ON 27 MAY IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on May 27, 2019
1908: Maulana Hakeem Noor-ud-Din is elected the first Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakeem_Noor-ud-Din
http://www.alislam.org/library/noor1.html
http://www.alislam.org/library/books/noor-ud-deen/hakeem-noor-ud-deen.pdf
1919: Death of Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian activist, born on April 16, 1848
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/kandukuri-veeresalingam-biography.html
1951: Chinese communist force the Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1964: Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies in office
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/27/newsid_3690000/3690019.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0527.html#article
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/27-may-1964-jawaharlal-nehru-first-pm-of-india-died
http://www.biography.com/people/jawaharlal-nehru-9421253/videos/jawaharlal-nehru-a-free-india-2450745960519
1970: In Ceylon, Sirimavo Bandaranaïke, leading a leftist coalition, comes back to power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylonese_parliamentary_election,_1970
2006: Death of Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor born on February 13, 1944
http://movies.deepthi.com/malayalam/actors/oduvil-unnikrishnan.html
2012: Two young Tibetan monks set themselves on fire in Lhasa Sunday in protest against Chinese rule—the first self-immolations reported in the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/burn-05272012123432.html
2013 : Death of Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician, last of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article4452.html