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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.
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 ...
This anti-Italian feeling led to a night of nationwide riots against the Italian communities in June 1940. The Italians were now seen as a threat to national security which was linked to the feared British Fascist movement, and Winston Churchill instructed the British government to "collar the lot!". Thousands of Italian men between the ages of ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Italian emigrants to India" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
India imposes sanctions against Pakistan, to force it to take action against two Kashmir militant groups blamed for the suicide attack on parliament. Pakistan retaliates with similar sanctions, and bans the groups in January. December India, Pakistan mass troops on common border amid mounting fears of a looming war. 2002
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. ...
Indian POWs in Derna, Libya, 1941.. The first troops of the Indian Legion were recruited from Indian POWs captured at El Mekili, Libya during the battles for Tobruk.The German forces in the Western Desert selected a core group of 27 POWs as potential officers and they were flown to Berlin in May 1941, to be followed, after the Centro I experiment, by POWs being transferred from the Italian ...