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  2. Santhal rebellion - Wikipedia

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    Damin-i-koh region labeled as "Country Unexplored by Europeans" (1776 map by James Rennell). The Santhals lived in a territory that stretched from Hazaribagh to Medinipur, spanning the Subarnarekha River, along with other Munda ethnolinguistic tribals, and they engaged on agriculture. Those areas were greatly affected by the 1770 Bengal famine. [5]

  3. Cochin University of Science and Technology - Wikipedia

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    Guest House at Kalamassery Seminar hall Students Amenities Centre Inside View.. The main campus is 1.5 km (0.93 mi) off the National Highway 47 in South Kalamassery.The 180-acre (0.73 km 2) campus includes the School of Engineering (SOE Campus), Kunjali Marakkar School of Marine Engineering, School of Management Studies, various Science departments, and the School of Legal Studies.

  4. Radcliffe Line - Wikipedia

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    The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcated by the two boundary commissions for the provinces of Punjab and Bengal during the Partition of India.It is named after Cyril Radcliffe, who, as the joint chairman of the two boundary commissions, had the ultimate responsibility to equitably divide 175,000 square miles (450,000 km 2) of territory with 88 million people.

  5. Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (French: Mandat pour la Syrie et le Liban; Arabic: الانتداب الفرنسي على سوريا ولبنان, romanized: al-intidāb al-faransī ʻalā sūriyā wa-lubnān, also referred to as the Levant States; [1] [2] 1923−1946) [3] was a League of Nations mandate [4] founded in the aftermath of the First World War and the partitioning of the ...

  6. Homo heidelbergensis - Wikipedia

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    The type specimen Mauer 1. The first fossil, Mauer 1 (a jawbone), was discovered by a worker in Mauer, southeast of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1907.It was formally described the next year by German anthropologist Otto Schoetensack, who made it the type specimen of a new species, Homo heidelbergensis. [4]

  7. Vaishali (ancient city) - Wikipedia

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    Vaishali, Vesali or Vaiśālī was a city in present-day Bihar, India, and is now an archaeological site.It is a part of the Tirhut Division. [1]It was the capital city of the Vajjika League of Vrijji mahajanapada, considered one of the first examples of a republic around the 6th century BCE.

  8. Krishnadevaraya - Wikipedia

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    Kannada inscription, dated 1513 CE, of Krishnadevaraya at the Krishna temple in Hampi describes his victories against the Gajapati Kingdom of Odisha.. Krishnadevaraya (17 January 1471 — 17 October 1529) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire reigning from 1509 to 1529.

  9. Kharavela - Wikipedia

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    Kharavela (also transliterated Khārabēḷa) was a monarch of Kalinga in present-day Odisha, India, who ruled during the second or first century BCE.The primary source for Kharavela is his rock-cut Hathigumpha inscription.