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September – October. Dussehra (Vijayadashami) Floating. Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil. It is celebrated on the tenth day of Ashvin, the seventh month in the Hindu Calendar [ 8] October – November. Diwali. Floating. Hindu festival of lights.
2005 – Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people. 2008 – Fifty-six people are killed and over 200 people are injured, in the Ahmedabad bombings in India.
t. e. Independence Day is celebrated annually on 15 August as a public holiday in India commemorating the nation's independence from the United Kingdom on 15 August 1947, the day when the provisions of the Indian Independence Act, which transferred legislative sovereignty to the Indian Constituent Assembly, came into effect.
July 20 is the 201st day of the year ... (d. 2017) 1943 – Chris Amon, New Zealand race car driver (d. 2016) ... Holidays and observances
July 14 is the 195th day of the year ... the "Quit India" resolution is approved, ... musician, and singer (d. 2017) 1926 – Himayat Ali Shair, Urdu poet (d. 2019)
Bina Agarwal in A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia (1994), quoting Adrian C. Mayer, Caste and kinship in Central India (1960) Raksha Bandhan is a popular and traditionally Hindu annual rite or ceremony that is central to a festival of the same name celebrated in South Asia. It is also celebrated in other parts of the world significantly influenced by Hindu culture. On ...
July 13. July 13 is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 171 days remain until the end of the year.
2018 (Sunday) 2017 (Saturday) 2016 (Friday) 2015 (Wednesday) July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 176 days remain until the end of the year.