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The Nimoo Bazgo Power Project is a run-of-the-river power project on the Indus River situated at Alchi village, 75 kilometres from Leh in the Indian Union Territory of Ladakh. 

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The Battle of Wandiwash was a battle in India between the French and the British in 1760.

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Sir Thomas Roe was an English diplomat of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

He sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1644.

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The Cripps Mission was a failed attempt in March 1942 by the Indian government to secure full Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II.

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Razia Sultana ruled India from: 1236 to 1240

Razia Sultana was: First Woman Ruler

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Qutb al-Din Aibak was a general of the Ghurid Empire king Muhammad Ghuri.

After Muhammad Ghuri's death, he started the first muslim dynasty in the subcontinent, called the Delhi Sultanate which was to rule for 320 years,

Born: 1150, Turkestan, Kazakhstan

Died: November 14, 1210, Lahore

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Alaud-Dīn Khaljī, born Ali Gurshasp, was a Turco-Afghan emperor of the Khalji dynasty that ruled the Delhi Sultanate in the Indian subcontinent

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Tilak was the first leader of the Indian independence movement.

The British colonial authorities called him "The father of the Indian unrest."

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Syed Ameer Ali Order of the Star of India was an Indian/British Indian jurist hailing from the state of Oudh from where his father moved and settled down at Bengal Presidency. 

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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was an Indian diplomat and politician.

First woman appointed to 6th Governor of Maharashtra.

8th President of the United Nations General Assembly.