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Vinesh Winodan
Vinesh Phogat (born 25 August 1994) is an Indian wrestler. She became the first Indian woman wrestler to win gold in both Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth and Asian Games. She is the only Indian woman wrestler to win multiple medals at the World Wrestling Championships. Phogat became the first Indian athlete to be nominated for Laureus World Sports Awards in 2019. Phogat comes from Phogat sisters, a successful family of wrestlers, with her cousins and being international wrestlers and India at the Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth Games medalists as well. Personal life and family Vinesh is the daughter of wrestler Rajpal Phogat and cousin of wrestlers Geetha and Babita.The Powerhouse P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charkhi Dadri District
Charkhi Dadri District is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in north west India near Rajasthan border, but not sharing border with Rajasthan. Created on 1 December 2016, the district headquarters is the city of Charkhi Dadri. History British colonial era During British raj, Charkhi Dadri was a princely state with an area of 575sq miles and revenue of Rs 103,000 annually. In Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Nawab of Dadri, Bahadur Jung Khan who had given token allegiance to mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, surrendered to British and tried by military court martial in Delhi on 27 November 1857. He was removed to Lahore. Dadri was awarded to Raja Swarup Singh of Jind State of the Phulkian dynasty for his services to British East India Company in the 1857 war. In May 1874, fifty villages revolted against his descendant Raja Raghubir Singh Jind but the rebellion was crushed with force. Three principal villages which took part in the rebellion, Charkhi, Mankawas and Jhoj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |