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The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a selective all-boys private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935.^[1]

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A Suitable Boy

A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993.

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A. Vellayan

Arunachalam Vellayan (born 9 January 1953, Chennai) is a member of the Murugappa family and the vice-chairman of the Murugappa Group, based in Chennai, India.

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Aatish Taseer

Aatish Ali Taseer (born 27 November 1980) is a British-American writer and journalist.

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Abhinav Bindra

Abhinav Apjit Bindra (born 28 September 1982) is an Indian Olympic gold medallist, retired sport shooter, and businessman.

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Abhishek Poddar

Abishek Poddar (born 1968) is an Indian industrialist, philanthropist and art collector.

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Abi Gamin

Abi Gamin (also known as Ibi Gamin) is a Himalayan mountain peak mostly situated in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand state in India, 2 km (1.2 mi) northeast of Kamet.

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Academic journal

An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published.

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Academic term

An academic term (or simply term) is a portion of an academic year during which an educational institution holds classes.

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ACT (test)

The ACT (originally an abbreviation of American College Testing) Name changed in 1996.

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Advocate-General of Bengal

The Advocate-General of Bengal was charged with advising the Government of the British administered Bengal Presidency on legal matters.

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Aishwarya Tipnis is an Indian architect, educator and heritage conservationist, whose eponymous practice Aishwarya Tipnis Architects focuses on heritage conservation of neglected monuments and significant buildings of India. The Doon School and Aishwarya Tipnis are UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards winners.

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Ajay S. Shriram

Ajay S. Shriram is chairman and Sr.

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Ajit Narain Haksar

Ajit Narain Haksar (11 January 1925 – 19 May 2005) was the first Indian chairman of ITC Limited and was voted the Chairman Emeritus of the company.

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Akbar Hydari

Sir Muhammad Akbar Nazar Ali Hydari, Sadr ul-Maham, PC (1869–1941) was an Indian politician.

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Ali Fazal

Ali Fazal (born 15 October 1986) is an Indian actor who works primarily in Hindi and English films and series.

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Amateur radio

Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communications.

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Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956), Encyclopædia Britannica is an Indian writer.

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Amphitheatre

An amphitheatre (British English) or amphitheater (American English; both) is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports.

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Analjit Singh

Analjit Singh (born 11 January 1954) is the founder chairman of Max Group, a conglomerate with interests in life insurance, healthcare, and real estate.

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Anish Kapoor

Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art.

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ArcelorMittal Orbit

The ArcelorMittal Orbit (often referred to as the Orbit Tower or its original name, Orbit) is a sculpture and observation tower in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London.

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Ardashir Vakil

Ardashir "Ardu" Vakil is an Indian-born British author whose first novel, Beach Boy, won the Betty Trask Award in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award.

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Aroon Purie

Aroon Purie (born 1944) is the founder-publisher and editor-in-chief of India Today, and former chief executive of the India Today Group.

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Arthur Edward Foot CBE (more commonly A.E. Foot) (21 June 1901 – 26 September 1968), was an English schoolmaster, educationalist and academic.

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Artificial turf

Artificial turf is a surface of synthetic fibers made to look like natural grass, used in sports arenas, residential lawns and commercial applications that traditionally use grass.

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Asana

An āsana (Sanskrit: आसन) is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose,Verse 46, chapter II, "Patanjali Yoga sutras" by Swami Prabhavananda, published by the Sri Ramakrishna Math p. 111 and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and balancing poses.

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Ashok Roy

Ashok Roy (1936–2007) was an Indian born musician based in Australia.

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Ashvin Kumar

Ashvin Kumar is an Indian filmmaker.

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Asian Survey

Asian Survey: A Bimonthly Review of Contemporary Asian Affairs is a bimonthly academic journal of Asian studies published by the University of California Press on behalf of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Badshahi Angti (novel)

Badshahi Angti (English title: The Emperor's Ring) is a novel by Satyajit Ray featuring the private detective Feluda.

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Bandarpunch

Bandarpunch (lit. Hindi: Monkey's tail) is a mountain massif in the Garhwal Himalaya in Uttarakhand, India.

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Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee) (26 or 27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist.

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Barefoot College, previously known as the Social Work and Research Centre ("SWRC") is a voluntary organisation working in the fields of education, skill development, health, drinking water, women empowerment and electrification through solar power for the upliftment of rural people, which was founded by Bunker Roy in 1972.

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Basilica Palladiana

The Basilica Palladiana is a Renaissance building in the central Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza, north-eastern Italy.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Sport

BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.

