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Nov 8, 2012 · Noor Inayat Khan's great-great-great-grandfather was Tipu Sultan, an 18th Century Muslim ruler of Mysore. He refused to submit to British rule and was killed in battle in 1799.
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Feb 6, 2024 · Noor Inayat Khan made history as the first female wireless operator to be sent behind enemy lines in France during the Second World War. Working for Britain’s clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE), she was sent to Paris in the summer of 1943 to support the Parisian resistance network, Prosper.
Noor Inayat Khan was born on January 1, 1914, in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia. Her father Inayat Khan was the leader of the Sufi sect of Muhammad mystics and a direct descendant of Tipu Sultan, the 18th-century sultan of the Indian state of Mysore. Impressed with Sufist mysticism, Gregori Rasputin had invited Inayat Khan to the Kremlin to ...
Jun 18, 2020 · Noor Inayat Khan: how British spy's love for blue betrayed her. A new book reveals 29-year-old was captured by the Gestapo in 1943 after her clothing gave her away. S he was the daughter of an ...
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan ( نور عنایت خان) GC (2 Januari 1914 – 13 September 1944) adalah agen Special Operations Executive (SOE) Sekutu semasa Perang Dunia II yang secara anumerta dianugerahi George Cross, penghargaan sipil tertinggi di Britania Raya dan Persemakmuran. Ia juga dikenal dengan panggilan "Nora Baker", [1] "Madeleine ...
Nov 8, 2012 · Noor Inayat Khan's great-great-great-grandfather was Tipu Sultan, an 18th Century Muslim ruler of Mysore. He refused to submit to British rule and was killed in battle in 1799.
Aug 13, 2020 · One such agent was Noor-un-Nisa Inayat-Khan. Code named ‘Madeleine’, Noor landed by plane one dark night in June 1943 in northern France. Armed with her ‘L-pill’, a lethal capsule of ...
