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  2. Mahajanas - Wikipedia

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    A Mahajana (Sanskrit: महाजन, romanized: Mahājana, lit. 'great person') refers to one the twelve beings of spiritual authority affiliated with the Hindu deity Vishnu, who are described to teach religious ideal, and who, by his conduct, sets an example for others to follow.

  3. List of Indian Americans - Wikipedia

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    Jagadeesh Moodera, American physicist of Indian origin; senior research scientist at MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory; Bharati Mukherjee, author, professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley; C. M. Naim, scholar of Urdu language and literature at the University of Chicago

  4. List of Urdu authors - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable Urdu-language writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  5. Names of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known use of the name "America" dates to 1505, when German poet Matthias Ringmann used it in a poem about the New World. [2] The word is a Latinized form of the first name of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who first proposed that the West Indies discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 were part of a previously unknown landmass, rather than the eastern limit of Asia.

  6. List of Pakistani Americans - Wikipedia

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    Iqbal Theba – starred in numerous American sitcoms but most famous for playing Principal Figgins on the show Glee; Jahan Yousaf – part of EDM duo Krewella; Jeffery A. Qaiyum – stage name JAQ; American professional b-boy of German, English and Pakistani descent; Kamran Rashid Khan – stage name Lazarus, physician and rapper from Detroit [61]

  7. Mahajani - Wikipedia

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    Mahajani is a Laṇḍā mercantile script that was historically used in northern India for writing accounts and financial records in Marwari, Hindi and Punjabi. [1] It is a Brahmic script and is written left-to-right. Mahajani refers to the Hindi word for 'bankers', also known as 'sarrafi' or 'kothival' (merchant).

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  9. List of Urdu novelists - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable Urdu language writers with their date of birth who wrote Novels in Urdu. 19th Century. Novelist Date of birth-Death Novels Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi