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| :{{*mp}} ... that sprinter [[Milkha Singh]] '''[[List of Arjuna Award recipients (2000–2009)|refused to accept]]''' the [[Arjuna Award]], one of India's top sporting honours, citing undeserving awardees?
| | #... that from November to April every year '''[[Jammu (city)|Jammu]]''' is the capital of [[Jammu and Kashmir]], the northernmost [[India]]n state, and that during the summer [[Srinagar]] is the capital? |
| :{{*mp}}... that after the [[India national cricket team|Indian team]] won the [[1983 Cricket World Cup]], their manager '''[[PR Man Singh]]''' ensured that [[Wisden Cricket Monthly]] editor [[David Frith]] would "eat his words"?
| | #... that as per an estimation almost 95% of India's flutes are manufactured in the city of '''[[Pilibhit]]''' only in the state of [[Uttar pradesh]]. |
| :{{*mp}}... that the social network '''[[Koo (social network)|Koo]]''' increased in popularity after the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest caused a standoff between Twitter and the government of India?
| | #... that champion [[Shooting sports|shooter]] '''[[Abhinav Bindra]]''' is the [[List of firsts in India|first Indian]] to win an individual [[gold medal]] at any [[Olympic Games]]? |
| :{{*mp}}... that in 1957, a '''[[United Kingdom–India bus routes|bus ride from Calcutta to London]]''' cost £65?
| | #... that houses in the [[India]]n village '''[[Shani Shingnapur]]''' do not have doors? |
| :{{*mp}}... that [[British Army]] officer '''[[Augustus FitzGeorge|Sir Augustus FitzGeorge]]''' served as equerry to his father, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and accompanied Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on his visit to India?
| | #... that the '''[[Nariman House]]''', which was home to a [[Chabad house]], was a [[Mumbai]] landmark prior to falling victim to the [[November 2008 Mumbai attacks]]? |
| :{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Lac La Croix Indian Pony]]''' was recreated from a breeding population of four [[mare]]s by crossing them with a [[Spanish Mustang]]?
| | #... that the '''[[Rahul Raj encounter|police shooting of Rahul Raj]]''', a [[Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport|BEST]] bus hijacker in [[Mumbai]], [[India]], sparked nationwide protests and discussions? |
| :{{*mp}}... that radio station '''[[WWBC]]''' in Cocoa, Florida, was forced to remove its transmitter tower from the [[Indian River (Florida)|Indian River]] when the site was sold to condominium developers?
| | #... that '''[[Vakkom Moulavi]]''' was the founder of the newspaper ''[[Swadeshabhimani (newspaper)|Swadeshabhimani]]'' which was banned by the Government of [[Travancore]] due to its criticisms against the government and the [[Diwan (title)|Diwan]] [[Perungavur Rajagopalachari|P. Rajagopalachari]]? |
| :{{*mp}}... that the '''[[Indian Society for Cultural Co-operation and Friendship|Friends of the Soviet Union]]''' was founded in 1941 with poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as its patron?
| | #... that when [[Indian national cricket team|Indian]] [[cricket|cricketer]] '''[[List of international cricket centuries by Sourav Ganguly|Sourav Ganguly scored]]''' a century on test debut at [[Lord's Cricket Ground|Lord's]] in 1996, he became the third overall and first since [[John Hampshire (cricketer, born 1941)|John Hampshire]] in 1969 to do so? |
| :{{*mp}}... that five-time world chess champion [[Viswanathan Anand]] and India's first woman Everest climber [[Bachendri Pal]] '''[[List of Arjuna Award recipients (1980–1989)|received the Arjuna Award in the 1980s]]''', then India's highest sporting honour?
| | #... that in 1870, the '''[[Indian Reform Association]]''' aimed at putting into practice some of the ideas that the [[Brahmo]] leader [[Keshub Chunder Sen]] was exposed to during his visit to [[United Kingdom|Britain]]? |
| :{{*mp}}... that Colonel '''[[H. R. C. Pettigrew|Hugh Pettigrew]]''' observed that troops who thought that the Scottish Highlands resembled [[Waziristan campaign (1936–1939)|Waziristan]] on India's North-West Frontier were "of little use to anyone"?
| | #... that the term '''[[Sindhology]]''' as a subject of knowledge about [[Sindh]] was first coined in 1964? |
| :{{*mp}}... that Indian prime minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]] sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist '''[[S. G. Neginhal]]''' to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister [[Indira Gandhi]]?
| | #... that the '''[[Halegannada]]''', literally ''Old Kannada'', is an ancient form of the [[Kannada language]]? |
| :{{*mp}}... that the '''[[northern plains gray langur]]''' monkey is killed in India for food and to prevent crop-raiding, despite being considered sacred by Hindus?
| | #... that '''[[Nagpur Improvement Trust]]''', a local civic government body of [[Nagpur]], [[India]] established in 1936, is not an elected body and continues to work alongside [[Nagpur Municipal Corporation]]? |
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| | #... that [[India]]n scholar '''[[Śāntarakṣita]]''' is believed to have been instrumental in the introduction of [[Tibetan Buddhism|Buddhism to Tibet]]? #.... sugar factory of kawardha which was stabilised in only eleven month. |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Payal Ghanwani]]''' was the first [[Senate (Belize)|Belizean senator]] of [[Indo-Belizeans|Indian descent]]?
| | #... that during the '''[[Agra famine of 1837–38]]''' in the [[North-Western Provinces]] of [[India]], approximately 800,000 people died of starvation and an even larger number of [[livestock]] perished? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that Indian lyricist [[Gulzar]] wants his patriotic song "'''[[Ae Watan]]'''" to become the "song of our nation"?
| | #... that [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar|V.D. Savarkar]] wrote '''''[[The Indian War of Independence (book)|The Indian War of Independence]]''''', a [[Indian nationalism|nationalist]] history of the [[Indian rebellion of 1857|1857 uprising]], in response to [[British Empire|British]] celebrations of the 50th anniversary of its suppression? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that the [[British Raj]] restricted access to '''[[Squash in India|squash courts in India]]'''—then located on military bases—to the upper class of society?
