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4. The Secret India History
&
Amazing Facts
Welcome to your hidden past...
Here I will present the most important
historical facts, that normally are
"hidden" or sadly neglected and you
actually should discover at school, plus
some amazing but true pieces of time...

5. Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian
to join the Indian Civil Service. He was the
elder brother of Guru Dev Rabindranath
Tagore. Before 1861, only British officers
were appointed to all covenanted posts. His
first posting was at Bombay Presidency. He
retired from ICS in 1897.
First Indian
to Join
Indian Civil Services

6. Indian defence force is the third largest defence
force in the world after USA and China. Indian
armed forces defend the vast land, water and
aerial borders of India and are renowned for
their courage and valour. Indian defence forces
have shown their in India as well as abroad.
Indian armed forces have raised the country's
honour in UN Peacekeeping Missions and have
impressed everyone with their professionalism
and discipline. Here are some interesting facts
about Indian defence.
Facts About Indian Defence

16. The battle of Cawnpore

17. The battle of Cawnpore - the entire British garrison died at
Cawnpore (now Kanpur), either in the battle or later massacred
with women and children. Their deaths became a war cry for
the British.
A controversial new history of the Indian Mutiny, which broke
out 150 years ago and is acknowledged to have been the
greatest challenge to any European power in the 19th century,
claims that the British pursued a murderous decade-long
campaign to wipe out millions of people who dared rise up
against them.
“ It was a holocaust, one where millions disappeared. It
was a necessary holocaust in the British view because
they thought the only way to win was to destroy entire
populations in towns and villages. It was simple and
brutal. Indians who stood in their way were killed. But its
scale has been kept a secret,"

18. ‘The Chupatty Movement’

19. The chupatty movement first came to British attention early in February 1857. One of the first officials
to encounter it was Mark Thornhill, magistrate in the little Indian town of Mathura, near Agra.
Thornhill came into his office one morning to find four “dirty little cakes of the coarsest flour, about the
size and thickness of a biscuit” lying on his desk. He was informed that they had been brought in by
one of his Indian police officers, who had received them from a puzzled village chowkidar (watchman).
And where had the chowkidar got them? “A man had come out of the jungle with them, and given
them to the watchman with instructions to make four like them and to take these to the watchman in
the next village, who was to be told to do the same.” By the time the British came to examine the
causes of the rebellion in 1858 and 1859, therefore, the chupatty movement had assumed a fresh
significance. It was generally believed, in retrospect, that the circulation of the breads had been a
warning of trouble ahead, and that the wave of chapatis must have been set in motion by a cunning
group of determined conspirators who had begun plotting the rising months, if not years, in advance.

21. Rumors Spread With Great Rapidity Before And During The
Mutiny—not Least Because Of The Large Number Of British Women
And Children At The Mercy Of The Rebels In Towns Such As Delhi
And Kanpur.
From The North-west Provinces:
I have the honor to inform you that a signal has
passed through numbers of the villages in this
district, the purport of which has not yet
transpired…
A chowkeydar, on receiving one of these cakes,
has had five or six more prepared, and thus they
have passed from village to village.… An idea has
been industriously circulated that the government
has given the order.

22. Lotus flowers and bits of goats’ flesh,
so it was rumoured, were being passed
from hand to hand, as well as chapattis.
Symbols of unknown significance were
chalked on the walls of towns;
protective charms were on
sale everywhere; an ominous slogan,
Sub lal hogea hai
(‘Everything has become red’)
was being whispered.”
It was certainly no secret that the Company's armies had been making
preparations for the introduction of a new sort of ammunition for a new
model of Enfield rifle. To be loaded, this cartridge [right], had to be torn open
so that the powder it contained could be poured down the barrel of the
muzzle-loading gun; because the soldier's hands were full, this was done with
the teeth. Then the bullet had to be rammed down the rifled barrel of the
muzzle-loading gun [below]. To facilitate its passage, the cartridges were
greased with tallow, which, in the UK, was made of beef and pork fat. The
greased cartridges thus posed precisely the same threat to observant sepoys
as would flour adulterated with the blood of pigs and cows, and though the
problem was recognised by the British at an early stage, and not a single
greased cartridge was ever actually issued to any Indian troops, fear that the
Company was plotting to defile them took hold among the men of many
Indian regiments and resulted in the outbreak of rebellion in the cantonment
of Meerut in April 1857.

23. The history of India dates back to more
than 5000 years. From Harrapan Civilization
to present times, India has covered a long
journey. The reminders of this long journey
are distributed all over India. Indian has
witnessed a series of invasions. From
Alexander to Turks, Mughals, Dutch, French
and British,
History of India

24. In the 13th century, a poet saint named
Gyandev introduced the game of Snakes
and Ladders. Known as Mokshapat during
those times, the game had a significant
meaning. The snakes stood for vices, while
the ladders represented good virtues. The
essence of the game was that the ladders
or good virtues take people to heaven
while snakes or vices take people to a cycle
of re-births.

26. The use of word stan which is actually a
distorted form of sthan.(स्थान )( meaning
place), at the end of names of large number
of countries surrounding India.
Examples-Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, ,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan etc.
So it concludes that vedic people spread to
these areas,because they named these
countries according to their vedic method of
naming places.

27. In 700 BC, the world's first university was established
in India, in Takshila. It was one of the biggest
achievements in the field of education, as more than
10,500 students came from all over the world to
receive education in over 60 different subjects. The
University of Nalanda was another milestone that
was achieved in the field of education in 4th century
BC

28. India provides safety for more than
300,000 refugees originally from Sri Lanka,
Tibet, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh,
who escaped to flee religious and political
persecution.

