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80 relations: Academy Awards, Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties, Akmal Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Amjad Khan (actor), Anglicisation, Aurat (1940 film), Baharampur, Bandit Queen, Banditry, Bengali language, Bob Morane, Bollywood, Chambal division, Chilapata Forests, Company rule in India, Dilip Kumar, East India Company, Fu Manchu, Gabbar Singh (character), Ganga Ki Saugandh, Ganges, Grammatical number, Gunga Jumna, H. Vinoth, Henchman, Henri Vernes, Hindi, Hindustani language, Hobson-Jobson, Imam Din Gohavia, Indian English, Jatt Jeona Mour, Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai, Kannada, Khote Sikkay, Kolkata, Kuchhe Dhaage, Madhya Pradesh, Malangi, Malangi (Dacuit), Man Singh (dacoit), Masala film, Mehboob Khan, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Moni Bhattacharjee, Mother India, Mujhe Jeene Do, Myanmar, Nirbhay Gujjar, ..., Organised crime in India, Oxford English Dictionary, Paan Singh Tomar, Phoolan Devi, Plural, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Raj Kapoor, Raj Khosla, Robbery, Rudyard Kipling, Salim-Javed, Sax Rohmer, Screen (magazine), Shiv Kumar Patel, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Sholay, Spaghetti Western, Surender Mohan Pathak, Taylor & Francis, The 65 Lakh Heist, The Confession of Sultana Daku, The Deceivers, The New York Times International Edition, The Taking of Lungtungpen, Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru, Thuggee, Thuggee and Dacoity Department, Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–48, Urdu, Veerappan. Expand index (30 more) »
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties
Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties is the second expansion pack for the real-time strategy video game Age of Empires III developed through a collaboration between Ensemble Studios and Big Huge Games, and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
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Akmal Khan
Akmal Khan, or Akmal, (born 11 November 1929, Lahore, Pakistan, died 11 June 1967) was a Pakistani film actor and singer.
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Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan (born 11 October 1942) is an Indian film actor, producer, television host, and former politician.
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Amjad Khan (actor)
Amjad Khan (12 November 1940 – 27 July 1992) was an Indian actor and director.
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Anglicisation
Anglicisation (or anglicization, see English spelling differences), occasionally anglification, anglifying, englishing, refers to modifications made to foreign words, names and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce, or understand in English.
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Aurat (1940 film)
Aurat (English: Woman) is a 1940 Indian film, directed by Mehboob Khan, starring Sardar Akhtar, Surendra, Yakub, Kanhaiyalal and Arun Kumar Ahuja.
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Baharampur
Baharampur (pronounced asˌ) is a city in the state of West Bengal, India,in Murshidabad district situated in the central part of the state.
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Bandit Queen
Bandit Queen is a 1994 Indian biographical film based on the life of Phoolan Devi as covered in the book India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi by the Indian author Mala Sen.
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Banditry
Banditry is the life and practice of bandits.
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Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.
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Bob Morane
Bob Morane is a series of adventure books in French, featuring an eponymous protagonist, created by French-speaking Belgian novelist Henri Vernes, the pseudonym of Charles-Henri Dewisme.
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Bollywood
Hindi cinema, often metonymously referred to as Bollywood, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry, based in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Maharashtra, India.
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Chambal division
Chambal Division is an administrative geographical unit of Madhya Pradesh state of India.
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Chilapata Forests
The Chilapata Forest is a dense forest near Jaldapara National Park in Dooars, Alipurduar district, West Bengal, India.
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Company rule in India
Company rule in India (sometimes, Company Raj, "raj, lit. "rule" in Hindi) refers to the rule or dominion of the British East India Company over parts of the Indian subcontinent.
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Dilip Kumar
Dilip Kumar (born Muhammad Yusuf Khan; 11 December 1922) is an Indian film actor, producer, screenwriter, and activist, known for his work in Hindi cinema.
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East India Company
The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.
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Fu Manchu
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Gabbar Singh (character)
Gabbar Singh is a fictional character, the antagonist of the 1975 Bollywood film Sholay.
