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Shivaji was descended from a line of headmen of farming villages, and the Brahmins accordingly categorized him as a Maratha, not a Kshatriya. [ 120 ] [ 121 ] They noted that Shivaji had never had a sacred thread ceremony, and did not wear the thread, such as a kshatriya would. [ 122 ]
Jane Seymour Fonda [2] (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress and activist. Recognized as a film icon, [3] Fonda's work spans several genres and over six decades of film and television.
A group of Bosniaks from the Lašva Valley close by Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina that were forced out of their homes and villages by Croat forces in 1993 Exhumed victims of the Srebrenica massacre carried out by Serb forces, part of the ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War Russian Count Nikolay Yevdokimov, who organized the extermination ...
Francisco "Pancho" Villa (UK: / ˈ p æ n tʃ oʊ ˈ v iː ə / PAN-choh VEE-ə, [3] [4] US: / ˈ p ɑː n tʃ oʊ ˈ v iː (j) ə / PAHN-choh VEE-(y)ə, [3] [5] Spanish: [ˈpantʃo ˈβiʎa]; born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican revolutionary and prominent figure in the Mexican Revolution.
Bali (English: / ˈ b ɑː l i /; Balinese: ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller offshore islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast.
Ram Mohan Roy was born in Radhanagar, Hooghly District, Bengal Presidency.His great-grandfather Krishnakanta Bandyopadhyay was a Rarhi Kulin (noble) Brahmin.Among Kulin Brahmins – descendants of the five families of Brahmins imported from Kannauj by Ballal Sen in the 12th century as per popular myth – those from the Rarhi district of West Bengal were notorious in the 19th century for ...
The disaster disrupted many communities across Nigeria’s 36 states, with hundreds of villages and urban centers submerged in water. The disaster unsettled over 2.4 million people and over 600 fatalities were recorded. Additionally, "expansive hectares of farmlands across affected states were swept off."