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Shah Wali Ullah (1703-1762) persuaded Ahmad Shah Abdali,

He was the founder of the Durrani Empire, to invade India and fight against the Marathas,The 

Marathas were a powerful Hindu empire at that time.

In 1761, Ahmad Shah Abdali, with the support of Shah Wali Ullah, defeated the Marathas in the Third Battle of Panipat.

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The Quit India Movement is also known as the August Movement.

It was launched by Gandhi on August 8, 1942, in Bombay.

The movement, started by the Congress party.

It's demanded an end to British rule in India.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah responded with the slogan "Divide and Quit India."

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Provincial Autonomy is such a system in which the government of the provinces is independent from any external influence and does not rely on any of the external forces.

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The Khilafat movement was a Religio-Political movement.

Launched by the Muslims of British India.

The objective of the movement was to retain the Muslim Holy places

by not giving their control to Non-Muslims.

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Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, was the founder of the Tughluq dynasty in India.

who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1320 to 1325.

He founded the city of Tughluqabad.

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The system of market control or price control was introduced by Alauddin Khalji during the Sultanate period.

He was the second ruler of the Khilji Dynasty in India

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The Cabinet Mission of 1946 consisted of three members:

1. Lord Pethick-Lawrence: The Secretary of State for India
2. Sir Stafford Cripps: The President of the Board of Trade
3. A.V. Alexander: The First Lord of the Admiralty

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The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcation line between the Indian and Pakistani portions of the Punjab and Bengal provinces of British India.

In order to determine exactly which territories to assign to each country, in June 1947,

Britain appointed Sir Cyril Radcliffe to chair two boundary commissions

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• The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 involved skirmishes between April and September 1965.
• Pakistan claims the 24th Parallel as the boundary in the Rann of Kutch, but India does not recognize it.
• The "Treaty of Rann of Kutch" was signed on 30 June 1965, resolving the territorial dispute.