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Algeria - 98.2% Muslim

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Tunisia - 99% Muslim

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Azerbaijan 97% Muslim

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Egypt 90% Muslim

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Pakistan - 98% Muslim

An order making a head to covering mandatory in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was overturned after protests.

Yup, in Peshawar.

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Morocco

99% Muslim

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Tajikistan 98% Muslim

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Turkey 99% Muslim

Discouraged burqa since 1930s.

Complete ban on any kind of headscarf from 1980 to 2010.

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Morocco.
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Gamel Abdul Nasser , President of Egypt, 1958.

Thanks to Scroll for publishing this.

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Feb 6
Flag of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company.

Established in 1919 by Walchand Hirachand Doshi.

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Walchand Hirachand started from the small town of Solapur (in 1920 it was definitely a small town) and became one of India's foremost industrialists.

Unfortunately our intellectual class looks down upon Industrialists and Wealth makers.
If not for people like Walchand , Birlas and Tatas - India would have no Industrial base once the British left.
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Feb 4
Why recapturing Sinhagad in Feb 1670 was important in the grander scale of things.

A flutter of a butterfly creates a storm halfway around the globe.
After losing 23 forts to Aurangzeb , Shivaji laid low. Spent his time rebuilding. Also spent a year escaping from Agra and reaching Rajgad.

Sinhagad was one of the most important forts lost. In fact it retained its importance as Pune's guard fort right up to 1818.
Sinhagad was a very important and strategic fort. Stone's throw from the capital Rajgad , guarding the important route from Kalyan to Pune as well as Pune itself.

It gave Aurangzeb the base needed to launch any future attacks and kept Chhatrapati Shivaji hemmed in.
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Jan 24
Not only is Abide with me a Christian Hymn, it is a Christian Funeral Hymn.

Yup, we were humming a funeral tune for approx 70 years during " Beating the Retreat "

And yeah, it's called " Sacred Song"
This is the American Navy. Note the occasion.
Yep, very Universal lyrics.
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Jan 22
The Indian Army has something known as Repugnant Battle Honours.

Honours won by various Regiments fighting for the British Empire against Indian powers.

Example Assaye (1803)
Many of our Regiments trace themselves back two hundred years or more. The battles at Assaye, Laswari, killing of Tipu etc were done by Regiments full of Indians.

But it is important to note that the Regiments do not mark these battles.
Their medals are not worn nor are the days celebrated any more.

The Indian Army recognises that these were battles fought for a foreign power against native ones.

Good example of having a heritage but staying in the present.
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Jan 10
Let us learn bit more about this Shaikh Umar Avlia, an Arab who is believed to have travelled to Lohagad from Mecca.

With him came Bawa Malang of nearby Malanggad and Shaikh Salla who went to Pune.

All this in probably the 14th century.
Shaikh Umar found that on Lohagad there lived a Hindu ascetic, whom he grabbed by the feet and tossed clear of the hill to the nearby Visapur fort.

Shaikh Salla's tombs meanwhile (there were two) are believed to have been built over Narayaneshwar and Punyashwar temples in Pune
On Lohagad, it was a shrine to Bahiroba converted into a tomb for Shaikh Umar.

Just like the Narayaneshwar temple and Punyeshwar temples were converted to the Dhakta Shaikh Salla and Thorla Shaikh Salla dargahs in Pune
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Jan 8
Same ship , same company and same rank.

British moral compass ended up providing British sailors with double the wages.

This is about 1940. Image
" One British sailor is equal to two Indian sailors "

- Sir Geoffrey Corbet (Indian Civil Service)
"Indian seamen physically weak. One white seaman equal to two Indians" Image
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