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  • ...e, sided with the Axis Powers during the Second World war (1939-1945). The Indian National Army (INA) is also called 'Azad Hind Fauz'. ...n Singh hesitated but ultimately agreed. Fujihara handed over about 40,000 Indian soldiers, who had surrendered to him, to Mohan Singh. It was actually the f ...
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  • In the 19th century the Indian Muslims were a fallen people bereft of their empire and bewildered by the s ...Ali's [[Central National Muhamedan Association|central national muhamedan association]] were regularly reported in Abdul Hamid's paper, the [[Mohammedan Literary ...
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  • ...capital invested in railway construction. This worked as an incentive for British capital to steadily flow to India for building railways. ...y and the Great Indian Peninsular Company, signed contract with the [[East Indian Railway|east india company]] for construction of experimental lines from Ho ...
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  • ...iples of a Muslim pir. Gnanendramohan went to England and became the first Indian to become a barrister. ...ish Indian Association, The|british indian association]]. He was the first Indian to become a member of the Royal Photographic Society. Ramanath Tagore (d. 1 ...
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  • ...onal Congress|indian national congress]]. As their full family had an anti-British mindset, he was involved in underground politics and he had to take many ps ...ts uprising during his student life. After the formation of Sylhet unit of Indian Communist Party in 1936, Ajoy became the General Secretary of Surma Valley ...
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  • ...accepted the idea of such an organisation as the 'loyal opposition' to the British Raj. Barrister WC Banerjee was chosen as the first president of the INC's i ...1886. The INC was then not a full-fledged political party, rather a loose association of influential men in provincial politics trying to build up a national pla ...
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  • ...ours were heaped upon him, an Indian, by an institution that was very much British at the time. Very fittingly it was he who wrote the Asiatic Society's cente ...s'', ''The statesman'', The Phoenix, The Citizen, The Friend of India, The Indian Field'' and ''The [[Hindu Patriot|hindu patriot]]''. He was the editor of ' ...
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  • ...r grievances. He himself took some initiative in this regard. Finally, the British government formed the Indigo Commission in 1860 due to his initiative with ...ments in favour of amending the bill through a memorandum submitted to the British government. ...
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  • ...heatre, this play won the first prize from the all Indian People's Theatre Association Exhibition held in Mumbai in 1953. In 1955 he made his Group-theatre and st ...rik (1958), a film with science fiction themes. It was one of the earliest Indian films to portray an inanimate object, in this case an automobile, as a char ...
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  • ...ieving that such an association was a necessity for influencing Indian and British public opinion and also government policy the Missionaries established it i The Calcutta Missionary Conference (CMC) was a forum of the British Protestant Missionary Societies and was dominated by three of them - the Ch ...
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  • ...ders made the Brahma faith his prime concern in life. He joined the Indian Association in 1876 and was made its joint secretary. In 1879 he came to Kolkata to tea ...90 he joined the indigo cultivators' agitation. He was associated with the Indian National Congress since its birth in 1885 but in 1921 opposed Mahatma Gandh ...
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  • ...inated by the Lieutenant Governor from amongst the native gentry and Anglo-Indian interests. Making laws and regulations became the principal job of the Coun ...Among them only 49 were Indian members, 35 were members of British Indian Association and 26 were title holders. ...
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  • ...ims as a downtrodden nation could get more benefit from the loyalty to the British rather than from any opposition to them. He called upon his followers to de ...ational muhamedan association]] (1877), Sir Syed's United Indian Patriotic Association (1888) and many other local anzumans became more active in social regenerat ...
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  • ...tellectual emancipation. Rammohun had gained acquaintance with the leading Indian scholars of the day who were associated with the [[Fort William College|for ...t influential circle of friends, both Indian and European. Among his close Indian friends were [[Tagore, Prince Dwarkanath|dwarkanath tagore]] and Prasanna K ...
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  • ...world governing body, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in Paris on 21 May 1904. FIFA organises the competition ...gained popularity in Allahabad, Calcutta and Dhaka and the Indian Football Association (IFA) Shield Cup took off in 1893. ...
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  • '''Ali, Syed Ameer''' (1849-1928)''' '''lawyer, spokesman on Indian Muslim concerns, and writer on Islamic history and society, was born on 6 A Assisted by very close relationships with the British teachers at the Hooghly Madrasa, and supported by several competitive schol ...
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  • ...victorious army following the English civil war, and the execution of the British king Charles I in 1649. That Commonwealth was dominated from the outset by ...and parliamentary, monarchical and republican, all of whom were once under British colonial rule and spread all over the globe. From Africa to India, from Pac ...
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  • The proposal encountered a stiff opposition from an enlightened Indian, [[Roy, Raja Rammohun|rammohun roy]], who submitted a memorial to the Gover ...ve organisations like the [[British Indian Association, The|british indian association]]. The professorship of Hindu Law had to be abolished. In his letters (date ...
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  • ...entually published. As a result, he was able to attract the attention of a British professor of the [[Presidency College|presidency college]] and through his ...Calcutta Museum and Ram Kamal desired to take them to the Bengal Literary Association. But RP Chanda vehemently opposed their proposal and Kumar SK Ray supported ...
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  • ...cademic Sabha (1828), [[Brahma Sabha|brahma sabha]] (1829), "Land Holders' Association" (1831), Tattvabodhini Sabha (1842), etc were established in Calcutta. Thes ...y revolt]] of 1857. The other contemporary organisation, The British India Association (1851), also opposed the revolt. After the revolt was over, a message of 'f ...
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