1. (Placename) a republic in S Asia: history dates from the Indus Valley civilization (3rd millennium bc); came under British supremacy in 1763 and passed to the British Crown in 1858; nationalist movement arose under Gandhi (1869–1948); Indian subcontinent divided into Pakistan (Muslim) and...
Possibly encouraged by the British, with whom the movement did not feel powerful enough to come to grips at the outset, it chose as the venue of jihad the NW frontier of the subcontinent, where it was directed against the Sikhs. Barelvi temporarily succeeded in carving out a small ...
An independent India in 1947 decided to officially become Bhārat, (the short final "a" not being pronounced in Hindi), with the earlier word emerging as Hindi Bhāratvarsh. Probably India did not have a clear local name earlier because, like China, it seemed to be the principal portion of...
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History of Indian Socialist Movement Fascinating Fifty Five Faces of the Indian Freedom Struggle– An introduction to Qurban Ali’s book, “Founders of the Socialist Movement in India” – Prof. Anand Kumar (Courtesy ofJanata Weekly) Book Extract: Socialist Movement in India Is a Saga of Split...
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in reality it is very diverse linguistically and in other ways. He said that there are dialects of his own home language spoken inKarnataka, a state in the southwestern region of India, that even he cannot understand. He said that Hindi serves as the national language but even Indian currenc...
There is a general belief that Aryans migrated from central Asia. This pseudointellectual statement- is effectively demolished by the above statement. There was free movement of people in the Bharata-Varsha as described above. In the later period a distinct civilization developed in the region of...
(And did anyone else notice the private sector lobbyists and public sector fixers seated in the audience? Precisely what were they doing there? Is this just another New Delhi social occasion for people to put on a show of showing their presence?) For that matter, why was the National Anthe...
Ku Klux Klan Movement Klub Ksiazki Kubusia Puchatka (Polish childrens book club) Kininogen Kallikrein Kinin System Kontraktor Kontrak Kerja Sama (Indonesian: contractors cooperation contract)Samples in periodicals archive: She shares some of her beauty secrets and also provides tips on how to dress up...