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Ajit Prasad Jain (6 October 1902 – 2 January 1977) was an Indian politician who served as the President of the U.

Ajit Singh (12 February 1939 – 6 May 2021) was an Indian politician, farmer leader, and founder of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), a regional political party rooted in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, dedicated to advocating farmers’ rights and rural interests.

Amrik Singh Cheema (1918–1982) was an Indian civil servant, author, an advocate of green revolution and a former vice chancellor of the Punjab Agricultural University, known for his contributions to the agricultural initiatives of the Indian government.

Anil Grover (born 15 August 1958) is an Indian molecular biologist, professor and the head of the Department of Plant Molecular Biology at the University of Delhi.

Bonbehari Vishnu Nimbkar (17 July 1931 – 25 August 2021) was an Indian agricultural scientist and social worker, known for his work in the fields of animal husbandry and agriculture.

Banda Vasudev Rao Yadav (1935–1996) was an Indian entrepreneur and agriculturalist, considered by many as the father of the poultry industry in India.

Baldev Singh Dhillon (born 27 June 1947) is an Indian agricultural scientist.

Balram Jakhar (23 August 1923 – 3 February 2016) was an Indian politician, who served as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Governor of Madhya Pradesh.

Bhajan Lal (6 October 1930 – 3 June 2011) was a politician and three-time chief minister of the Indian state of Haryana.

Bhaskar Hiraji Save (27 January 1922 – 24 October 2015), was an Indian farmer, educator and environmental activist known for his work in organic farming and sustainable agriculture.

Bhavarlal Hiralal Jain (12 December 1937 – 25 February 2016) was an Indian entrepreneur, hounered by the Padma Award, Government of India, and the founder chairman of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. (JISL), now the second largest micro-irrigation company in the world after Netafim a manufacturer company owned by Orbia Group of Israel.

Brahma Singh is an Indian horticultural scientist, known for his expertise on protected cultivation and his efforts in developing agro-technologies for the high altitude areas of the Himalayan region of Leh and for identifying and popularizing the fruit crops of seabuckthorn and Indian mulberry (Noni).

Sardar Buta Singh (21 March 1934 – 2 January 2021) was an Indian politician and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress.

Devi Lal (25 September 1914 – 6 April 2001) was an Indian statesman and politician who briefly served as the deputy prime minister of India from 1990 to 1991 and previously from 1989 to 1990.

Ebrahimali Abubacker Siddiq (15 July 1937 – 22 January 2026) was an Indian agricultural scientist, whose research in genetics and plant breeding assisted in the development of various high-yielding rice varieties, such as dwarf basmati and hybrid rice.

Girindra Mukerji (born 1879 or 1880) was an Indian anti-British activist, organizer, and agriculturist.

Govindachetty Rangaswami (10 May 1925 – 7 September 2005), commonly referred to as G. Rangaswami, was an Indian agricultural scientist and administrator known for his contributions to agricultural microbiology, plant pathology, and sericulture.

Gurcharan Singh Kalkat (17 June 1926 – 27 January 2018) was an Indian agricultural scientist and the founder chairman of the Punjab State Farmers Commission (PSFC), known for his contributions in bringing the green revolution to Punjab.

Hari Krishan Jain (28 May 1930 - 8 April 2019) was an Indian cytogeneticist and plant breeder, known for his contributions to the field of genetic recombination and the control of interchromosome level.

Hira Singh Chinaria (17 September 1895 – 7 May 1955) was an Indian politician and agriculturist, who conducted research on agriculture in dry conditions.

Jairamdas Daulatram (1891–1979) was an Indian political leader from Sindh, who was active in the Indian independence movement and later served in the Government of India.

Kaderbad Ravindranath (born 4 January 1936) is an Indian agricultural research scientist and cotton breeder.

Khem Singh Gill (1 September 1930 – 17 September 2019) was an Indian academic, geneticist, plant breeder and Vice-Chancellor of the Punjab Agricultural University.

Krishnaswamy Ramiah (15 April 1892 – 3 August 1988) was an Indian agricultural scientist, geneticist, parliamentarian and the founder director of Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, credited with introducing systematic hybridisation programmes in rice breeding in India.

