Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh (Hindi: Himācal Pradeś , pronounced [ɦɪˈmäːtʃəl pɾəˈd̪eːʃ] ⓘ ; lit. 'Snow-laden Mountain Province') [16] is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the 13 mountain states and is characterised by an extreme landscape featuring several peaks and extensive river systems. Himachal Pradesh is the northernmost state of India and shares borders with the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh to the north, and the states of Punjab to the west, Haryana to the southwest, Uttarakhand to the southeast and a very narrow border wi…
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Haryana
Haryana [1] is a state located in the northwestern part of India. It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, by Rajasthan to the west and south, by Delhi to the southeast, while river Yamuna forms its eastern border with Uttar Pradesh. The state capital is Chandigarh, which it shares with the neighbouring state of Punjab. The city of Gurgaon is among India's largest financial and technology hubs. [20] The most populous city is Faridabad, a part of the National Capital Region. In terms of area, it ranks 21st in India, with around 1.5% (44,212 km 2 or 17,070 sq mi) of India's…
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Gujarat
Gujarat (Gujarati: Gujarāt , pronounced [ˈɡudʒəɾaːt] ⓘ ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about 2,340 km (1,450 mi) is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some 196,024 km 2 (75,685 mi 2 ); and the ninth-most populous state, with a population of 60.4 million in 2011. It is bordered by Rajasthan to the northeast, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to the south, Maharashtra to the southeast, Madhya Pradesh to the east, and the Arabian Sea and the Pakistani provi…
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Goa
Goa (/ˈɡoʊ.ə/ GOH-ə ; [10] Konkani: [ɡɔ̃j]; Portuguese: [ˈɡoɐ] ⓘ ) is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region. It is geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. [11] [12] It is bordered by the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the east and south, with the Arabian Sea forming its western coastline. It was the capital of the eastern Portuguese empire until 1961. It is India's smallest state by area and fourth-smallest by population. [13] Panaji ( Panjim ) is the state's capital, while Vasco da Gama is its larges…
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Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh (/ˈtʃætɪsɡɑːr/; Hindi: [ˈtʃʰət̪ːiːsgəɽʱ]) is a landlocked state in east-central India. [14] It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. [15] It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Pradesh to the northwest, Maharashtra to the southwest, Jharkhand to the northeast, Odisha to the east, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to the south. [16] Formerly a part of Madhya Pradesh, it was granted statehood on 1 November 2000 with Raipur as the designated state capital. [17]
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Bihar
Bihar (Hindi: Bihār ,pronounced [bɪˈɦaːr] ⓘ ) is a state in eastern India. It borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Bengal to the east, and Jharkhand to the south. Bihar is split by the river Ganges, which flows from west to east. [4] It is the second largest state by population, the 12th largest by area, and the 14th largest by GDP in 2024. [14] [15] [16] Bihar's official languages are Hindi and Urdu. The main native languages are Maithili, Magahi and Bhojpuri, but there are several other languages being spoken at smaller levels.
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Assam
Assam [2] is a state in Northeast India, located south of the Eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley and Barak River valleys. It covers an area of 78,438 km 2 (30,285 sq mi), and is the second largest state in northeastern India by area. As per the 2011 census, the state had a population of 31.2 million, and is the largest by population in the region. It shares international borders with Bhutan to the north and with Bangladesh to the southwest. It borders the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, and Mizoram to the sou…
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Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh (/ərʊˌnɑːtʃəl prəˈdeɪʃ/; [14] lit. 'Dawn-Lit Mountain Province') [15] is a state in northeast India. It was known as the North-East Frontier Agency until 1972, after which it became a union territory under the name Arunachal Pradesh. It became a state on 20 February 1987. Itanagar is its capital and largest town.
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Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh [2] is a state on the east coast of southern India. The seventh largest Indian state by area and the tenth largest by population, it is bound by the Bay of Bengal to the east, and shares borders with the states of Odisha to the northeast, Chhattisgarh to the north, Telangana to northwest, Karnataka to the west, and Tamil Nadu to the south. Telugu, one of the classical languages of India, is the most widely spoken language in the state and serves as its official language. Amaravati is the state capital, and Visakhapatnam is the largest city.
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India
India , officially the Republic of India , [10] [76] is a country in South Asia. It is the world's seventh-largest country by area and its most populous. [77] Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, [11] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives. [12]
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Premchand
Dhanpat Rai Srivastava [2] (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand [3] [4] (pronounced [preːm t͡ʃənd̪] ⓘ ), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.
