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Historical Event on 9/30/1997

Gen. V. P. Malik takes over from Gen. Shankar Roychowdhury as Chief of Army Staff.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/8/1992D. P. Sahastrabuddhe 'Anand', editor of monthly magzine, passed away.
3/1/1818Singhgad won by the Britishers after the end of Peshwa kingdom.
8/15/1993Five more Doordarshan channels launched.
2/12/1794Alijabahadar Mahadaji Shinde passed away.
2/22/1993Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay in 411 balls and smashes 23 fours.
4/2/1954Nehru calls for a halt to the build up of nuclear weapons.
2/24/1961Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
10/29/1930Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is sent back to prison for two yearrs following a speech he made at Allahabad the day after his release from jail.
2/18/1993Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".