29. •The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and
Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
•Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C.
respectively.
•Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.
•There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other
country, including the Muslim world.
•The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of
Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568 respectively.
•Jews and Christians have lived continuously in India since 200 B.C. and
52 A.D. respectively

30. The world's highest cricket ground is in
Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after
leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444
meters above sea level.

31. Red sea is the translated form
of rakt sagar. the word Rakt
(blood) is often used to denote
red colour.
We get to know that Vedic
people named it as rakt sagar.
It is evident from the
scriptures of Ramayana that
when Lord Ram sent his troops
in all directions in search of
his beloved wife Sita, they
went far off till the rakt
sagar(red sea). Source: Valmiki Ramayana

32. This word is derived from a Sanskrit
dhatu ‘ir’ meaning the land without
water. This facts are true for Iran. As
Iran is a desert country.

33. These two names were the
names of the two daityas
(demons),which we encounter
in ramayana.
Source: Valmiki Ramayana

34. The ancient Indians called this river as ‘neel nadi’.
‘Nile’ comes from ‘Neel’ which means ‘blue’.
But due to the lack of knowledge the westerners named
it as blue Nile river. Whereas the word neel itself stands
for blue. This way it becomes the blue blue river,
which appears to be hilarious.

35. The place is named
after angad’s
father and sugriv’s
brother BALI in the
ramayana.
This place is
considered to be
bali’s kingdom
which was taken
over by sugriv with
the help of Lord
Ram.
Source : Valmiki Ramayana

36. RELIGIONS IN INDIA
India being a SECULAR state follows the most
number of religions in the world .
With 4 of the modern worlds most followed religion
originating from the Indian Subcontinent. It includes
1)HINDUISM
2)JAINISM
3) SIKHISM
4)BUDDHISM

37. HINDUISM
It is the worlds third
most followed religion
with 90 billion followers.
It is mostly practiced in
India, Nepal , USA and
UK .
It is also referred to as
the worlds most oldest
religion.

38. Islam
It’s the second largest religion in the world with
1.57 billion followers occupying 23% of the total
world population.
India’s muslim population is estimated to be third
largest in the world after Indonesia and Pakistan.
India has 3,00,000 active mosques in India , more
than any other country including the muslim
world.
There are more muslims in India than the
combined population of Syria, Iraq, Jordan and
the whole of the Arabian Peninsula.

39. Sikhism
It is a religion formed in india during the 15 th
century.
Sikhs hold the world record for blood
donations in a single day created on the
occasion of hola muhalla, a sikh festival .
Sikhs were among first significant wave of
indian immigrants to america, canada, united
kingdom, malaysia, thailand and australia.
The sikhs follow the principle of five K’s : kanga
, kirpan , kachehra , kesh , kara .

40. Buddhism
It is a religion formed in the indian subcontinent by
siddhartha gautama.
Nalanda university was set up by the buddhist monks
and it used to be so huge that it kept on burning for 6
months when it was attacked and the smoke hung in the
air for several days.
Varanasi, was visited by lord buddha in 500 B.C. and is
the oldest , continously inhabited city in the world
today.
Today, there are 1.7 billion buddhists in the world and it
is considered to be the worlds fastest growing religion.
His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader
of buddhists , runs his government in exile from

41. INDIAN
LANGUAGES
India also has the
most number of
official languages.
There are 22 major
languages listed in
the constitution
and 1,652 dialects
spoken in India .

42. We still haven’t stopped yet, the past
67 years of independence saw rapid
development and urbanization in
INDIA , growth in Indian economy we
excelled and proved ourselves in each
and every sphere of life.

43. Indian railways
It is the worlds biggest rail
connection and also the biggest and
the largest employer in the world
employing over a million people.

44. ROAD
SYSTEM
India has the
world’s largest
road network
covering over 1.9
million miles of
roads across the
country.

45. The Tirupathi
Temple
The Vishnu temple in the
city of Tirupathi built in
the 10th century, is the
worlds largest religious
pilgrimage destination .
Larger than either Rome
or Mecca, an average of
30,000 visitors donate $6
million to the temple
every day.

46. MOUNT KAILASH
It is the only mountain in asia that has
never been climbed inspite of the support
from the chinese government.
It is considered a sacred place in four
religions
1)Hinduism
2)Jainism
3)Buddhism
4)Bon

47. Love for diamonds
India being the largest producer
of diamonds in Asia. It is also
the biggest market of
diamonds in the world .
Before 1986 , India was
the only place in the
world where Diamonds
could be found .

48. RESERVE BANK OF
INDIA
RBI states that the total
value of currency in
circulation stands over
10.5 lakh crore.
The number of soiled
currency notes has
remained above 13 billion
for the last 3 financial year.

49. LETS
RECALL

50. 1. What is the main motive behind the
chapatty movement?

51. 2. Who was the younger brother of
Guru Dev Rabindranath Tagore?

52. 3. In which mission the Indian armed
force raised our country’s honor?

53. 4. In 1983, which title has been given
to the “Taj Mahal”?

54. 5. What was the Britisher’s view to
win?

55. 6. In which battle there were large rate
of deaths?

56. 1. What is the main motive behind the
chapatty movement?

57. Did you
know

58. India never invaded any country in her
last 10000 years of history.

59. Sanskrit is the most suitable language
for computer software.

60. It is the largest English Speaking
Nation in the World.

61. 1. Who is the creator of the Pentium
chip?
Ans:- Vinod Dahm (From India)

62. 1. Who is the founder and creator of
Hotmail?
Ans:- Sabeer Bhatia (From India)

63. MCL SBM, Hari Nagar, New Delhi
Proud to be Indian !