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Canning, Lord : was Governor-General of India during 1856 and again Viceroy of India (1858-1862). He was last of the East India Company’s Governors-General of India and the first of the viceroys of the British Crown. His rule was the epoch of a great convulsion i.e., Indian Mutiny or the First War of Indian Independence.
Chaitanya or Gouranga : born in 1485 at Nadia (Bengal). He renounced the world and preached the doctrine of love and devotion to Lord Krishna.
Chandragupta Maurya (322-289 B.C.) : was the founder of the Maurya dynasty and also founder of the first historical Empire of India.was the famous ruler of ancient India, known for establishing an elaborate system of municipal administration. His empire extended in the north-west upto Hindukush. During his reign, the Greek ambassador Megasthenes visited his court.
Chatterjee, Bankim Ch. : was a patriot poet and novelist known as the literary king of Bengal after Madhusudan. Works : Mrinalini, Durgesh Nandini, Kapal Kundala, Raj Singh, Ananda Math etc.
Chawla, Kalpana : First India-born woman to go in space. She was part of the Colombia space shuttle mission of NASA which went in space on November 20, 1997. Ms. Chawla belongs to Karnal, Haryana.
Chengiz Khan : He was the Mongol warrior, known as ‘one of the Scourges of God’. He is ranked with Attila, the Hunish leader, as the destroyer of human species.
Churchill, Winston : British Statesman, soldier and author, former Prime Minister of Great Britain ; leader of Conservative Party and a vigorous war leader during the Second World War ; died on Jan 24, 1965.
Cleopetra (69-30 B.C.) : famous Egyptian Queen whose beauty fascinated Julious Caesar whom she accompanied to Rome. She is known for her romance with Antony dramatised by Shakespeare in his love tragedy : Antony and Cleopetra.
Clive, Lord (1725-1774) : came to India as a clerk in the East India Company. He showed such remarkable military genious that he became Commander-in-Chief. He defeated Siraj-ud-Daulah supported by the French in the Battle of Plassey in 1757. Returned to England in 1760 ; his later years were marked by mental disturbance and ultimately he committed suicide.
Columbus (1446-1506) : famous Italian navigator who discovered America in 1498.
Cornwallis, Lord (1738-1805) : Commander of the British forces which surrendered to the Americans at York Town in 1781, thus ending the American War of Independence. He was twice Governor-General of India. He introduced permanent settlement of Bengal in 1793.
Curie, Madame Marie (1867-1934) : Polish physicist and chemist; famous for her discovery of radium ; was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. She had shared Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband and Bacquerel.
Curzon, Lord (1859-1925) : A vigorous and outstanding Viceroy of India (1889-1905); statesman and administrator. He was Britain’s Foreign Secretary from 1919 to 1923. He was prominent at many world conferences after the first World War.
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