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Achipur and India’s First Chinese Settler
Widely considered to be the first Chinese to settle in India, there is a whole town still named after Tong Atchew in West Bengal. Hundreds of Chinese pilgrims visit Achi’s tomb each year.
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Rabindranath Tagore: The Globe-Trotting Bard
For 20 years, Rabindranath Tagore toured the world extensively and befriended legends, from Yeats to Einstein. He became a global phenomenon and, as he shared his work and philosophy, he fired imaginations, inspired other great minds and even courted controversy
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Zorawar Singh: Napoleon of the East
How did the boundary lines get drawn between India and China? Over a century before Independence, a remarkable General battled in the mountains to expand the Kingdom of Jammu and pushed the frontiers of India out to the reaches we see today
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Lalitaditya Muktadipa - Kashmir’s Great Empire Builder
The Martand Sun Temple is the only surviving reminder of the great Kashmiri Emperor Lalitaditya, whose empire stretched from Central Asia to the Gangetic plain