In 2002 AIFB was one of four leftwing parties that nominated Lakshmi Sehgal as a candidate for the presidency of India.
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Born in Nasik ( now Nashik ) in the Bombay Presidency of India to a military family, Thomson attended Cheltenham College.
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The design of the Calcutta High Court building, established on July 1, 1862 in the city of Calcutta ( present-day Kolkata ) in the Bengal Presidency of India during the British Raj, was inspired by the Ypres Cloth Hall.
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He illustrated several books, including " The Three Presidencies of India : a History of the Rise and Progress of the British Indian Possessions, from the Earliest Records to the Present Time " by John Capper, 1853; " Our Indian Army : A Military History of the British Empire in the East " by Captain Rafter, 1855 and " Romance of Modern Missions : A Home in the Land of Snows and other Sketches of Missionary Life " by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, 1870.