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5 hours ago · British East India Company agent John Crawfurd used detailed company records kept on Prince of Wales's Island (present-day Penang) from 1815 to 1824 to report specifically on the economic aptitude of the 8,595 Chinese there as compared to others. He used the data to estimate the Chinese — about five-sixths of whom were unmarried men in the ...
1 day ago · Devraha Baba, Yogi Allahabad. Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya, Vaishnava scholar and Sanskrit commentator on the Prasthanatrayi, Jaunpur. Ramanand, founder of the Rāmānandī sect Prayag (in modern Allahabad) Raskhan. Sant Ravidas, poet and saint, Varanasi. Shiv Dayal Singh, founder and first guru of Radha Soami sect, Agra.
