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Were more Indian freedom fighters killed Muslims than any other religion/caste?
I saw this picture which was shared by my Indian friend online for 75th Indian Independence Day:
India Gate - New Delhi Freedom Fighters
95,300 names of freedom fighters are inscribed at India Gate, ...
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Did the Indus Valley Civilization use cotton as a writing material?
In his book, Science and Secrets of Early Medicine, Jürgen Thorwald writes about the script of the Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa civilizations: (in rough translation)
Seals, bronze plaques and clay shells ...
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Was the Nazi Hakenkreuz logo based on the Indic swastika?
"Swastika" is sanskrit word for an ancient geometrical symbol, broadly used in Indic cultures. Amongst countries that were involved with World War II, it is associated with the Nazi flag, designed by ...
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Was the 1971 Pakistani surrender in Bangladesh the first public surrender in history?
In 1971 India invaded east Pakistan, which ended in the "public surrender" of the Pakistani military on the 16th of December, and modern day Bangladesh is the result. Many of the articles ...
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Are the various claims regarding Ancient Indian Science made in the AICTE/MHRD new book "Bharatiya Vidya Sar" for a Indian Elective Course true?
This question is based on the following petition and this and this news article.
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The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has proposed a new textbook that will discuss the ‘...
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What was the real reason for India pulling out of the 1950 World Cup? [closed]
There is a common claim that India refused to play with shoes during the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
However it does mostly seem to be a myth. This, this and this article clearly seem to debunk this myth. ...
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Did archeologists find radioactive skeletons in Mohanjo-daro?
There is a viral claim, copied across many web-sites that ancient people in India had nuclear weapons.
Part of the evidence is another claim - that radioactive bodies were found in Mohanjo-daro.
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Did the first Mughal emperor of India, Babur, write love poems for men?
Sites such as The Tiny Man: Was Islamic Emperor Babur Gay? Or was Babur impotent?, Collecting Indian ness and Rainbow Rays: Was Babur Gay? claim that Babur the founder of the Mughal dynasty and the ...
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Were Buddhists murdered en masse during the first Muslim conquest of India?
Lost Islamic History says:
The first great expansion of Islam into India came during the Umayyad Dynasty of caliphs, who were based in Damascus. In 711, the Umayyads appointed a young 17 year old ...
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Did Krishna live?
Rudolf Otto claimed:
That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable. [Source]
Despite this, much of modern Western discourse ignores (or displays skepticism towards) a ...
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Did India's population decrease "by 80 million between 1000 and 1525" CE?
Daniel Pipes reports:
Koenraad Elst , the german historian writes in "Negation in India"
..Indian (subcontinent) population decreased by 80 million between 1000
(conquest of Afghanistan) ...
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Did soldiers of Alexander's army settle in Malana?
Malana is an ancient Indian village in the state of Himachal Pradesh.
You can read more in Wiki page.
It is believed that the people live there are descendants of Greek soldiers of Alexander's army.
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Was the ancient Indian city of Mohenjo-daro destroyed by a nuclear weapon?
This Youtube video of the History Channel documentary Ancient Aliens, Season 3 Episode 9 makes the claim that the ancient Indian city of Mohenjo-Daro was destroyed by a nuclear weapon, and that the ...
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Was this Indian from British India the first to strike Berlin during World War I?
This article (since deleted, backup here) came to my eye recently.
The article glosses over the exploits of a citizen of British India who, purportedly, rose from utter obscurity to becoming an ace ...
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When is the origin of Datura in India?
The abstract for this paper on PubMed, Historical evidence for a pre-Columbian presence of Datura in the Old World and implications for a first millennium transfer from the New World says,
Datura (...
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Was the Taj Mahal originally called Tej-o-Mahal?
I have been reading this article. And it was pretty controversial in claiming that the Taj Mahal is actually a Hindu temple and not an islamic tomb.
Tajmahal is not a Islamic mausoleum but an ...
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Did the British attempt to rename the Taj Mahal?
From an article in Pakistan's Dawn:
Renowned researcher and historian, Dr Mubarak Ali writes in his book, Gumshuda Taareekh (Lost History):
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“The British even gave renaming Taj Mahal to ...
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Was the combination of yoghurt and honey called "the food of the gods" in ancient Indian records?
From Wikipedia's article on yogurt:
In ancient Indian records, the combination of yogurt and honey is called "the food of the gods".
All that the provided reference states is:
Whatever the real ...
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Was "Gangadhar Nehru" a pseudonym, which he adopted after 1857?
Read about this here
The Nehru–Gandhi family is a political dynasty, that has been dominant in Indian politics through the Indian National Congress party for almost the entirety of India's history ...
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Has India invaded any country in the last 10,000 years?
There is a common claim that India hasn't invaded any other country in the past 10,000 years.
It has been repeated in chain mails and various web-sites: Example, Example.
India never invaded any ...
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Did ancient Indians invent guns, lasers, radars and nuclear weapons?
I found this site which claimed that Ancient India was an extremely advanced civilization whose technology equaled & in some cases even surpassed current technology. None of the claims have ...
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