| | #... that [[India]] established its '''[[India–Nigeria relations|diplomatic representation]]''' in [[Nigeria]] in 1958, two years before Nigeria's independence from [[British Nigeria|British rule]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that in 2019, despite a nationwide ban in India, an estimated more than [[Indian rupee|₹]]900 [[crore]] (US$130 million) was wagered on '''[[cockfighting in India|cockfighting]]''' in [[Andhra Pradesh]] in just three days?
| | #... that improving '''[[Indo-South African relations]]''' have led to phenomenal growth in [[bilateral trade]], rising from [[United States dollar|US$]]3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 ''billion'' in 2005-06 and targeting US$12 billion by 2010? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019|Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill]]''' introduced in 2019 by the [[Parliament of India|Indian parliament]] has been met with protests and criticism by the queer community?
| | #... that '''[[M. P. T. Acharya]]''' is associated with [[Indian Nationalism]] and [[Communist Party of India|communism]], as well as the [[Anarchism in India|anarchist]] movement? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that small Indian '''[[ringstone]]s''' of the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE typically have four nude female figures around the central hole?
| | #... that [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] have expanded '''[[Transport between India and Pakistan|cross-border road and rail transport links]]''', including across the [[Kashmir conflict|disputed region]] of [[Kashmir]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Ismith Khan]]'s novel '''''[[The Jumbie Bird]]''''' explores the transformation of immigrants from India into [[Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian|Indo-Trinidadians]]?
| | #... that growing '''[[Indo-Singaporean relations]]''' include extensive [[military]] cooperation and diverse [[bilateral trade]], which is expected to rise from [[U.S. dollar|USD]] 9–10 billion in 2006 to USD 50 billion by 2010? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that nearly half the milk produced in India, '''[[Dairy in India|whose dairy industry]]''' is the largest in the world, comes from [[Bubalina|buffalo]]es?
| | #... that [[India]]n [[film director]] '''[[Mohan Krishna Indraganti]]''' won eleven awards including the [[Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director|National Film Award]] and [[Nandi Award for Best Debut Director|Nandi Award]] for his first directorial venture? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[clinical trials in India]]''' must have government-regulated [[ethics committee]]s oversee their research?
| | #... that [[India]] and [[Vietnam]] plan to sign a [[free trade agreement]] to bolster '''[[Indo-Vietnamese relations|bilateral relations]]''' and further expand [[bilateral trade|trade]], which is expected to reach [[U.S. dollar|US$]]2 billion in 2008? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that the book '''''[[Before Freedom: Nehru's Letters to His Sister 1909–1947|Before Freedom]]''''' contains 38 years of letters from [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] to his sister [[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit|Nan]], including some he wrote while imprisoned during [[Indian independence movement|India's fight for independence]]?
| | #... that although building [[India]]'s [[Farkhor Air Base|first overseas military base]] in [[Tajikistan]] strengthened '''[[Indo-Tajik relations]]''', [[bilateral trade]] remained low at [[U.S. dollar|USD]] 12.09 million in 2005? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[anandalahari]]''' is an Indian [[chordophone]] musical instrument used by religious singers of the [[Baul]] faith?
| | #... that the [[India]]n politician '''[[Jamuna Nishad]]''' was dropped as [[cabinet minister]] after being named in the [[murder]] case of a [[police constable]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Palika Kendra]]''' is one of 23 buildings in India documented in the ''Atlas of Brutalist Architecture''?
| | #... that '''[[Kirori Singh Bhainsla]]''' leads a protest movement that recently attempted to bring [[Delhi]] to a standstill? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Sarika Kale]]''', a [[kho kho]] player who has struggled financially for years, won ₹51,000 for her performance as captain of the India national team at the Third Asian Kho-Kho Championship?
| | #... that '''[[Indo-Maldivian relations]]''' grew stronger after [[India]] responded to [[Maldives]]' request for help and [[Operation Cactus|thwarted a militant plot]] to overthrow the government in 1988? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[All India Anglo-Indian Association]]''' maintains that [[Anglo-Indian]]s are unique because they are Christians and have historical links to both Europe and India?
| | #... that [[Marathi cinema|Marathi film]] '''''[[Shwaas]]''''' was [[India]]'s official entry to the [[77th Academy Awards|2004 Oscars]] but faced financial problems to showcase and promote the film? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''''[[Woodland Sketches]]''''' by [[Edward MacDowell]] includes a piano piece based on the songs of the [[Walla Walla people|Walla Walla]] and [[Brothertown Indians|Brotherton]] peoples?
| | #... that [[Indian Space Research Organisation]] chairman G. Madavan Nair declared at the '''[[Raman Science Centre]]''', [[Nagpur]] that [[Indian human spaceflight program|India would have astronauts in space]] by 2015? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] humourist '''[[Ratilal Borisagar]]''' was awarded the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] by India's [[Sahitya Akademi|National Academy of Letters]] in 2019?
| | #... that [[Cinema of India|Indian actress]] '''[[Kamalinee Mukherjee]]'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s [[poem]] was selected for an international poetry contest in [[Washington, D.C.]] just before she began her acting career in the [[Telugu film industry]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that a print of '''''[[Badnam Basti]]''''', often described as India's first [[List of LGBT-related films|gay film]], was discovered in 2019 after having been [[Lost film|lost]] for 40 years?
| | #... that as a result of the '''[[Karnataka state assembly elections, 2008|2008 Karnataka state assembly elections]]''' the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] formed its first [[States and territories of India|state]] government in [[South India|southern India]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that a 17th-century illustrated manuscript of the '''''[[Anis Al-Hujjaj]]''''' shows pilgrims sailing from the [[Indian subcontinent]] to [[Arabian Peninsula|Arabia]]{{-?}}
| | #... that the [[2006 in politics|2006]] visit by [[List of kings of Saudi Arabia|King]] [[Abdullah of Saudi Arabia]] to [[India]] was officially described as "heralding a new era in '''[[Indo-Saudi Arabian relations]]'''"? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that the opera '''''[[Die Prinzessin Girnara]]''''', by composer [[Egon Wellesz|Wellesz]] and librettist [[Jakob Wassermann|Wassermann]], and based on a legend from India, premiered simultaneously at two opera houses in 1921?
