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Dhyan Chand played centre forward in the Indian teams that won Olympic gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936, and his control of the ball was so complete that opponents suspected the stick itself.

The sprinter won gold in the four hundred metres at the Asian Games and at the Commonwealth Games and finished fourth in the Olympic final at Rome in 1960, and the name was given to him in Pakistan after he beat the local champion there.

Payyoli is her village in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, and the word Express was added for the speed that made her Asia's leading woman sprinter in the nineteen-eighties; she is also called the Golden Girl of India.

The all-rounder from Chandigarh who played for Haryana was called the Haryana Hurricane for the pace of his bowling and the speed of his hitting, and he captained India to the World Cup of 1983.

After the Battle of Buxar in 1764 and the Treaty of Allahabad, the Mughal emperor Shah Alam II granted the Company the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha in 1765, which made it the revenue authority of the richest provinces of India and began the system of Dual Government.

The line of about thirty-four kilometres was opened in 1853 during the governor-generalship of Lord Dalhousie, who had set out the policy of railway construction in his famous minute.

A member of the Indian Civil Service who later presided over the Congress, Dutt documented in The Economic History of India how revenue policy, the decline of handicrafts and the pattern of trade impoverished the countryside, and his work stands beside Naoroji's as a classic of economic nationalism.

The cotton boom of the American Civil War years ended, prices fell, the revenue demand was raised, and the Deccan ryot who had borrowed heavily turned on the Marwari and Gujarati sahukars, burning their bonds and account books in 1875.

It was applied in the Madras and Bombay Presidencies and in parts of Assam and Coorg, which together made up about half of British India, the largest share of the three settlements.

The word mahal means an estate or a village, and in this settlement the demand was fixed for the whole mahal; the village headman, called the lambardar, collected the shares from the co-sharers, and the village as a body was jointly responsible for the full amount.

Under its rules the revenue instalment had to reach the treasury before sunset on the appointed day; if it did not, the estate was liable to be sold at public auction, and many old families lost their zamindaris to Calcutta merchants in the first two decades.

The settlement required the zamindar to pay ten-elevenths of the rental he collected from the peasants to the state and to retain one-eleventh for himself, which is why the demand pressed so heavily and so many estates changed hands in the early years.

Munro, with Captain Alexander Read, worked out the Ryotwari settlement in the Baramahal and Madras region, and extended it widely after he became Governor of Madras in 1820; the state dealt directly with the ryot, the individual cultivator, who held the land so long as he paid the assessment.

Cornwallis, Governor-General from 1786 to 1793, made the settlement permanent in 1793 on the advice of John Shore, recognising the zamindars as proprietors of the soil against a revenue demand fixed for ever.

The Great Depression that began in 1929 pulled down the prices of primary produce such as wheat, cotton and jute far more sharply, and for far longer, than the prices of the manufactured goods the peasant had to buy.

In Poverty and Un-British Rule in India Naoroji gathered his estimates of India's national income and set out the theory of the drain of wealth, showing that a part of the country's wealth was carried to Britain every year without any return, through home charges, the salaries and pensions of…

It is a structured community engagement initiative meant to strengthen mental health literacy, cut the stigma attached to mental illness and prompt people to seek help early rather than late.

The programme runs under the National Mental Health Programme with support to states and union territories through the National Health Mission, and it funds outpatient care, counselling, psychosocial help, medicines, follow-up, outreach, referral and inpatient treatment at the district level.

The day falls on 10 October every year, and the theme for the 2026 observance asks that the voices of those who have lived with mental health conditions be heard and allowed to shape policy and services.

Tele-MANAS, which stands for Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States, offers free and confidential counselling on this number at any hour of the day, in several languages, without the caller having to reach a hospital.