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Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla (/ˌkɑːlpənə ˈtʃɑːvlə/; March 17, 1962 [1] – February 1, 2003) was an Indian-born American astronaut, aerospace engineer, and pilot who was the first woman of Indian heritage to fly into space. Chawla participated in two spaceflights, STS-87 and STS-107, in 1997 and 2003, respectively. On both of these flights, she conducted scientific experiments researching the effects of microgravity on various physical processes. When the crew members in STS-107 descended back to Earth, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated due to damage it sustained at liftoff. This killed all seven as…
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Dhirubhai Ambani
Dhirajlal Hirachand " Dhirubhai " Ambani (28 December 1932 – 6 July 2002) was an Indian businessman who founded Reliance Industries in 1958. Ambani took Reliance public in 1977. [1] [2] In 2016, he was honoured posthumously with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour for his contributions to trade and industry. [3] [4]
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Sai Baba of Shirdi
Sai Baba of Shirdi (c. 1838–15 October 1918), [2] also known as Shirdi Sai Baba , was an Indian spiritual master considered to be a saint, [3] and revered by both Hindu and Muslim devotees during and after his lifetime.
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Dayananda Saraswati
There are undoubtedly many learned men among the followers of every religion. They should free themselves from prejudice, accept the universal truths – that is those truths that are to be found alike in all religions and are of universal application, reject all things in which the various religions differ and treat each other lovingly, it will be greatly to the advantage of the world.
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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Bengali: মহাপ্রভু শ্রীচৈতন্য দেব; Sanskrit: चैतन्य महाप्रभु, romanized: Caitanya Mahāprabhu ), born Vishvambhara Mishra (IAST: Viśvambhara Miśra [2] ) (18 February 1486 – 14 June 1534 [3] ), was an Indian Hindu saint from Bengal and the founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's mode of worshipping Krishna with bhajan-kirtan and dance influenced Vaishnavism in Bengal. He is often considered to be an incarnation of lord Krishna. He is also sometimes considered to be the combined Avatar of goddess Radha and lord Krishna.
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Madhvacharya
Madhvacharya (IAST: Madhvācārya ; pronounced [mɐdʱʋaːˈtɕaːrjɐ]; 1199–1278 CE [5] or 1238–1317 CE [6] ), also known as Purna Prajna (IAST: Pūrṇa-Prajña ) and Ānanda Tīrtha , was an Indian philosopher, theologian and the chief proponent of the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta. [2] [7] Madhva called his philosophy Tattvavāda meaning "arguments from a realist viewpoint". [7] Madhvacharya was born at Pajaka near Udupi on the west coast of Karnataka state in 13th-century India. [8] As a teenager, he became a Sanyasi (monk) joining Brahma-sampradaya guru Achyutapreksha, of the Ekadandi order. [2…
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Dnyaneshwar
Sant Dnyaneshwar (Marathi pronunciation: [d̪ɲaːn̪eʃʋəɾ]), (Devanagari : सन्त ज्ञानेश्वर), pronunciation ⓘ also referred to as Jñāneśvara , Jñānadeva , Dnyandev or Mauli or Dnyandev Vitthal Kulkarni (1275–1296 (living samadhi)), [9] [10] was a 13th-century Indian Marathi saint, poet, philosopher and yogi of the Nath and Varkari tradition. In his short life of 21 years, he authored Dnyaneshwari (a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita ) and Amrutanubhav . [11] These are the oldest surviving literary works in the Marathi language, and considered to be milestones in Marathi literature. [12] Sant Dnya…
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Tukaram
Tukaram (Marathi pronunciation: [t̪ukaːɾam]), also known as Tuka, Tukobaraya, and Tukoba , was a Hindu Marathi saint of the Varkari Sampradaya who lived in the 17th century. [4] [5] He was a devotee of the god Vithoba, a form of Vishnu. [3] He is best known for his devotional poetry called abhanga , which is popular in Maharashtra. Many of his poems [6] deal with social reform. [5]
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Ravidas
Ravidas or Raidas was an Indian mystic poet-saint of the Bhakti movement during the 15th to 16th century CE. [1] [2] Venerated as a guru (spiritual teacher) in the modern regions of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, and Haryana, he was a poet, social reformer and spiritual figure.
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