st...