| | #... that [[India]]'s [[U.S. Dollar|USD]] 650–750 million [[aid]] for [[Afghanistan]] has bolstered '''[[Indo-Afghan relations|bilateral relations]]''' and made it the largest regional provider of aid since [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|overthrow of the Taliban]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that after Indian-American lawyer '''[[Sakharam Ganesh Pandit]]''' represented [[Bhagat Singh Thind]] in a [[United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind|1923 U.S. Supreme Court case]], the U.S. government attempted to revoke his citizenship?
| | #... that [[Cinema of India|Indian]] actor '''[[Sikandar Kher]]''' was still in high school when he assisted director [[Sanjay Leela Bhansali]] in making the [[Bollywood films of 2002|2002 film]] ''[[Devdas (2002 film)|Devdas]]''? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that General '''[[Charles Reid (Indian Army officer)|Sir Charles Reid]]''' shot the celebrated, but probably not man-eating, [[Leeds Tiger]]?
| | #... that after being sentenced, beaten and left for dead for refusing to recite [[Muslim]] scriptures, [[Vaishnava]] convert '''[[Haridasa Thakur]]'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s ''([[:Image:Haridasa 1.png|pictured]])'' instant recovery convinced many he was a [[Pir (Sufism)|pir]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Faith Smith]]''', who grew up on the [[Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians|Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe]] reservation in [[Wisconsin]], became the founding president of the first urban institute of higher learning led by and serving [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]?
| | #... that the [[2008 in film|2008]] [[Cinema of India|Indian film]] '''''[[Woodstock Villa]]''''' marked the debut of veteran [[Bollywood]] actor [[Anupam Kher]]'s son, [[Sikandar Kher]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that one of the arguments made by the '''[[Simla Deputation]]''' for increasing Muslim representation in Indian politics was that they had ruled India under the [[Mughal Empire]]?
| | #... that improving '''[[India-Republic of China relations|Indo-Taiwanese relations]]''' have led to [[bilateral trade]] rising to [[U.S. dollar|USD]] 2.26 billion by 2005, even though [[India]] has not accorded [[diplomatic recognition]] to [[Taiwan]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Cleveland Indigenous activism|Cleveland Indigenous activist]]''' [[Sundance (activist)|Sundance]] successfully petitioned [[Oberlin High School (Ohio)|Oberlin High School]] in Ohio to change its school mascot from the Indians to the Phoenix in 2007?
| | #... that '''[[T. V. Sundaram Iyengar]]''' laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in [[South India]], when he started a bus service in [[Madurai]], [[Madras Presidency]] in 1912? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Facebook]] has to vet '''[[fake news in India]]''' for 23 official languages, but has been able to cover only 10 of them?
| | #... that '''[[Indian coracles]]''', which probably existed since the prehistoric times, have recently been used for giving tourists rides on the [[Kaveri River]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''''[[Stribodh]]''''', first published in 1857, was one of the earliest magazines in India to be aimed at a female audience?
| | #... that [[India]]'s '''[[India's "Look East" Policy|"Look East" policy]]''' aims to establish extensive [[International relations|relations]] with Asian countries to project its influence as a counterweight to that of the [[People's Republic of China]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Kim A. Wagner]]''', a Danish author of books on India, is named after [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s novel ''[[Kim (novel)|Kim]]''?
| | #... that on December 12, 1996, [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] signed a 30-year treaty resolving the long-standing dispute over the '''[[sharing of Ganges Waters]]'''? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that [[SC East Bengal]] became the first club in [[Football in India|Indian football]] to activate the [[force majeure]] clause in '''[[2020–21 SC East Bengal season|their 2020–21 season]]'''?
| | #... that [[India]] has developed '''[[Indo-Burmese relations|close bilateral relations]]''' with [[Burma]] with the aim of countering [[People's Republic of China|China]]'s growing influence and to elevate itself as a [[regional power]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Sarran Teelucksingh]]''' was the first [[Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian|person of Indian descent]] elected to the [[Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago]]?
| | #... that at least 37 people have died in the '''[[2008 caste violence in Rajasthan|ongoing caste violence]]''' in [[Rajasthan]], [[India]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Madrasa and tomb of Alauddin Khalji|tomb of Sultan Alauddin Khalji]]''' was built inside an [[madrasa|Islamic school]] in [[Delhi]], India?
| | #... that a [[free trade agreement]] made effective in 2000 strengthened '''[[Indo-Sri Lankan relations]]''' and quadrupled [[bilateral trade]], which grew to [[US$]]2.6 billion by 2006? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Sunita Sharma]]''' is reportedly India's first woman [[cricket]] coach?
| | #... that although the '''[[Ishvara Temple (Arasikere)|Ishvara temple]]''' ''([[:Image:Isvara Temple at Arasikere in Hassan district.jpg|pictured]])'' in [[Karnataka]], [[India]], seems modest in construction, it is in fact the most complicated [[Hoysala architecture|Hoysala monument]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Gunjan Saxena]]''' was the first woman [[Indian Air Force]] officer to go to war?
| | #... that [[Hindu]]s worship the [[Krishna]] often as a small child '''[[Bala Krishna]]''' (''[[:Image:Balakrishna hampi.png|pictured]])''), crawling on his hands and knees with a lump of butter in his hands? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Kolkata]]'s '''[[Currency Building]]''' has housed the [[Agra Bank]], an office for the issue and exchange of currency, the [[Reserve Bank of India]], and a public art museum?
| | #... that the original images of [[Lord Swaminarayan]] ''([[:Image:Sahajanand Swami cropped.jpg|pictured]])'' at the '''[[Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Karachi|Shri Swaminarayan Temple]]''' in [[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]] were removed and taken to [[India]] during the turbulent times of its [[Partition of India|partition]]? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that the 2018 film '''''[[Hotel Milan]]''''' is based on "anti-Romeo squads" formed in the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]]?
