ON 3 AUGUST IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on August 3, 2019
1347: Alauddin Hasan Gangu assumed royalty and founded the Bahmani Dynasty
http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hasan-gangu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala-ud-Din_Bahman_Shah
1886: Birth of Maithili Sharan Gupt, Indian poet who died on December 12, 1964
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/maithili-sharan-gupt.html
http://www.poemhunter.com/maithili-sharan-gupt/biography/
1916: Birth of Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist, who died on April 20, 1970
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakeel_Badayuni
1957: Birth of Mani Shankar, Indian film maker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_Shankar
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1200832/
1970: Birth of Manmohan Waris, Punjabi Singer
http://www.manmohanwaris.com/
1993: Death of Swami Chinmayananda, Indian spiritualist, born on May 8, 1916
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinmayananda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXDEXZ42r6o
2010: Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Karachi_riots
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2010-08-04/karachi-erupts-in-violence-for-second-night-after-lawmaker-s-assassination
2012: Pakistan jails Brig Ali Khan and four other top officers. A Pakistani military court has convicted five senior officers of links with a banned organisation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-19116499
2016: CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal is elected as the 39th prime minister of Nepal
http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2016-08-03/dahal-elected-as-39th-prime-minister.html
http://www.dw.com/en/nepal-elects-former-maoist-chief-as-prime-minister/a-19446154