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Bandung Conference (1955)
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Basava
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Besant, Annie
Between the Spider and the Lamp (Husain)
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Bhadravati Iron and Steel Works
Bhagavad Gita
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bhakti
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Burke, Edmund
Busch, Allison
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Dandi
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Dass, Ram
Daulatabad
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Days and Nights in the Forest (film)
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Delhi; see also New Delhi
Delhi High Court
De Miche
lis, Elizabeth
dervishes
De Sica, Vittorio
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Devil’s Wind
Devji, Faisal
Dewey, John
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dharma
dhulikarman (dust work)
Dhulipala, Venkat
Dickens, Charles
“Didi Tera Devar Diwana” (song)
Dien Bien Phu, Battle of
Digambar
Dikpalakas (Guardians of the Directions)
Dikus
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Discovery of India, The (Nehru)
Disraeli, Benjamin
Divine Comedy (Dante)
Dixit, Madhuri
Doctrine of Lapse
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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Dravidians
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Dundas, Paul
Dungan, Ellis R.
Durban
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Dutch East India Company
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Dyer, Reginald
Easter Uprising (1916)
East Pakistan; see also Bangladesh
Eaton, Richard
Egypt
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
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electricity
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elephants
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Ellora caves
Elphinstone College
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Empress Mills
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Erode
Erragudi
Escher, M. C.
E.T. (film)
Euclid
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Europe
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Faizi, Atiya
Famous Monuments of Central India (monograph)
Faridabad
Faruqui, Munis
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Fatehpur Sikri
Fermat’s Last Theorem
Feroz Shah Kotla
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“five Ks” (Sikh religion)
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folk songs
Foot, Michael
Ford, John
Forest Acts
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Franklin, Michael
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke
Free Indian Legion
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Gaga Bhatt
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Galileo
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Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma)
Gandhi, Rajmohan
Gandhi, Sanjay
Gandhi, Sonia
Gandhinagar
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Ganeri, Jonardon
Ganesh
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Gangetic Plains
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Gauguin, Paul
Gautama, Siddhartha, see Buddha
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty (Chandra)
Geneva Conference (1954)
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George V, King of England
Germany
Ghatak, Ritwik
ghazals (lyric songs)
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Ghose, Sri Aurobindo
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Gladstone, William E.
Glimpses of World History (Nehru)
Gobind Singh
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Goebbels, Joseph
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gokhale, Gopal Krishna
Golden Temple
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha) (film)
gopis (female Krishna devotees)
Goswamy, B. N.
Gottesmann-Erdobaktay, Marie Antoinette
Gowda, Chandan
Grammar of the Persian Language, A (Jones)
Gramsci, Antonio
Grand Trunk Road (GTR)
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Great Kol Rising (1831)
Greece
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Griffin, Lepel
Guernica (Picasso)
Guide to Health, A (Gandhi)
Gujarat
Guler
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)
Gupta, Shilpa
Gupta dynasty
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Gwalior
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Hallisey, Charles
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Hanuman
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Harris, Zellig
Haryana
Hasan, Abu’l
Hasan, Khalid
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Hastings, Warren
Hegel, G.W.F.
Herodotus
Hess, Linda
Hesse, Hermann
Himalayan Mountains
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Hitler, Adolf
Ho Chi Minh
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Hoffmann, Father
Holi festival
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Hughes, Ted
Humayun
Hungary
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Hussein, Saddam
Huxley, Aldous
Hyderabad
Hypatia
Ibadat Khana (House of Worship)
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Illustrated Weekly of India
Imitation of Christ (Thomas à Kempis)
Imperial Institute (London)
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insaaf (fairness)
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Iqbal, Muhammad
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Journal des débats
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Kalyana
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Kanishka
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kapha (phlegm)
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Kapoor, Prithviraj
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Kapoor, Ranbir
Kapoor, Rishi
Kapur, Geeta
kara (metal bracelet; one of the “five Ks”)
Karachi
karamat (extraordinary powers)
Karjat
karma
Karnad, Girish
Karnataka
Kartarpur
Kashi (Benares)