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Famous Historian Balwant Moreshwar Purandare Passes Away
Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, renowned historian and Padma Vibhushan awardee, passed away on November 15 at a Pune hospital after a brief sickness. He was brought to the city's Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital three days ago, for pneumonia treatment. After his condition deteriorated, he was moved to ventilator support in the hospital's intensive care unit. He was one of the foremost specialists on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and was known as Shiv… read-more
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British-Indian Author Wins Literary Prize For Her Book On Jallianwala
British-Indian political journalist and author Anita Anand's book 'The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj', has won a prestigious history-literary prize in the United Kingdom. The book, published in 2019, is about freedom fighter Udham Singh who assassinated General Dyre, the planner of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The judges showered… read-more
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Renowned Historian Vishwa Nath Datta Passes Away At 94
Renowned historian Vishwa Nath Datta passed away at the age of 94 on November 30 at his residence in New Delhi. He was a Professor Emeritus (retired) at Kurukshetra University and had served as General President of the Indian History Congress as well. Datta had authored on several topics of Indian history including the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, which was the first book on the incident.
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