Quotes About History

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

history repeats itself....but it is the past that we find joy in,for it is the good memories we try and remember,the bad we keep at bay,the future we do not know, the present is what we have control over....

History will judge the war against Iraq not by the brilliance of its military execution, but by the effectiveness of the post-hostilities activities.

In 1574, when the third Guru's daughter was getting married to one who would become the fourth Guru, the Mughal emperor gave, as a wedding gift, an area of land in a place in the Bari doab not yet called Amritsar.

The fact that Hindus and Muslims had worked jointly, 'renouncing their mutual antipathies', also interested Marx.

Umar Hayat's father, Malik Tiwana, provided soldiers to the British for the recapture of Delhi and for combat against the Rani of Jhansi.

They belong to one another because, to use Gandhi's language, they drink the same water, breathe the same air and eat the same soil's produce. And because they share the same history, even while often looking at it from clashing angles.

Sikhs in the raiding party 'shouted with delight' when Hodson murdered the princes.

Bloodlust found free play in recaptured Delhi. Wilson ordered that anyone found with a weapon should be killed, not taken prisoner. In the event, the empty-handed too were slain.

Nishan Sahib), which was raised at every gurdwara from the 1620s, when Guru Hargobind led the community.

Many of today's youngsters are unaware that in their grandparents' time Kolkata, Dhaka and Chittagong were part of a single entity, and Lahore, Rawalpindi, Amritsar and Jalandhar likewise. And they are unaware of what it means for a nation to find freedom.

Sikh and Muslim Punjabis, Pashtuns and Gurkhas joined the British in the slaughter

between March and August there was a steady flow of urban and rural Sikhs and Hindus from Rawalpindi, Multan, Attock, Lahore and other western districts to safe havens in eastern Punjab. In all, about 500,000 may have moved east before mid-August.

during the Panipat battle of 1761, the Sikhs had remained neutral between the Afghans and the Marathas.

Hindu-Muslim clashes occurred in the 1880s and 1890s in the towns of Multan, Isa Khel (Mianwali district), Dera Ghazi Khan, Delhi, Rohtak and Ludhiana.

Lahore Conspiracy Case, as it was called, contains no Muslim name and only one Sikh name, that of Bhagat Singh.

Probably between half a million and eight hundred thousand in all were killed in Punjab in 1947.

About ten to twelve million people were forced to leave their homes and cross the new border.102

Non-Muslims were asked—in 1679, four years after Guru Tegh Bahadur's death—to pay the jizya, a practice Akbar had abolished more than a century earlier.

Sikh rajas of Patiala, Nabha, Jind and Kaithal—allies of the British even during the Anglo-Sikh wars—they required little persuasion.

Blood on India's streets was not what the Raj desired, yet Hindu-Muslim disputes were preferable to India-England ones.

A work of statesmanship that will affect India and Indian history for many a long year. It is nothing less than the pulling back of 62 millions of people (India's Muslim population at the time) from joining the ranks of the seditious opposition (the Congress).

the Company 'had long cast covetous eyes on [Punjab]'108. Ranjit Singh did not miss this reality.

In the 1840s, these three armies contained around 40,000 whites and 250,000 Indians. No white served under an Indian, and the highest paid Indian earned less than the lowest paid Briton.