ON 24 JUNE IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on June 24, 2019
1763 : Murshidabad (in now West Bengal) is captured by the East India Company for the second time and Mir Jafar will be declared King on 29
http://murshidabad.net/history/history-topic-mir-jafar.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Jafar
http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Mir_Jafar_Ali_Khan
1897: Birth of Omkarnath Thakur, Indian singer and musicilogist who died on December 29, 1967
http://swaratala.blogspot.fr/2011/06/pandit-omkarnath-thakur-1897-1967.html
http://davidphilipson.com/pages/omkarnath.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OWfG4FPG1U
1908: Birth of Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer, who died on October 9, 1987
http://www.narthaki.com/info/profiles/profil13.html
1955: Birth of Swami Chidvilasananda, current guru of Siddha Yoga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chidvilasananda
1974: In India, after the Hight Court of Allahabad declared her election invalid, the Supreme Court authorizes Indira Gandhi, to keep her premiership but withdraws her vote right in the parliament
1989 : In India, a majority of opposition members resign from the Lok Sabha on the issue of the Comptroller Auditor General report on the Bofors gun deal
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/june-24-1989-a-majority-of-opposition-members-in-the-lok-sabha-resign-on-the-issue-of-the-cag-report-on-the-bofors-gun-deal
http://www.news18.com/news/india/what-the-bofors-scandal-is-all-about-468591.html
2000: Death of Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician, born on July 25, 1927
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadiq_Hussain_Qureshi
2015: China blocks an Indian move at the United Nations to seek an explanation from Pakistan for releasing from prison an alleged mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks