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- ↑ "Reddit revisits the earliest Miss India winners: Juhi Chawla to Sangeeta Bijlani and Swaroop Sampat".
- ↑ "Femina Miss India". Archived from the original on 2009-03-21. Retrieved 2010-02-10.