Bhopal

Bhopāl (भोपाल) is a city in central India. It is the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Bhopal has earned the sobriquet City of 7 Lakes Bhopal - Introduction. Bhopal is a city in central India. It is the capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh. Bhopal is also the administrative headquarters of Bhopal District and Bhopal Division. Historically, Bhopal was also the name of a state of central India (See Bhopal (princely state)). On December 3, 1984, a Union Car ...

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• Bhopal - After Independence
• Bhopal - Bhopal City
• Bhopal - Law and Government
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• Bhopal - Demographics
• Bhopal - Major Parks
• Bhopal - Neighborhoods
• Bhopal - Major Industries/Products
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Bhopal - Law and Government. Bhopal is the capital city of Madhya Pradesh. The last mayor was Ms. Vibha Patel, who was removed by the state government. The new mayor is Indian National Congress's Sunil Sood. Bhopal - Geography. Bhopal is a hilly area, located on the Malwa plateau, and the land rises towards the Vindhya Range to the south. The summers are hot and the winters cold. It rai ...

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A Nawab was originally the subadar (provincial governor) or viceroy of a subah (province) or region of the Mughal empire. The term is Urdu, being the use as a singular of the plural in Arabic of 'naib', meaning deputy. In some areas, especially Bengal, the term was mis-pronounced Nabob which appears to be derived from Spanish or Portuguese pronunciation. (The last variation has entered the English and other foreign languages, see below.) Most of the Muslim rulers of the subcontinent had accepted the authority of t ...

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Nawab - families and dynasties in India. Nawabs of Arcot Nawabs of Awadh Nawabs of Banganapalle Nawabs of Baoni Nawabs of Bengal Nawabs and Begums of Bhopal Nawabs of Cambay Nawabs of Jaora Nawabs of Junagadh Nawabs of Kurwai Nawabs of Padamdi (Bangladesh, Faridpur) Nawabs of Palanpur Nawabs of Pataudi Nawabs of Rampur See also:

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Nawab - Families and dynasties. Nawabs of Arcot Nawabs of Awadh Bahawalpur (Pakistan) Nawabs of Banganapalle Nawabs of Baoni Nawabs of Bengal Nawabs and Begums of Bhopal Nawabs of Cambay Nawabs of Jaora Nawabs of Junagadh Naibs of Seni Gumbat (Kohat, Pakistan) Nawabs of Kurwai Nawabs of Padamdi (Faridpur, Bangladesh) Nawabs of Palanpur Nawabs of Pataudi Nawabs of Rampur Nawabs of Sachin Nawabs of Teri Stat ...

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Bhubaneswar (in Sanskrit and Oriya, "The Lord of the Universe") is a city located on the eastern coast of India. Once the capital of ancient Kalinga, the city has a long history and is today a bustling centre for commerce and religious activity. Bhubaneswar became the modern capital of the state of Orissa in 1948, a year after India gained its independence from Britain. The city is inhabited by over a million people and maintains a high rate of population growth. Bhubaneswar - History and Character. Modern ...

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• Bhubaneswar - Fairs & Festivals
• Bhubaneswar - Education
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Aizawl is the capital city of the state of Mizoram in India. Aizawl(Pop:260,000), the capital city of Mizoram which lies at the southern side border, is a beautiful place that offers plenty of tourist attractions to tourists and habitants alike. The city is situated on top of a hill and its surrounding slopes and valleys. Besides its breathtaking beauty, Aizawl is the business centre and storehouse of all important Government offices, State assembly house and civil secretariat. It also enhouses different communities of Mizos wherein t ...

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The Bhopal Disaster of 1984 is claimed by many as the worst industrial disaster in history. It was caused by the accidental release of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) from a Union Carbide India, Limited (UCIL, now known as Eveready Industries India, Limited) pesticide plant located in the heart of the city of Bhopal, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. UCIL was a joint venture betwe ...

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Bhoj was a great philosopher king and polymath of medieval India. He ruled the kingdom of Malwa in central India from about 1010 to 1060. He was from the Paramara dynasty of Rajputs, who ruled Malwa from the mid-tenth century to about 1200. His extensive writings cover philosophy, poetry, medicine, veterinary science, phonetics, yoga, and archery. Under his rule, Malwa and its capital Dhar became one of the chief intellectual centers of India. King Bhoj, together with the Solanki king Bhima of Gujarat (Anhilwara), rebuilt the temple a ...

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1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. 1984 - Events. 1984 - January. January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state. January 1 - AT&T is broken up into 24 independent units. January 5 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU. January 7 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). January 9 - Clara Peller is fea ...

