University of Calcutta

The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University or CU) is a public state university located in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India established on 24 January 1857. ^[1]

A. K. Fazlul Huq

Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq (26 October 1873—27 April 1962); was a Bengali lawyer, legislator and statesman in the 20th century.

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A. N. Ray

Ajit Nath Ray (29 January 1912 – 25 December 2010) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India from 25 April 1973 till his retirement on 28 January 1977.

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Abdus Sattar (president)

Abdus Sattar (আব্দুস সাত্তার; 1 March 1906 – 5 October 1985) was a Bangladeshi statesman.

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Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem

Justice Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem (March 29, 1916 – July 8, 1997) was a Bangladeshi jurist and statesman.

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The Academy Honorary Award – instituted in 1948 for the 21st Academy Awards (previously called the Special Award, which was first presented in early 1929) – is given annually by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award.

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Aditya Vikram Birla

Aditya Vikram Birla (14 November 1943 – 1 October 1995), was an Indian industrialist.

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Ajoy Mukherjee

Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee (15 April 1901 – 27 May 1986) was the fourth chief minister of West Bengal, India.

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Albion Rajkumar Banerjee

Sir Albion Rajkumar Banerjee CSI CIE (10 October 1871 – 25 February 1950) was an Indian civil servant and administrator who served as the Diwan of Cochin from 1907 to 1914, Diwan of Mysore kingdom from 1922 to 1926 and as Prime Minister of Kashmir from 1927 to 1929.

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Alexander John Arbuthnot

Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot (11 October 1822 – 10 June 1907) was a British official and writer.

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Alexander Pedler

Alexander Pedler, CIE FRS (21 May 1849 – 13 May 1918) was a British civil servant and chemist.

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Alfred Woodley Croft

Sir Alfred Woodley Croft (1841-1925) was a British educationist and administrator who spent most of his career in India.

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Alipore

Alipore (Pron:ˌɑ:lɪˈpɔ) is a neighbourhood in South Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Altamas Kabir

Altamas Kabir (19 July 1948 – 19 February 2017) was the 39th Chief Justice of India.

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Amal Kumar Sarkar

Justice Amal Kumar Sarkar (অমল কুমার সরকার) (born 29 June 1901, date of death unknown) was the eighth Chief Justice of India, from 16 March 1966 up to his retirement on 29 June 1966.

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Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen, CH, FBA (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Anandamohan Bose

Ananda Mohan Bose (আনন্দমোহন বসু) (23 September 1847 – 20 August 1906), a barrister, was one of the earliest Indian political leaders during the British Raj.

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Anil Kumar Gain

Anil Kumar Gain (অনীল কুমার গায়েন), (1 February 1919 – 7 February 1978) (also spelt Anil Kumar Gayen) was an Indian mathematician and statistician best known for his works on the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient in the field of applied statistics, with his colleague Ronald Fisher.

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Arthur Hobhouse, 1st Baron Hobhouse

Arthur Hobhouse, 1st Baron Hobhouse (10 November 18196 December 1904) was an English lawyer and judge.

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Arthur Wilson (judge)

Sir Arthur Wilson, KCIE, PC, (1837–1915) was an English lawyer and judge.

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Ashoke Sen

Ashoke Sen, FRS (born 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.

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Ashutosh Mukherjee

Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee CSI, FASB, FRSE, FRAS, MRIA (anglicised, originally Āśutōṣh Mukhōpādhyāẏa, also anglicised to Asutosh Mookerjee) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician.

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Association of Indian Universities

Association of Indian Universities (AIU) is an organisation and association of major universities in India.

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Asutosh Museum of Indian Art

Asutosh Museum of Indian Art is an art museum located in the main campus of University of Calcutta on College Street, Kolkata (previously Calcutta), India.

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Azad Hind

Ārzī Hukūmat-e-Āzād Hind, the Provisional Government of Free India, or, more simply, Free India (Azad Hind), was an Indian provisional government established in occupied Singapore in 1943 and supported by the Empire of Japan, Nazi Germany, the Italian Social Republic, and their allies.

