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  • The First War of Indian Independence was a period of rebellions in ... Mangal Pandey, a Sepoy in the colonial British army, was the spearhead ...
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  • pdf Iqbal and Goethe] Yearbook of the Goethe Society of India ... Congress and never fully desired the partition of India.Ayesha Jalal, The Sole ...
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  • – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress ... Nehru reluctantly supported the partition of India as per a plan released ...
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  • , IPA: 'kolkat̪a]), formerly Calcutta, is the capital of the ... Retrieved January 27, 2009. The partition of India also created intense ...
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  • with police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.]] ... The Partition of India in 1947 was a traumatic event in South Asian ...
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  • and Kazi Nazrul Islam. He is considered one of the innovators who introduced ... In the early days of the twentieth century, Jibanananda was at the ...
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  • all the objects in the universe are composed of very small, invisible, indestructible ... Traditional atomism is used in two distinct domains: The atoms of ...
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  • British Raj (rāj, lit. "rule" in Hindi) or British India ... (contemporaneously, "British India") as well as the princely ...
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  • its greatest territorial extent ruled parts of Afghanistan, Balochistan and ... would eventually result in the partition of India based on the “two ...
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  • Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Historically ... includes Jammu and Kashmir administered by India (comprising Jammu, Kashmir ...
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  • is an educational organization founded in India in 1937 that offers instruction ... In April 1950, after the Partition of India, they moved to Mount Abu ...
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  • The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of British ... northern Indian Gangetic Plain and central India." ...
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  • Ahmadābād), the largest city in the state of Gujarat and the seventh-largest ... Following independence and the partition of India in 1947, intense communal ...
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  • designates the National Flag Carrier of Bangladesh, with its main hub ... Biman Bangladesh Airlines has a history that mirrors the formation ...
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  • in Pakistan after Karachi, and the capital of Punjab province. It is popularly ... The Partition of India resulted in rioting in which one to five million ...
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  • under Alexander the Great who became ruler of Egypt (323 B.C.E. — 283 B ... the dynasty he founded and in the tradition of cultural patronage and fusion ...
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  • , a region in west-central northern India, occupies a plateau of volcanic ... who settled in the region after the partition of India, play an important ...
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  • in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh. He headed the Awami ... violence that broke out in Kolkata with the partition of India. ...
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  • signifies an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place ... Before the Partition of India in 1947, Kargil belonged to Gilgit-Baltistan ...
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  • the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...
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  • The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... of Bengal) became East Pakistan. The Partition of India resulted in the worst ...
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  • Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... The Balfour Declaration led to the 1922 League of Nations mandate ...
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  • , trans. Urdū, historically spelled Ordu) is an Indo-Aryan language ... considered to be Hindi. Since the Partition of India, the formal registers ...
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  • , Eng: Mound or Tell of the Dead) was one of the most prominent cities ... the city to an ancient course of the Sabarmati river. It was ...
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  • Karachi (كراچى) is the capital of the province of Sindh, and ... A large influx of economic and political migrants and refugees from ...
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  • ) (born August 15, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from ... During her period in office, the leader of the official opposition ...
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  • A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims (followers of Islam). Muslims ... The Arabic word masjid means place of worship and derives from the ...
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  • Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British prime minister ...
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  • 2002), known as Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council ... At the height of its power in the 1970s and 1980s, the ANO was widely ...
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  • 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from ... achievements contributed to the prestige of France, its people, its language ...
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  • 1988) was the president and military ruler of Pakistan from July 1977 to ... During his tenure, he advanced the Islamization of Pakistan and carried ...
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  • Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under ... Britain. Despite the violence of the Partition of India following independence ...
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  • Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 16,000 feet, (4,900 meters ... Songtsän Gampo united numerous tribes of the region. From 1578, leadership ...
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  • The State of Israel (in Hebrew "Medinat Yisra'el," ... Israel declared its independence in 1948. With a diverse population ...
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  • David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, OM, PC (January ... . The same year, he introduced National Insurance to cover the cost ...
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  • Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... newly independent nation cherished as a sign of membership in the community ...
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  • 2, 1754 – May 17, 1838), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand ... peace with Austria through the 1801 Treaty of Lunéville and with Britain ...
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  • A longhouse or long house is a type of long, narrow, single-room building ... In North America two types of longhouse were developed: The Native ...
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  • ), officially the Republic of Cyprus ( Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία ... ) is an Eurasian island nation in the eastern part of the Mediterranean ...
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  • national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of people either entirely or a ... Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...
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  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...
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  • , also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city ... Damascus was the capital of the Aramean Kingdom beginning in the eleventh ...
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  • The Korean War is the name given to a civil war between the nations ... Finally, after massive swings in favor of both the North and the South ...
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  • Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is located on ... an ideology that advocates the unification of all ethnic Somalis under one ...
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  • was an Irish political leader in the first half of the nineteenth ... also had their heroes from the long history of Irish revolt against the British ...
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  • The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...
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  • physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...
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  • for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...
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  • England is the largest and most populous constituent country of the ... United Kingdom, or the same as the island of Great Britain, which consists ...
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