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Historical Event on 7/29/1901

Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/22/1989General Election ( 9th) of India begins for Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in 5 states.
6/1/1842Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born.
9/18/1803Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India.
4/4/1910Sri Aurobindo left politics and reached Pondicherry, where he made the seat of Yoga.
5/18/1998India may take the US to WTO.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
1/27/1967Maharashtra State Text book manufacturing and carriculum modification Corporation established at Pune.
1/31/1996Asia's first Sports University inaugurated in Pune.
9/26/1911Prat Kumar Sinha, cricket Test empire for 2 tests from 1948-53, was born in Bengal.
2/9/1942Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India.