Mahawamsa which was first written by Bhikku Mahanama, has documented the history of Sri Lanka since the 3rd century CE. Though the record has been accepted as correct in most instances, there were discrepancies in para-history and protohistory. The concept of origin of Sinhala race as ...
India, on the southern subcontinent of Asia, is bounded on the northwest by Pakistan; on the north by China and Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan; on the northeast by Bangladesh and Burma (Myanmar); and on the southwest and southeast by the Indian Ocean, with the island republics of Sri Lanka and...
Hindi is the most commonly spoken language in India, but that is largely the case in Northern regions of India and especially in more urban areas. Elsewhere, local languages are common. How many spoken languages are there in India? The estimated number of spoken languages in India today is ...
TheDravidianfamily of languages includes approximately 73 languagesthat are mainly spoken in southern India and northeastern Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and eastern and central India, as well as in parts of Afghanistan and Iran, and overseas in other countri...
things were looking up. Congress seemed to be in disarray and British officials felt confident that the party will soon split because of the infighting betweenthe Gandhians and the Socialists. The upcoming elections of 1937, in which they expected Congress to perform poorly, would prove for onc...
English has just the one — a bland ‘friend’. The shortdost(friend) in Hindustani encompasses in its tiny frame a sort of bro-code for the intense relationship that Hindi film songs refer to, between Maana Dey’s ‘Yaari hai Imaan’ (My friend is my faith) to Sholay’s anthem ‘Ye...
abuts six countries. It is bounded to the northwest byPakistan, to the north byNepal,China, andBhutan; and to the east byMyanmar(Burma).Bangladeshto the east is surrounded by India to the north, east, and west. Theislandcountry ofSri Lankais situated some 40 miles (65 km) off the sou...
THE TAMIL LANGUAGE is the official language of the State of TAMIL NADU (population over 48 million) in southeast India and is also spoken by some 4 million people living in Sri Lanka, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, as well as parts of east and south Africa and islands in the Indian Ocean,...
Albanian language, Indo-European language spoken in Albania and by smaller numbers of ethnic Albanians in other parts of the southern Balkans, along the east coast of Italy and in Sicily, in southern Greece, and in Germany, Sweden, the United States, Ukr
, Mumbai, and Kolkata. British influence then continued to expand from these initial trading stations and by the 1850s, most of India and other countries such as Pakistan,Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh were controlled by Britain.Queen Victoriaof England took the title of Empress of India in 1876....