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Azizul Haque (educator)

Sir Muhammad Azizul Haque, KCSI, CIE (27 November 1892 – 23 March 1947) (স্যার আজিজুল হক, also known as Muhammad Azizul Huq or Mohammad Azizul Huque) was a Bengali lawyer, writer and public servant.

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B. B. Gurung

Bhim Bahadur Gurung was the third Chief Minister of Sikkim.

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B. B. Lyngdoh

Brington Buhai Lyngdoh or B. B. Lyngdoh (b 1921, died October 27, 2003) was one of the longest-serving Chief Ministers of Meghalaya, a state in northeastern India.

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Ba Maw

Ba Maw (ဘမော်,; 8 February 1893 – 29 May 1977) was a Burmese political leader, active during the interwar and World War II period.

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Ballygunge

Ballygunge is a locality of south Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.

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Ballygunge Circular Road

Ballygunge Circular Road is one of the most important roads which runs through the upscale part of Ballygunge in South Kolkata.

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Banaras Hindu University

Banaras Hindu University (Hindi:, BHU), formerly Central Hindu College, is a public central university located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay or Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (27 June 1838–8 April 1894) was an Indian writer, poet and journalist.

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Banwari Lal Joshi

Banwari Lal Joshi (27 March 1936 – 22 December 2017) was an Indian political figure who was Governor of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh from 2009 to 24 June 2014.

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Bethune College

Bethune College is a women's college located in Kolkata, India, and affiliated to the University of Calcutta.

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Bhupendra Nath Bose

Bhupendra Nath Bose (1859–1924) was an Indian politician and President of the Indian National Congress in 1914.

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Bidhan Chandra Roy

Bidhan Chandra Roy MRCP, FRCS; (1 July 1882 – 1 July 1962) was the second Chief Minister of West Bengal in India.

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Bidhannagar

Bidhannagar or Salt Lake City as it is popularly called, is a planned satellite town in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Bijan Kumar Mukherjea

Bijan Kumar Mukherjea (15 August 1891 – 1 February 1956) was the 4th Chief Justice of India.

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Binodanand Jha

Binodanand Jha (born April 17, 1900), also known as Pandit Binodanand Jha, was an Indian politician originally from the district of Deoghar, Bihar (Baidyanathdham Deoghar) now in Jharkhand.

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Bishnuram Medhi

Bishnuram Medhi (বিষ্ণুৰাম মেধি) (April 24, 1888 – January 21, 1981) was an Indian politician and freedom-fighter who served as the Chief Minister of Assam from 1950 to 1957 and Governor of Madras State from January 1958 till May 1964.

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Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala

Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (विश्वेश्वरप्रसाद कोइराला; 8 September 1914 – 21 July 1982), commonly known as B. P. Koirala, was a Nepali politician and a prolific writer.

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BRICS

BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

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Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Buddhodeb Bhôṭṭacharjo; born 1 March 1944) is an Indian politician and was former member of the politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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C. V. Raman

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 188821 November 1970) was an Indian physicist born in the former Madras Province in India presently the state of Tamil Nadu, who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.

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Catchment area

In human geography, a catchment area is the area from which a city, service or institution attracts a population that uses its services.

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Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh

Sir Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh, CIE (1901 - 1993) was an Indian freedom fighter, diplomat and administrator.

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Chandramukhi Basu

Chandramukhi Basu (1860–1944), a Bengali Christian from Dehradun, which was located in the (then known as) United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, was one of the first two female graduates of the British Empire.

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Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning

Charles John Canning, 1st Earl Canning (14 December 1812 – 17 June 1862), known as The Viscount Canning from 1837 to 1859, was an English statesman and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

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Chief Justice of India

The Chief Justice of India (CJI) is the head of the judiciary of India and the Supreme Court of India.

