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Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Summary
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, incident on April 13, 1919, in which British troops opened fire on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in a garden called the Jallianwala Bagh (bagh meaning “garden”) in Amritsar in the Punjab region (now in Punjab state) of colonized India, killing several hundred people
Xuanzang Summary
Xuanzang was a Buddhist monk and Chinese pilgrim to India who translated the sacred scriptures of Buddhism from Sanskrit into Chinese and founded in China the Buddhist Consciousness Only school. His fame rests mainly on the volume and diversity of his translations of the Buddhist sutras and on the
Lakshadweep Summary
Lakshadweep, union territory of India. It is a group of some three dozen islands scattered over some 30,000 square miles (78,000 square km) of the Arabian Sea off the southwestern coast of India. The principal islands in the territory are Minicoy and those in the Amindivi group. The easternmost
Taj Mahal Summary
Taj Mahal, white marble mausoleum complex in Agra, western Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. The Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (reigned 1628–58) to immortalize his empress consort Mumtaz Mahal (“Beloved Ornament of the Palace”), who died in childbirth in 1631, having been