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Ram Singh was born at Bhaini in Ludhiana district of Punjab in 1816. He joined as a soldier in the Sikh army and there he came under the influence of Bhai Balak Singh.

The Ryotwari system was a land tenure system in British India, introduced by Sir Thomas Munro in 1820 based on system administered by Captain Alexander Read in the Baramahal district. It allowed the government to deal directly with the peasant (ryot) for revenue collection, and gave the peasant freedom to give up or acquire new land for cultivation.

The British government did not give any assurance to the effect that the discussions would proceed on the basis of granting Poorna Swaraj was the reason that compel the Congress leader not to attend the Round Table Conference.

In December 1824, Maha Bandula opened a broad offensive against the British positions in the area of Rangoon but was defeated and retreated to Danubyu. He defended Danubyu successfully beginning on March 5 but was killed during an artillery bombardment.

Sree Narayana Guru was born on August 22, 1856 (1032 Chingam in Malayalam calendar) in a humble cottage in the pretty hamlet of Chempazhanthi near Thiruvananthapuram. His father was Madan Asan, a farmer, and mother Kutti Amma and he had three sisters. He was named by his father as Narayanan; he affectionately called him Nanu, a short name for Narayanan.

Doctrine of Lapse was not applied on Punjab. Punjab was annexed by Lord Dalhousie after second Anglo Sikkh war (1849). And Last Sikh Emperor was sent to London and he died in Paris.

Study in Consciousness is a book by Annie Besant that was written in ca. 1904. Besant intended this book to be a contribution to the science of psychology. She writes that the seed of consciousness is the tri-atomic Atma-Buddhi-Manas, the Jivatma.

'Bahishkrit Bharat' was started by Dr.B.R.Ambedkar in 1927, his other newspapers are - Mooknayak (1920), Janata (1930) and Prabuddha Bharat (An awakenned India- 1956)

Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly influenced by the writing of Leo Tolstoy notable works of Tolstoy is War and Peace and The kingdom of God.

Regulating Act, (1773), legislation passed by the British Parliament for the regulation of the British East India Company's Indian territories, mainly in Bengal.