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Keywords:  havildar, grenadiers, hamid, gallantry, posthumously
Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid of 4 Grenadiers, Indian Army was posthumously awarded the highest gallantry award of the Republic of India, the Param Vir Chakra, during the 1965 Indo-Pak War. He is the first and only Muslim to have been awarded the nation's highest military honour.
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Keywords:  despotic, deposed, sultan, ottoman, nullified
Ottoman sultan who attempted to return to despotic absolutism during reign from 1878 to 1908; nullified constitution and restricted civil liberties; deposed in coup in 1908. (p. 787)
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