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IMPERIAL CROWN

The Imperial Crown was made for King George V for his coronation as King Emperor at Delhi in 1911, and is part of the British Crown Jewels.
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ALOYS SPRENGER

Aloys Sprenger was an Austrian orientalist. He was born in 1813 at Nassereit and died in 1893. After acting as principal of a Muslim college at Delhi in 1857 he was naturalized as a British subject and left India and became professor of Oriental languages at Bern from 1858 to 1881.
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AUREL STEIN

Sir Mark Aurel Stein was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist and explorer. He was born in 1862 at Budapest and died in 1943. Educated in Germany and England, as head of Lahore Oriental College from 1888 to 1899 he made researches in Kashmir. After entering the Indian educational service and receiving British naturalisation, he conducted three expeditions principally to Chinese Turkistan from 1900 to 1901, from 1906 to 1908 and from 1913 until 1916, which resulted in valuable additions for the British Museum and the Delhi central museum. In 1912 he was knighted.
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BABUR

Babur was the first Mogul Emperor of India. He was born in 1483 at Ferghana, Central Asia and died in 1530. He was born into a princely family of mixed Mongol and Turkish blood. Failure to recover his father's lands caused him to turn reluctantly south-east, for India seemed to present the last hope for his ambitions. Defeat of Ibrahim Lodi, the Afghan ruler of Delhi, at the battle of Panipat in 1526 initiated 200 years of strong Mogul rule in India. Having conquered much of northern India,
Babur ruled by force, lacking any civil administration. In addition to his military genius, he possessed a love of learning and wrote his own memoirs.
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BAHA'DUR SHAH

Baha'dur Shah was the last of the Grand Moguls of India. A descendant of Tamerlane, in 1857, during the Indian mutiny, the Muslims who wished to restore the empire of the Moguls placed him, then a very old man, at the head of the movement in Delhi, but the city was soon retaken by the British, and the emperor was banished to Rangoon, where he died in 1862.
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BAHMANI

The Bahmani were a dynasty of sultans of the Deccan plateau in central India from 1347 to 1518. The dynasty was founded by Ala-ud-din Bahman Shah, who in 1347 rebelled against his Delhi suzerain. His successors expanded over the west-central Deccan, reaching a peak in the late 15th century under Mahmud Gawan, who successfully held encroaching Hindu and Muslim powers at bay. During the early 16th century the Hindu empire of Vijayanagar to the south expanded at the Bahmanis' expense, and between 1490 and 1518 the sultanate gradually dissolved into five successor Muslim states, Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, Golconda, Berar, and Bidar.
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BHEELS

The Bheels or Bhils are one of the non-Aryan races of India, usually included under the name Dravidic, and inhabiting the Vindhya, Satpura, and Satmala Hills. They are a relic of the Indian aborigines driven from the plains by the Aryan Rajputs. They appear to have been orderly and industrious under the Delhi emperors; but on the transfer of the power In the eighteenth century from the Moguls to the Mahrattas they asserted their independence, and being treated as outlaws took to the hills. Various attempts to subdue them were made by the Gaekwar and by the British in 1818 without success. A body of them was, however, subsequently reclaimed, and a Bheel corps formed, which stormed the retreats of the rest of the race and reduced them to comparative order.
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BISHAN SINGH BEDI

Bishan Singh Bedi is an Indian cricket player. He was born in 1946. He played cricket for India (first in 1966 against the West Indies), Northern Punjab, Delhi and Northamptonshire (England). A slow, left-handed bowler he was the top wicket taker in England in 1973, taking 105 wickets.
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LODI

The Lodi were a family of Afghan origin whose rule over northern India from 1451 to 1526 marked the last phase of the Delhi sultanate era. Their founder, Bahlul Lodi was born in 1451 and died in 1489 already had a strong base in the Punjab, and took advantage of Sayyid weakness to seize power in Delhi. He and his two successors extended power eastwards through Jaunpur to the borders of Bengal and threatened Malwa to the south.
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MARATHA

The Maratha are a Hindu warrior people of western India who in the 17th and 18th centuries led a military revival against Muslim expansion. The Maratha rose to prominence under the inspired leadership of Sivaji, who, after victories against the Moguls, established a Maratha kingdom in 1674. Their great age was the early 18th century when, after a temporary collapse, they benefited from Mogul decline to sweep over the north and central Deccan. They seemed poised for all-India mastery, but failure in 1761 of their bid to take Delhi (in the battle of Panipat) was followed by increasing internal disunity. Authority had passed from Sivaji's line to a Brahmin family based at Pune, who as hereditary peshwas struggled to hold the dissident chiefs together. Rivalry among these 'confederates', notably the Sindhia, Holkar, Bhonsla, and Gaekwar families, prevented a united stand against expanding British power.
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