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#DidYouKnow I'tisam-ud-Din , a Mughal diplomat, was one of the earliest Indians to write a travelogue on Europe. He visited England in 1765 and on his return, wrote the 'Shigurf Namah i Vilayat' (The wonders of Vilayet) on what he saw there. @tawairkh #Indianhistory

British army officer Claude Martin was also a patron of botanical art and trained Mughal artists to paint plants and animals. A new book brings together the early attempts to document the subcontinent’s flora and fauna.

Read here: https://t.co/MvwbfBC4KS

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Today's #GoogleDoodle honors #SubhadraKumariChauhan on her 117th birth anniversary. A child poet, she used her creativity as a weapon during the freedom struggle and went on to become India’s first woman satyagrahi to be sent to jail. Here's her story..
https://t.co/B2EZs5HhrJ

1/2 Rukmini Lakshmipathi became one of the first women political prisoners in India when she was jailed for a year after the Salt Satyagraha at Vedaranyam, in present-day Tamil Nadu. Fearless, she braved blows as the marchers ‘made salt’ and defied the Salt Tax in April 1930.

Kannauj, or Kanyakubja (as it was known in the olden times), was the capital of Harshavardhana who ruled much of Northern India between 606 and 647 CE. Would you like to know what was society and life like then?
Here's a contemporary account by Banabhatta- https://t.co/EZSfLnz3iq

#DidYouKnow Flora Indica was the first-of-a-kind book on India’s botanical heritage written in English. It earned its author, Dr William Roxburgh, the epithet of ‘Founding Father of Indian Botany’. It had illustrations of about 2,572 plant species. Read-https://t.co/a0lKf6Yaro

#DidYouKnow that 144 of William and Thomas Daniell's works, collectively known as 'Oriental Scenery', represent the single largest and most impressive project by English artists to depict Indian architecture and landscape. Know more here-https://t.co/sPU1HlnCyJ

वीओसी पिल्लई को एक महत्वपूर्ण भारतीय स्वतंत्रता सैनानी, ख़ासकर स्वदेशी आंदोलन के नेता के रुप में याद किया जाता है, जिनकी समुद्र से जुड़ी विरासत आज भी ज़िन्दा है। तूतुकोड़ी में पोर्ट ट्रस्ट का नाम उन्हीं के नाम पर रखा गया है।

https://t.co/xcpPFXRaYs

The 18th & 19th centuries saw the arrival of Europeans on the Indian subcontinent and with it, the emergence of Company Art. The Europeans, with their strict Victorian morals & Catholic upbringing, were obviously astounded by the festival and depicted it in their paintings.

#DidYouKnow that Assam has a state anthem? Titled ‘O Mur Apunar Dex’ (O My Endearing Land), it was penned by Assamese poet, novelist and playwright Lakshminath Bezbarua and officially adopted as the state’s anthem in 1927, when Assam was a province of British-India.