| | #... that the discovery of a stone [[Celt (tool)|celt]] with '''[[Influence of the Indus Valley civilization on Ancient Tamil Nadu|Indus script in Tamil Nadu]]''' in 2006 was regarded by [[India]]n [[epigraphist]] [[Iravatham Mahadevan]] as the "greatest archaeological discovery of a century in [[Tamil Nadu]]"? |
| :{{*mp}} ... that although the 2018 release '''''[[Hamari Paltan]]''''' was promoted as the last film of veteran Indian actor [[Tom Alter]], another one featuring him premiered later that same year?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that after traveling through India, Tibet, and the Qing Empire for more than 20 years, 18th-century Dutch explorer '''[[Samuel van der Putte]]''' ordered his notes and journals to be burned rather than accept their misuse?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Indian choreographer [[Mrinalini Sarabhai]] suggested the egg-shaped [[Kuiper belt]] object '''[[20000 Varuna]]''' be named after the Hindu deity [[Varuna]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Nainital Yacht Club]]''', located at an elevation of {{cvt|2084|m}}, is the highest yacht club in India and among the highest in the world?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that every sixth person in the world who has [[diabetes]] is '''[[Diabetes in India|from India]]'''?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the six members of [[Navika Sagar Parikrama]], an all-female crew who circumnavigated the globe, received '''[[Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award|India's highest adventure award]]''' in 2017?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that it took {{convert|190|litre}} of paint to complete the livery of the '''[[Indian locomotive class WDG-4G|Indian locomotive class {{nowrap|WDG-4G}}]]'''{{-?}}
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Russian generals '''[[Duhamel plan|proposed to invade India in 1854]]''' and '''[[Khrulev plan|in 1855]]''' to divert British forces from the [[Crimean War]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Priscilla Jana]]''', a South African human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug [[Nelson Mandela]] in 13 years of imprisonment on [[Maximum Security Prison, Robben Island|Robben Island]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Marine Cemetery]]''', made from plastic bottles collected from an Indian beach, is dedicated to nine endangered aquatic species?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the [[Doric order|Doric]] columns used in '''[[Christ Church, Byculla|Christ Church]]''' in [[Byculla]], India, were imported from England?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that when '''[[Lois Ellen Frank]]''' first proposed her 2003 [[James Beard Foundation Award|James Beard Award]]–winning cookbook on [[Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations|Native American foods]], publishers told her there was no such cuisine?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that superstitious people hold '''[[Joc-O-Sot|a Cleveland Indian]]''' responsible for losses by the [[Cleveland Indians]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the number of '''[[India–Tibet relations|Tibetan refugees in India]]''' decreased by 44 per cent between 2011 and 2018? | |
| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Vijayalakshmi Ramanan]]''', the first woman officer of the [[Indian Air Force]], custom-tailored her uniform as there were no specific uniforms for women when she joined the force?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that in the 1980s, textile conservator '''[[Martand Singh (textile conservator)|Martand Singh]]''' organized a series of exhibitions to rekindle interest in the weaving and dyeing traditions of India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the twenty members of the successful [[1965 Indian Everest Expedition|1965 Indian Everest expedition]] are to date '''[[List of Arjuna Award recipients (1961–1969)|the only team recipients]]''' of the [[Arjuna Award]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Turkey's '''[[Anadolu Shipyard]]''' signed a contract with India's [[Hindustan Shipyard]] to transfer technology for the building of five fleet support ships for the [[Indian Navy]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Essop Moosa]]''', who was of Indian origin, became the first non-white player to play for an all-white [[association football|soccer]] team in South Africa, appearing under a pseudonym?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that to make the [[ethnographic film]] series '''''[[The Doon School Quintet]]''''', visual anthropologist [[David MacDougall]] was given unprecedented access to film students at [[The Doon School|an all-boys boarding school]] in India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Nilima Arun Kshirsagar]]''' developed and patented liposomal [[Amphotericin B|amphotericin B]], which was used to treat "[[Mucormycosis|black fungus]]" during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in India|{{nowrap|COVID-19}} pandemic in India]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''''[[Wahan Ke Log]]''''' is one of the earliest science-fiction films made in India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Meena Kumari (book)|a book detailing the short life of Indian actress Meena Kumari]]''' was published just seven months after her death in 1972?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that radio station '''[[WWBC]]''' in [[Cocoa, Florida]], was forced to remove its transmitter tower from the [[Indian River (Florida)|Indian River]] when the site was sold to condominium developers?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Indian Society for Cultural Co-operation and Friendship|Friends of the Soviet Union]]''' was founded in 1941 with poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as its patron?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that due to [[COVID-19 lockdown in India|{{nowrap|COVID-19}} lockdowns in India]], the science-fiction short film ''55 km/sec'' was directed remotely, and the lead actors '''[[Mrinal Dutt]]''' and [[Richa Chadda]] filmed themselves through their own devices?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[space industry of India]]''' has supported the launch of more than 100 domestic satellites and more than 300 foreign satellites?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Kashmiris|Kashmiri]] poet '''[[Madhosh Balhami]]''' lost 30 years of his poetry in a [[Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir|clash between militants and the Indian government]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Indian-American chef '''[[Raji Jallepalli]]''', who is credited with "originating the fusion of classic French and Indian cuisines", originally trained as a [[microbiologist]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the Buddhist site of '''[[Ratnagiri, Odisha|Ratnagiri]]''' in [[Odisha]], India, includes rare carved scenes that seem to combine eroticism and hair-cutting?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Satyavathi Rathod]]''' is the first woman from a [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|scheduled tribe]] to serve as a minister in the Indian state of [[Telangana]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that India's first metro, the '''[[Kolkata Metro]]''', was first proposed in 1919 but became operational only in 1984?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that during its [[2019 Indian general election|2019 election campaign]], the [[Indian National Congress]] promised to abolish the '''[[Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code|sedition law]]''', although the government had arrested 9,000 people for sedition alone in 2012–2013?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Tamil Nadu]] was the first state in India to use [[Organ donation in India#Green corridors|green corridors]] to '''[[Organ transplantation in Tamil Nadu|expedite organ transplants]]'''?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Aisha de Sequeira]]''' led [[Morgan Stanley]]'s [[mergers and acquisitions]] in India when it was the top bank by the value of its deals in 2012?