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College Street (Kolkata)

College Street (কলেজ স্ট্রিট) is a ~1.5 km long street in central Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Cooch Behar

Cooch Behar is the district headquarters of the Cooch Behar District in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Courtenay Ilbert

Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert (12 June 1841 – 14 May 1924) was a distinguished British lawyer and civil servant who served as legal adviser to the Viceroy of India's Council for many years until his eventual return from India to England.

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Deputy Prime Minister of India

The Deputy Prime Minister of India is a member of the Union Cabinet in the Government of India.

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Distance Education Council

Distance Education Council (DEC) was an organisation based in New Delhi, India responsible for the promotion and coordination of the open university and distance education system and for determination of its standards in India.

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Education in India

Education in India is provided by the public sector as well as the private sector, with control and funding coming from three levels: central, state and local.

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Edward Clive Bayley

Sir Edward Clive Bayley (17 October 1821 – 30 April 1884), was an Anglo-Indian civil servant, statesman and archæologist.

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society judges to have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science".

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Francis William Maclean

Sir Francis William Maclean, KCIE (13 December 1844 – 11 November 1913) was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1891.

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Golap Borbora

emp Golap Borbora (গোলাপ বৰবৰা; 29 August 1925 – 19 March 2006) was a chief minister of Indian state of Assam from 1977 to 1979.

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Gooroodas Banerjee

Sir Gooroodas Banerjee, today also written Gurudas Banerjee, also Gurudas Bandyopadhyay (Bengali Sir Gurudasa Banerjee স্যার গুরুদাশ ব্যানার্জী) (Calcutta, 26 July 1844- Calcutta, 2 December 1918) was a Bengali Indian judge of the Calcutta High Court.

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Gopinath Bordoloi

Gopinath Bordoloi (1890–1950) was the Chief Minister of Assam before independence and later Chief Minister of the Indian state of Assam, and also a leading Indian independence activist.

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Government College of Art & Craft

The Government College of Art & Craft in Kolkata is one of the oldest Art colleges in India.

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Governor of West Bengal

The Governor of West Bengal is a nominal head and representative of the President of India in the state of West Bengal.

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Hassan Suhrawardy

Sir Hassan Suhrawardy OBE, CStJ, FRCS (1884 – 18 September 1946) was a noted Indian surgeon, military officer in the British Indian Army, politician, and a public official.

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Hazra Law College

Hazra Law College is the Department of Law of the Calcutta University situated at Ballygunge, Hazra road campus in Kolkata now known as Department of Law, University of Calcutta, Hazra Campus.

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Henry James Sumner Maine

Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, (15 August 1822 – 3 February 1888), was a British comparative jurist and historian.

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Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (English IPA: ɦusæŋ ʃɑid sɦuɾɑwɑɾdɪə; حسین شہید سہروردی; হোসেন শহীদ সোহ্‌রাওয়ার্দী; 8 September 18925 December 1963) is a Bengali politician and a lawyer who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Pakistan, appointed in this capacity on 12 September 1956 until resigning on 17 October 1957.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management

The Indian Institute of Social Welfare & Business Management (IISWBM) is an autonomous graduate business school in Kolkata, India.

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Indian National Army

The Indian National Army (INA; Azad Hind Fauj; lit.: Free Indian Army) was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II.

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Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress (INC, often called Congress Party) is a broadly based political party in India.

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International Military Tribunal for the Far East

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946, to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for joint conspiracy to start and wage war (categorized as "Class A" crimes), conventional war crimes ("Class B") and crimes against humanity ("Class C").

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Jadunath Sarkar

Sir Jadunath Sarkar CIE (10 December 1870 – 19 May 1958) was a prominent Indian Bengali historian.

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Jagadish Chandra Bose

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, CSI, CIE, FRS (30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937), also spelled Jagdish and Jagadis, was a polymath, physicist, biologist, biophysicist, botanist and archaeologist, and an early writer of science fiction.

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Jagjivan Ram

Jagjivan Ram (5 April 1908 – 6 July 1986), known popularly as Babuji, was an Indian independence activist and politician from Bihar.

