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The Deccan Gymkhana of Pune, so named and baptised by the great Indian leader Lokmanya Tilak drafted the first ever rules and regulations which symbolised the metamorphosis of the game soon to follow.
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Deccan and Gymkhana
It is located on BMCC Road in the Deccan Gymkhana area of Pune, Maharashtra.
The Deccan Gymkhana area of western Pune is well known for its numerous educational institutes.
This road also has traffic from Hadapsar to Shivajinagar, Kothrud, Deccan Gymkhana and Warje areas.
This road starts from one end of Law College Road right opposite to the entrance of the Bhandarkar Institute and ends at the Cafe Good Luck intersection at Deccan Gymkhana.
The prestigious Deccan Gymkhana Club and PYC Gymkhana Club are located off this road.
It used to start at Deccan Gymkhana and curve its way right up to the Old Governor's house into Aundh.
Presently, the road starts at the Agriculture College-Police Parade Ground junction and ends at Deccan Gymkhana.
It starts from the Sancheti Hospital Intersection at Shivajinagar opposite to the COEP Hostel and heads straight up to Deccan Gymkhana where it ends at the Garware Bridge.
The move certainly showed the results and the game of Kho-Kho mainly owes it to the efforts taken by the Deccan Gymkhana and Hind Vijay Gymkhana.
Hind Vijay Gymkhana, Baroda and Deccan Gymkhana, Pune had their own codes of rules which were in variance with each other.
Deccan and Pune
The Deccan Traps near Pune
At the age of 19, during his second year at Deccan College in Poona ( now Pune ), he met a very old Muslim woman, a spiritual master named Hazrat Babajan, who kissed him on the forehead.
His brilliance rubbed off on young Tilak, who graduated from Deccan College, Pune in 1877.
The Marathas had lived in the Desh region around Pune for a long time, in the western portion of the Deccan, where the plateau meets the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats.
Aurangabad has transformed into a major education center in the Deccan due to its rapid industrial growth and proximity to Mumbai and Pune.
On the orders of Elphinstone, General Smith arrived in Yerwada near Pune on 13 November at the site of the present Deccan College.
In the context of the history of Maharashtra, " Desh " is an abbreviation for " Maharashtra-desh ", that historical region of the west-central Deccan Plateau that is called the Divisions of Pune and Marathwada or Aurangabad.
* 2123 / 2124 Deccan Queen – Pune to Mumbai, pride of the Central Railway
From 1870 to 1876, he taught Latin at the Deccan College in Pune.
Then it was transferred to Deccan College ( Pune ) for better preservation.
* Nicholas Kazanas ( born 1939, Greece -) School of Oriental and African studies ( London ); Deccan College ( Pune, India )
Years later, it was reinstated by the Pune Municipal Corporation ( PMC ), the Association of Herbal Drugs and Deccan Education Society.
Karve served for many years as the head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Deccan College, Pune ( University of Pune ).
After Nomani's death in 1914, Nadvi left his position as a professor at Deccan College, Pune and traveled to Azamgarh.
In 1933, he joined the Deccan Education Society ’ s Fergusson College in Pune, where he taught mathematics for the next 12 years.
The ceramists were Dr Abhijit Dandekar ( of the Deccan College, Pune ) and Ms R Nanji.
Deccan and so
Their attempt to do so created the most famous cavalry action of the Battle of the Somme, when the 7th Dragoon Guards and the 2nd Deccan Horse attempted to capture High Wood.
Thus the capital was shifted to Lahore so that Akbar could have a base in the less stable part of the empire, before moving back Agra in 1598, where he had begun his reign as he shifted his focus to Deccan.
Malik Ambar taking advantage of the guerilla tactics so admirably suited to the hilly regions of western Deccan "</ i ></ ref > Shivaji's mother Jijabai was the daughter of Lakhuji Jadhav, a nobleman from Sindkhed Raja.
The Western Ghats Mountain Range is very tall and blocks the moisture from the southwest monsoon from reaching the Deccan Plateau, so the region receives very little rainfall.
Deccan and named
She died in Burhanpur in the Deccan ( now in Madhya Pradesh ) during the birth of their fourteenth child, a daughter named Gauhara Begum.
Revolting against the Sultanate was formed Bahmani Sultanate in 1347 AD making Daulatabad as its sultanate capital which was later shifted to Gulbargah and in 1430 the capital atlast moved to Bidar, Bahmani Sultanate existed for around 150 years, and expanded almost into the entire Deccan Plateau ( which was then named as Deccan ).
