INDIA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN BASIN THE POST-CLASSICAL WORLDS OF SOUTH AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA NORTHERN INDIA North India –Tension among regional kingdoms –Nomadic Turks became absorbed into Indian society Introduction of Islam to northern India –The Sind were conquered by Arab Muslims in 711 (Umayyad...
The situation along their shared 3,000-kilometer (1,864-mile) border has not changed, but shifts in China's economic structure have led Beijing to increasingly operate in the Indian Ocean Basin, which is New Delhi's sphere of influence. India is facing limitations as it tries to project ...
India and the Indian Ocean Region: The Evolution of an Economy-Oriented Relationship since 1990s and its Historical Background:The “Nation-States”and International Politics in South Asia In the 1990s, India has experienced an unprecedented tightening of its relations with some African and Gulf ...
India is a state in South Asia located in the Indian Ocean basin. It is situated along the most important air and sea routes linking the countries of South and Southeast Asia with Europe and Africa. The maximum length of the territory from north to south is 3,200 km, and from west to...
It is capable of projecting power within the Indian Ocean basin and occasionally operates in the South China Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Gulf. Fleet introduction of the Brahmos cruise missile and the possible lease of nuclear submarines from Russia will add significantly to the ...
It is known that the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) is initiated by unequal surface solar heating of the Indian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean in the pre-monsoon and monsoon season. Therefore, the strength of monsoonal precipitation correlated closely with the land-ocean temperature gradient3. In...
The monitoring of beach debris began after it was understood to be a threat to the marine environment and coastal communities (U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, 2004). Ingestion of marine debris (Tomás et al., 2002; Goldstein and Goodwin, 2013) and entanglement by marine organisms, including...
Revised limits on the age of the Deccan Traps of India are provided by recent improvements to reconstructions of India relative to surrounding plates since Late Cretaceous time, realistic estimates of the uncertainties in the plate reconstructions, and recent paleomagnetic data from the Deccans Traps ...
usual word in Middle English for "India," from the Old French form of LatinIndia(seeIndia). Commonly applied to Asia and the East generally; later in a time of geographical confusion, it was applied to the Caribbean basin, which was distinguished from Asia proper by being called theWest ...
indian ocean to the south, the arabian sea to the southwest, and the bay of bengal to the southeast. india is bordered by a number of nations, including pakistan to the west, and to the north, it is flanked by china , nepal , and bhutan ...