ISLAMIC
Islam is not a new religion, but the same truth that God revealed through all His prophets to every people. For a fifth of the world's population, Islam is both a religion and a complete way of life. Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy, and forgiveness, and the majority have nothing to do with the extremely grave events which have come to be associated with their faith...One billion people from a vast range of races, nationalities and cultures across the globe - from the southern Philippines to Nigeria - are united by their common Islamic faith. About 18% live in the Arab world; the world's largest Muslim community is in Indonesia; substantial parts of Asia and most of Africa are Muslim, while significant minorities are to be found in the Soviet Union, China, North and South America, and Europe
Here is a plain statement to men, a guidance and instruction to those who fear Allah. So lose not heart, nor fall into despair: For ye must gain mastery if ye are true in Faith. al-Qur'an 3:138-139 ." ."
CALICUT
The most important
city of Malabar region of Kerala, was a leading trading centre for spices
on the West Coast of during the medieval period. Calicut found
a place in World History with the discovery of sea route to
India in 1498 by the Portuguese navigator Vas Co Da
Gama. The landing of Gama at Kapad, near Calicut changed
the political scenario ofIndia, Which ultimately ended with
it's colonisation by the British. It remained under the
Madras Presidency till the formation of Kerala in 1956 after
independence .
The famous traveler Ibn Batuta [1342 - 47 AD ] notes: "We came to Kalikut, one of the great ports of the district of Malabar, and in which merchants of all parts are found."
NEWS
PAPERS
One of the books Nehru had written was Discovery of India. This book was written by him when he was in Ahmadnagar Fort prison in 1944. He took five months from April to September 1944 to complete the book. The proofing of the book was done by his daughter Indira Gandhi as he had no time to read the typescript. The book remains as written in prison with no additions or changes, except for the postscript at the end.
As Nehru said about the book: "It is mine and not wholly mine, as I am constituted today; it represents rather some past self of mine which has already joined the long succession of other selves that existed for a while and faded away, leaving only the memory behind."
KERALA
Kerala is a pluralistic society where no one ethnic community or religious group dominates the scene. They are all minorities, and all minorities have their place. All are Keralites first; then they are Brahmins, Nairs, Ezhavas, Muslims, Christians, and Jews. The extinct religious communities of Jainism and Buddhism also have made their contributions to Kerala's culture.
INDIA
1556 AD - 1627 AD
In the second battle of Panipath Akbar defeats Hemu and takes Delhi back. Akbar extends his kingdom. Salim succeeds Akbar. East India company comes to India. Nur Jahan rules Delhi under Salim's guidance...
1600 AD - 1858 AD
Constantinople falls to Arab power. Vasco-da-gama reaches India via cape of good hope. East India Company was established for spice trading. Company opens its trading centre in various parts of India. Battle of Plassey. Company establishes power in Bengal and extends it power to other kingdoms. People suffer under cruel management of East India Company.
15th August 1947
Indian Navy in Bombay calls for Naval strike. British foundation in India shaken by growing strong anti-British feeling. Clement Atlee announces his intention of granting independence. Formation of Indian constitution started. Mountbatten takes control of India. Jinha's demand for separate country for muslims sparks communal violence in the sub-continent. On 15th August India gets its Independence resulting in partition of the country. Two Pakistans were carved out of existing India.
In the evolution of
civilization, if it is to survive, all men cannot fail eventually to adopt
Gandhi's belief that the process of mass application of force to resolve
contentious issues is fundamentally not only wrong but contains within
itself the germs of self-destruction.
General Douglas MacArthur, supreme Allied military
commander in Japan
WORLD
The story of man begins fourteen to fifteen millions years ago when our earliest ancestors, whose existence is recorded in the earth that provided their home. Only in the past five or six thousand years has the story of man appeared in written records; the vast eons of time before constitute prehistory. Prehistoric man was faced with basic demands that still concern human beings today and he undoubtedly also asked the great questions of life, the answers to which form the core of history. The answers that prehistoric men found, however, remain locked as secrets in the unwritten past, and can be deduced only from anthropological and archeological finds, inference from later history, and study of the culture of such primitive peoples as still exist today.
"We owe a lot to the Indians,who taught us how to count, without which no worthwile scientific discovery could have been made."
Albert Einstein