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Belgaum

(Encyclopedia)Belgaum, city, India: see Belagavi. ...

Bijapur

(Encyclopedia)Bijapur, city, India: see Vijapura. ...

Tumkur

(Encyclopedia)Tumkur, city, India: see Tumakuru. ...

Tuticorin

(Encyclopedia)Tuticorin, city, India: see Thoothukudi. ...

Bellary

(Encyclopedia)Bellary, city, India: see Ballari. ...

Uttaranchal

(Encyclopedia)Uttaranchal, state, India: see Uttarakhand. ...

Trichinopoly

(Encyclopedia)Trichinopoly, city, India: see Tiruchirapalli. ...

Jinnah, Muhammad Ali

(Encyclopedia)Jinnah, Muhammad Ali məhämˈəd älēˈ jĭnˈə [key], 1876–1948, founder of Pakistan, b. Karachi. After his admission to the bar in England, he returned to India to practice law. Early in his ca...

Pathans

(Encyclopedia)Pathans pətänzˈ [key], group of seminomadic peoples consisting of more than 60 tribes, numbering more than 26 million in Pakistan and more than 11 million in Afghanistan, where they form the domina...

Cartier-Bresson, Henri

(Encyclopedia)Cartier-Bresson, Henri äNrēˈ kärtēāˈ-brĕsôNˈ [key], 1908–2004, French photojournalist, b. Chanteloup, near Paris. Cartier-Bresson is renowned for his countless memorable images of 20th-cen...
 

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