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  2. Indian English literature - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Indian English literature (IEL), also referred to as Indian Writing in English (IWE), is the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language but whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. Its early history began with the works of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and Michael Madhusudan ...

  3. English Education Act 1835 - Wikipedia

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    The English Education Act 1835 was a legislative Act of the Council of India, gave effect to a decision in 1835 by Lord William Bentinck, then Governor-General of the British East India Company, to reallocate funds it was required to spend on education and literature in India. Previously, they had given limited support to traditional Muslim and ...

  4. Coinage of India - Wikipedia

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    1 Indian rupee (1918) featuring King George V. Uniform coinage was introduced in India by the British in 1835, with coins in the name of the East India Company, bearing the image of William IIII. In 1840, these were replaced by coins with an image of Queen Victoria, but the design otherwise remained the same.

  5. Indian literature - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and in the Republic of India thereafter. The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India has 22 officially recognised languages. Sahitya Akademi, India's highest literary body, also has 24 recognised literary languages.

  6. Indian rupee - Wikipedia

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    The Digital Rupee (e₹) [ 39 ] or eINR or E-Rupee is a tokenised digital version of the Indian Rupee, issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as a central bank digital currency (CBDC). [ 40 ] The Digital Rupee was proposed in January 2017 and launched on 1 December 2022. [ 41 ]

  7. Rupee - Wikipedia

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    The Indian rupee was the official currency of Dubai and Qatar until 1959, when India created a new Gulf rupee (also known as the "external rupee") to hinder the smuggling of gold. [14] The Gulf rupee was legal tender until 1966, when India significantly devalued the Indian rupee and a new Qatar-Dubai riyal was established to provide economic ...

  8. Maratha Confederacy - Wikipedia

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    Succeeded by. Mughal Empire. Bijapur Sultanate. Company rule in India. Today part of. India. The Maratha Confederacy, [a] also referred to as the Maratha Empire, [11][12][13] was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent. It comprised the realms of the Peshwa and four major independent Maratha states [14][15] often subordinate to the ...

  9. Vallabhbhai Patel - Wikipedia

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    Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, in Constituent Assembly discussing the role of All India Services. He was also instrumental in the creation of the All India Services which he described as the country's "Steel Frame". In his address to the probationers of these services, he asked them to be guided by the spirit of service in day-to-day administration. He reminded them that the ICS was no-longer ...