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James William Colvile

Sir James William Colvile (12 January 1810 – 6 December 1880) was a British lawyer, civil servant and then judge in India, and a judge on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the court of last resort for the British colonies.

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Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)

Jammu and Kashmir was, from 1846 until 1952, a princely state of the British Empire in India and ruled by a Jamwal Rajput Dogra Dynasty.

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Jyoti Basu

Jyotirindra Basu (8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010); known as Jyoti Basu was an Indian Marxist politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from West Bengal, India.

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Kadambini Ganguly

Kadambini Ganguly (কাদম্বিনী গাঙ্গুলি; 18 July 1861 – 3 October 1923) and Chandramukhi Basu were the first two female graduates from India, though from the entire British Empire.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Lahore

Lahore (لاہور, لہور) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Punjab, and is the country’s second-most populous city after Karachi.

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Lakshmi Mittal

Lakshmi Niwas Mittal (born 15 June 1950) is an Indian steel magnate, based in the United Kingdom.

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Lancelot Sanderson

Sir Lancelot Sanderson (24 October 1863 – 9 March 1944) was a British Conservative politician and judge.

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List of Chief Ministers of Assam

The Chief Minister of Assam, a northeast Indian state, is the head of the Government of Assam.

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List of Chief Ministers of Bihar

The Chief Minister of Bihar is the chief executive of the Indian state of Bihar.

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List of Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh

The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (MP), a central Indian state, is the head of the Government of Madhya Pradesh.

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List of Chief Ministers of Manipur

The Chief Minister of Manipur is the chief executive of the northeast Indian state of Manipur.

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List of Chief Ministers of Meghalaya

The Chief Minister of Meghalaya is the chief executive of the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya.

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List of Chief Ministers of Nagaland

The Chief Minister of Nagaland is the chief executive of the northeast Indian state of Nagaland.

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List of Chief Ministers of Sikkim

The Chief Minister of Sikkim, an east Indian state, is the head of the Government of Sikkim.

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List of Chief Ministers of West Bengal

The Chief Minister of West Bengal is the chief executive of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.

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List of Indian Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on mankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics.

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List of institutions of higher education in India

Below are links to lists of institutions of Higher education in India.

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List of Presidents of Bangladesh

The complete list of Presidents of Bangladesh includes the persons sworn into the office as President of Bangladesh following the Bangladeshi Declaration of Independence in 1971.

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List of Prime Ministers of Bangladesh

The complete list of Prime Ministers of Bangladesh includes the persons sworn into the office as Prime Minister of Bangladesh following the Bangladeshi Declaration of Independence in 1971.

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List of Prime Ministers of Nepal

The position of Prime Minister of Nepal (नेपालको प्रधानमन्त्री; Nēpālakō pradhānamantrī) in modern form was called by different names at different times of Nepalese history.

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List of Prime Ministers of Pakistan

The Prime Minister of Pakistan (وزِیرِ اعظم —,; Turkish lit. "Grand Vizier"), is the popularly elected politician who is the chief executive of the Government of Pakistan.

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List of University of Calcutta honorary degree recipients

This is a list of honorary degree recipients from the University of Calcutta.

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Madan Mohan Malaviya

Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya ((25 December 1861 – 12 November 1946) was an Indian educationist and politician notable for his role in the Indian independence movement and as the twice president of Indian National Congress. He was respectfully addressed as Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and also addressed as 'Mahamana'. Mahamana is most remembered as the founder of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) at Varanasi in 1916, which was created under the B.H.U. Act, 1915. The largest residential university in Asia and one of the largest in the world, having over 40,000 students across arts, sciences, engineering, medical, agriculture, performing arts, law and technology from all over the world. He was Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1919–1938. Indians have forgotten his role in ending "Indentured Labours" particularly to West Indies. As Gandhi is for South Africans Mahamana is to East Indians. Malaviya was one of the founders of Scouting in India. He also founded a highly influential, English-newspaper, The Leader published from Allahabad in 1909. He was also the Chairman of Hindustan Times from 1924 to 1946. His efforts resulted in the launch of its Hindi edition named Hindustan Dainik in 1936. Pandit ji was posthumously conferred with Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, on 24 December 2014, a day before his 153rd Birth Anniversary.