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''''[[Lekhapaddhati]]''''', a guidebook written in [[Sanskrit]], includes specimens of letters and documents intended to be used by administrators during [[Chaulukya dynasty|Chaulukya]] rule in [[Gujarat]], India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that ancient '''[[Gupta art]]''' of India includes gold coins commemorating the [[Ashvamedha]] [[Vedas|Vedic]] horse sacrifice?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the adults and larvae of the '''[[Chilocorus cacti|cactus lady beetle]]''' prey on the '''[[Selenaspidus articulatus|West Indian red scale]]''', the '''[[Parlatoria blanchardi|date palm scale]]''', the '''[[Pseudaulacaspis pentagona|white peach scale]]''', the '''[[Melanaspis glomerata|sugarcane scale]]''', and the '''[[Carulaspis minima|minute cypress scale]]'''?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Kim A. Wagner]] wrote '''''[[The Skull of Alum Bheg]]''''' to tell the story of "thousands of Indian soldiers" who [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|rebelled in 1857]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that in 1886 prison superintendent '''[[John W. Tyler]]''' took 34 Indians, mostly prisoners, to the [[Colonial and Indian Exhibition]] in London to show their skill in carpet weaving?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Indian child actress '''[[Taruni Sachdev]]''' was nicknamed the "[[Rasna]] girl"?<!--Special occasion hook for May 14-->
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[National Sports Awards|annual Indian sports awards]]''' ceremony at the [[Rashtrapati Bhavan|Presidential Palace]] includes awards [[List of Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award recipients|for adventure]], '''[[Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy|for the top-performing university]]''', and '''[[Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar|for sports promotion]]'''?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Mahatma Gandhi]] championed the concept of '''[[composite nationalism]]''', which led to a massive expansion of the [[Indian independence movement]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that India's [[Shikhar Dhawan]] and England's [[Jack Burnham (cricketer)|Jack Burnham]] are the only players to have scored three '''[[List of Under-19 Cricket World Cup centuries|centuries in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup]]'''?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Shantaram Siddi]]''' is the first Indian legislator of African descent?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that during the '''[[1981 Benson & Hedges Cup Final]]''', a domestic cricket match in England, two [[West Indies cricket team|West Indian]] players set new [[Batting (cricket)|batting]] and [[Bowling (cricket)|bowling]] records?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the web series '''''[[Avrodh: The Siege Within]]''''' meticulously details the planning for India's [[2016 Indian Line of Control strike|retaliatory military strike]] following the [[2016 Uri attack|2016 Uri terrorist attacks]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts]]''' were modelled on legislation introduced after the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Irish Great Famine]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary]]''' acts as a natural [[Wildlife corridor|corridor]] in the movement of the [[Himalayan brown bear]] and [[markhor]] between [[Poonch district, India|Poonch]] and the [[Kashmir Valley]] forests?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that prior to becoming Google India's manager, '''[[Sanjay Gupta (business executive)|Sanjay Gupta]]''' was credited for expanding [[Star India]]'s sports business by launching [[Pro Kabaddi League]] and [[Indian Super League]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the ancient Indian religion '''[[Jainism]]''' holds that the [[Jainism and non-creationism|universe was not created]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[northern plains gray langur]]''' monkey is killed in India for food and to prevent crop raiding, despite being considered sacred by Hindus?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the Indian film '''''[[Chand Bujh Gaya]]''''' (''The Moon Is Eclipsed'') was denied a censor certificate for fear of "inciting communal violence" and "communal disharmony"?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[John Montgomery Cooper]]''' advanced the theory that both South American and North American Indians were "marginal peoples" who were cultural relics from prehistoric times?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that all the residents of '''[[Wallacepur]]''', a village in the Indian state of [[Gujarat]], are Christian?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Jointness and integration in the Indian military|inter-service cooperation]]''' was one of the most important lessons of the [[Bangladesh Liberation War|Bangladesh war]] for India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Shawnee]] leader '''[[John Lewis (Shawnee leader)|John Lewis]]''' often wore a "[[Indian peace medal|peace medal]]" given to him by U.S. president [[Thomas Jefferson]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that during the '''[[Paleogeography of the India–Asia collision system|collision of India with Asia]]''', the southern part of the [[Tibetan Plateau]] achieved its high elevation before the northern part?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Muhammad Ali Mungeri]]''' was the prime founder of [[Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama]], a major Islamic seminary in India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[storm surge]] and abnormally high tides generated by the '''[[1875 Indianola hurricane]]''' in Texas swept boats as far as {{convert|9|mi|km|abbr=on}} inland?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Gurgaon kidney scandal|a kidney-transplantation scandal]] led to a 2011 amendment to the law on '''[[organ donation in India]]'''?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[1964 split in the Communist Party of India]]''' was ignored by the Soviet press, but was overemphasized in Chinese mass media?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the Latin American '''''[[Travesti (gender identity)|travesti]]''''' gender identity has been considered to be a [[third gender]], akin to the ''[[Hijra (South Asia)|hijras]]'' of India and the ''[[muxe]]'' of Mexico?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that India developed nuclear power when '''[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]''' was prime minister?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that under '''[[National Education Policy 2020|India's new education policy]]''', students will be allowed to combine fashion studies with physics, or baking courses with chemistry?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Rani Kumudini Devi]]''' was the first woman to serve as [[Mayor of Hyderabad, India|Mayor of Hyderabad]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Manoj Muntashir]] originally wrote "'''[[Teri Mitti]]'''" as a tribute to soldiers, then wrote a [[reprise]] as a tribute to healthcare workers during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in India|{{nowrap|COVID-19}} pandemic in India]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Indian prime minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] launched '''''[[Shankar's Weekly]]''''', even though [[K. Shankar Pillai|its founder]] described the magazine as "fundamentally anti-establishment"?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that India's '''[[Mohan Narayan Rao Samant|Mohan Samant]]''' managed the largest covert naval operation in history, which resulted in the destruction of around 100,000 tonnes of Pakistani shipping during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] in 1971?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Indian writer '''[[Malayanil]]''' was a pioneer of modern short-story writing in the [[Gujarati language]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Travancore Radio's first English-language broadcaster, '''[[Indira Joseph Venniyoor]]''', was paid 69 [[Indian rupee|rupees]] (then equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the first cookbook edited by '''[[Maria Guarnaschelli]]''' helped introduce American cooks to Indian cuisine?