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Indian Institute of advanced studies is located at Shimla on observatory Hill . This building was originally made for Lord Dufferin. Lord Dufferin was Viceroy of India from 1884 - 1888 . During British period this building was called Viceregal Lodge . Many Historical  decisions were made here during Independence Movement in India . The  decision of building India and Pakistan was taken here . In 1945 , a fter India gained independence, the building was renamed as  Rashtrapati Niwas  and was used as a summer retreat for the president of India. However, due to its neglect, Dr. S Radhakrishnan decided to turn it into a centre of higher learning. The summer retreat of the president was shifted from here to a building known as "The Retreat" situated in  Chharabra , on the outskirts of Shimla.  In Indian Institute of Advanced Studies the research of different fields of  Humanities and social sciences take place .  Academics :          Humanities      Social Science

  First Prime Minister of India was Jawahar Lal Nehru , But we have already covered a topic on him . Story of Shastri  : Lal Bahadur Shastri (18 July 1897 – 11 August 1966) was an Indian politician and a leader of the Indian independence movement, who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1962 until his death. He is widely known for having started the ""Swadeshi"" (self-reliance) campaign and headed the first non-Congress Indian government in independent India. Shastri was born in 1900 in Kheralu, Gaya district, Bihar, British India (presently India). After attending Almora in Oudh in 1907, he moved to Gaya, where he completed his matriculation. His elder brother Purna Chandra Shastri served as the Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1957.  Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, was Shastri's political mentor. The younger brother of both of them, Jayaprakash Narayan, was also a prominent politician. The dispute over

Lata Mangeshkar Is one of the oldest singer of India . She is one of the respectected Singer too . She was born in the home of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar . her mother was Shewanti Mangeshkar . Lata Mangeshkar born on 22 October in the year 1924 is an Indian singer and film singe She is widely known as the 'Empress of Indian Song'. She has won many National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her many songs, 'Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi', 'Ab to Tera Intezar', 'Lahore Ke Rang' and many more. For her contributions to the music industry, she has been awarded with Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award by the Government of India in 2000. One of the most celebrated personalities of her era, she is also the first and only Indian artist to receive the prize at a glamorous concert in London. She is married to Gurdas Singh Bhindrawale, with whom she has two daughters, Shabana and Zohra and a son, Hridaynath. Her son, Hridaynath, has been featured as a voc

  Singh was born to Gurmukh Singh and Amrit Kaur on 26 September 1932, in   Gah ,   Punjab ,   British India , into a   Sikh   family.   He lost his mother when he was very young and he was raised by his paternal grandmother, to whom he was very close. After the Partition of India, his family migrated to Amritsar, India, where he studied at Hindu College, Amritsar. He attended Panjab University, then in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, studying Economics and got his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1952 and 1954, respectively, standing first throughout his academic career. He completed his Economics Tripos at University of Cambridge as he was a member of St John's College in 1957. In a 2005 interview with the British journalist Mark Tully, Singh said about his Cambridge days: I first became conscious of the creative role of politics in shaping human affairs, and I owe that mostly to my teachers Joan Robinson and Nicholas Kaldor. Joan Robinson was a brilliant teacher, but she also soug

Overview : The  Indo-Gangetic Plain , also known as the  North Indian River Plain , is a 0.70-million  km 2  (172-million- acre ) fertile  plain  encompassing northern regions of the  Indian subcontinent , including most of northern and eastern  India , the eastern parts of  Pakistan , virtually all of  Bangladesh  and southern plains of  Nepal .  The region is named after the  Indus  and the  Ganges  rivers and encompasses a number of large urban areas. The plain is bound on the north by the  Himalayas , which feed its numerous rivers and are the source of the fertile  alluvium  deposited across the region by the two river systems. The southern edge of the plain is marked by the  Chota Nagpur Plateau . On the west rises the  Iranian Plateau . Many developed cities like  Kolkata ,  Delhi ,  Karachi  and  Dacca  are located in the Indo-Gangetic Plain . Geography : The Indo-Gangetic Plain is divided into two drainage basins by the Delhi Ridge; the western part drains to the Indus, and th

 History  : Most of the area occupied by present-day Shimla city was dense forest during the 18th century. The only civilisation was the  Jakhu Temple  and a few scattered houses.  The area was called 'Shimla', named after a  Hindu goddess ,  Shyamala Devi , an incarnation of  Kali . The area of present-day Shimla was invaded and captured by Bhimsen Thapa of Nepal in 1806. The British East India Company took control of the territory as per the Sugauli Treaty after the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–16). The Gurkha leaders were quelled by storming the fort of Malaun under the command of David Ochterlony in May 1815. In a diary entry dated 30 August 1817, the Gerard brothers, who surveyed the area, describe Shimla as "a middling-sized village where a fakir is situated to give water to the travellers". In 1819, Lieutenant Ross, the Assistant Political Agent in the Hill States, set up a wood cottage in Shimla. Three years later, his successor and the Scottish civil servant Char

 About JNVs The idea of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas conceived by former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi. The concept of opening a JNV in every district of India was born as a part of the National Policy on Education, 1986 with an aim of providing excellence coupled with social justice. Subsequently, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) was registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. As per policy of the government, one JNV was to be established in each district of country. To start with, two Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas were established during 1985–86, at Jhajjar (Haryana) and Amravati (Maharashtra). As of the 2015–16 academic session, JNVs had been sanctioned for 576 districts. In addition, ten JNVs have been sanctioned in districts having a large population of ST population, ten in districts having a large concentration of SC population and two special JNVs in Manipur, bringing the total number of sanctioned JNVs to 598. Out of these 591 JNVs are functional. In

  Farming In Himachal Pradesh  Agriculture : Agriculture accounts for 9.4% of the net state domestic product. It is the main source of income and employment in Himachal. About 90% of the population in Himachal depends directly upon agriculture, which provides direct employment to 62% of total workers of state. The main cereals grown include wheat, maize, rice and barley with major cropping systems being maize-wheat, rice-wheat and maize-potato-wheat.   Pulses, fruits, vegetables and oilseeds are among the other crops grown in the state. Land husbandry initiatives such as the Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project, which includes the Himachal Pradesh Reforestation Project (HPRP), the world's largest clean development mechanism (CDM) undertaking, have improved agricultural yields and productivity, and raised rural household incomes. Apple is the principal cash crop of the state grown principally in the districts of Shimla, Kinnaur, Kullu, Mandi, Chamba and some parts of Sirmaur

 The Legend never dies : Early Life  :  Virbhadra Singh was born on 23 June 1934 at Sarahan, Shimla district in the royal Rajput family of the erstwhile princely state of Bushahr. He was the 122nd titular Raja of Bushahr from 1947 until 1971, when, by the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India, the privy purses of the princes were abolished and official recognition of their titles came to an end. Singh was educated at Colonel Brown Cambridge School, Dehradun, St. Edward's School, Shimla and Bishop Cotton School, Shimla and later obtained a BA Honours degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He was married to Ratna Kumari, princess of Jubbal in May 1954. They had four daughters including Abhilasha Kumari a former judge who served on the High Court of Gujarat from 2006 to 2018. Ratna Kumari died in 1983 after prolonged sickness. In 1986, he was married for the second time, to Pratibha Singh, princess of Keonthal. Pratibha was elected twice to the Lok Sabha from Mandi, for