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Maidan (Kolkata)

The Maidan (literally, open field), also referred to as the Brigade Parade Ground, is the largest urban park in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Mamata Banerjee

Mamata Banerjee (Bengali: also known as Didi, born 5 January 1955) is an Indian politician serving as the 8th and current Chief Minister of West Bengal since 2011.

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata

Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, commonly referred to as Calcutta Medical College, formerly Medical College, Bengal, is a medical school and hospital in the city of Kolkata in the state of West Bengal, India.

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Meghnad Saha

Meghnad Saha FRS (6 October 1893 – 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.

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Mohammad Ali Bogra

Sahibzada Mohammad Ali Bogra (মোহাম্মদ আলী বগুড়া); (19 October 1909 – 23 January 1963), also sometimes known as Mohammad Ali of Bogra, was a Bengali politician, statesman, and a career diplomat who served as third Prime Minister of Pakistan, appointed in this capacity in 1953 until he stepped down in 1955 in favor of Finance Minister Muhammad Ali.

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Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Mohammad Hamid Ansari (born 1 April 1937) is an Indian politician who served as Vice-President of India from 2007 to 2017.

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Mohammad Mohammadullah

Mohammad Mohammadullah (মোহাম্মদ মুহম্মদুল্লাহ; 21 October 1921 – 12 November 1999) was the 3rd President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

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Muhammad Mansur Ali

Muhammad Mansur Ali (মোঃ মনসুর আলী; 16 January 1917 – 3 November 1975) was a Bangladeshi politician who was a close confidante of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

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National Assessment and Accreditation Council

The National Assessment and Accrediation Council (NAAC) is an organisation that assesses and accredits higher education Institutions (HEIs) in India.

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National Eligibility Test

The National Eligibility Test (NET), also known as UGC NET or CBSE NET, is a test to determine eligibility for college and university level lecturership and for the award of Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) for Indian nationals.

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National Institutional Ranking Framework

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a methodology adopted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, to rank institutions of higher education in India.

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National Mission for Manuscripts

The National Mission for Manuscripts (NAMAMI) is an autonomous organisation under Ministry of Culture, Government of India, established to survey, locate and conserve Indian manuscripts, with an aim to create national resource base for manuscripts, for enhancing their access, awareness and use for educational purposes.

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Nilratan Sircar

Sir Nilratan Sircar (1 October 1861 – 18 May 1943) was an eminent Indian doctor, educationist, philanthropist and swadeshi entrepreneur.

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Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta

Nirmal Kumar Sidhanta was a renowned Bengali Indian scholar of English literature, at the University of Lucknow and at the University of Calcutta.

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Nurul Amin

Nurul Amin (English IPA:nʊɾul əmin, নূরুল আমীন, نورالامین; 1893–1974), referred to as the Patriot of Pakistan, was a prominent Pakistani leader, and a jurist.

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Pabitra Kumar Sen

Pabitra Kumar Sen (born 1906, Comilla, Bangladesh, died 1997 Calcutta) was the Khaira Professor of Agriculture, Calcutta University, and founder of the College of Agriculture at Calcutta University in the 1950s.

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Prafulla Chandra Ghosh

Prafulla Chandra Ghosh (Prophullo Chôndro Ghosh; 1891–1983) was the first Chief Minister of West Bengal, India.

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Prafulla Chandra Ray

Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray also spelled Prafulla Chandra Rây (প্রফুল্ল চন্দ্র রায় Praphulla Chandra Rāy; 2 August 1861 – 16 June 1944) was a Bengali chemist, educator and entrepreneur.

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Prafulla Chandra Sen

Prafulla Chandra Sen (10 April 1897 – 25 September 1990) was a Bengali politician and freedom fighter.

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Pranab Mukherjee

Pranab Kumar Mukherjee (born 11 December 1935) is an Indian politician who served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017.