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Bhajan

Bhajan refers to any devotional song with a religious theme or spiritual ideas, specifically among Dharmic religions, in any language.

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Bhajan Sopori

Pandit Bhajan Sopori (22 June 1948 – 2 June 2022) was an Indian instrumentalist.

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Bird vocalization

Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.

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Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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Bridge House School

Bridge House School, commonly referred to as Bridge House, is a school in South Africa. The Doon School and Bridge House School are Round Square schools.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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Bunker Roy

Sanjit "Bunker" Roy (born 30 June 1945) is an Indian social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College.

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Business Standard

Business Standard is an Indian English-language daily edition newspaper published by Business Standard Private Limited, also available in Hindi.

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Calisthenics

Calisthenics (American English) or callisthenics (British English) (/ˌkælɪsˈθɛnɪk/) is a form of strength training that utilizes an individual's body weight as resistance to perform multi-joint, compound movements with little or no equipment.

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Call signs in India

Call signs in India are unique identifiers for telecommunications and broadcasting in India.

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Cambridge Assessment English

Cambridge Assessment English or Cambridge English develops and produces Cambridge English Qualifications and the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).

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Chand Bagh School

Chand Bagh School is an independent boarding school for boys at Muridke in the Sheikhupura District of Punjab, Pakistan, approximately 40 km north of Lahore.

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Chandrachur Singh

Chandrachur Singh (born 11 October 1968) is an Indian actor, who mainly works in Hindi cinema.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Chetan Anand (director)

Chetan Anand (3 January 1921 – 6 July 1997) was a Bollywood film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose first film,, was awarded the Grand Prix Prize (now Golden Palm) at the first ever Cannes Film Festival in 1946.

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Chhota haazri

Chhota haazri or Chota hazri (छोटा हाज़िरी, from the Hindustani words for "small" and "presence") was a meal served in households and barracks, particularly in northern British India, shortly after dawn.

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Chief minister (India)

In India, a chief minister is the elected head of government of each state out of the 28 states and sometimes a union territory (UT).

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Christopher J. Miller

Christopher J. Miller was an English academic, professor and scholar.

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Cloud Gate

Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor, that is the centerpiece of Grainger Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture and Grainger Plaza are located on top of Park Grill, between the Chase Promenade and McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink.

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College-preparatory school

A college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school or prep school) is a type of secondary school.

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Constructing Post-Colonial India

Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School is a 1998 book by Indian sociologist Sanjay Srivastava that surveys post-colonial Indian identity with a focus on The Doon School, an elite all-boys boarding school founded in 1935 in Dehradun, India.

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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is a member-supported unit of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, which studies birds and other wildlife.

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Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) is a non-governmental privately held national-level board of school education in India that conducts the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) Examination for Class X and the Indian School Certificate (ISC) for Class XII.

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COVID-19 lockdown in India

On the evening of 24 March 2020, the Government of India ordered a nationwide lockdown for 21days, limiting the movement of the entire 1.38billion (138 crores) population of India as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 pandemic in India.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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David Headley

David Coleman Headley (born Daood Sayed Gilani; June 30, 1960) is an American terrorist.

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David MacDougall

David MacDougall (born November 12, 1939) is an American-Australian visual anthropologist, academic, and documentary filmmaker, who is known for his ethnographic film work in Africa, Australia, Europe and India.

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Dazed in Doon

Dazed In Doon is a 2010 film written and directed by Ashvin Kumar, who was invited by The Doon School (Kumar's alma mater) to create a fictional film set in the school to mark its 75th Founder's Day in 2010.

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Deerfield Academy

Deerfield Academy (often called Deerfield or DA) is an independent college-preparatory boarding and day school in Deerfield, Massachusetts.

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Dehradun

Dehradun, also known as Dehra Doon, is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Dehradun Cantonment

Dehradun Cantonment is a cantonment town in Dehradun district in the state of Uttarakhand, India.

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Delhi Cloth & General Mills

DCM Textiles, formerly known as Delhi Cloth & General Mills (founded in 1889 by Rai Bahadur Ram Kishen Das Gurwale), is an Indian conglomerate which was initially a textile business which opened its first mill in Delhi.

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Durbar (court)

Durbar is a Persian-derived term (from darbār) referring to the noble court of a king or ruler or a formal meeting where the king held all discussions regarding the state.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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East, West

East, West is a 1994 anthology of short stories by Salman Rushdie.

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EBird

eBird is an online database of bird observations providing scientists, researchers and amateur naturalists with real-time data about bird distribution and abundance.

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Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s.

