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Events for March 29

29-March-1561	Akbar attacked on Malwa at Sarangpur and defeated Bajbahadar.
29-March-1849	Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar.
29-March-1857	Sepoy Mangal Pandey shot the first bullet of 1857 Indian mutiny in the barracks of Barrackpur near Calcutta against British Empire. This was the starting of the mutiny.
29-March-1869	Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, was born.
29-March-1914	Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram came in India.
29-March-1914	Sudhir Gupta, famous Hindi poet and educationist, was born in Kalasgram, Bangladesh.
29-March-1932	Sundaram Gundibalirama, right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler, was born at Udipi in Karnataka.
29-March-1939	Hanumant Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India-century on debut), was born in Banswara.
29-March-1942	Britain offered dominion status to India after the war if it cooperated now.
29-March-1943	Shaheed Laxman Nayak, freedom fighter and leader, was hanged at Berhampur Jail.
29-March-1952	India enters into a war with Japan.
29-March-1954	Indian Institute of Public Administration inaugurated.
29-March-1963	Siyaramsharan Gupt, great autor of Hindi language, died.
29-March-1970	Union Government revises the percentage of reservation in service for SC\STs from 12.5\% to 15\%. Orders to be effective from 25 March.
29-March-1977	S. N. Mathur became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 02/05/77).
29-March-1978	Jayasinghrao Mansinghrao Ghorpade, cricketer, 8 Tests for India and 229 runs, passed away.
29-March-1979	Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy.
29-March-1982	Delhi (707) beat Karnataka (705) on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy.
29-March-1989	Central Institute of Fisheries Education gets the distinction of becoming the first Fisheries University in India.
29-March-1990	Adoor Bhasi, Malayalam film actor, passed away.
29-March-1992	Centenary celebrations of Tansa Dam held at Tansa. No of Seats of the Standing Committee and Education Committee increased from 20 to 27and 20 to 26 respectively and that of the B.E.S. & T. Committee from 12 to 17 (Vide Maharashtra Act XXI of 1992) (CIVIC).
29-March-1992	The expert committee recomends an autonomous council for the Jharkhand region of Bihar.
29-March-1992	Shri Anand Rishiji Maharaj 1008 , Acharya Samrat of 'Jain Shraman Sangh', passed away.
29-March-1995	Harindra Dave, chief editor of Janmabhumi Group and Gujrati author, passed away.
29-March-1996	SC asks All India Indira Congress to modify its name as All Indira Congress (Tiwari).
29-March-1998	The new govt. wins the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha.
29-March-1999	A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.