Madras, Tamil Nadu - a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras Uttar Pradesh - a state in northern India Gujarat, Gujerat - a region of western India to the north of Bombay (bordering the Arabian Sea) where Gujarati is spoken Maharashtra...
THE ABOVE TWO IMAGES ARE OF KAILASHNATH TEMPLE IN MAHARASHTRA STATE. THIS TEMPLE WAS CUT OUT OF A SOLID GRANITE BOULDER THE SIZE OF A SMALL HILL, AND WAS SCULPTED FROM ABOVE DOWN IN A MULTIGENERATIONAL EFFORT OVER ALMOST 200 YEARS! THIS, MORE THAN ANY OTHER STRUCTURE, (INCLUDING THE TAJ...
It is a common sight at various food carts and eateries in Sikkim, a northeastern state of India bordering Tibet and Bhutan. A nutritious street food, it can function as a portable energy-rich, flavor-packed Sikkimese side dish. Shapale has a semi-circular shape and a crunchy exterior ...
Ads India is in Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan known as the subcontinent. In the 19th century, Britain had assumed political control of virtually all Indian lands. Non-violent resistance to British colonialism led by Mohandas GANDHI and...
K.T. Gandhirajan, who has studied murals in 35 temples in Tamil Nadu over a period of six years, said “Only experts can do that. The State government should give up repainting the faded murals because there are not enough trained artists to do the work. Instead, it can use the resour...
Balaji, a resident of Tamil Nadu, challenged the schemes in the Madras High Court. He stated that the expenditure to be incurred by the State from the exchequer was “unauthorised, impermissible and ultra vires the constitutional mandates”....
Vector-borne diseases data were obtained from the State Vector Borne Disease Control Program. Non-parametric tests (Mann-Kendall test and Sen's slope method) were used to estimate the long-term trends in the climate and forest cover variables. The Mann-Kendall test indicates that the minimum ...
Firstly, the climate of most of the regions bordering the Indian Ocean means that many of the materials involved in these trades have not been preserved, making it difficult to quantify how often such trade took place. Many organic materials, for example, are only preserved in particularly dry...
Tawaifs– Let us review the state of thetawaifsat the turn of the 20th century. The tradition had been under pressure for more than half a century. The dissolution of many of the princely states that had been their patronage, placed them in a preca...
We examine the role of the enforcement of property rights, human capital formation, and the efficiency of various components of state governments' deve