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Ganga Ki Saugandh
Ganga Ki Saugandh is a 1978 Hindi movie.
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Ganges
The Ganges, also known as Ganga, is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh.
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Grammatical number
In linguistics, grammatical number is a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two", or "three or more").
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Gunga Jumna
Gunga Jumna (also transliterated as Ganga Jamuna or Ganga Jamna) is a 1961 Indian dacoit crime drama film, produced in Technicolor.
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H. Vinoth
H. Vinoth is an Indian film writer and director who made his directorial debut with Sathuranga Vettai (2014).
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Henchman
A henchman is a loyal employee, supporter, or aide to some powerful figure engaged in nefarious or criminal enterprises.
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Henri Vernes
Charles-Henri-Jean Dewisme (born 16 October 1918), better known by his pen name Henri Vernes, is an author of action and science-fiction novels, of which has he published over 200 titles.
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Hindi
Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.
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Hindustani language
Hindustani (हिन्दुस्तानी, ہندوستانی, ||lit.
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Hobson-Jobson
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive is a historical dictionary of Anglo-Indian words and terms from Indian languages which came into use during the British rule of India.
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Imam Din Gohavia
Imam Din Gohavia (Punjabi) is a 1967 Pakistani, biographical film in the Punjabi language about the British Raj, directed by M. Saleem and produced by Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam.
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Indian English
Indian English is any of the forms of English characteristic of India.
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Jatt Jeona Mour
Jatt Jeona Morh (ਜੱਟ ਜਿਉਣਾ ਮੌੜ), released in 1991, is a Punjabi film directed by Ravinder Ravi and starring Gugu Gill and Gurkirtan.
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Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai
Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai is a 1960 Hindi film directed by Radhu Karmakar and produced by Raj Kapoor.
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Kannada
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Kannada people in India, mainly in the state of Karnataka, and by significant linguistic minorities in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa and abroad.
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Khote Sikkay
Khote Sikkay (English: Fake Coins) is a 1974 Indian Bollywood action-adventure film directed by Narendra Bedi, starring Feroz Khan and Danny Denzongpa as part of a gang of men hired by a villager to save his village from the dacoits.
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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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Kuchhe Dhaage
Kuchhe Dhaage is a 1973 Bollywood action film directed by Raj Khosla.
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Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (MP;; meaning Central Province) is a state in central India.
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Malangi
Malangi (Punjabi) is a 1965 Pakistani, biographical and a musical film directed by Rashid Akhtar and produced by Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam.
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Malangi (Dacuit)
Malangi was a dacoit during the colonial occupation of Punjab.
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Man Singh (dacoit)
Man Singh, (died 1955) known as "Daku Man Singh", meaning Dacoit Maan Singh, was a notorious dacoit, or bandit, born in agra to a Rajput Family.
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Masala film
Masala films of Indian cinema are those that mix genres in one work.
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Mehboob Khan
Mehboob Khan (born Mehboob Khan Ramzan Khan; 9 September 1907 at filmreference.com. – 28 May 1964) was a pioneer producer-director of Hindi cinema, best known for directing the social epic Mother India (1957), which won the Filmfare Awards for Best Film and Best Director and was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Mera Gaon Mera Desh
Mera Gaon Mera Desh (मेरा गाँव मेरा देश; English: My Village my country) is a 1971 Indian film, directed by Raj Khosla, written by Akhtar Romani, and starring Dharmendra in the lead role and Vinod Khanna as the villain.
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Moni Bhattacharjee
Moni Bhattacharjee (Hindi: मोनी भट्टाचार्य) was an Indian film director and screenwriter of the 1960s who directed Hindi language films.
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Mother India
Mother India is a 1957 Indian epic drama film, directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, and Raaj Kumar.
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Mujhe Jeene Do
Mujhe Jeene Do (Let Me Live) is a 1963 Hindi film, directed by Moni Bhattacharjee and written by Aghajani Kashmeri.
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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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Nirbhay Gujjar
Nirbhay Gujjar (died: 7 November 2005) was one of the last dacoits of the Chambal.
