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Jaipal Singh
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Bihari adivasi (tribal) politician who studied at Oxford University and was a prominent hockey player
J. A. Lalkaka
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Indian artist who specialized in painting portraits of political elites and royalty in India and Britain
Jamh ood-deen
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Son of the ruler of Mysore, Tipu Sultan, who visited England in 1835 by permission of the East India Company, where he would remain for seven years, moving in royal …
Jamila Gavin
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British Indian author of children’s and young adult literature, acclaimed for her exploration of multicultural identity, colonial history, the partition of India and intergenerational households
Janaki Agnes Penelope Majumdar
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Pupil at Croydon High School for Girls who wrote a memoir about her childhood in England
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Leader in the Indian nationalist movement and the first Prime Minister of India after independence
Jayaben Desai
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Activist in the Grunwick dispute (1976–8), during which she led workers in protest of poor work conditions and undignified treatment
