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The primary objective of the Home Rule Movement was to achieve self-government within the British Empire through the use of constitutional means. 

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On 1 January 1948, India took the matter to the United Nations Security Council under Article 35 of the UN Charter, which allows the member nations to bring to the attention of the UN matters endangering international peace.

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The Agra summit was a two-day summit meeting between India and Pakistan which lasted from 14–16 July 2001.

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About Thar Desert

15% located in Pakistan

85% located in India

Also called Friendly Desert

Located near Badin, Sindh 

Famous for: Sand 

Coal also found in Thar 

also known as Great Indian Desert

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Maulana Mauhammad Ali and Saukat Ali, were the founders of Khilafat movement.

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In 1920 a Khilafat delegation led by Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar came to England to present their case to the British government and the people

The Khilafat Movement (1919–24), also known as the Caliphate movement or the Indian Muslim movement

The Khilafat Movement (1919–24) was a pan-Islamist political protest campaign launched by:

Muslims of British India led by

Shaukat Ali

Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar,

Hakim Ajmal Khan

and Abul Kalam Azad

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The first Anglo-Sikh war was fought between the Sikh Empire and the British East India Company

Fought in 1845 and 1846

around the Ferozepur district of Punjab

Lord Harding was the Governor General during the First Anglo-Sikh War.

Additional information:

The second Anglo-Sikh war took place in 1848-1849.

The Governor General of the Second Anglo-Sikh War was Lord Dalhousie.

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Tashkent Declaration, an accord signed on January 10, 1966.

by India's Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri (who died the next day) and Pakistan's President Mohammad Ayub Khan.

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6 ستمبر 1965 کو پاکستان نے بھارت کے خلاف اعلان جنگ کیا ، اور بھارت نے مغربی پاکستان پر کئی مقامات پر حملہ کیا ، بشمول لاہور شہر۔

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• war of Plassey, (23 June 1757). Victory for the British East India company inside the war of Plassey become the start of nearly two centuries of British rule in India.
• For an occasion with such momentous effects, it turned into a fairly unimpressive military come across, the defeat of the Nawab of Bengal owing an awful lot to betrayal.
• In India, Britain turned into represented by the British East India enterprise, a challenge that have been given a royal charter in 1600 to pursue trade inside the East Indies that protected the right to shape its very own army.
• The French East India organization had a similar remit. From 1746, the rival agencies fought the Carnatic Wars for advantage in India, wherein they maintained trading posts, and sought impact over local rulers.