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17 November
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Lala Lajpat Rai
Indian nationalist leader and freedom fighter.
This date is in the wider Indian-history calendar but does not yet have a dedicated Curious Indian article.
The fighting at Nuranang produced the story later associated with Jaswant Singh Rawat.
The Gun Came Back
The Jaswant Singh Rawat 1962 war legend is a hauntingly beautiful tale of a lone soldier who, with the help of two local girls, stopped a Chinese invasion…
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