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Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Allahabad

Allahabad (Hindi: इलाहाबाद, Urdu الاهاباد ilāhābād) is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The name, meaning "City of Allah", was given to the city by the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1583. In Indian alphabets it is spelt "Ilāhābād": "ilāh" is Arabic for "god", and "-ābād" is Persian for "place of". The modern city is on the site of the ancient holy city of Prayāga (Sanskrit - "Place of Sacrifice" and is the spot where Brahma offered his first sacrifice after creating the worl ...

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Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Allahabad District Allahabad district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Allahabad town is the district headquarters. Allahabad district is a part of Allahabad division. Other related archivesAllahabad, Allahabad division, India, Uttar Pradesh, districts, state

Allahabad: Encyclopedia II - Allahabad - Climate

Allahabad experiences all four seasons. The summer season is from April to June with the maximum temperatures ranging between 40 to 45 °C. Monsoon begins in early July and lasts till September. The winter season falls in the months of December, January and February. Temperatures in the cold weather could drop to freezing with maximum at almost 12 to 14 °C. Allahabad also witnesses severe fog in January resulting in massive traffic and travel delays. It does not snow in Allahabad. Lowest temperature re ...

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Allahabad: The Eternal Debate - Ends and Means

Do ends justify the means? "No", said M K Gandhi. My professor at Allahabad, J K Mehta, economist and philosopher, argued that by adopting wrong means, the end achieved is never what you sought to achieve. But with due respect to Gandhi and Prof Mehta, I wish to state that often, ends do justify means.

A goonda is molesting a woman. You are present, but you are a pacifist who considers violence wrong means. Will you try to persuade him or physically stop him? Even Gandhi made an exception in the case of Kashmir in 1947 when he approved of the Indian Army's intervention against foreign invaders.

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Allahabad: Encyclopedia II - Allahabad - History

When the Aryans first settled into what they termed the Aryavarta, or Madhydesha, their territory extended till Prayag. The Vatsa (a branch of the early Indo-Aryans) were rulers of Hastinapur, and they established the town of Kaushambi near present day Allahabad. In the times of the Ramayana, the site of Allahabad was made up of a few Rishi's huts at the confluence of the three rivers. Lord Rama, the main protagonist in the Ramayana, spent some time here, at the Ashram of Sage Bharadwaj, be ...

Kamlesh Kumari Devi, alias Gita Murti, commenced preaching the Gita at the age of two and a half years. She was born on Tuesday, the 12th of December, 1939. The ideas of the transmigration of soul and eternity of life, although recorded in our holy scriptures, are dormant and latent in our practical life.

The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book What Becomes Of The Soul After Death by Sri Swami Sivananda.

Allahabad: Silence Please, It's Mauni Amavasya

Mauna: Silence Please, It's Mauni Amavasya

Indian tradition emphasises the concept of mauna or silence as an ideal trigger for introspection and reflection. Derived from the word muni , an ascetic who practises silence, mauna ideally symbolises a state of oneness with the Self.

Mauna has been described by Sankara as one of the three essential attributes of a sanyasi , along with balya or childlike state and panditya or wisdom. According to Ramana Maharshi, mauna is a state beyond speech and thought, it is "living without the ego-sense". He made silence the medium of spiritual instruction.

Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Boys' High School & College

Boys' High School & College, founded in 1822, is an independent school in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was founded for the purpose of providing a Christian education to the children of Europeans and Anglo-Indians, but has always accepted children from all backgrounds. It was originally co-educational but is now an all-boys' school. It has existed on its present site in central Allahabad since 1861. It is managed by the Allahabad High School Society, which took over the school in 1940. For the past 5 years it has been producing toppers.It has ...

Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Yamuna

Yamuna is a major river of northern India, with a total length of around 1370 km. It is the largest tributary of the Ganga. Its source is at Yamunotri, in the Uttaranchal Himalaya. It flows through the states of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, before merging with the Ganges at Allahabad. The cities of Delhi, Mathura and Agra lie on its banks. The major tributaries of this river are the Tons, Chambal, Betwa, Si ...

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Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan (born October 11, 1942, in Allahabad, India) also known as Big B, is an iconic Indian actor whose Bollywood career has spanned four decades. He was declared Superstar of the Millenium in 1999 in an international poll hosted by the BBC. Amitabh Bachchan - Biography. Amitabh was born to Teji and Harivansh Rai 'Bachchan'. Harivansh Rai was a well-known Hindi poet. Amitabh attended Boys' High School in Allahabad followed by Sherwood College in Nainital and went on to Delhi University to ...

