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  2. Nadar (caste) - Wikipedia

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    Nadar (caste) Nadar (also referred to as Nadan, Shanar and Shanan) is a Tamil caste of India. Nadars are predominant in the districts of Kanyakumari, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli and Virudhunagar. The Nadar community was not a single caste, but developed from an assortment of related subcastes, which in course of time came under the single banner ...

  3. Roshni Nadar - Wikipedia

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    Roshni Nadar Malhotra (born 1982) is an Indian billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist and the chairperson of HCL Technologies. She is the first woman to lead a listed IT company in India. [2] [3] She is the only child of HCL Group founder and billionaire businessman Shiv Nadar. [4] In 2019, she is ranked 54th on the Forbes World's 100 ...

  4. Channar revolt - Wikipedia

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    Reformation in Kerala. The Channar Lahala or Channar revolt, also called Maru Marakkal Samaram, [1] refers to the fight from 1813 to 1859 of Nadar climber women in Travancore kingdom of India for the right to wear upper-body clothes covering their breasts.

  5. Winona LaDuke - Wikipedia

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    Harvard University ( BA) Antioch University ( MA) Political party. Green. Parent (s) Betty LaDuke, Sun Bear. Winona LaDuke (born August 18, 1959) is an American economist, environmentalist, writer and industrial hemp grower, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development.

  6. Hermaphrodite (Nadar) - Wikipedia

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    Hermaphrodite. (Nadar) Hermaphrodite is a series of photographs of a young intersex person, who had a male build and stature and may have been assigned female or self-identified as female, taken by the French photographer Nadar (real name Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) in 1860. Possibly commissioned by Armand Trousseau, the nine photographs have ...

  7. Nadar - Wikipedia

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    Nadar. / 48.860; 2.396. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910 [1] ), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. [2]

  8. Cléo de Mérode - Wikipedia

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    Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode (27 September 1875 – 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. [1] She has been referred to as the "first real celebrity icon" and the "first modern celebrity". [2] She was also the first woman whose photographic image, due in particular to photographers Nadar and Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, was ...

  9. Nadar climber - Wikipedia

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    Nadar climber in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu. To the south of the Tambraparni, the Nadar climbers constituted the vast majority of the population in the palmyra forests of the Tiruchendur teris, during the 19th century. Majority of the Nadars today come from the south of Thamiraparani river. The Nadar climbers here secured a meager ...