Why was the city Madras renamed as Chennai? Why is Tepui Mountain called The Lost World? Why are Hungarians called Magyars? Why does Vine Deloria use the term Indian? Why is little known about India prior to the Maurya Empire? Why is it called the Scra...
Why is Pennsylvania called the Keystone State? Why did the Vikings name Greenland and Iceland as they did? Why is New England called New England? Some geographers called India a subcontinent. Give explanations why it would be referred to by this name ...
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a group of outsiders from Central Asia – known now as theIndo-Aryans– began migrating and settling in what is now northern India. They spoke a language that would eventually becomeSanskrit. As groups of these speakers separated from one another and spread out over northern India, their spoke...
Some, like the diamonds known as Cullinan III, IV, and V, were mined from South Africa and have been called another symbol of British imperialism. South Africa wants those diamonds back as well. “South Africans are increasingly saying this is again a massive symbol of how so much wealth,...
Ayurveda is known as the sister science of Yoga, which is found more often in spas and celebrity circles today than in the hands of the general public, where it was once practiced with great fervor in ancient India. Having been abolished by British colonists for many years, Ayurveda is now...
One of the most crucial circumstances faced by economically vulnerable voters in India is coercion. This also exists to a lesser extent in developed economies. Take the USA, for example. We can cite coercive power dynamics between factory laborers and their bosses, but here the coercion tends to...
In 1858 the British Raj known as the British Crown rule took control after the East India Company and would rule until India's Independence in 1947. Answer and Explanation: India was divided into two countries because a vast section of its Muslims wanted to have a country of their own. The...
Eating beef is not acceptable in much of the subcontinent on religious grounds, so vultures have performed a vital role in disposing of dead cattle. But there are no longer enough birds to do this effectively and the consequences are significant: an estimated 65 million cattle die in India eac...
Regardless of the reasons al Qaeda gives – or does not give – as to why it is expanding into the Indian Sub-Continent, the strategic and tactical implications of this move are potentially immense. Firstly, although 80% of the population is Hindu, according to a 2011 census, India alone ...