UPSCpedia: Histopedia: Personalities: Madan Mohan Malaviya

• Madan Mohan Malaviya was an Indian educationist, and freedom fighter notable for his role in the Indian independence movement
  

UPSCpedia: Histopedia: Archaeological Survey of India

• The Archaeological Survey of Indiais a department of the Ministry of Culture
• ASI has the mandate to regulate the export trade in antiquities and art treasures, to provide for the prevention of smuggling of, and fraudulent dealings in, antiquities, to provide for the compulsory acquisition of antiquities and art treasures for preservation in public places and to provide for certain other matters connected therewith or incidental or ancillary thereto

UPSCpedia: Histopedia: Goa's Independence

• When India became independent in 1947, Goa remained under Portuguese control.
• The Indian government of Jawaharlal Nehru insisted that Goa, along with a few other minor Portuguese holdings, be turned over to India. However Portugal refused. France, which also had small enclaves in India (most notably Pondicherry, surrendered its Indian possession gave them up

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Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya

• Serving on the Congress Working Committee when Quit India was launched in 1942, Pattabhi was arrested with the entire committee and incarcerated for three years without outside contact