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• 1984 - Nobel Prizes
• 1984 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
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The Central India Agency was a political unit of British India, which covered the northern half of present-day Madhya Pradesh state. The Central India Agency was made up entirely of princely states, which were under native rulers. The agency was bordered by the Central Provinces and Berar to the south; the Chota Nagpur princely states to the east, which were transferred from Bengal to the Central Provinces and Berar in 1905; the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh to the north; Rajputana to the northwest; and Bombay Presidency to the west and southwest. The district of Lalitpur, part of the United Provinces, split ...

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The term Begum of Bhopal may refer to any of several ladies who ruled the princely state of Bhopal in Central India in the 19th and 20th centuries. They included: Qudsia Begum, Regent of Bhopal (regent, 1819-1837) Nawab Sikandar Begum, (ruled 1860-1868) Begum Sultan Shah Jehan, (ruled 1844-1860 and 1868-1901) Begum Kaikhusrau Jahan, (ruled 1901-26) Begum Sajida Sultan, (1961-95) The term "Begum of Bhopal" may in theory also refer to the wives of male nawabs of Bh ...

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1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. 1992 - Events. 1992 - January. January 1 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 - George H. W. Bush becomes the first President of the United States to address the Australian Parliament. January 8 - Bosnian Serbs declare their own republic within Bosnia-Herzegovina in protest to the decision by Bosnian Muslims and ...

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Daman may mean: Daman and Diu, a formerly-Portuguese territory of India Daman, a philosopher of ancient Greece Daman District, Afghanistan Agartala • Aizawl • Bangalore • Bhopal • Bhubaneswar • Chandigarh • Chennai (Madras) • Daman • Dehradun • Delhi • Dispur • Gandhinagar • Gangtok • Hyderabad • Imphal • Itanagar • Jaipur • Kavaratti • Kohima • Kolkata (Calcutta) • Lucknow • Mumbai (Bombay) • Panaji • Patna • ...

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The Vindhya Range is a range of hills in central India, which geographically separates The Indian subcontinent into northern India (the Indo-Gangetic plain) and Southern India. The western end of the range rises in eastern Gujarat state, near the border with Madhya Pradesh, and the range runs east and north nearly to the Ganges River at Mirzapur. The southern slopes of the range are drained by the Narmada River, which drains westward to the Arabian Sea in the depression between the Vindhya Range and the parallel Satpu ...

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Sanchi is a small village of India, located 46 km north east of Bhopal, in the central part of the state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the location of several Buddhist monuments, dating from the third century BCE to the twelfth century CE. Stupa 1 (the 'great stupa') at Sanchi was commissioned by the emperor Ashoka in the third century BCE. Its nucleus was a simple hemispherical brick structure built over the relics of the Buddha. It was crowned by the chhatra, a parasol-like structure symbolising high rank, which was intende ...

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For example in Bahawalpur only the Nawab's Heir Apparent used Nawabzada before his personal name, then Khan Abassi, finally Wali Ahad Bahadur (an enhancement of Wali Ehed), while the other sons of the ruling Nawab surprising used the (hindi!) style Sahibzada before the personal name and only Khan Abassi behind. Elsewhere rulers not styled nawab awarded a style nawabzada. In colloquial usage in English, the corrupted form nabob is sometimes used to refer to a merchant leader of high social status and w ...

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Bhimbetka is a place in Madhya Pradesh where the earliest known traces of human life in India were found. Stone age rock shelters and paintings dates back 9,000 years. The region is declared a World Heritage Site. Bhimbetka is one of the oldest sites in the world where petroglyphs have been found. Bhimbetka - Location. ‘Rock Shelters of Bhimbetaka’ lie 45 km south of Bhopal, and are located at the southern edge of the Vindhyachal hills. Towards south of these rock shelters are successive ranges of the S ...

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Uma Bharti (born May 3, 1959, Madhya Pradesh, India) is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She was the first woman to be the Chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. The Sanyasin: Uma has told people close to her that she has two identities. One belongs to a sadhu who saved her life (and died the very same day), when she was three. He’s the sanyasi within her. He’s why she could give religious discourses in 75 ...

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The Central Provinces and Berar was a province of British India. The province comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered much of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra states. Its capital was Nagpur. It was formed in 1861 by the merger of the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories and Nagpur Province. The Marathi-speaking Berar region of the Hyderabad princely state was annexed to the Central Provinces in 1903. After Indian Independence in 1 ...

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