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Did Adolf Hitler offer to make Dhyan Chand a Field Marshal in the German army?
It is a tenet of Indian sporting folklore that Hitler personally met Dhyan Chand and offered him an officer’s commission in the Wehrmacht if he would play for Germany. This story is almost certainly ...
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Did the first Mughal emperor of India, Babur, write love poems for men?
The first Mughal emperor did express his feelings, frankly, through poems. And some of them indeed highlight his infatuation with a young man:
... Babur writes of the travails of being a king, of his ...
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Did Pakistan ask China to invade India and vice versa in 1962 and in 1999?
In 1962:
"China invited Pakistan to invade India (as China attacked India)."
This claim is unverifiable - I could find no documentation that China, in 1962, invited Pakistan to jointly ...
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Did B. R. Ambedkar say it is shameful for women to enter politics?
“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which
women have achieved”
Babasaheb Ambedkar: Champion of Women´s Rights and Indian Women’s Rights Mattered to Ambedkar. Here’s What ...
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Did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar say, “Nazism proved undeniably the saviour of Germany”?
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Savarkar did indeed say "Nazism proved undeniably the saviour of Germany" in a speech he delivered to the Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, in 1940, while criticising ...
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