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Eicher Motors

Eicher Motors Limited is an Indian multinational automotive company that manufactures motorcycles and commercial vehicles, headquartered in New Delhi.

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Eighth grade

Eighth grade (also 8th Grade or Grade 8) is the eighth year of formal or compulsory education in the United States of America.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Eric Simeon

Eric Joseph Simeon (1918–2007), was an Indian school educationalist.

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Ethnography

Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures.

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Eton College

Eton College is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England. The Doon School and Eton College are member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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FC Barcelona

Futbol Club Barcelona, commonly known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Flora

Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.

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Forest Research Institute (India)

The Forest Research Institute (FRI; वन अनुसन्धान संस्थान) is a Natural Resource Service training institute of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and is an institution in the field of forestry research in India for Indian Forest Service cadres and all State Forest Service cadres.

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Frank Noyce

Sir Frank Noyce, KCSI, CBE (4 June 1878 – 7 October 1948) was a member of the Indian Civil Service and member of Governor-General's Executive Council in charge of industries and labour from 1932 to 1937.

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Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon

Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, (12 September 1866 – 12 August 1941), styled as the Earl of Willingdon between 1931 and 1936, was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada and as Viceroy and Governor-General of India.

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G30 Schools

G30 Schools, formerly G20 Schools, is an association of secondary schools founded by David Wylde of St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, South Africa and Anthony Seldon of Wellington College, Berkshire, United Kingdom in 2006.

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George G. Harrap and Co.

George G. Harrap, Ltd (officially: George G. Harrap and Company Limited, London, Bombay) was a publisher of speciality books, many of them educational, such as the memoirs of Winston Churchill, or highly illustrated with line drawings, engravings or etchings, such as the much republished classic educational children's book The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone from at least 1901 into the 1980s.

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Ghulam Jilani Khan

Ghulam Jilani Khan (Punjabi, غلامجيلانى خان, 1924-1999) was a senior general of the Pakistan Army who served as the 14th Governor of Punjab Province and 11th Defence Secretary of Pakistan in the military government of President General Zia-ul-Haq.

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Gleneagles Hotel

Gleneagles Hotel is a hotel near Auchterarder, Scotland.

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A golden age is a period considered the peak in the history of a country or people, a time period when the greatest achievements were made.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Gulab Ramchandani

Gulab Ramchandani (born 24 December 1927 - 13 April 2017) was an Indian educator.

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Gulzar

Gulzar (born Sampooran Singh Kalra; 18 August 1934) is an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema.

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Gurdial Singh (mountaineer)

Gurdial Singh (1 January 1924 – 30 May 2023) was an Indian schoolteacher and mountaineer who led the first mountaineering expedition of independent India to Trisul (7,120 metres) in 1951.

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Hachette Livre

Hachette Livre (or simply known as Hachette) is a French publishing group that was based in Paris.

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Halal

Halal (حلال) is an Arabic word that translates to in English.

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Hari Singh

Maharaja Sir Hari Singh (September 1895 – 26 April 1961) was the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Harrow School

Harrow School is a public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. The Doon School and Harrow School are member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

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Head girl and head boy

Head boy and head girl are student leadership roles in schools, representing the school's entire student body.

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Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference

The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), formerly known as the Headmasters' Conference and now branded HMC (The Heads' Conference), is an association of the head teachers of 351 private fee-charging schools (both boarding schools and day schools), some traditionally described as public schools. The Doon School and Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference are member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

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Hero MotoCorp

Hero MotoCorp Limited is an Indian multinational motorcycle and scooter manufacturer headquartered in Delhi.

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Higher education in India

India has a publicly funded higher education system that is the third largest in the world.

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Himalayan Mountaineering Institute

The Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI Darjeeling) was established in Darjeeling, India on 4 November 1954 to encourage mountaineering as an organized sport in India.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Himani Shivpuri

Himani Bhatt Shivpuri is an Indian actress who is known for her character roles in Hindi films and Hindi soap operas.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi.

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House system

The house system is a traditional feature of schools in the United Kingdom.

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Ibis trilogy

The Ibis trilogy is a work of historical fiction by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, consisting of the novels Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015).

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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India Today

India Today is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited.

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Indian Air Force

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Indian Armed Forces

The Indian Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of India.

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Indian Army during World War II

The Indian Army during World War II, a British force also referred to as the British Indian Army, began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men.

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Indian Certificate of Secondary Education

The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) is an examination conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, a private board designed to provide an examination in a course of general education, in accordance with the recommendations of the New Education Policy 2020 (India), through the medium of English.

