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  2. Peacock Throne - Wikipedia

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    Peacock Throne. The Peacock Throne ( Hindustani: Mayūrāsana, Sanskrit: मयूरासन, Urdu: تخت طاؤس, Persian: تخت طاووس, Takht-i Tāvūs) was the imperial throne of Hindustan. The throne is named after the dancing peacocks at its rear and was the seat of the Mughal emperors of India from 1635 to 1739.

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    Died. October 13, 1956. (1956-10-13) (aged 61) Madurai. Organization. Tamilnadu state movement. Sankaralinganar was an Indian Tamil independence activist and Gandhian from Indian union who fasted to death in an effort to change the name of Madras State to Tamil Nadu. [1] He was a Tamil Nadu statehood activist.

  4. Culture of India - Wikipedia

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    Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin Luther ...

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    Adai people. Cropped detail map from a 1718 map by Guillaume Delisle. Adaie on left side. The Adai were a Native American people of northwestern Louisiana and northeastern Texas. They were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands and part of the Caddo Confederacy.

  6. Vellalar - Wikipedia

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    Vellalar. Vellalar is a group of castes in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and northeastern parts of Sri Lanka. [a] [b] [c] The Vellalar are members of several endogamous [d] [e] castes such as the numerically strong Arunattu Vellalar, Chozhia Vellalar, Karkarthar Vellalar, Kongu Vellalar, Thuluva Vellalar and Sri Lankan Vellalar.

  7. Afsharid Iran - Wikipedia

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    Afsharid Iran ( Persian: ایران افشاری ), also referred as the Afsharid Empire, [7] was an Iranian [8] empire established by the Turkoman [9] [10] Afshar tribe in Iran's north-eastern province of Khorasan, establishing the Afsharid dynasty that would rule over Iran during the mid-eighteenth century. The dynasty's founder, Nader Shah ...

  8. W. P. A. Soundarapandian Nadar - Wikipedia

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    Woothampatti Punnaivana Ayya Soundarapandian [1] (15 September 1893 – 22 February 1953) was a leading figure in Nadar Mahajana Sangam and became the first Nadar member of the Madras Legislative Council upon a recommendation by P.T. Rajan in 1920. Nadar's family had previously supported and worked for the electoral victory of P.T.Rajan. [2]

  9. Caste system among South Asian Christians - Wikipedia

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    The caste system among South Asian Christians often reflects stratification by sect, location, and the caste of their predecessors. [1] There exists evidence to show that Christian individuals have mobility within their respective castes. [2] But, in some cases, social inertia caused by their old traditions and biases against other castes ...

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