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Saumitra Khan]]''' was elected in the [[2019 Indian general election]] by a margin of more than 78,000 votes without participating in any political rally in his constituency?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that cricketer [[Sachin Tendulkar]] ''(depicted)'' was recognised by his native India with both '''[[List of Arjuna Award recipients (1990–1999)|a top sporting honour]]''' and [[Bharat Ratna|its highest civilian honour]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Joshna Chinappa]]''' has won the Indian national [[Squash (sport)|squash]] championship a record 18 times?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that 50 books from a total of more than 150 authored by Pakistani historian '''[[Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri]]''' are about the Indian scholar and independence activist [[Abul Kalam Azad]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[1990 Bijnor riot]]''' was the most destructive event during concurrent Hindu nationalist campaigns in India, which eventually led to the [[demolition of the Babri Masjid]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the [[State Emblem of India]] was embossed on the wheels of the '''[[Chandrayaan-2|{{nowrap|Chandrayaan-2}}]]''' mission's [[lunar rover]] to leave behind patterned tracks on the lunar surface?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the last British troops left India in 1948, post independence, from the '''[[Gateway of India]]'''?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the play '''''[[Karl Marx in Kalbadevi]]''''' depicts an imaginary visit by Marx to [[Kalbadevi]], the hyper-capitalist area of Mumbai, India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Port of Krueng Geukueh]]''' in [[Aceh]], Indonesia, became an entry point for aid shipments as it was not damaged by the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami|2004 tsunami]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that India is creating the post of '''[[Chief of the Defence Staff (India)|Chief of the Defence Staff]]''' twenty years after it was officially suggested?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that despite being described as a "weak candidate", '''[[Arvind Sawant]]''' defeated his nearest competitor by more than 120,000 votes to represent the [[Mumbai South (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mumbai South constituency]] in the [[2014 Indian general election]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that after [[Indian Airlines Flight 814|an aeroplane hijacking]], the '''[[Airport Sector (CISF)|Central Industrial Security Force]]''' was given the responsibility of securing airports in India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Qatar expressed interest for its industrial security personnel to be trained at the '''[[National Industrial Security Academy]]''' of India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that before the passage of '''[[Anti-defection law (India)|India's anti-defection law]]''', an estimated 550 out of 3,500 legislators elected in 1967 defected from their parent parties, some [[crossing the floor]] more than once?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that six [[All India Institutes of Medical Sciences]] began operating in 2019, including institutes '''[[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bibinagar|in Telangana]]''', '''[[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar|in Jharkhand]]''', and '''[[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani|in West Bengal]]'''?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the 2005 book '''''[[Open Secrets: India's Intelligence Unveiled|Open Secrets]]''''' reveals how assets of Indian intelligence agencies, including aircraft, were used by politicians and their families for private purposes?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Iqbal Qureshi]]''' composed the music for the 1964 film ''[[Cha Cha Cha (1964 film)|Cha Cha Cha]]'', the first Indian film to feature Western dance?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Asus]] had to rename their '''[[Asus ZenFone 6|ZenFone 6]]''' for the Indian market after the [[Delhi High Court]] ruled that the name violated a competitor's trademark?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[British Army]] officer '''[[Augustus FitzGeorge|Sir Augustus FitzGeorge]]''' served as [[equerry]] to his father, [[Prince George, Duke of Cambridge]], and accompanied [[Edward VII|Albert Edward, Prince of Wales]], on his visit to India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that a two-year Native American housing protest group called the '''[[Chicago Indian Village]]''' started next to the [[Chicago Cubs]] home stadium, [[Wrigley Field]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Stuart Bergsma]]''', a medical missionary in Ethiopia and India, connected [[Glossolalia|speaking in tongues]] with emotional stress?<!--Special occasion hook for July 30-->
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''''[[The Unsafe Asylum]]''''', a book of short stories by [[Anirudh Kala]], explores the psychological effects of the [[Partition of India]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Indian writer '''[[Shrabani Basu]]''' learned about [[Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant|the relationship between Abdul Karim and Queen Victoria]] while researching the history of curry?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Indian cricketer '''[[B. Jayaram|Bangalore Jayaram]]'''{{`s}} English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite golf club, the [[Mashie|Mashie Niblick]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that in 1990, '''[[Mantu Ghosh]]''' became India's youngest national [[table tennis]] champion at age 16?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that during '''[[Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech|a 2015 speech at the Oxford Union]]''', Indian politician [[Shashi Tharoor]] claimed that Britain owes reparations to India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Pakistan was envisioned as the '''[[New Medina]]''' to be used as a staging point for the conquest and [[Islamization|Islamisation]] of India, similar to the [[conquest of Mecca]] by [[Muhammad]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Mozambique-born '''[[Violet Dias Lannoy]]''', called "the lost Goan/Indian/African novelist" by [[Peter Nazareth]], came from a Goan family, worked with [[Mahatma Gandhi]], and hung out with [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the release of the 2001 Hindi film '''''[[Chori Chori Chupke Chupke]]''''' was delayed for several months due to allegations that it was funded by the [[Organised crime in India|Mumbai underworld]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that after the [[India national cricket team|Indian team]] won the [[1983 Cricket World Cup]], their manager '''[[PR Man Singh]]''' ensured that ''[[Wisden Cricket Monthly]]'' editor [[David Frith]] would "eat his words"?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the newly reported 6th-century '''[[Devunigutta Temple]]''' in [[Telangana]], India, only came to international scholarly attention when images were posted on [[social media]] in 2017?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Rembrandt's Mughal drawings]]''' depict Indian emperors and noblemen, and are the only drawings in which the artist engaged with the style of a "dramatically foreign culture"?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Indian prime minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]] sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist '''[[S. G. Neginhal|S. G. Neginhal]]''' to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister [[Indira Gandhi]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Sacred Heart Catholic Church (Mathura)|Sacred Heart Catholic Church]]''' in [[Mathura]], India, combines Gothic principles, Indian craftsmanship, and a Russian dome?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the social network '''[[Koo (social network)|Koo]]''' increased in popularity after the [[2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest]] caused a standoff between Twitter and the government of India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Kolkata]], the smallest by area of India's six [[Classification of Indian cities#Historical classification|{{nowrap|A-1}} cities]], has the country's largest '''[[Kolkata Suburban Railway|suburban rail system]]''' by track length and number of stations{{-?}}