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President of India

The President of the Republic of India is the head of state of India and the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces.

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President of Nepal

The President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (नेपालको राष्ट्रपति, Nēpālakō rāṣṭrapati) is the head of state of Nepal and commander in chief of the Nepalese Armed Forces.

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Public university

A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities.

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QS World University Rankings

QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

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R. P. Goenka

Rama Prasad Goenka (1 March 1930 – 14 April 2013) was the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the RPG Group, a multi-sector Indian industrial conglomerate.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS, also written Ravīndranātha Ṭhākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Radhabinod Pal

Radhabinod Pal (27 January 1886 – 10 January 1967) was an Indian Bengali jurist, who was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1966.

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Rajabazar, Kolkata

Rajabazar is a locality in the city of Kolkata in West Bengal, India.

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Rajendra Nath Mookerjee

Sir Rajen Mookerjee (or Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee) (23 June 1854–15 May 1936) was a pioneering Bengali Indian industrialist.

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Rajendra Prasad

Rajendra Prasad (3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963) was the first President of India, in office from 1950 to 1962.

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Ram Baran Yadav

Ram Baran Yadav (रामवरण यादव; born 4 February 1948) is a Nepalese politician and physician who served as the First President of Nepal following the declaration of a republic in 2008.

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Ram Sundar Das

Ram Sundar Das (राम सुन्दर दास; 9 January 1921 – 6 March 2015) was an Indian politician and a former Chief Minister of Bihar state.

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Ramendra Kumar Podder

Ramendra Kumar Podder was a Bengali Indian scholar of biochemistry, who served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta.

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Ravishankar Shukla

Ravishankar Shukla (2 August 1877, Sagar – 31 December 1956, Delhi) was a leader of the Indian National Congress, Indian independence movement activist, the Premier of the Central Provinces and Berar from 27 April 1946 to 25 January 1950, first chief minister of the reorganised Madhya Pradesh state from 1 November 1956 until his death on 31 December 1956, he was elected from Saraipali, Madhyapradesh now part of Chhattisgarh He became Chief Minister after being nominated by Shri Ram Prasad Deshmukh, who was first nominated but refused and nominated him.

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Rishang Keishing

Rishang Keishing (25 October 1920 – 22 August 2017) was a senior politician of the Indian National Congress party and a Member of the Parliament of India representing Manipur in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.

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Romesh Chunder Dutt

Romesh Chunder Dutt, CIE (রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত) (August 13, 1848 – November 30, 1909) was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, writer, and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata.

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Ronald Ross

Sir Ronald Ross (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932), was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside Europe.

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S. C. Jamir

Dr. Senayangba Chubatoshi Jamir (born 17 October 1931, PTI (The Hindu), 19 July 2008.) is an Indian politician and former Governor of Odisha.

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S. C. Marak

Salseng C Marak is a senior leader of Indian National Congress in the northeastern state of Meghalaya.

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Sabyasachi Mukharji

Sabyasachi Mukharji (1 June 1927 – 25 September 1990) was an Indian jurist, who was the twentieth Chief Justice of India.

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Sahid Khudiram Siksha Prangan, University of Calcutta

Sahid Khudiram Siksha Prangan (also known as Alipore Campus) is a University campus for post graduate studies of University of Calcutta, Kolkata.

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Sambhunath Banerjee

Sambhunath Banerjee was a Bengali Indian scholar of law, and a judge of the Calcutta High Court, who served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta.

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Santosh Bhattacharyya

Santosh Bhattacharyya (1 November 1924 – 10 March 2011) was a Bengali Indian scholar, who served as a Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta, in Kolkata, India.

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Saraikela

Saraikela, also spelled Seraikella, is the administrative headquarters of Saraikela Kharsawan District of Jharkhand.

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Dr.

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic artist, music composer and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century.

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Satyendra Nath Bose

Satyendra Nath Bose, (সত্যেন্দ্র নাথ বসু Sôtyendronath Bosu,; 1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian physicist specialising in theoretical physics.

