* 1924 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor ( d. 1988 )

As the dacoits flourished through the 1950s-1970s, they were theme was several films made in the era, starting with Ganga Jamuna ( 1961 ) and Raj Kapoor ’ s Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai ( 1960 ), and Sunil Dutt's classic, Mujhe Jeene Do ( 1963 ).

Dixit earned commercial success after a series of flops with Yash Raj Films ' super-hit musical-romance Dil To Pagal Hai starring opposite Shahrukh Khan and Karisma Kapoor.

Other Indian actors who are among the most popular movie stars in India and Southern Asia include Rajnikanth, Amitabh Bachchan, Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Akshay Kumar, Shahid Kapoor and Anil Kapoor in males and Kajol, Sridevi, Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukerji, Hema Malini, and Rekha in females.

Shashi Kapoor (), born Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta ( now Kolkata ), is an award-winning Indian film actor and film producer.

He is the younger brother of Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor, the son of Prithviraj Kapoor, the widower of Jennifer Kendal, and the father of Karan Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor, and Sanjana Kapoor.

His best known performances as child artist were in Aag ( 1948 ) and Awaara ( 1951 ) where he played the younger version of the characters played by his older brother Raj Kapoor.

He got opportunity to work as assistant director in the film Post Box 999, debut film of Sunil Dutt, and worked as assistant director to Ravindra Dave in Guest House ( 1959 ) which was followed by movies like Dulha Dulhan, Shriman Satyawadi, where Raj Kapoor was the lead hero.

Ranbirraj " Raj " Kapoor (, Punjabi: ਰ ਾ ਜ ਕਪ ੂ ਰ, Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988 ), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema.

Raj Kapoor birth place at Dhaki Munawar Shah, Peshawar, Pakistan

Two of Raj's brothers are actors Shashi Kapoor ( a. k. a. Balbir Raj Kapoor ) and the late Shammi Kapoor ( aka Shamsher Raj Kapoor ); the other two died in infancy.

Ajaigarh was the capital of a princely state of the same name during the British Raj.

Ajmer-Merwara was directly administered by the British Raj, by a commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General's agent for Rajputana.

When it fell to the British Raj, the fort was dismantled on the orders of Lord William Bentinck and was converted into a sanatorium for the British troops stationed at the garrison town of Nasirabad.

States often said to exhibit crony capitalism include the People's Republic of China ; India, especially up to the early 1990s when manufacturing was strictly controlled by the government ( the " Licence Raj "); Indonesia ; Argentina ; Brazil ; United Kingdom ; Malaysia ; Israel ; Russia ; the United States ; Tasmania ; and most other ex-Eastern Bloc states.

Punjabi biopic Jatt Jeona Morh about the noted dacoit, Jatt Jeona Morh, was made in 1991, also in the same year came, Jagga Dakubased on a noted outlaw and dacoit during British Raj, Jagga Daku.

One Gurjar Rajput of the Chauhan clan, Prithvi Raj Chauhan, was known for bloody conflicts against the advancing Islamic sultanates.

The ancient city of Harappa was greatly destroyed under the British Raj, when bricks from the ruins were used as track ballast in the making of the Lahore-Multan Railroad.

Gandhi was cremated on 3 November near Raj Ghat.

Rajat Gupta, who reached the pinnacle of corporate America as managing partner of McKinsey & Co. and director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ( GS ) and Procter & Gamble Co. ( PG ), was convicted by a federal jury of leaking inside information to hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam.

During the period of British rule, classical architecture was preferred for monuments of the British Raj.

Many Britons celebrated the action as needed to prevent another Mutiny like 1857, an attitude that caused many Indian leaders to decide the Raj was controlled by their enemies, and was more an obstacle than a pathway.

He was released before the end of the war on 6 May 1944 because of his failing health and necessary surgery ; the Raj did not want him to die in prison and enrage the nation.

The British colonized Burma in the late 19th century, and it was under the jurisdiction of the British Raj until 1937.

Names of many institutions ( including the army ) were stripped of the " royal " adjective and the Raj Parishad ( a council of the King's advisers ) was abolished, with his duties assigned to the Parliament itself.

Maj Cobb from British Raj was a polo fan and he used to come to Shandur for playing polo on the invitation of Mehtar Chitral in moon light.

The British Raj was politically organized into seventeen provinces of which Bengal was one of the most significant.

During the British Raj the city was known as Ajodhya or Ajodhia and was part of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh ; it was also the seat of a small ' talukdari ' state.

In 1984, Raj Ahuja, who had been an associate with the firm for 15 years, was made a full partner.

* Venus Raj ( born 1988 ), Miss Philippines Universe 2010 and 4th runner-up at Miss Universe 2010

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* Raj Thackeray ( born 1968 ), an Indian politician

The story is of two British born Indians named Raj Malhotra ( Shahrukh Khan ) and Simran ( Kajol ).

Gibson was born in Simla, India, during the British Raj, the son of Alexander James Gibson and Norah Gibson.

Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari was born in Choti Zareen, a village of Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab on May 29, 1940 during the British Raj and died on October 20, 2010 due to a cardiac arrest.

Dr. Raj Kumar was born on April 24, 1929 at Gajanur ( Talavadi block ), Madras Presidency, now Tamil Nadu, India, situated in the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border.

Rangit Singh was born to Maha Singh and Raj Kaur on 13 November 1780, in Gujranwala, Punjab, into a Sikh family.

* September 28-Mulk Raj Anand, Indian novelist in English language ( born 1905 )

Yash Johar was born Anand Raj Johar on September 6, 1929 in Amritsar, Punjab, British India.

Yash Raj Chopra ( born 27 September 1932 in Lahore, British India ) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer, predominantly working in Hindi cinema.

Raj Peter Bhakta ( born December 7, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an entrepreneur and American public figure.

He was born some time in the 1870s or 1880s ( sources disagree on the date ) at a time when Kalat was a princely state within the framework of the British Raj.

Meena was born in Chennai as the daughter to a Tamil father Durairaj and a Malayali mother Raj Mallika.

In their quest for the Indian super hero, Raj Comics was born.

Rajendra Persaud (; ), also known as Raj Persaud ( Hindi: र ा ज परस ौ द ), born 13 May 1963, Reading, Berkshire is an English consultant psychiatrist, broadcaster, and author of popular books about psychiatry.

Raj Kumar Bagri, Baron Bagri, CBE ( born 24 August 1930 ) is a former Conservative member of the House of Lords.

There, as " Raj ", he gains her sympathy and affection, telling her such things as, " My mother died before I was born.

Mary Lennox, a young English girl born and raised in the British Raj, is orphaned by a cholera outbreak when she is eleven years old.

Chandravarma was born to Hemavati, Sir Alexander Cunningham, Reports of a tour in Bundelkhand and Rewa in 1883-84, and of a tour in Rewa, page daughter of priest ( Raj Purohit ) Hemraj of Raja Indrajit, the Gaharwar raja of Benares.

Alphonsamma, as she was locally known, was born in Arpookara, a village in the princely state of Travancore, which was under the British Raj at the time.

Raj Shrikant Thackeray () ( born 14 June 1968 ) is the founder and president of the right-wing Marathi ethnocentric regional political party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (" Maharashtra Reformation Army ") in the state of Maharashtra, India.

Raj was born on 14 June 1968 in a Marathi Kayastha ( CKP ) family to Shrikant Thackeray ( younger brother of Bal Thackeray ) and Kunda Thackeray ( younger sister of Bal Thackeray's wife Meena Thackeray ).