Recipients of Bharat Ratna Award
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 |