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Tipu Sultan, also known as the Tiger of Mysore

Fateh Ali was the real name of Tipu Sultan or Tiger of Mysore

Tipu Sultan was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India

Tipu Sultan  was Born: on December 1, 1751, in Devanahalli, India

Tipu Sultan Died: on May 4, 1799, in Srirangapatna, India

Tipu Sultan wrote a letter to France to help him against British Army rule in India. 

Tipu Sultan was Buried: on May 5, 1799, Mausoleum of Tipu Sultan, Srirangapatna

The third battle of Mysore is also known as Tipu Sultan`s battle against the British

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It is in response to the partition of Bengal by the British.

It was a campaign to boycott British goods and promote Indian industries.

The Swadeshi Movement was launched on August 7, 1905,

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 The Silk Letter Movement, also known as Tehreek-e-Reshmi Rumal

It was initiated by Deobandi leaders, particularly Maulana Mahmood Hasan Deobandi

This movement, active between 1913 and 1920,

They aimed to achieve Indian independence from British rule by allying with the"

• Ottoman Empire
• Afghanistan
• Germany

The letters, written on silk cloth, were intercepted by the Punjab CID, revealing the plot. 

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Indian National Congress was founded on 28 December 1885 

It was founded at Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay 

Its Headquarters is located in New Delhi

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The Battle of Delhi was fought on 11 Sep 1803.

The British troops were under the leadership of General Lak

And Marathas of Scindia's army was under General Louis Bourquin

The battle was fought at Patparganji across the Yamuna River.

Finally, the city of Delhi fell three days later.

The modern city (present Delhi) developed only after 1911.

The period from 1803 to 1857 is called the Delhi Renaissance.

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise stopover in Pakistan  to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif in n December 2015.

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Smiling Buddha, other name Pokhran-I was the assigned code name of India's

first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974.

The bomb was detonated on the army base, Pokhran Test Range (PTR), in Rajasthan.

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Brahmagupta, an astronomer and mathematician from India used zero in mathematical operations like addition and subtraction.

Aryabhatta introduced zero in 5th century.

Brahmagupta introduced zero in calculations in around 628 AD.

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Lord Mountbatten swears in Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of independent India on 15 August 1947