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66th Punjabis

In October, the 66th Punjabis joined Major General Charles Townshend's 6th Indian Division in its advance towards Baghdad.

Basil Crockett

Educated at Wellington, he commissioned into the 17th Lancers and attended Staff College in Poona, India, before serving on the Northwest Frontier and with the Gordon Highlanders during the Boer War, where he received the Queen's South Africa Medal bearing the clasps for South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, Orange Free State, Transvaal, and Cape Colony.

Battle of Dujaila

With the Poona Division under siege, the high commands in London and Simla began scrambling to put together a relief force.

C. M. Naim

Naim was born in Barabanki, India, and educated at Lucknow University, Lucknow, Deccan College, Poona, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

Subsequently, he was appointed a UGC Visiting Professor at the universities of Andhra Pradesh, Calcutta and Poona.

Kerala Varma IV

Soon after his accession, Kerala Varma embarked on a tour of British India in order to improve his knowledge of the country and visited Coimbatore, Bangalore, Poona, Indore and Benares.

Negley Farson

Farson went on to become one of the most renowned foreign correspondents of his day, interviewing Gandhi in India, witnessing Gandhi's arrest in Poona, witnessing bank-robber John Dillinger's naked body in the morgue just after he had been shot down by Hoover’s men and meeting Hitler, who described Farson’s blond son, Daniel, as a “good Aryan boy.”

Poona College

The Poona College of Arts, Science and Commerce is a Muslim minority academic institution in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Poona Horse

The Poona Horse arrived in Egypt in April 1918, they now formed the 14th Cavalry Brigade of the 5th Cavalry Division with the Deccan Horse and the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry.

Salabat Jung

With cool audacity the French general unfolded his plan and such was his influence that he overcame the fears of Salabat Jung.Leaving Aurangabad to its fate, the Mughal prince moved on to Golkonda, and, after some days spent there in preparation, he marched through Pabal, Khedal and Ahmednagar to Bedar on the road to Poona.

The next day De Bussy pressed on to Koregaon on the river Bhima, a little town only 16 miles from Poona.

Tokunaga Muneo

He is an authority on Indian epics, and in 1994 provided the world with the first digital, searchable text, in ASCII format, of the Mahabharata, based on the Poona Critical Edition.

William Leonard Courtney

William Leonard Courtney (1850 – 1 November 1928) was an English author, born at Poona, India, and educated at Oxford.


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