Other Individuals - Hexco (A-H) Flashcards
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Ambedkar, B.R.
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- political leader
- helped draft the Constitution of India
- fought for the rights of untouchables
- worked alongside Jawaharlal Nehru in the first Cabinet of India as the Minister of Law and Justice
- awarded the highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna
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Bandaranaike, Sirimavo
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- politician
- world’s first female prime minister (1960)
- assisted in drafting the new constitution for Sri Lanka after it gained independence from Britain
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Bandaranaike, Solomon (SWRD)
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- known as the “Silver Bell of Asia”
- prime minster until assassinated by a Buddhist monk (1956 - 1959)
- founder of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (pro-Sinhalese)
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Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
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- Pakistani president and prime minister in the 1970s
- drafted the Constitution for Pakistan
- founded the Pakistan’s People’s Party
- executed after being found guilty of murder, of which he claimed innocence
- father of Benazir Bhutto
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Chawla, Kalpana
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- astronaut and aerospace engineer
- first Indian woman to fly to space
- fist flight was aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997
- aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia again in 2003 when it disintegrated during reentry (death)
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Curzon, Lord
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- British politician
- viceroy of India from 1899 - 1905
- proposed the disastrous partition of Bengal in 1905
-subvert political movements - divide communities
- expanded the India Army to recruit Indian aristocrats as officers
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Didi, Muhammad Amin
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- first president of the Maldives
- served for 8 months in 1953
- left for medical treatment and was overthrown and was beaten by a crowd when he returned
- country returned to being a sultanate
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Didi, Muhammad Fareed
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-last sultan or king of the Maldives from 1954 - 1968
- Maldives voted in favor of becoming a republic and he was dethroned in 1968
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Ershad, Hussain Muhammad
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- president of Bangladesh from 1983 - 1990
- led a coup against the former president, Adus Sattar, then suspended the constitution to declare himself the leader
- resigned in 1990 following a pro-democracy protest
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Gandhi, Rajiv
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- prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989
- succeeded his mother Indira Gandhi after her assassination
- won his brother’s parliamentary seat after he died in a plane crash
- dealt with anti-Sikh riots, Kashmir riots, relations with Srik Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and the Bhopal chemical disaster
- assassinated by a suicide bomber from the LTTE in 1989
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Gautama, Siddhartha
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- commonly known as Buddha
- original enlightened one of the Buddhist religion
- born to a Brahmin family but renounced his life to study asceticism and meditation
- created teachings that built a monastic order and the Middle Path to nirvana by using the Noble Eightfold Path
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Gayoom, Maumoon Abdul
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- president of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008
- used generally autocratic policies to maintain control with a one-party system
-leader of the Progressive Part of the Maldives until he was arrested for conspiring to overthrow the government in 2018
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Ghose, Aurobindo
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- Indian philosopher and Indian nationalist
- member of the Indian independence movement and then became a spiritual reformer
- practice called Integral Yoga and his teachings were formed into an organization called Sri Aurobindo Ashram
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Hume, Allan Octavian
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- British politician who worked in British India
- helped found the INC
- ornithologist and studied birds across India
- donated all collections and notes to the Natural History Museum in London
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Huq, A. K. Fazlul
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- first prime minister of Bengal from 1937 to 1943 during the British Raj
- fundamental in the Indian independence movement and Pakistan movement
- participated in the Quit India Movement, the Bengali Language movement, and continued to be politically active until his death in 1962
