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Historical Event on 12/21/1998
The Viswabharati University in Calcutta presents the 'Deshikottama' award to Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/8/1912 | Prabhulal Bhatnagar, mathematician and Padmabhushan awardee, was born. |
| 1/28/1846 | British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal. |
| 8/1/1957 | M. K. Vellodi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 04-06-1958. |
| 12/27/1996 | Mahashweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, win the Gyanpith Award. |
| 3/16/1946 | India calls Attlee's independence offer contradictory, 'a propaganda move'. |
| 3/2/1994 | President's rule in J & K extended. |
| 9/4/1880 | Bhupendranath Dutt, Bengali litterateur and politician, was born. |
| 11/24/1899 | Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first chief minister of Rajasthan state, was born at Jobner, Jaipur District. |
| 2/3/1998 | The BJP releases its election manifesto promising to make India a nuclear state; build a Ram temple at Ayodha and work for a uniform civil code. |
| 4/2/1948 | Communist leader S.A. Dange arrested in Bombay. |
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