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Organised crime in India
Organised crime in India is a reference to organised crime elements originating in India and active in many parts of the world.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Paan Singh Tomar
Paan Singh Tomar (1932 – October 1, 1981) was an Indian soldier, athlete, and baghee (rebel).
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Phoolan Devi
Phoolan Devi (10 August 1963 – 25 July 2001), popularly known as "Bandit Queen", was an Indian bandit and later a Member of Parliament.
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Plural
The plural (sometimes abbreviated), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.
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Presidencies and provinces of British India
The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.
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Raj Kapoor
Ranbir Raj Kapoor (14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as "the greatest showman of Hindi cinema", was a noted Indian film actor, producer and director of Indian cinema.
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Raj Khosla
Raj Khosla (राज खोसला; 31 May 1925 – 9 June 1991) was one of the top directors, producers and screenwriters in Hindi films from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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Robbery
Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear.
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12 was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
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Salim-Javed
Salim-Javed were a screenwriting duo in the Indian film industry, composed of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar.
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Sax Rohmer
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist.
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Screen (magazine)
Screen was a weekly film magazine, published in India.
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Shiv Kumar Patel
Shiv Kumar Patel (died 22 July 2007), also known as Dadua, was a notorious dacoit (bandit) who operated in ravines and forests on the borders between the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
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Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Shivraj Singh Chouhan (born 5 March 1959) is the 18th and current Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, a central Indian state.
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Sholay
Sholay (meaning "Embers") is a 1975 Indian action-adventure film in Hindi language, written by Salim-Javed, directed by Ramesh Sippy, and produced by his father G. P. Sippy.
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Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western, also known as Italian Western or Macaroni Western (primarily in Japan), is a broad subgenre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success.
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Surender Mohan Pathak
Surender Mohan Pathak (सुरेन्द्र मोहन पाठक, ਸੁਰਿੰਦਰ ਮੋਹਨ ਪਾਠਕ) (born 19 February 1940 at Khemkaran, in Tarn Taran district near Amritsar, in the Majha region of Punjab) is an author of Hindi-language crime fiction with nearly 300 novels to his credit.
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Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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The 65 Lakh Heist
The 65 Lakh Heist is first English version (translated by Sudarshan Purohit) of a Surender Mohan Pathak book.
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The Confession of Sultana Daku
The Confession of Sultana Daku is a 2009 historical novel by Sujit Saraf.
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The Deceivers
The Deceivers is a 1952 novel by John Masters on the Thuggee movement in India during British imperial rule.
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The New York Times International Edition
The New York Times International Edition is an English-language newspaper printed at 38 sites throughout the world and sold in more than 160 countries and territories.
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The Taking of Lungtungpen
"The Taking of Lungtungpen" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on 11 April 1887.
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Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru
Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (Braveman - Chapter One) is a 2017 Indian action thriller film written and directed by H. Vinoth and produced by S. R. Prakashbabu and S. R. Prabhu of Dream Warrior Pictures.
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Thuggee
Thuggee or tuggee (ठग्गी ṭhaggī; ٹھگ; Nepali: ठग्गी ṭhaggī; italic; ठक; ଠକ thaka; ٺوڳي، ٺڳ; ಠಕ್ಕ thakka; ঠগি ṭhogī) refers to the acts of Thugs, an organised gang of professional robbers and murderers.
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Thuggee and Dacoity Department
The Thuggee and Dacoity Department was an organ of the East India Company, and inherited by British India, which was established in 1830 with the mission of addressing dacoity (banditry), highway robbery, and particularly the Thugee cult of robbers.
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Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–48
The Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–48 in British India under East India Company rule were a series of legal acts that outlawed thugee—a practice in North and Central India involving robbery and ritualized murder and mutilation on highways—and dacoity, a form of banditry prevalent in the same region, and prescribed punishment for the same.
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Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو ALA-LC:, or Modern Standard Urdu) is a Persianised standard register of the Hindustani language.
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Veerappan
Koose Munisamy Veerappan (18 January 1952 – 18 October 2004), commonly known only as Veerappan, was a notorious Indian brigand and dacoit.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacoity