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Indian diaspora

Overseas Indians (ISO), officially Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and People of Indian Origin (PIOs) are Indians who reside or originate outside of India. According to the Government of India, Non-Resident Indians are citizens of India who currently are not living in India, while the term People of Indian Origin refers to people of Indian birth or ancestry who are citizens of countries other than India (with some exceptions).

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Indian Independence Act 1947

The Indian Independence Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 30) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan.

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Indian Postal Service

Indian Postal Service (IPoS) is a group 'A' civil service under the department of Post and a part of the Ministry of Communications under the Government of India.

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Indian Public Schools' Conference

Indian Public Schools Conference was established in 1939.

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Indian Summer School

Indian Summer School is a 2018 Channel 4 docuseries in which five British boys, who have failed their GCSEs, are invited to attend the Indian all-boys boarding school The Doon School, described in the show as the "Eton of India" (though the school eschews the label).

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Indo-Fijians

Indo-Fijians (Fiji ke Hindustani), also known as Indian Fijians (also colloquially known as "Findians" or "Findus"), are Fijian citizens of South Asian descent, and include people who trace their ancestry to various regions of the Indian subcontinent.

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International Baccalaureate

The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), more commonly known as the International Baccalaureate (IB), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968.

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International Boys' Schools Coalition

The International Boys' Schools Coalition (IBSC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization of all-boys schools dedicated to the education of boys, to the professional development of their educators, and to the advancement of educational institutions that serve boys.

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International General Certificate of Secondary Education

The International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is an English language based secondary qualification similar to the GCSE and is recognised in the United Kingdom as being equivalent to the GCSE for the purposes of recognising prior attainment.

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Intramural sports

Intramural sports are recreational sports organized within a particular institution, usually an educational institution, for the purpose of fun and exercise or a set geographic region.

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ITC Limited

ITC Limited is an Indian conglomerate company, headquartered in Kolkata.

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Jack Gibson (schoolmaster)

John Travers Mends Gibson (3 March 1908 – 23 October 1994) was an English schoolmaster, scholar, academic and a distinguished British Himalayan mountaineer.

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Jaipur

Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan.

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James Skinner (East India Company officer)

Colonel James Skinner (1778 – 4 December 1841) was an Anglo-Indian military adventurer and soldier of the East India Company of British India.

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Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)

Jammu and Kashmir, also known as Kashmir and Jammu, was a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with the British East India Company from 1846 to 1858 and under the paramountcy (or tutelage) of the British Crown, from 1858 until the Partition of India in 1947, when it became a disputed territory, now administered by three countries: China, India, and Pakistan.

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Jana Gana Mana

Jana Gana Mana (Bengali: জান গান মানুষ) is the national anthem of the Republic of India.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century.

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Jersey (2022 film)

Jersey is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language sports drama film written and directed by Gowtam Tinnanuri, being his Hindi directorial debut and the remake of his 2019 Telugu film of the same title.

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Jhatka

Jhatka is the meat from an animal killed by a single strike of a sword or axe to sever the head within the Dharmic Sikh religion, which kills the animal almost instantly as opposed to other forms of slaughter.

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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་,; born 21 February 1980) is the Druk Gyalpo (Dzongkha: Dragon King), the monarch of the Kingdom of Bhutan.

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John Martyn (schoolmaster)

John A. K. Martyn OBE (more commonly known as J. A. K. Martyn) (1903–1984), was an English schoolmaster, scholar, academic and a distinguished British Himalayan mountaineer.

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John Mason (schoolmaster)

Jonathan Anthony Mason (10 January 1945 – 17 February 2023) was an Indian schoolmaster and educationist.

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Joseph William Bhore

Sir Joseph William Bhore (1878 – 15 August 1960) was an Indian civil servant and diwan of the Cochin State.

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Jyotiraditya Scindia

Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia (born 1 January 1971) is an Indian politician who is the 43rd Union Minister of Communications and the 10th Minister of Development of North Eastern Region since 2024.

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Kamal Nath

Kamal Nath (born 18 November 1946) is an Indian politician who served as the 18th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh for approximately 15 months and resigned after a political crisis.

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Kamet

Kamet (कामेत) is the second-highest mountain in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India, after Nanda Devi.

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Kanti Bajpai

Kanti Prasad Bajpai (born 1955) is an Indian political scientist, international affairs expert, academic and the former headmaster of The Doon School, Dehradun, India.

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Kapil Sibal

Kapil Sibal (born 8 August 1948) is an Indian lawyer and politician.

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Karan Singh

Karan Singh (born 9 March 1931) is an Indian politician and philosopher.

