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While hunger strikes are commonplace in India, has there been anybody who has carried out the threat to its ultimate end?	What drove the Tagore family to support the Brahmo Samaj?
How is famed freedom fighter, Lala Lajpat Rai, connected to the Indian banking system?	FYI, we all live on an island of jamuns.
India has had its own crises lasting "Thirteen Days". Not just once, but thrice.	Were you aware that the Jataka Tales also covers the Ramayana?

Quotable quotes

Hala's knot

He was embarrassed
But I laughed and gave him a hug
When he groped for the knot
Of my skirt and found it
Already undone.

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Hindustan: open for all licentiousness

Hindustan is a wide place; where there is an open field for all licentiousness, and no one interferes with another's business, so that every one can do just as he pleases.

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The British mistake of not breeding virile Indian princes

If India is to be really capable of holding its own in future without direct British control from outside I am not sure that it will not need an increasing infusion of stronger Nordic blood, whether by settlement or intermarriage or otherwise. Possibly it has been a real mistake of ours in the past not to encourage Indian princes to marry English wives ... and so breed a more virile type of native ruler.

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Did you know?

100 cow man-price

In Vedic times, if you killed a man, you had to offer 100 cows as restitution.

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Beer and the Butcher

Reginald Dyer, the Butcher of Amritsar, of Jallianwala Bagh infamy, was the youngest son of one Edward Dyer, the man often credited with establishing India's first successful brewery at Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh. It would eventually become Mohan Meakin Breweries.

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Akbar The Great

Akbar, the greatest of the Mughals, could not read or write and was possibly also dyslexic.

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Manipur's Anal Tribe

There is a tribe named Anal in Manipur who speak the Anal language.

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Teapoy

A tea-poy has very little to do with tea. It was originally the name for an Indian three-footed, i.e., a tī-pāī table which could be used for many things including serving tea.