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Assam Petro-Chemicals]]''' became the first Indian company to sell [[methanol]] as cooking fuel?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Clavigralla gibbosa|tur pod bug]]''' is the most damaging sap-sucking pest of the [[pigeon pea]] in India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the [[lehenga]] was the traditional dress of women belonging to the '''[[Bettiah Christians|Bettiah Christian]]''' ethnoreligious community of India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that as the film negatives used for the '''[[Raja Harishchandra|first Indian feature film]]''' were of limited [[spectral sensitivity]], the colour red was avoided in sets, costumes, and make-up?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that after meeting [[Puebloans|Pueblo Indians]] during his World War II service, '''[[Burton Benedict]]''' switched his focus at Harvard University from [[ornithology]] to [[anthropology]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that in the 1970s, Indian retailer '''[[Anokhi]]''', which produces hand-printed garments, helped revive traditional [[Rajasthan]]i [[woodblock printing]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the final exhibition of Indian artist '''[[Anjum Singh]]''', titled ''I am still here'', was an autobiographical depiction of her struggles with cancer?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Myra MacDonald]]''', whose career as a foreign correspondent for [[Reuters]] spanned virtually three decades, and who covered [[South Asia]] for a long time, wrote three books on India and Pakistan?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Indian doctor '''[[Nasarvanji Hormusji Choksy]]''', who worked to improve public health, contracted [[bubonic plague]] three times?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[National Salt Satyagraha Memorial]]''' honors the participants of the [[Salt March|Salt Satyagraha]], a nonviolent civil disobedience in [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|colonial India]] led by [[Mahatma Gandhi]] in 1930?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that India's '''[[Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana|2020 food-security scheme]]''', launched during [[COVID-19 pandemic in India|the country's {{nowrap|COVID-19}} pandemic]], is equivalent to feeding 2.5 times the population of the US, 12 times that of the UK, and twice that of the EU?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Phenacoccus solenopsis|cotton mealybug]]''', originally discovered in an underground ants' nest in [[New Mexico]], is now a major cotton pest in India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Bihar Animal Sciences University]]''' is one of four [[State university (India)|state universities]] and six [[List of private universities in India|private universities]] established in the Indian state of [[Bihar]] in 2017–18?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that a medal depicting [[Minerva]], sometimes identified as the East India Company's '''[[Monghyr Mutiny Medal]]''', may in fact be a Freemasons' award?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Indian [[Kathakali]] artist '''[[Mathoor Govindan Kutty]]''' specialized in ''Kathakali Stri Vesham'', the portrayal of female characters on stage?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the 14-year-old lead actress in the 1931 British Indian film '''''[[The Last Kiss (1931 film)|The Last Kiss]]''''' was brought from a [[Prostitution in Bangladesh|brothel in Dhaka]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that two months after being unable to walk properly, Indian [[long jump]]er '''[[M. Sreeshankar]]''' won the bronze medal at the [[2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships]]?<!--Special occasion hook for September 28-->
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| :{{*mp}} ... that in '''[[Jyotigram Yojana|a radical reform of its power grid]]''', [[Gujarat]] became the first state in India to separate [[Electric power distribution|electricity feeder lines]] between agricultural and household usage?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that India has '''[[List of Indian chess players|66 chess grandmasters]]'''?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the ancient fortified city of '''[[Bhitargarh]]''' served as a node to the strategic trade routes connecting Tibet and eastern India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that English librarian '''[[Frank Cundall]]''' created the West India Reference Library in 1894, which later became the nucleus of the [[National Library of Jamaica]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that more than 130 revolutionaries were hanged on the premises of '''[[Sikri Mata Temple]]''' during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that after '''[[Lady Ganga]]''' learned that she had stage-four [[cervical cancer]], she traveled to India and set a women's world record by [[Standup paddleboarding|standup-paddleboarding]] {{convert|700|mi}} on the Ganges?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the creators of the Indian web series '''''[[His Storyy (web series)|His Storyy]]''''' changed the ending because of [[LGBT rights in India|prevailing social discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community in the country]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that according to legend, '''[[Gabriel Boughton]]''' treated [[Jahanara Begum]]'s burns and in return received the right to free trade for the [[East India Company]] from her father [[Shah Jahan]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Naimur Rahman]] took '''[[List of Bangladesh cricketers who have taken five-wicket hauls on Test debut|six wickets for 132 runs]]''' in the very first [[Test cricket|test]] [[Bangladesh national cricket team|Bangladesh]] played in [[Indian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2000–01#Only Test|2000]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that sprinter [[Milkha Singh]] '''[[List of Arjuna Award recipients (2000–2009)|refused to accept]]''' the [[Arjuna Award]], one of India's top sporting honours, citing undeserving awardees?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that international [[cricket]]er '''[[Rohit Sharma]]''' is the rhino ambassador for [[WWF-India]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the [[Indian Air Force]] has launched two mobile [[Combat flight simulation game|air combat games]], '''''[[Guardians of the Skies]]''''' and '''''[[Indian Air Force: A Cut Above|A Cut Above]]''''', to reach out to youth?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that images of the widowed queen who commissioned the first major work of Indian '''[[Deccan painting]]''' were erased after [[Murtaza Nizam Shah I|her son]] rebelled and imprisoned her?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Manjappada]]''', a [[Supporters' groups|supporters' group]] of [[Kerala Blasters FC]], coordinated and brought forty-one busloads of their fans across [[Kerala]] to the venue for the opening match of [[2019–20 Indian Super League season|the 2019–20 season]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that teenager '''[[Jyoti Kumari]]''' travelled {{convert|750|mi}} on a bicycle with her injured father, during [[COVID-19 lockdown in India|India's COVID-19 lockdown]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Karan Johar]] launched the pop song "'''[[Genda Phool]]'''" on social media during [[2020 coronavirus lockdown in India|India's coronavirus lockdown]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Vikram Misri]]''' was the [[List of ambassadors of India to China|Indian ambassador to China]] during the [[2020–2021 China–India skirmishes]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Ceroplastes ceriferus|Indian wax scale]]''' was [[Species description|first described]] in 1798 by [[Johan Christian Fabricius|Fabricius]], but was wrongly attributed to another author for nearly two hundred years?