Narinder Singh Randhawa (1927–1996) was an Indian agricultural scientist, writer and the director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).

Neelamraju Ganga Prasada Rao (5 September 1927 – 27 July 2016) was an Indian geneticist and plant breeder, known for his efforts in developing hybrid varieties of sorghum, which earned him the moniker, the Father of Hybrid Sorghum.

P. K. Venugopalan Nambiar (1924–1996) was an Indian agricultural scientist credited with the development of the first hybrid variety of black pepper in the world, Panniyur-1.

Prabhudas Khushaldas Patel was an Indian independence activist, politician, administrator, agriculturist and a pioneer of the cooperative movement in India.

A style of architecture associated with the Deccan region of India, begun in the eleventh century.

2.0 is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language science fantasy action film directed by Shankar who co-wrote the film with B.

24 is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language science fiction thriller film written and directed by Vikram Kumar.

3 Idiots is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani, co-written by Abhijat Joshi and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

7 Khoon Maaf (transl. 7 Murders Forgiven; read as "Saat Khoon Maaf"), released internationally as Seven Sins Forgiven, is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language black comedy film directed, co-written and co-produced by Vishal Bhardwaj.

A Flying Jatt is a 2016 Indian superhero comedy film co-written and directed by Remo D'Souza and produced under the banner of Balaji Motion Pictures.

Aa Dekhen Zara (Come, Let's See) is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language science fiction thriller film written by Sheershak Anand, starring Neil Nitin Mukesh, who plays a photo journalist, and Bipasha Basu, as a disc jockey.

Aetbaar (transl. 'Trust') is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language romantic psychological thriller film directed by Vikram Bhatt and produced by Ratan Tata.

Agent Vinod is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language spy action film written and directed by Sriram Raghavan and produced by Saif Ali Khan and Dinesh Vijan.

Airlift is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language political thriller film directed by Raja Krishna Menon starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur, that follows Ranjit Katyal (played by Kumar), a Kuwait-based businessman as he carries out the evacuation of Indians based in Kuwait during the Invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's Iraq which led to the beginning of the Gulf War.

Akira is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film co-written, produced and directed by A.

Arjun: The Warrior Prince is a 2012 Indian animated action film, directed by Arnab Chaudhuri, written by Rajesh Devraj, and produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur under UTV Motion Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures.

Baahubali: The Epic is a 2025 Indian Telugu-language epic action film directed by S.

Baby is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language spy action thriller film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey.

The film stars Salman with debutante Harshaali Malhotra, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and tells the story of Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi, a devotee of the Hindu deity Hanuman, who embarks on a journey to take a mute six-year-old Pakistani Muslim girl Shahida, separated in India from her mother, back to her hometown.

is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Fox Star Studios.

is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Anurag Basu, and produced by Ronnie Screwvala and Siddharth Roy Kapur under UTV Motion Pictures.

After her husband's death in 1952, she moved to India.

Rauke Kalan, Dallewalia Misl, Sikh Confederacy (present-day Punjab, India, Punjab, India)

Puttaparthi, Madras Presidency, British India (present-day Andhra Pradesh, India)

is a breed of cattle that originated from the erstwhile state of Mysore in Karnataka, India.

It is commonly seen in Hawaii and Florida, but there has also been recorded incidents of the disease in India and Thailand.

is a breed of cashmere goat native to the high plateaus of Ladakh in northern India.

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The Green Revolution in India was a period that began in the 1960s during which agriculture in India was converted into a modern industrial system by the adoption of technology, such as the use of high-yielding varieties of crops, and fertilisers.

Since then, the disease has been reported in all major wheat-growing states of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mexico, and certain areas of the Southwestern United States such as New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Texas.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare, formerly the Ministry of Agriculture, is a branch of the Government of India and the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws related to agriculture in India.

By at least 2800 BCE in peninsular India, where its presumptive closest wild relatives Cajanus cajanifolia occurs in tropical deciduous woodlands, its cultivation has been documented.

Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is a public funded agricultural university located in Ludhiana, Punjab, India.

Rapeseed was being cultivated in India as early as 4000 B.C.E.

Cereals in regions of England, South Australia, Canada, and India experience losses caused by R. solani every year.

India Present, restricted distribution

India Present, widespread

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