Hi all Speaking of March 1930, I recently picked up and read an un-put-downable book by Manini Chatterjee on the 18th April (Easter day) 1930 armed rebellion in Chittagong (Chattogram) led by Surjyo Sen, largely comprising school and college boys, the youngest of whom was only 14...! And, speaking of books, another brilliant book is 'Solstice at Panipat' by Uday Kulkarni on the III Battle of Panipat in January 1764. I cannot recommend them enough. Cheers Mukund On 21 February 2014 12:05, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <bosham@gmail.com > wrote: > The following link came from our friend Mr Idris Attarwala. > > It refers to an interesting article in the Indian Express, dated > February 9, 2014. We are wondering whether some of our > Indian and western listers would have some information that > might turn out to be useful to the folks making the sculptures. > > *** Dandi March was a giant stride in India's freedom struggle. > Little, however, is known about the 80 people - around 50 of > them in their 20s and eight in their teens - who accompanied > Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as he set off on March 12, 1930, > for the 24-day, 338-km-long trek to defy the British-imposed salt > tax. The Mahatma's unknown foot soldiers dispersed soon after > they arrived at the Dandi seashore on April 5. Now, an effort is being > made to identify them and give a face to each of those unsung heroes. > > Forty sculptors - nine of them foreigners - are working on > a 'National Dandi March Memorial', on the IIT Bombay campus, > recreating an important chapter of Indian history with the help of > blurred photographs, oral descriptions and old newspapers. (snip) > > http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/mapping-the-unknown-marcher/ > > ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >