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Jawaharlal Nehru

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                                                    Jawaharlal Nehru Birth and Family background:           Jawaharlal Nehru was born on 14 November 1889 in Allahabad in British India. His father Motilal Nehru a self-made wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community served twice as President of the Indian National Congress in 1919 and 1928. His mother Swarup Rani Thussu  who came from a well-known Kashmiri Brahmin family settled in Lahore was Motilal's second wife the first having died in childbirth. Jawaharlal was the eldest of three children two of whom were girls The elder sister, Vijaya Lakshmi later became the first female president of the United Nations General Assembly. The youngest sister, Krishna Hutheesing became a noted writer and authored several books on her brother. C...

Jahangir

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                                                              Jahangir Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim known by his imperial name Jahangir was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 until his death in 1627. His imperial name means 'conqueror of the world', 'world-conqueror' or 'world-seizer'. The fictional tale of his relationship with the Mughal courtesan, Anarkali, has been widely adapted into the literature, art and cinema of India.           Prince Salim, later Jahangir, was born on 31 August 1569, in Fatehpur Sikri, to Akbar and one of his wives Mariam-uz-Zamani, daughter of Raja Bharmal of Amber. Akbar's previous children had died in infancy and he had sought the help of holy men to produce a son. Salim was named for one such man, Shaikh Salim, though Akbar always cal...

Mughal Emperor Akbar

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                                Mughal Emperor Akbar             Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar  popularly known as  Akbar the Great   was the third  Mughal emperor , who reigned from 1556 to 1605. Akbar succeeded his father,  Humayun , under a regent,  Bairam Khan , who helped the young emperor expand and consolidate Mughal domains in India.                A strong personality and a successful general, Akbar gradually enlarged the  Mughal Empire  to include much of the  Indian subcontinent . His power and influence, however, extended over the entire subcontinent because of Mughal military, political, cultural, and economic dominance. To unify the vast Mughal state, Akbar established a centralised system of administration throughout his empire and adopted a polic...

TIPU SULTAN

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 TIPU SULTAN                  Tipu Sultan was born on 20 November 1750 at Devanahalli in present day Bangalore Rural district, about 33 km  north of Bangalore city. Tipu Sultan also known as Tipu Sahab or the Tiger of Mysore after the saint Tipu Mastan Aulia of Arcot(town in india) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and a explorer of rocket cannonry.                Being unlettered, Hyder was very particular in giving his eldest son a prince's education and early exposure to military and political affairs. From the age of 17 Tipu was given independent charge of important political and military missions.He was his father's right arm in the wars from which Hyder emerged as the most powerful ruler of southern India.            Tipu's father, Hyder Ali, was a military officer in service to the Kingdom of Mysore who had become the in fact ruler of Mysore in 17...

ADOLF HITLER

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 ADOLF HITLER               Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary close to the border with the German Empire. He was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pƶlzl. Three of Hitler's siblings Gustav, Ida, and Otto she died in infancy.               When Hitler was three, the family moved to Passau, in Germany. There he acquired the typical lower Bavarian dialect, rather than Austrian German, which marked his speech throughout his life.The family returned to Austria and settled in Leonding in 1894, and in June 1895 Alois retired to Hafeld, near Lambach, where he farmed and kept bees. Hitler attended Volksschule (a state-owned primary school) in nearby Fischlham.               Hitler began to develop German nationalist ideas from a young age.He expressed loyalty only to Germany, despising the declining ...

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