An artist’s work captures the moment when Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad (dressed in white) turned his back on King George V at Delhi Durbar in 1911 Vadodara: Thirty-five years before India won independence, a maharaja turned his back on the British monarch — quite literally — in an act of defiance that would become part of…
Gaya: Former IPS officer and Urdu litterateur Masoom Aziz Kazmi on Thursday highlighted the role of the Urdu language, particularly the Urdu press, in India’s freedom struggle that began in 1857.Kazmi, a former IG, was delivering a special lecture on the contribution of Urdu to the freedom movement at an event organised by the postgraduate…
Says end of privy purses doesn’t erase inheritance rulesBengaluru: Karnataka high court has refused to strike down a provision of the Hindu Succession Act dealing with inheritance in the families of former princely rulers, holding that it continues to have legal relevance despite the abolition of privy purses more than five decades ago.Justice MGS Kamal…