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that after a secret purchase from Europe, the '''[[Special Group (India)|Special Group]]''' became the first Indian troops to be equipped with the [[AK-47]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the Indian [[Folktronica|folktronic]] duo '''[[Hari & Sukhmani]]''' combine traditional [[Folk music of Punjab|Punjabi folk music]] and [[Sufi poetry]] with [[electronic music]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Spilosoma obliqua|jute hairy caterpillar]]''' is a serious pest of fibre crops in India, sometimes occurring in epidemic outbreaks?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that as a child, Indian archery champion '''[[Pravin Jadhav]]''' was undernourished and lived in a shack near a drain?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Alexander Lindsay (East India Company officer)|Alexander Lindsay]]''' served as a general in the [[East India Company]] while remaining a [[half-pay]] lieutenant in the British Army?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Barrackpore Trunk Road]]''', the oldest [[Road surface|metalled road]] in India, was built in 1775 to connect the first British [[cantonment]] in India with [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], then the country's capital?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[East Bengal Ultras]]''', founded in 2013, became India's first [[ultras]] group?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Farooq Khan]]''' headed the Kashmiri [[Special Operations Group (India)|Special Operations Group]] credited with the killing of more than 2,000 militants between 1994 and 1996?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''''[[Mahanati]]''''' is the highest-grossing [[Cinema of South India|South Indian film]] to feature a woman as its primary character?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Paleo-Indians]] began '''[[Native American tribes in Maryland|inhabiting Maryland]]''' around 10,000 BC?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[All India Conference of Indian Christians]]''' was [[Opposition to the partition of India|opposed to the partition of India]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that after suspected '''[[2020 coronavirus pandemic in Maharashtra|coronavirus patients in Maharashtra, India]]''', started fleeing hospitals, the government directed officials to stamp the left hand of those quarantined at home using [[Election ink|indelible ink]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Zeng Rongsheng]]''' organized a Sino-American joint investigation of the geology of the [[Tibetan Plateau]] and examined the collision process of the [[Indian Plate]] with the [[Eurasian Plate]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that a tournament in which a goat is awarded as the top prize was used by the selectors of India's '''[[Special Area Games Scheme]]''' to scout for field hockey players?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Hadassah (dancer)|a Jewish girl from Jerusalem]]''' became an acclaimed performer of [[Indian classical dance|Indian]], [[Javanese dance|Javanese]], [[Balinese dance|Balinese]], and other ethnic dance forms in the United States?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Robert Fletcher (East India Company officer)|Sir Robert Fletcher]]''' rose to command the [[East India Company]]'s [[Madras Army]], despite being cashiered for his involvement in the 1766 '''[[Monghyr Mutiny]]'''?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the first batch of cadets from the '''[[Indian Military Academy]]''' included the future army chiefs of Pakistan, Burma, and India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that five-time world chess champion [[Viswanathan Anand]] and India's first woman Everest climber [[Bachendri Pal]] '''[[List of Arjuna Award recipients (1980–1989)|received the Arjuna Award in the 1980s]]''', then India's highest sporting honour?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Khin Maung Lat]]''', a servant at the king's palace in [[Ratnagiri]], India, eloped with Princess [[Myat Phaya Lat]] against the will of the king and queen?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Colonel '''[[H. R. C. Pettigrew|Hugh Pettigrew]]''' observed that troops who thought that the Scottish Highlands resembled [[Waziristan campaign (1936–1939)|Waziristan]] on India's North West Frontier were "of little use to anyone"?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Acorn Creek]]''' is named after an extinct [[Muscogee|Creek Indian]] village and plantation on the [[Chattahoochee River]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that in 1957, a '''[[United Kingdom–India bus routes|bus ride from Calcutta to London]]''' cost £65?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that a scheme for declaring ten public and ten private institutions as '''[[Institutes of Eminence]]''' has been approved in India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Radio Quarantine]]''' was founded in India by a group of professors, directors and PhD students in response to [[social isolation]] protocols following the outbreak of the [[COVID-19 pandemic|coronavirus pandemic]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that food writer [[Vir Sanghvi]] called '''[[Indigo (restaurant)|Indigo]]''' "one of the most important establishments in Indian restaurant history"?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the American merchant ship '''''[[USS Herald (1798)|Herald]]''''' served in the U.S. Navy against France before becoming a French [[privateer]], was sold to Britain as a [[Slave ship|slaver]], and ended her days as a [[West Indiaman]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that around 200 CE, the Indian monk [[Nagarjuna]] exhorted a king to make "Images of [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]] with fine proportions / Well designed and '''[[Lotus throne|sitting on lotuses]]'''"?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Lac La Croix Indian Pony]]''' was recreated from a breeding population of four [[mare]]s by crossing them with a [[Spanish Mustang]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that hundreds of stockbrokers protested outside the [[Bombay Stock Exchange]] demanding removal of the '''''[[Big Bull, India|Big Bull]]''''' after the market crashed?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] politicians [[Maneka Gandhi]] and [[Santosh Gangwar]], current members of the '''[[17th Lok Sabha]]''', have been elected to the [[Lok Sabha|Indian lower house]] for the eighth time?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that badminton player [[P. V. Sindhu]] became the inaugural recipient of the '''[[BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year]]''' award in 2020?<!--Special occasion hook for March 8-->
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| :{{*mp}} ... that, unusual for a [[Sikhism|Sikh]] place of worship, '''[[Guru Ram Rai Darbar Sahib]]''' in India was influenced by [[Islamic architecture]]?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Swarup Rani Nehru]]''' appealed to women to make salt in defiance of the [[History of the British salt tax in India|salt laws]] in British India?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that Australian soprano '''[[Ada Baker]]''' toured India and China before becoming a singing teacher in [[Perth]] in 1889?
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| :{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Famine Inquiry Commission]]''' has been criticized by scholars and Indian nationalists for exonerating the British government of responsibility for the [[Bengal famine of 1943|1943 Bengal famine]]?
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| </noinclude> | | </noinclude> |
| |} | | |} |
