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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: People from Dehradun, People from Haridwar, Vandana Shiva, Prem Rawat, Shriya Saran, The Garhwal Rifles, Garhwali language, Anandamayi Ma, Sivananda Saraswati, Sam Manekshaw, Hans Ji Maharaj, Satyananda Saraswati, Heinrich Harrer, Rama P. Coomaraswamy, John Birch, Ramachandra Guha, Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Dietrich Brandis, Himani Shivpuri, Henry Renny-Tailyour, Dehra Parker, Tom Alter, Proby Cautley, Rash Behari Bose, Nayantara Sahgal, Tavleen Singh, Victor Banerjee, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, B. C. Khanduri, Patricia Wentworth, Pandey, Chandramukhi Basu, Surendra Singh Panwar, Ashok Soota, Lawrence Samuel Durrell, John Duncan Grant, James Sykes Gamble, William McKay Aitken, V. C. Agrawal, John Lang, Narain Swamy, Stephen Alter, K. N. Singh, Kulraj Randhawa, Louisa Dixie Durrell, John Mason, Smith Dun, Rajendra Kumar Badi, Usha Verma, Sompal, Mervyn Blake, Krishna Singh, Shiv Narayan Agnihotri. Excerpt: Prem Pal Singh Rawat (Hindi: born 10 December 1957), also known as Maharaji and formerly known as Guru Maharaj Ji and Balyogeshwar, teaches a meditation practice he calls Knowledge. At the age of eight, he succeeded his father Hans Ji Maharaj as leader of the Divine Light Mission (Divya Sandesh Parishad) and as the new Satguru (English: Perfect Master) to millions of Indian followers. Rawat gained further prominence when he traveled to the West at age 13 to spread his message. His claimed ability to impart direct knowledge of God attracted a great deal of interest from young adults, and many saw him as an incarnation of the divine. Under his charismatic leadership, the Divine Light Mission (DLM) became the fastest growing new religious movement in the West, though it was sometimes described as a cult. Rawat also attracted media attention, being ridiculed in the US for his youth and his supposed di...
