INDIA AND ITS LESS KNOWN FACTS [1] Navi Mumbai, a planned satellite township of Mumbai, was developed in 1972 and is the largest planned township on the planet. [2] War of 27 years fought between the Maratha Empire and the Mughal Empire from 1681 to 1707 was the longest recorded military engagement in the history of India. [3] In 1955, Jawaharlal Nehru rejected an offer to India for a permanent UN Security Council seat to avoid being embroiled in the cold war politics. [4] Viswanathan Anand is first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match. [5] India is one of only 3 remaining countries in the world to have a horsed cavalry regiment. [6] Agni III is the most accurate missile in the world in its range category and BrahMos is the fastest operational cruise missile in the world. [7] The process of crystallization of sugar from sugarcane juice was discovered in India in the Gupta period (350 AD). [8] Many tribes in India worship Asura and Ravan and consider Vijaya Dashami and Dussehra to be black days. [9] In 1928, when the Indian Hockey team was on its way to Amsterdam, they played a series of exhibition matches in England. Seeing its calibre, England decided not to field a team for the Olympics as “they did not want to lose to a slave country.” [10] Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by a meteor hitting the Earth and is one of its kind in India. [11] Raj Kapoor’s 1951 film Awaara was massively popular in Soviet Russia and China. The film and its title song were Mao Zedong’s (Founder of People’s Republic of China) favorite. [12] There were two US navy warships called USS Krishna and USS Indra that served during World War II. [13] Unlike in Border movie, only 2 Indians died in battle of Longewala. [14] English Actor Sir Ben Kingsley’s birth name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji and he is ofIndian (Gujarati) descent. [15] Freddie Mercury, British musician was actually of Gujarati descent. [16] “John Doe” orders (restraint orders against unknown persons for breach of plaintiff’s rights) are called “Ashok Kumar” orders in India. Likewise, “unclaimed” or “unidentified” dead body found in a public place is called is Ashok Kumar. [17] The oldest building in Asia is in India, the Sanchi Stupa. [18] Bal Thackeray’s father changed his family name from Thakre to Thackeray after the British writer William Makepeace Thackeray. [19] There is a species of Shark known as the Ganges Shark that inhabits River Ganga and it is critically endangered [20] The first railroad was constructed by two Indians (Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Jaganath Shunkerseth) and not the British.
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