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- ... that despite losing almost one thousand men capturing Malacca in 1641, the Dutch East India Company did not invest much time or energy into it afterward?
- ... that Jacqueline Kennedy bought several saris during her 1962 tour of India and Pakistan to be turned into sari-inspired dresses?
- ... that William N. Salin was twice decorated with the Sagamore of the Wabash?
- ... that Mao Zedong initially approved the Dalai Lama's escape into Indian exile, but later ordered that it be prevented?
- ... that according to Indian chef Imtiaz Qureshi, who is credited with reviving the cooking tradition of dum pukht, all biryanis are pulaos?
- ... that Amrita Sher-Gil's painting Hill Women appeared on a 1978 Indian postage stamp?
- ... that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, India's second Muslim president, was also the second Indian president to die in office?
- ... that the 19-year-old Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala was the captain of the first all-Indian cricket team to tour England in 1911?
- ... that Indian gynaecologist and reproductive medicine pioneer Baidyanath Chakrabarty, who performed over 4,000 IVF procedures, was a cricket fan who thought Virat Kohli and Ashwin were "such good boys"?
- ... that the veto of an Indiana law that bans transgender girls from participating in school sports was overridden by the state legislature?