He was named Vice Captain of the Deccan Chargers, with Kumar Sangakkara captain of the side.
Deccan Chronicle promoters T. Venkat Ramireddy, T. Vinayak Reddy, PK Ayyar were named in the Karvy complaint as being responsible for the fraud.
Singh was named the fielding coach of the Indian national team in 2007 and in 2008 he was also appointed the first head coach of Deccan Chargers franchise in the Indian Premier League.
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In the years when the Deccan Traps hypothesis was linked to a slower extinction, Luis Alvarez ( who died in 1988 ) replied that paleontologists were being misled by sparse data.
The Deccan Traps region was reduced to its current size by erosion and plate tectonics ; the present area of directly observable lava flows is around.
The spreading rate then dropped off, with the decrease occurring around 63 Myr ago, by which time the main phase of Deccan volcanism ended.
However, much of the Deccan and southern India were largely unaffected by these events in the north.
Later, the Bahmani Sultanate and Deccan sultanates founded by Turkic rulers, flourished in the south.
It lasted until 1646 although its power declined after a major military defeat in 1565 by the Deccan sultanates.
As a result, much territories of former Vijaynagar Empire were captured by Deccan Sultanates and the remaining got divided into many states ruled by Hindu rulers.
* Vijayanagara is founded on the southern part of the Deccan plateau in India, by the brothers Harihara and Bukka Raya.
* The Vaghela dynasty in Gujarat is subjugated by the Deccan Yadava dynasty of Daulatabad.
Three tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregions, the East Deccan dry evergreen forests, the Sri Lanka dry-zone dry evergreen forests, and the Southeastern Indochina dry evergreen forests, are characterized by evergreen trees.
The dynasty was founded by Mir Qamar-ud-Din Siddiqi, a viceroy of the Deccan under the Mughal emperors from 1713 to 1721 and who intermittently ruled under the title Asaf Jah in 1724, and After Aurangzeb's death in 1707, the Mogul empire crumbled and the viceroy in Hyderabad, the young Asaf Jah, declared himself independent.
Eventually weakened both by contention with the northwestern invaders and internal strife they broke up and gave rise to several nations around Deccan and central India regions even as the Gupta Empire arose in the Indo-Gangetic Plain and ushered in a " Golden Age " and rebirth of empire as decentralized local administrative model and the spread of Indian culture until collapse under the Huna invasions.
The British also fought a war with Mysore which increased its clout in the Deccan and, by 1800, Nizam's dominions came into a state of near-suzerainty under the British.
By 1801, the Nizam's dominion assumed the shape it is now remembered for: that of a princely state with territories in central Deccan, bounded on all sides by British India, whereas 150 years earlier it had considerable coastline on the Indian Ocean.
The seniormost ( 23-gun ) salute state during the period of British India, Hyderabad was an 82, 000 square mile ( 212, 000 km² ) region in the Deccan, ruled by the head of the Asif Jahi dynasty, who had the title of Nizam and on whom was bestowed the style of " His Exalted Highness " by the British.
He was the captain of the Deccan Chargers team in the Indian Premier League in its first year before being replaced by Adam Gilchrist for the next year.
In 1724 Nizam ul-Mulk resigned his post in disgust and set off for the Deccan to resume the Vice-royalty, only to find Mubariz Khan, who had been appointed governor by Emperor Farrukhsiyar nine years earlier, refusing to vacate the post.
However, much of the Deccan and southern India were largely unaffected by these events in the north.
Examples include the Deccan traps in India, the Siberian traps of Asia, the Karoo-Ferrar basalts / dolerites in South Africa and Antarctica, the Paraná and Etendeka traps in South America and Africa ( formerly a single province separated by opening of the South Atlantic Ocean ), and the Columbia River basalts of North America.
Rajatarangini ( meaning the ' river of kings '), a tenth century literary work by Kalhana, states that the Choli from the Deccan was introduced under the royal order in Kashmir.
This action by the emperor, incited rebellion among Hindus and others in many parts of the empire notably the Jats, Sikhs, and Rajputs forces in the north and Maratha forces in the Deccan.
Aurangzeb was compelled to move his headquarters to Aurangabad in the Deccan to mount a costly campaign against Maratha guerrilla fighters led by Shivaji and his successors, which lasted twenty-six years until he died in 1707 at the age of eighty-nine.
Layer after layer was formed by the volcanic activity that lasted many thousands of years, and when the volcanoes became extinct, they left a region of highlands with typically vast stretches of flat areas on top like a table. The volcanic hotspot that produced the Deccan traps is hypothesized to lie under the present day island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
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