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11 November
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Guru Tegh Bahadur was executed in Delhi.
The Man Who Died for Someone Else’s Faith
In 1675, a delegation of desperate Kashmiri Brahmins knocked on the door of the ninth Sikh Guru. To save them from forced conversion, Guru Tegh Bahadur made the…
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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Indian freedom fighter, scholar and independent India’s first Education Minister.
This date is in the wider Indian-history calendar but does not yet have a dedicated Curious Indian article.