Modern History Of India (Part-III) (Railway)

• He was a sanyasi who promoted the Vedas and gave the slogan, "Go back to the vedas."

• Dayanand sarswati also known as martin Luther king of India.

• The British took over the princely states of Satara (1848), Jaipur and Sambalpur (Odisha) (1849), Nagpur and Jhansi (1854), Tanjore and Arcot (1855), Udaipur (Chhattisgarh) and Oudh (1856) under this doctrine.

• In May 1845, the East India Company's Court of Directors

• finally and formally approved the project of establishing the railways in India,

• The British introduced the first passenger train on 16 April 1853, from Mumbai to Thane.

Another Home Rule League was started by Annie Besant at Madras in September 2016. They had the common objective of achieving selfgovernment in India.

• Born as Aruna Ganguly, she was an Indian independence activist.

• She received the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1997.

• It espoused a mission of education and increased social rights and political access for underprivileged groups, focused especially on women, peasants, and Dalits, in Maharashtra.

• Phule is regarded among non Brahmins as 'father of social reforms in India'

• Jyotirao Phule wrote the book Gulamgiri in 1873.

C. Rajagopalachari was the last Governor General of India from 1948 to 1950.

However, he was the first Indian Governor General of India.

• Commission (UGC) was formally inaugurated by late Shri Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. the then Minister of Education. Natural Resources and Scientific Research on 28 December 1953.

• The UGC, however, was for- mally established only in November 1956 as a statutory body of the Government of India through an Act of Par- liament.

• later gifted to Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya.

• Madan Mohan Malviya established Banaras Hindu University in 1916with Annie Besant's support.

• Phule is regarded among nonBrahmins as 'father of social reforms in India'.