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Karan Thapar

Karan Thapar (born 5 November 1955) is an Indian journalist, news presenter and interviewer working with The Wire.

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King's Academy

King's Academy (Arabic Translation: "كينغز أكاديمي") is an independent, co-educational boarding and day school for students in grades 7 to 12 in Madaba-Manja, Jordan. The Doon School and King's Academy are Round Square schools.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Kurt Hahn

Kurt Matthias Robert Martin Hahn (5 June 1886 – 14 December 1974) was a German educator.

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Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua

"Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua" (لب پہ آتی ہے دعا; also known as "Bachche Ki Dua"), is a duʿā or prayer, in Urdu verse authored by Muhammad Iqbal in 1902.

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Lahore

Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

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Lalit Pande

Lalit Pande is an Indian social worker, environmentalist and the founder of Uttarakhand Seva Nidhi Environmental Education Centre, a non governmental organization promoting environmental education in the hilly areas of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Lashkar-e-Taiba

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT; لشکرِ طیبہ; literally Army of the Good, translated as Army of the Righteous, or Army of the Pure and alternatively spelled as Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-e-Toiba, Lashkar-i-Taiba, Lashkar-i-Tayyeba) is a terrorist group formed in Pakistan, and a militant and Islamist Salafi jihadist organisation.

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Legislative assembly

Legislative assembly is the name given in some countries to either a legislature, or to one of its houses.

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Leipzig International School

Leipzig International School (LIS) is a non-profit co-educational day school for students from age 1 to age 18, in Leipzig, Germany, and was the first international school in central Germany, and is now the largest, with around 1050 students from 77 countries.

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Leonard Cheshire Disability

Leonard Cheshire is a major health and welfare charity working in the United Kingdom and running development projects around the world.

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List of chief ministers of Odisha

The chief minister of Odisha, an Indian state, is the head of the Government of Odisha.

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List of concert halls

A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats.

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List of The Doon School alumni

The Doon School is a boys-only academically selective boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das The school's first headmaster was Arthur E. Foot, who had spent some nine years as a science master at Eton College, England.

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Lovraj Kumar

Lovraj Kumar (1926–1994) was an Indian civil servant who had a role in forming Indian economic policies from the late 1950s until the early 1980s.

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Maharaja

Maharaja (also spelled Maharajah or Maharaj) was a princely or royal title used by some Hindu monarchs since the ancient times.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.

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Mani Shankar Aiyar

Mani Shankar Aiyar (born 10 April 1941) is an Indian politician and former career civil servant diplomat.

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Manpreet Singh Badal

Manpreet Singh Badal (born 26 July 1962) is an Indian politician from the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Maruti Suzuki

Maruti Suzuki India Limited is the Indian subsidiary of Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Corporation.

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Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London.

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Matron

Matron is the job title of a very senior or the chief nurse in several countries, including the United Kingdom, and other Commonwealth countries and former colonies.

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Matterhorn

The italics (Cervino; Cervin; Mont(e) Cervin(u))There are several different Romansh dialects, each with its own slight variation on the name for the Matterhorn.

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Matthew Raggett

Matthew Jonathan Raggett (born 1972) is a British educator, writer and the former Headmaster of The Doon School, the all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, India.

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Mayo College

Mayo College (informally Mayo) is a boys-only private boarding school in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. The Doon School and Mayo College are boys' schools in India and Round Square schools.

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The median income is the income amount that divides a population into two groups, half having an income above that amount, and half having an income below that amount.

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Millfield

Millfield is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18) located in Street, Somerset, England. The Doon School and Millfield are educational institutions established in 1935 and member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

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Ministry of Education (India)

The Ministry of Education (MoE) is a ministry of the Government of India, responsible for the implementation of the National Policy on Education.

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Mirabai

Meera, better known as Mirabai, and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna.

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Mixed-sex education

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

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Model aircraft

A model aircraft is a physical model of an existing or imagined aircraft, and is built typically for display, research, or amusement.

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Morarji Desai

Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of India between 1977 and 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party.

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Muhammad Iqbal

Sir Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 187721 April 1938) was a South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician.

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Murugappa Group

Murugappa Group is an Indian conglomerate founded in 1900 by A. M. Murugappa Chettiar.

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Music library

A music library contains music-related materials for patron use.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Narendra Dhar Jayal

Narendra Dhar Jayal (Nandu Jayal) (25 June 1927 – 28 April 1958) was an Indian mountaineer and an officer of the Bengal Sappers and the Indian Army Corps of Engineers.

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National anthem

A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation.

