Recipients of Bharat Ratna Award
1556 | Second Battle of Panipat in which Bairam Khan (representing Akbar) defeated Hemu. |
1565 | Battle of Talikota (or Banihatti) in which an alliance of Ahmednagar, Bijapur, Golkonda and Bidar defeated the Vijaynagar empire (represented by Sadasiva). |
1576 | Battle of Haldighati in which Akbar defeated Maharana Pratap. |
1615 | Mewar submitted to the Mughals. A treaty of peace was signed between Jahangiri and Rana Amar Singh of Mewar. |
1649 | Kandahar was lost to Persia forever by the Mughals. |
1658 | Battle of Dharmatt and Samugarh in which Aurangzeb defeated Dara Shikoh. |
1665 | Raja Jai Singh defeated Shivaji and the Treaty of Purandar signed. |
1708 | Battle of Khed in which Shahu defeated Tara Bai. |
1737 | Battle of Bhopal in which Baji Rao defeated Mohammed Shah. |
1739 | Battle of Karnal in which Nadir Shah defeated Mohammed Shah. |
1757 | Battle of Plassey in which the English forces (under Robert Cive) defeated Siraj-ud-daula, the Nawab of Bengal. |
1760 | Battle of Wandiwash in which the English forces defeated the French forces. |
1761 | Third Battle of Panipat in which Ahmed Shah Abdali defeated the Marathas. |
1764 | Battle of Buxar in which the English under Munro defeated the alliance of Nawab Mir Qasim of Bengal, Nawab Shuja-ud-daula of Awadh and Mughal emperor Shah Alam. |
1767-69 | First Anglo Mysore War in which Hyder Ali defeated the English forces. |
1766-69 | First Anglo Maratha War in which the British were defeated. |
1770 | Battle of Udgir in which the Marathas defeated the Nizam. |
1780-84 | Second Anglo Mysore War. Hyder Ali died during the battle (1782) and the field was taken by his son Tipu Sultan. The war concluded with the Treaty of Mangalore (1784). |
1789-92 | Third Anglo Mysore War in which Tipu Sultan was defeated. The Treaty of Serirangapatnam followed. |
1799 | Fourth Anglo Mysore War in which Tipu was defeated and killed. |
1803-06 | Second Anglo Maratha War in which the British defeated the Marathas. |
1817-19 | Third Anglo Maratha War in which the British defeated the Marathas badly. |
1824-26 | First Anglo Burmese War in which the British defeated the Burmese. |
1839-42 | First Anglo Afghan War in which the British defeated the Afghan ruler Dost Mohammad. |
1845-46 | First Anglo Sikh War in which the Sikhs were defeated. |
1848-49 | Second Anglo Sikh War in which the Sikhs were defeated and Punjab was annexed by the British. |
1852 | Second Anglo Burmese War in which the British won. |
1865 | Third Angio Burmese War in which the British won & annexed Burma. |
1868-80 | Second Anglo Afghan War in which the English suffered losses. |
1919-21 | Third Anglo Afghan War in which the English, though victorious, did not benefit from the war. |
Black Holes and Baby Universes;Stephen Hawking |
Blood, Brain and Beer;David Ogilvy |
Bonfire of the Vanities;Tom Wolfe |
Born Free;Joy Adamson |
Brave New World;Aldous Huxley |
Bread, Beauty and Revolution;Khwaja Ahmad Abbas |
Breakfast at Tiffany's;Truman Capote |
Breakthrough;Gen. Moshe Dayan |
Bubble, The;Mulk Raj Anand |
Business @ the Speed of Thought;Bill Gates |
Byzantium;W.B. Yeats |
Cadillac Desert;Marc Reisner |
Caesar and Cleopatra;George Bernard Shaw |
Candida;George Bernard Shaw |
Candide;Voltaire |
Catch-22;Joseph Heller |
Catcher in the Rye;J. D. Salinger |
Centennial;James A. Michener |
Chemmeen;Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai |
Cherry Orchard;Anton Chekov |
Chidambara;Sumitranandan Pant |
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage;Lord Byron |
Chitra;Rabindra Nath Tagore |
Choma's Drum;K. Shivaram Karanth |
Chronicle of a Death Foretold;Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
Circle of Reason;Amitav Ghosh |
Circles of Silence;Preeti Singh |
City of Joy;Dominique Lapierre |
City of Djinns;William Dalrymple |
Comedy of Errors;William Shakespeare |
Coming of Age in Samoa;Margaret Mead |
Common Sense;Thomas Paine |
Communist Manifesto;Karl Marx |
Confessions;J.J. Rousseau |
Confessions of an English Opium Eater;Thomas De Quincey |
Confidential Clerk;T.S Eliot |
Conquest of Self;Mahatma Gandhi |
Coolie;Mulk Raj Anand |
Count of Monte Cristo;Alexander Dumas |
Coverty Papers;Joseph Addison |
Creation;Gore Vidal |
Crescent Moon;Rabindra Nath Tagore |
Crime and Punishment;Feodor Dostoyevsky |
Crisis into Chaos;E M.S. Namboodiripad |
Cry, the Beloved Country;Alan Paton |
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