People
The Non-Aligned Movement was founded and held its first conference in 1961 under the leadership of Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, ____ of India, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and Sukarno of Indonesia.
Jawaharlal Nehru
___ is a massif of the Himalayas in Nepal. It contains the world's 10th highest peak which became famous in 1950 as the first peak above 26,000 feet to be ascended to the summit. The feat was achieved by a French expedition led by Maurice Herzog.
Annapurna
In Sri Lanka, during the years after the ___ were crushed, the government undertook significant development in the groups former strongholds, but the continuing presence of the army and human rights violations by security forces undermined the reintegration of former rebel-held areas.
Tamil Tigers
The Chettairs were the leading community of financiers from __ that were some of the biggest contributors to the Azad Hind government.
Tamil Nadu
The ___, or Mehran, is the great trans Himalayan river of South Asia with a length of some 2,000 miles. Its drainage area lies in the ranges and foothills of the Himalayas, the Hindu Kush, and the Karakoram Range with the rest located in the plains of Pakistan.
Indus
Following the September 11 attacks in the U.S. and the invasion of Afghanistan later that year, the U.S. worked closely with the president of Pakistan, ___. His alliance led to condemnation by extremists in his country and he was the target of several assassination attempts.
Pervez Musharraf
As of 2019, ___ is an area in the Ladakh union territory of India. This sector has often been the site of border skirmishes between India and Pakistan with the clash in 1999 being the largest and deadliest to date.
Kargil
Republic Day is a national holiday celebrated in ___ commemorating the adoption of the sovereign constitution on January 26, 1950.
India
As Congress president and in his political outlook in general, Bose took a deep interest in __. This tended to be a much more significant focus for him than other Congress members, especially Gandhi.
international affairs
On July 2, 1943, Subhas landed in ___ from Japan and was greeted by a Hindustani song proclaiming that "the light of Asia" had arrived in Asia.
Singapore
In 1999, Prime Minister __ allegedly refused to allow Pervez Musharraf's aircraft to land fearing a coup led by the general. He was overthrown and eventually tried on charges of hijacking and terrorism.
Nawaz Sharif
The ___ was created in 1916 between the Indian National Congress headed by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and the All-India Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. It discussed how provincial and central legislatures would be elected under a new constitution.
Lucknow Pact
Geographically, ___ comprises three major areas. The south, known as the Terai, has cultivable land, swamps, and forests. In the north is the main section of the Himalayas and the central region is the country's most densely populated region and its administrative, economic, and cultural center.
Nepal
On November 18, 1945, Sibbier Ayer and the final travel companion of Subhas Bose, ____, were flown on U.S. aircraft to Delhi to be witnesses at the Red Fort Trial.
Habibur Rahman
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From 1902 to 1910, ___ partook in the struggle to free India from the British raj. As a result of his political activities, he was imprisoned and in 1910 he fled to the French colony of Pondichéry. Here he would write his most renowned work, The Life Divine.
Aurobindo Ghose
In 1892, ___ was elected as a member of Parliament from London despite being born in Bombay. He became widely known for Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, in which he argued that India's wealth was being drained away to England.
Dadabhai Naoroji
The Karakoram Highway took almost 20 years to build and connect Kashgar, China with ____, Pakistan.
Islamabad
In early 2008, a string of bomb blasts hit ____ ahead of elections set for March. The attacks were blamed on groups fighting for the rights of ethnic Nepalis exiled in 1991.
Bhutan
In March 1936, Subhas Bose had his passport seized and was placed under guard when he arrived in ___ on his way back to India. The British wanted to be sure he did not meet with anyone, like the nationalist leader Mustafa el Nahas Pasha, as he had a year earlier.
Egypt
The first prime minister of Pakistan, ___ was assassinated in Rawalpindi in 1951 by a Muslim fanatic who resented his steady refusal to consider war with India.
Liaquat Ali Khan
___ is a journalist, activist, and politician who was elected president of the Maldives in 2008, but resigned from office in early 2012 in what he characterized as a coup d’état.
Mohamed Nasheed
___ was a Portuguese port in 1522, and an East India Company post by 1664. By about 1801, the British had control of southern India, of which it became the administrative capital. The renamed state of Tamil Nadu kept it as its capital but then changed the city's name in 1996.
Madras
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India and Pakistan have made some progress maintaining peace along the contested Kashmiri border, but India maintains a strong military presence along the Saltoro Ridge of the ___ which is referred to as the highest battleground on the planet.
Siachen Glacier
In 1939, Mohandas Gandhi was not pleased that his chosen candidate to lead the INC, __, had lost. He acknowledged that "the defeat is more mine than his."
Pattabhi Sitaramayya
The name ___ comes from Sanskrit for Buddhist monastery and for centuries it was the seat of imperial powers and a focus of Indian civilization. The state is divided by the Ganges River into the plains of the North and South which together form part of the Gangetic Plain.
Bihar