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Sonia Gandhi née Maino is an Indian politician born in Lusiana near Veneto (northern Italy) and served as the President of the Indian National Congress. [8] Sonia Gandhi married into the influential Nehru-Gandhi family and is the daughter-in-law of former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi and the widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini maintained friendly ties with Indian nationalist leaders Mahatma Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose, [5] and Mussolini expressed genuine support for Indian independence during the 1930s and 1940s, though it at first remained sceptical that Bose's efforts would receive significant support from its ally, Nazi ...
In recent years, many Italians have been coming to India for business purposes. Today, Italy is India's fifth largest trading partner in the European Union. There are currently between 15,000 and 20,000 Italian nationals in India [185] based mostly in South India. [186] The city of Mumbai itself has a sizeable number of Italians and some in ...
The 5th Indian Division, under the command of Major-General Lewis Heath and comprising only two brigades at the time, was sent from India to the Sudan to reinforce the British forces there under Lieutenant-General Sir William Platt which had been attacked by Italian forces in Eritrea, at the time part of the Italian East African Empire. On 10 ...
On 3 August 1940, the Italians invaded with two colonial brigades, four cavalry squadrons, 24 M11/39 medium tanks and L3/35 tankettes, several armoured cars, 21 howitzer batteries, pack artillery and air support. [41] The British had a garrison of two companies of the Sudan Defence Force, two motor machine-gun companies and a mounted infantry ...
In May 1942, it was attached to the 5th Indian Infantry Division and in June the 2nd South African Infantry Division when it surrendered after Tobruk was captured by the Germans and Italians in 1942. The brigade was then reformed in Egypt in October 1943 and once more assigned to the 4th Indian Division serving in Tunisia , Italy and, at the ...
Italian police said on Saturday they had freed 33 Indian farm labourers from slave-like working conditions in the northern Verona province and seized almost half a million euros ($545,300) from ...
Pages in category "Indian people of Italian descent" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...