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Rai Indar Kunwar Rai Indar Kunwar, 1715-19, Rajput princess. Daughter of Ajit Singh of Jodhpur, her marriage to Emperor Farrukhsiyar on 27 September 1715 was the most glittering event …
Hukman Kaur Hukman Kaur, 1783, Rani of Ritiala. Wife of Raja Sardul Singh (d. 1753) and grandmother of Raja Sahib Singh, it was through her endeavours that the six …
Rani Honnamma Rani Honnamma,17th cent., Kannada poet. A sudra woman, she probably belonged to Yelandur, in Karnataka, and was employed in the palace of the King Chikka Devaraja. She …
Homalata Homalata, early 17th cent, Vaishnava devotee. Daughter of the Vaishnava scholar, Srinivasa Acharya of Budhaipara, she was married to Ramakrishna Chatta of Budhaipara, on Hugh, A the death …
Hazra, Matanga Hazra, Matanga, 1870-1942, martyr. Born in a poor peasant family of Midnapore district in Bengal, she was given away in marriage at a very young age to …
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), French chemist and physicist. In 1802 he demonstrated that all gases expand by the same fraction of their volume for the same …
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), French chemist and physicist. In 1802 he demonstrated that all gases expand by the same fraction of their volume for the same …
Paul Gauguin Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French post-impressionist painter. Having abandoned his family and his banking career to devote himself to painting in 1881, he led a bohemian life in …