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Naveen Patnaik

Naveen Patnaik (born 16 October 1946) is an Indian politician who served as the 14th Chief Minister of Odisha from 5 March 2000 to 12 June 2024.

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NDTV

New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication.

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Need-blind admission

Need-blind admission in the United States refers to a college admission policy that does not take into account an applicant's financial status when deciding whether to accept them.

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Neel Madhav

Neel Madhav is an Indian television personality, public speaker, actor, author, mentalist, TedX Speaker, illusionist.

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Nizam of Hyderabad

Nizam of Hyderabad was the title of the ruler of Hyderabad State (part of the Indian state of Telangana, the Marathwada region of Maharashtra and the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka).

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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North India

North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.

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Northeast India

Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. It comprises eight states—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura (commonly known as the "Seven Sisters"), and the "brother" state of Sikkim.

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Old boy network

An old boy network (also known as old boys' network, old boys' club) is an informal system in which wealthy men with similar social or educational background help each other in business or personal matters.

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Outlook (Indian magazine)

Outlook is a weekly general interest English and Hindi news magazine published in India.

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Parliament of India

The Parliament of India (IAST) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India.

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Parsis

The Parsis (singular: Parsi) or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism.

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Partition of India

The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.

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Pastoral care

Pastoral care, or cure of souls, refers to emotional, social and spiritual support.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Peter Lawrence (teacher)

Peter Stafford Hayden Lawrence (9 February 1913 – 18 March 2005) was a master at Eton College and The Doon School, India and an author.

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Peter McLaughlin

Peter McLaughlin (born 1956) is an Irish academic, historian, and educator.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Popular science

Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience.

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Prannoy Roy

Prannoy Lal Roy (born 15 October 1949) is an Indian economist, chartered accountant, psephologist, journalist and author.

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Pratibha Patil

Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born 19 December 1934) is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th president of India from 2007 to 2012.

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Prefect

Prefect (from the Latin praefectus, substantive adjectival form of praeficere: "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area.

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Prime Minister of India

The prime minister of India (ISO) is the head of government of the Republic of India.

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Private school

A private school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a public school.

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Public school (United Kingdom)

In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys.

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QR code

A QR code (quick-response code) is a type of two-dimensional matrix barcode, invented in 1994, by Japanese company Denso Wave for labelling automobile parts.

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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is a sporting complex and public park in Stratford, Hackney Wick, Leyton and Bow, in east London.

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R. C. Bhargava

Ravindra Chandra Bhargava (born 30 July 1934) is the former C.E.O and current chairman of Maruti Suzuki, the largest automobile manufacturer in India, having joined the company after serving twenty-five years as an Indian Administrative Service officer.

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R. L. Holdsworth

Romilly Lisle Holdsworth, commonly known as R. L. Holdsworth, (25 February 1899 – 20 June 1976) was an English scholar, academic, educationalist, cricketer and a distinguished Himalayan mountaineer.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.

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Rahul Akerkar

Rahul Akerkar is an Indian chef, restaurateur and the founder of Indigo, a Mumbai restaurant credited with introducing the concept of European fine-dining in the city, when it opened in 1999.

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Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Rajiv Gandhi (born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician.

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Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.

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Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, and the field of economics.

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Rao Bahadur

Rao Bahadur (in South India) and Rai Bahadur (in North India), R.B., was a title of honour bestowed during British rule in India to individuals for outstanding service or acts of public welfare to the Empire.

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Rashtriya Life Saving Society (India)

The Rashtriya Life Saving Society (India) is a national, non-profit, voluntary organisation dedicated to helping people to learn modern lifesaving techniques.

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Reservation in India

Reservation is a system of caste-based affirmative action in India.

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Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Ripon Grammar School

Ripon Grammar School is a co-educational, boarding and day, selective grammar school in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England.

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Role of The Doon School in Indian mountaineering

The role of The Doon School in Indian mountaineering describes the formative links between The Doon School, an all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, India, and early, post-Independence Indian mountaineering.

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Roshan Seth

Roshan Seth (born 2 April 1942) is a British-Indian actor, writer and theatre director who has worked in the United Kingdom, United States and India.

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Round Square

Round Square is an international network of schools, based on the educational concepts of Kurt Hahn, and named after a distinctive building at Gordonstoun.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Royal Indian Navy

The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) was the naval force of British India and the Dominion of India.

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Royal Society of Arts

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, commonly known as the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), is a London-based organisation.

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Rupa Publications

Rupa Publications is an Indian publishing company based in New Delhi, with sales centres in Kolkata, Allahabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, Jaipur, Hyderabad and Kathmandu.