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Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha

Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha, KCSI, PC, KC, (24 March 1863 – 4 March 1928) was a prominent lawyer and statesman in British India.

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Seal (emblem)

A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.

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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান);; (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), shortened as Sheikh Mujib or just Mujib, was a Bengali politician and statesman.

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Shri Krishna Singh (politician)

Shri Krishna Singh (21 October 1887 – 31 January 1961), also known as Sri Krishna Sinha, was the first Chief Minister of the Indian state of Bihar (1946–61).

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Siddhartha Shankar Ray

Siddhartha Shankar Ray (20 October 1920 – 6 November 2010) was a Bengali politician belonging to the Indian National Congress.

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Sky blue

Sky blue is the name of a colour that resembles the colour of the sky at noon.

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Sociology of law

The sociology of law (or legal sociology) is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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State university (India)

In India, state universities are run and funded by the state government of each of the states of India.

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Subhas Chandra Bose

Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempt during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a troubled legacy.

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Subodh Mitra

Dr.

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Sudhi Ranjan Das

Sudhi Ranjan Das (সুধী রঞ্জন দাশ Shudhi Rônjon Dash) (1 October 1894 – 18 September 1977) (S.R. Das) was the 5th Chief Justice of India, serving from 1 February 1956 to 30 September 1959.

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Sugata Marjit

Sugata Marjit is the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta and Reserve Bank of India Professor of Industrial Economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and the Project Director of Centre for Training & Research in Public Finance and Policy (CTRPFP).

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Surendranath Banerjee

Sir Surendranath Banerjee (সুরেন্দ্রনাথ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) (10 November 18486 August 1925) was one of the earliest Indian political leaders during the British Raj.

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Syama Prasad Mukherjee

Syama Prasad Mookerjee (06 July 1901 – 23 June 1953) was an Indian politician, barrister and academician, who served as Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet.

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Taraknath Palit

Sir Taraknath Palit (1831–1914) was an Indian lawyer and philanthropist.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper, headquartered at Chennai.

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Times Higher Education World University Rankings

Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by ''Times Higher Education (THE)'' magazine.

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Tulsi Giri

Tulsi Giri (तुलसी गिरि born 26 September 1926) was the Prime Minister of Nepal from 1975 to 1977, and chairman of the Council of Ministers (a de facto Prime Ministerial position) in 1963, and again in 1964 and 1965.

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University College of Science, Technology & Agriculture

The Rashbehari Siksha Prangan, also known by the name University College of Science, Technology & Agriculture, and informally as Rajabazar Science College, is one of the four main university campuses of the University of Calcutta, in Kolkata, India.

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University Grants Commission (India)

The University Grants Commission of India (UGC India) is a statutory body set up by the Indian Union government in accordance to the UGC Act 1956 under Ministry of Human Resource Development, and is charged with coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of higher education.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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Vice President of India

The Vice-President of India is the second-highest constitutional office in India after the President.

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Vidyasagar University

Vidyasagar University was established by an Act of the West Bengal legislature which was notified in the Calcutta Gazette on 24 June 1981.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Paśchimbāṅga) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal.

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William Comer Petheram

Sir William Comer Petheram (1835 - 1922) was the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court and Vice Chancellor of University of Calcutta.

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William Markby

Sir William Markby, KCIE (31 May 1829 – 15 October 1914) was an English judge and legal writer.

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William Ritchie (barrister)

William Ritchie (1817–1862) was Advocate-General of Bengal from 1855 to 1862.

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William Wilson Hunter

Sir William Wilson Hunter KCSI CIE (15 July 1840 – 6 February 1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service.

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Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee

Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee (or Umesh Chandra Banerjee by current English orthography of Bengali names) (29 December 1844 – 21 July 1906) was an Indian barrister and was the first president of Indian National Congress.

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Yangon

Yangon (ရန်ကုန်မြို့, MLCTS rankun mrui,; formerly known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") was the capital of the Yangon Region of Myanmar, also known as Burma.

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