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c. 2500 BCE

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c. 2000 BCE

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c. 1500 BCE

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c. 600 BCE

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c. 550 BCE

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c. 470 BCE

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c. 430 BCE

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c. 424 BCE

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c. 420 BCE

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c. 400 BCE

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c. 350 BCE

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327 BCE

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325 BCE

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321 BCE

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c. 300 BCE

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272 BCE

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c. 250 BCE

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c. 200 BCE

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c. 100 BCE

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c. 50 BCE

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c. 100

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c. 120

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c. 320

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c. 380

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c. 550

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c. 600

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712

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c. 800

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c. 900

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c. 1000

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1025

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c. 1150

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1211

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c. 1336

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1346

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1398

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1498

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c. 1500

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1502
1505
1510

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1526
1527

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1530

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1534

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1542

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1543

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1555

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1556

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1571

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1573

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c. 1590

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1605
1613
1615
1632

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1644
1646

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1658
1668
1673
c. 1690
1696
1699

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1704

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1707
1739

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1746

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1751
1756
1757
1799

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1809
1817

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1819

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1845
1846
1848
1849
1857

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1858

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1903
1906

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1909
1911
1912

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1913

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1914

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1915

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1919
c. 1921

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1922
1925

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1930

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c. 1931
1934
1935

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1940
1942
1947

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Go to Kashmir in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.)

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1948
1949

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1950

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1952

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1953

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1955

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1958

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1959

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1960

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1962

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1965

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1966

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1969

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1970

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1971

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1972

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1975

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1977

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1979

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1980

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1983

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1984

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Go to Gandhi, Indira (1917–1984) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.)

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Go to Gandhi, Rajiv (20. Aug. 1944) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.)

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1988

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1990

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1991

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1993

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1996

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1997

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1999

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2001

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2005

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2006

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2009

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