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Ruskin Bond

Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is one of the fellows of the Sahitya Akademi and a renowned Indian author.

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Salim Ali

Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali (12 November 1896 – 20 June 1987) was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist.

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Salman Rushdie

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist.

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Sarod

The sarod is a stringed instrument, used in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent.

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SAT

The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States.

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Satendra Nandan

Satendra Nandan is an Indo-Fijian academic, writer, and former politician.

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Satish Ranjan Das

Satish Ranjan Das (1870–1928) was the Advocate-General of Bengal and later the Law Member of the Executive Council of the Viceroy; he was sometime treasurer of the Boy Scouts of Bengal and the Lodge of Good Fellowship, and a prominent member of the reformist Brahmo Samaj in Bengal.

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Satyadeep Mishra

Satyadeep Misra is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema, television and web series.

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.

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Scenic design

Scenic design, also known as stage design or set design, is the creation of scenery for theatrical productions including plays and musicals.

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Schule Schloss Salem

Schule Schloss Salem (Anglicisation: School of Salem Castle) is a boarding school with campuses in Salem and Überlingen in Baden-Württemberg, Southern Germany. The Doon School and Schule Schloss Salem are Round Square schools.

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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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Scotch College, Melbourne

Scotch College is a private, Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Doon School and Scotch College, Melbourne are member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

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Secret ballot

The secret ballot, also known as the Australian ballot, is a voting method in which a voter's identity in an election or a referendum is anonymous.

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Selective school

A selective school is a school that admits students on the basis of some sort of selection criteria, usually academic.

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Seventh grade

Seventh grade (also 7th Grade or Grade 7) is the seventh year of formal or compulsory education.

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Shantiniketan

Shantiniketan is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata.

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Sharan Pasricha

Sharan Pasricha is an Indian-born entrepreneur based in London, England.

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Sheel Vohra

Sheel Vohra (20 May 1936 – 10 October 2010) was an Indian cricketer, mathematician and schoolmaster.

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Shiva

Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.

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Shomie Das

Shomie Ranjan Das (born 28 August 1935) is an Indian educationist.

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Siddhartha Lal

Siddhartha Vikram Lal (born October 1973) is an Indian businessman.

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Sikhs

Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.

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Simon Singh

Simon Lehna Singh, (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author, theoretical and particle physicist.

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Single-sex education

Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education and gender-isolated education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in separate buildings or schools.

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Sivalik Hills

The Sivalik Hills, also known as the Shivalik Hills and Churia Hills, are a mountain range of the outer Himalayas.

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Sivamani (percussionist)

Anandan "Drums" Sivamani (born 1 December 1959) is an Indian percussionist.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

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Sonu Nigam

Sonu Nigam (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, music director, dubbing artist and actor.

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Sound design

Sound design is the art and practice of creating soundtracks for a variety of needs.

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South India

South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.

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St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)

St.

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St. Mark's School of Texas

The St.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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Stowe School

Stowe School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school) for pupils aged 13–18 in Stowe, England. The Doon School and Stowe School are member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

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Sudhir Khastgir

Sudhir Ranjan Khastgir (24 September 1907 – 6 June 1974) was an Indian painter of Bengal school of art and an art educator.

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Sunil Kant Munjal

Sunil Kant Munjal (born 14 December 1957) is an Indian businessman and the chairman of Hero Enterprise.

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Tarun Tahiliani

Tarun Tahiliani is an Indian fashion designer.

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Tata family

The Tata family is an Indian business family, based in Mumbai, India.

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Tenth grade

Tenth grade (also 10 Grade or Grade 10) is the tenth year of formal or compulsory education.

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Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay (tendzin norgyé; May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer.

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The Armidale School

The Armidale School (abbreviated as TAS) is an independent Anglican co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day and boarding school, located in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. The Doon School and The Armidale School are Round Square schools.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Doon School Model United Nations

The Doon School Model United Nations (DSMUN) is an annual Model United Nations conference run by The Doon School, an all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, India.

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The Doon School Old Boys' Society

The Doon School Old Boys' Society (informally DSOBS) is the alumni society of The Doon School, an all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, founded in 1935.

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The Doon School Quintet

The Doon School Quintet is a five-part ethnographic film series made by the American visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker David MacDougall, between 1997 and 2000, at The Doon School, an elite all-boys boarding school in India.

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The Doon School Weekly

The Doon School Weekly (informally The Weekly) is a student newspaper produced by and for the students of The Doon School.

