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Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University
Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), formerly Kanpur University, is a state university in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, established in 1966 as an affiliating university.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज वस्तु संग्रहालय)
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), formerly the Prince of Wales Museum, is Mumbai's main art, archaeology, and natural history museum, opened 10 January 1922 in George Wittet's Indo-Saracenic building with over 70,000 objects.
Chhatrasal
Chhatrasal (Chhatrasal Bundela, 1649-1731), Bundela Rajput Maharaja who fought the Mughals, founded a kingdom in Bundelkhand from Panna and Mau, and allied with Peshwa Baji Rao I against Muhammad Khan Bangash in 1729.
Chhatrasal's rebellion
Chhatrasal's rebellion was a Bundela Rajput revolt begun in 1671 against Aurangzeb's Mughal Empire, ending in 1729 with Maratha help and an independent kingdom centered on Panna.
Chhetri (क्षेत्री)
Chhetri (क्षेत्री, also Kshetri, Chettri) is Nepal's largest caste/ethnic group: 4,796,995 people, 16.45% in the 2021 census, descended from the Khas people and titled Chhetri by the Muluki Ain of 1853-54.
Chhinnamasta (छिन्नमस्ता)
Chhinnamasta, also called Chhinnamastika, is a Hindu Tantric goddess, usually sixth of the ten Mahavidyas, depicted holding her severed head as three blood streams feed her and her attendants.
Chhota Ghallughara
Chhota Ghallughara (ਛੋਟਾ ਘੱਲੂਘਾਰਾ), the "smaller holocaust," was a 1746 punitive campaign launched from Lahore by diwan Lakhpat Rai that killed about 7,000 Sikhs in the Kahnuwan marshes.
Chhota Rajan (राजेंद्र सदाशिव निकाळजे)
Chhota Rajan (Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, राजेंद्र सदाशिव निकाळजे), Mumbai underworld figure, ex-Dawood Ibrahim lieutenant, 'Hindu Don'; arrested in Bali 2015, serving life sentences for the Jyotirmoy Dey and Jaya Shetty murders.
Chhota Shakeel (چھوٹا شکیل)
Chhota Shakeel (چھوٹا شکیل), Shaikh Shakeel, born 1960, is Dawood Ibrahim's chief lieutenant in D-Company, based in Karachi, a 1993 Mumbai blasts accused, UAPA-listed terrorist with about 104 cases, known for the 2000 Bangkok attack on Chhota Rajan and Bollywood extortion tapes.
Chhotelal Kharwar
Chhotelal Kharwar is an Indian politician of the Samajwadi Party who represents Robertsganj, Uttar Pradesh, in the Lok Sabha, elected in 2024 after serving from 2014 to 2019 as a Bharatiya Janata Party member.
Chi (letter)
Chi (Χ, χ; Greek χι), 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet, a Greek-created supplement letter with no Phoenician forerunner; originally an aspirated k, now [ç]/[x] in Modern Greek, numeral value 600, source of Latin X.
Chi Forest
Chi Forest (元气森林, also marketed as Genki Forest) is a Chinese beverage company founded in Beijing in 2016, known for its sugar-free sparkling water sweetened with erythritol.
Chi Omega
Chi Omega (ΧΩ) is a women's fraternity founded April 5, 1895 at the University of Arkansas by five founders aided by Dr. Charles Richardson; with 380,000+ initiates and 181 collegiate chapters it is the largest women's fraternal organization, partnered with Make-A-Wish since 2002.
Chi Rho
The Chi Rho, or Constantinian monogram, is a Christian symbol superimposing the Greek letters chi and rho from Christos, associated with Emperor Constantine's victory at the Milvian Bridge.
Chi Tu
Chi Tu (赤土国, literally "red-earth country") was a 7th-century kingdom, most plausibly on the southern Malay Peninsula, recorded through Sui dynasty missions in 607 to 610.
Chi Yufeng
Chi Yufeng (池宇峰), born 1971, is a Chinese technology entrepreneur who founded HongEn education software and Perfect World, a games company he took public on Nasdaq in 2007.
Chia Ek Chor
Chia Ek Chor, also known as Xie Yichu, was a Chinese-born merchant from Guangdong whose 1921 seed shop in Bangkok's Chinatown grew into the CP Group conglomerate.
Chia Siew Whooy
Chia Siew Whooy (謝少飛) was a Chinese-born businessman in Bangkok who, with his elder brother Chia Ek Chor, built the 1921 seed shop that grew into CP Group.
Chiang Ching-kuo (蒋经国)
Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國, 1910–1988), son of Chiang Kai-shek, ROC premier 1972–1978 and president 1978–1988; ran Taiwan's security state, launched the Ten Major Construction Projects, lifted martial law in 1987, and opened mainland family visits.
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (蒋介石) was a Chinese soldier and statesman who directed the Northern Expedition, led China's resistance against Japan, and ruled in Taiwan as the Republic of China's longest-serving leader.
Chiang Mai Initiative
The Chiang Mai Initiative is an East Asian liquidity arrangement of currency swaps among ASEAN, China, Japan, and Korea, created in Thailand in 2000 after the Asian financial crisis.
Chiang Mai Treaty of 1874
The Chiang Mai Treaty of 1874 was an agreement between British India and Siam regulating commerce and jurisdiction in the northern Siamese vassal states of Chiang Mai, Lampang, and Lamphun.
Chiang Mai Treaty of 1883
The Chiang Mai Treaty of 1883, also called the Second Chiang Mai Treaty, was an agreement between Siam and Great Britain signed in Bangkok on 3 September 1883.
Chiang Mai Zoo
Chiang Mai Zoo (สวนสัตว์เชียงใหม่) is a zoological park in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, opened by American missionary Harold Mason Young around 1952 and made the city's official zoo in 1977.
Chiapas conflict
Chiapas conflict: armed and political confrontation between Mexico and the Zapatista EZLN (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) since the 1 January 1994 indigenous uprising; San Andrés Accords 1996, autonomy, and later cartel violence distinguish it.
Chiara Ercole
Chiara Ercole (born 1983) is an Italian business executive, chief executive since 2013 of F.lli Saclà, the family-owned preserved-food company founded at Asti in 1939.
Chiasmus
Chiasmus (Greek chiasmós, after the letter chi χ) is a rhetorical device of inverted parallelism, ABBA order, exemplified by Kennedy's 'Ask not...'; related to antimetabole, studied from Bengel 1742 to computational detection and Construction Grammar.
Chiba Bank
The Chiba Bank, Ltd. is a Japanese regional bank founded in 1943, headquartered in Chiba City, and holding the top deposit and loan share in Chiba Prefecture.
Chiba Tsunetane
Chiba Tsunetane (千葉常胤, 1118–1201) was a warrior magnate of Shimōsa Province who joined Minamoto no Yoritomo in 1180 and became shugo of Shimōsa, a leading Kamakura vassal.
Chibaro
Chibaro, meaning forced labor in local languages, was a system of coercively recruited African mine labor in Southern Rhodesia, run by the state-backed Rhodesian Native Labour Bureau from 1903.