Impact of British rule in

India

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, Gujarat, India. Several members of his family worked for the government of the state. When Gandhi was 18 years old, he went to England to study law. After he became a lawyer, he went to the British colony of South Africa where he experienced laws that said people with dark skin had fewer rights than people with light skin. He decided then to become a political activist, so he could help change these unfair laws. He created a powerful, non-violent movement.

Mahatma gandhi

Rabindernath tagoreRabindranath tagore was born in Calcutta, India into a wealthy Brahmin family. After a brief stay in England (1878) to attempt to study law, he returned to India, and instead pursued a career as a writer, playwright, songwriter, poet, philosopher and educator. During the first 51 years of his life he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India where he was born and raised with his many stories, songs and plays. His short stories were published monthly in a friend's magazine and he even played the lead role in a few of the public performances of his plays. Otherwise, he was little known outside of the Calcutta area, and not known at all outside of India.

Dr.b.r ambedkar

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is viewed as messiah of dalits and downtrodden in

India. He was the chairman of the drafting committee that was

constituted by the Constituent Assembly in 1947 to draft a

constitution for the independent India. He played a seminal role in the

framing of the constitution. Bhimrao Ambedkar was also the first Law Minister of India. For his yeoman

service to the nation, B.R. Ambedkar was bestowed with Bharat Ratna in

1990.

Swami dayanand saraswati

Swami Dayanand Saraswati was A powerful religious and social reform movement in northern Indian was started by Swami Dayanand Saraswati. Born in AD 1824 at Gujarat, he was named Mul Shankara his parents. He left home at an early age and wandered across the country in search of knowledge and answers to his spiritual questions.

Raja ravi varma

• Raja Ravi Varma (April 29, 1848 - October 2, 1906) was an Indian painter from the princely state of Travancore (presently in Kerala) who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. His paintings are considered to be among the best examples of the fusion of Indian traditions with the techniques of European academic art.

Shri narayana guru

Born on 20th August 1855 in Champazhanti near Trivandrum, Sri Narayan Guru is one of the prominent saints of southern India. As a child he showed great brilliance any mystical bent of mind. After his formal education, he practiced deep meditation and severe austerities.In 1880 he installed an idol of Lord Shiva at Arivippuram which later became a great centre of pilgrimage for people of all castes. A great scholar of ancient scriptures including Vedas and Shastras, he expounded his philosophy demolishing the practice of untouchability.

jyotiba phule A radical and liberal thinker who

received his early education in a Mission School, Mahatma Phule worked for the uplift of the low castes. He authored the Sarvajanik Satyadharma Pustak that emphasised equality of all men and called for equality before the law and equality of opportunity. He agreed that the British rule had ushered in a general improvement in the condition of the masses. English educa tion had made the depressed classes aware of their rights and inspired thoughts of overcoming domination by the high castes. But he criticised the British administration for its many injustices including diversion of funds meant for higher education purposes.

Lord curzonGeorge Curzon, the eldest son of Baron

Curzon, was born on 11th January, 1859. A brilliant student, at Eton College he won a record number of academic prizes before

entering Oxford University in 1878. He was elected president of the Oxford Union in 1880 and although he failed to achieve a

first he was made a fellow of All Souls College in 1883. A member of the

Conservative Party, Curzon was elected MP for Southport in 1886. It was a safe Tory seat

and Curzon neglected his parliamentary duties to travel the world. This material

provided the material for Russia in Central Asia (1889), Persia and the Persian Question (1892) and Problems of the Far East (1894).

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