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The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (commonly abbreviated DofE) is a youth awards programme founded in the United Kingdom in 1956 by the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, which has since expanded to 144 nations.

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The Economic Times

The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper.

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The Golden Gate (Seth novel)

The Golden Gate (1986) is the first novel by poet and novelist Vikram Seth.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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The Hoxton

The Hoxton is a British hotel chain owned by Ennismore.

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The Hungry Tide

The Hungry Tide (2004) is the fourth novel by Indian-born author, Amitav Ghosh.

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The Hutchins School

The Hutchins School is an Anglican, day and boarding school for boys from pre-kindergarten to Year 12 in Hobart, Tasmania.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British news magazine focusing on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Telegraph (India)

The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982.

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The Thomas Hardye School

The Thomas Hardye School is a secondary academy school in Dorchester, Dorset, England.

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The Times Group

Bennett Coleman and Company Limited (abbreviated as B.C.C.L. and d/b/a The Times Group) is an Indian media conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

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The Times of India

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.

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The Tribune (India)

The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and Gurugram.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Trinity College London

Trinity College London (TCL) is an examination board based in London, United Kingdom which offers graded and diploma qualifications across a range of disciplines in the performing arts and English language learning and teaching.

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Trisul

Trisul is a group of three Himalayan mountain peaks of western Kumaun, Uttarakhand, with the highest (Trisul I) reaching 7120m.

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Turner Prize

The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist.

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Twelfth grade

Twelfth grade (also known as 12th grade, grade 12, senior year, or class 12) is the twelfth year of formal or compulsory education.

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UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Awards

UNESCO Asia Pacific Heritage Awards (since 2000) are given with as the strategic purpose of UNESCO with in the region Asia Pacific.

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Union Council of Ministers

The Union Council of Ministers,Article 58 of the Constitution of India also called Union Cabinet is the principal executive organ of the Government of India, which functions as the senior decision-making body of the executive branch.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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Urdu poetry

Urdu poetry (اُردُو شاعرى) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms.

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, formerly known as Uttaranchal (the official name until 2007), is a state in northern India.

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Uttarakhand Police

The Uttarakhand Police is the law enforcement agency for the state of Uttarakhand in India and it was formed in 2000.

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Vande Mataram

Vande Mātaram (Devanagari: वंदे मातरम् Bengali: বন্দে মাতরম্‌) is a poem written in Sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s.

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Vicenza

Vicenza is a city in northeastern Italy.

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Viceroy

A viceroy is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory.

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Viceroy's Executive Council

The Viceroy's Executive Council, formerly known as Council of Four and officially known as the Council of the Governor-General of India (since 1858), was an advisory body and cabinet of the Governor-General of India, also known as Viceroy.

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Vikram Chandra (journalist)

Vikram Chandra (born 7 January 1967) is an Indian journalist, who founded Editorji Technologies, a multilingual video news platform.

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Vikram Lal

Vikram Lal (born 1942) is an Indian billionaire businessman, the founder and former CEO of Eicher Motors, an Indian commercial vehicle manufacturer based in New Delhi, India. He has been a member of the board of directors of The Doon School. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

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Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet.

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Violin

The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.

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Virendra Prabhakar

Virendra Prabhakar (15 August 1928 – 4 January 2015) was an Indian press photojournalist, cited by the Limca Book of Records as the longest serving press photojournalist.

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Visva-Bharati University

Visva-Bharati (IAST: Viśva-Bhāratī), is a public central university and an Institute of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India.

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Vivan Sundaram

Vivan Sundaram (28 May 1943 – 29 March 2023) was an Indian contemporary artist.

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Welham Boys' School

Welham Boys' School is a boarding school located in Dehradun, India. The Doon School and Welham Boys' School are boarding schools in Uttarakhand, boys' schools in India, Round Square schools and schools in Dehradun.

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Welham Girls' School

Welham Girls' School is a private boarding school for girls located in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. The Doon School and Welham Girls' School are boarding schools in Uttarakhand, private schools in Uttarakhand and schools in Dehradun.

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Wiley (publisher)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.

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Winchester College

Winchester College is an English public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day attendees, in Winchester, Hampshire, England. The Doon School and Winchester College are member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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1991 Uttarkashi earthquake

The 1991 Uttarkashi earthquake (also known as the Garhwal earthquake) occurred at 02:53:16 Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30) on 20 October with a moment magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent).

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2001 Gujarat earthquake

The 2001 Gujarat earthquake, also known as the Bhuj earthquake, occurred on 26 January at.

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2012 Summer Olympics

The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom.

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References

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