Unknown Facts
UNKNOWN FACTS
■ The Great Gama
Ghulam
Mohammed Baksh (Gama Pehlwan) born on 22 May, 1878 in
Amritsar,Punjab in British India. He was 173cm tall and 110kg in
weight. He is known for his undefeated wrestling career of more than
50 years. He was awarded Indian version of World heavyweight
championship on 15th October 1910. He considered raheem bakhsh
sultani wala as his greatest rivalry. All his matches resulted in
either a win aur tie game but never once in a defeat. Even Bruce Lee
also followed the training routine of the Gama Pehlwan to build such
great strength. Some of the exercises he followed are "The Cat
Stretch","The Squat".
■ Genghis Khan
Genghis
Khan or Chinggis Khan was The founder and 1st great Khan of
the Mongol empire, which became the largest contagious empire in
history after his death. He got this massive power by uniting many of
the nomadic Tribes of North East Asia.
He
conquered more than 12 million square kilometres of area which is the
approximate area of China, India and Europe together. It is greater
than any individual Kingdom in the entire history.
The
green area in the picture shows the land conquered by Genghis khan.
▪Khan's armies may have slaughtered more people than Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler's combined. His military campaigns sometimes involved eliminating an entire civilian population. As many as 40 million people were killed under his rule.
▪Genghis
khan slept with so many women that every 1 out of 200 people is
somehow related to him. The picture below shows the density
population of his ancestors around the world in modern time.
■Jaswant Singh Rawat
▪ Local
people around Tawang area believe that he has become a saint and his
spirit protects the area.
▪The
Indian army keeps at least half-a-dozen personnel here to take care
of Rawat as if he is alive. He is served bed tea at 4.30 am,
breakfast at 9 am and dinner at 7pm.
▪The
post which he held against the Chinese Army was named as Jaswant
Garh[1]. Another honor bestowed upon him is that he continues in the
service even after death, he has been awarded promotions as if he is
still serving the Nation.
▪According
to the legend he killed more than 150 Chinese Soldiers in the battle
and the Chinese were so angry with him that they cut off his head
back to China. After the ceasefire impressed by the soldier’s
bravery, the Chinese returned the head along with a brass bust of
Jaswant Singh.
▪Rawat
remained at his post at an altitude of about 10,000 feet (3,000
meters) and held back advancing Chinese troops for three days
single-handedly before succumbing to an enemy bullet during the
bloody winter war with China in 1962 along the northeastern state of
Arunachal Pradesh.
▪ A
major general once refused to pray at his shrine while crossing the
area, saying this was just a superstition, but he met with a
mysterious road accident a few kilometers away from here and died.
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