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Amitabh Bachchan - Current projects

Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Vijnanananda

Swami Vijnanananda (28 October 1868 – 25 April 1938) was born in Belgharia, Kolkota, India as Hariprasanna Chattopadhyaya. He was a direct disciple of Shri Ramakrishna. He was an engineer and worked as the District Engineer in the erstwhile State of United Provinces, India. He was a great scholar of Sanskrit with expertise in religo-philosophical works, astronomy, civil engineering etc. He spent considerable time in Allahabad (Prayag) centre of Ramakrishna Math. He became the President of Ramakrishna Mission in 1937. It was under his presidentship, that the t ...

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Vijnanananda - Books

Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Vishwanath Pratap Singh

Vishwanath Pratap Singh (born 25 June 1931) was the seventh Prime Minister of the Republic of India. After resigning as Congress cabinet minister under Rajiv Gandhi's government, Singh floated an opposition party Jan Morcha to protest a defense contract. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Allahabad defeating Anil Shastri. On 11 October 1988, the birthday of Jayaprakash Narayan Janata dal was formed by merger of Jan Morcha, Janata Party, Lok dal and Congress(s). Janatha Dal fought elections in 1989, alongside BJP and the Communist ...

Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born January 12, 1917) is the founder of the TM Movement. He brought Transcendental Meditation to the western world. Maharishi is believed to have been born near Jabalpur, India and graduated from Allahabad University with a degree in physics. He was secretary for thirteen years with Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath. In 1955, after spending two years in silence in Uttar Kashi, in the Himalayan foothills, he began teaching a basic meditation technique which he later dubbed "Transcende ...

Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Mahadevi Varma

Mahadevi Varma (1907 - 11th September 1987) was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. She is widely regarded as the 'modern Meera. Her descriptions of pain and sadness are extremely moving. She won the Jnanpith award in 1982. Mahadevi was born in Farukhabad, Uttar Pradesh in a family of lawyers. She was educated at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. Mahadevi was married at an early age, as was common in India, in her time. But she was not attracted to worldly pleasures and even tried to become a Buddhist bhikshuni, though unsuccess ...

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Mahadevi Varma - Major works

Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Awadh

Awadh (also known in various British historical texts as Oudh, Oundh or Oude) is a region in the center of the modern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The modern definition of Awadh geographically includes the districts of Ambedkar Nagar, Bahraich, Balrampur, Barabanki, Faizabad, Gonda, Hardoi, Lakhimpur Kheri, Lucknow, Allahabad, Kaushambi, Pratapgarh, Rai Bareilly, Shravasti, Sitapur, Sultanpur, and Unnao. The traditional capital of Awadh has been Lucknow. The r ...

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Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश, Urdu: اتر پردیش), also popularly known by its acronym UP, is the most populous and fifth largest state in the Union of India. Uttar Pradesh covers a large part of the densely populated Gangetic plain. It shares an international border with Nepal and is bounded by the Indian states of Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar. The administrative and legislative capital of Uttar Pradesh is Luc ...

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Allahabad: Encyclopedia - United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, mainly referred to simply as the United Provinces, was a former province of British India, which existed from 1902 to 1947. From 1835 to 1902, the province was known as the North-Western Provinces. Today, it corresponds to the modern-day Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. United Provinces of Agra and Oudh - History. By the 18th century, the once vast Mughal Empire was collapsing, undone by internal dissension and by expansion of the Marathas from the Deccan, ...

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Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Air Sahara

Air Sahara is an airline based in New Delhi, India. It is a privately owned airline operating scheduled services connecting all metropolitan centres in India. Helicopters are available for charter services and aerial photography. Its main base is Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, with hubs at Begumpet International Airport, Hyderabad and Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai. Air Sahara - History. The airline was established on 20 September 1991 and began operations on 3 Dece ...

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Allahabad: Encyclopedia - Airmail

Airmail (or air mail) is mail that is transported by aircraft. It typically arrives more quickly than surface mail, and usually costs more to send. Airmail may be the only option for sending mail to some destinations, such as overseas, if the mail cannot wait the time it would take to arrive by ship, sometimes weeks. A postal service may sometimes opt to transport some regular mail by air, perhaps because other transportation is unavailable, but it is usually impossible to know this by examining an envelope ...