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- parts of southern, central and northern India between the sixth and the ... impressive empire with the Gulbarga region in modern Karnataka as its base ...53 KB (7,699 words) - 00:10, 14 November 2023
- Bali is an Indonesian island positioned in a chain with Java to the ... Most of the Balinese people are involved in agriculture, primarily ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- existed as a South Indian empire based in the Deccan. Established in ... The empire's legacy includes many monuments spread over South ...55 KB (7,789 words) - 20:20, 3 May 2023
- Annie Wood Besant (October 1, 1847 – September 20, 1933) was born ... M. K. Gandhi said that she woke India from a deep sleep and that he ...34 KB (5,469 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- education established by the Government of India in 1950. The first of the ... to train scientists and engineers after India attained independence in ...32 KB (4,594 words) - 21:31, 11 November 2021
- Religion plays a major role in life in Indonesia, which has the largest ... History-and-Legal-Position-of-Confucianism-in-Post-Independence-Indonesia ...26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- ) is the capital and the largest city of Nepal, and is situated in ... Founded in 723, Kathmandu was ruled by the Malla Dynasty from the ...23 KB (3,313 words) - 20:04, 4 June 2024
- Purana, and Bhagavata Purana. Practice in Vaishnavism is also informed ... with the vast majority of adherents situated in India. The Gaudiya Vaishnava ...42 KB (6,471 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- tenth century B.C.E.), who is commonly known in the West as Zoroaster. Zoroastrians ... was the first religion to believe in angels, a day of judgment, ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- 1399–1947 C.E.) was a kingdom of southern India founded in 1399 by Yaduraya ... Under the Mysore Kingdom, the fine arts flourished in southern India ...57 KB (8,382 words) - 23:21, 21 October 2023
- is a predominantly Buddhist island nation in South Asia, located 18 miles ... Portugal and the Dutch, the British gained control in 1796. ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- by the other religion(s). People involved in dialogue are rarely oriented ... of unprecedented global interaction in the modern age, which has provided ...33 KB (5,242 words) - 16:49, 26 February 2022
- Sikhism is a religion that began in sixteenth-century Northern India ... Sikhism is centered on the principle belief in one God (monotheism). For Sikhs ...38 KB (5,913 words) - 22:00, 29 January 2023
- taken to eliminate discrimination—whether in employment, housing, or education—but ... action, such as quotas for race or gender in college admissions, have been ...23 KB (3,279 words) - 20:11, 7 July 2023
- ruled most of the western Deccan, South India, between the tenth and twelfth ... For over a century, the two empires of southern India, the Western ...49 KB (7,018 words) - 17:18, 4 May 2023
- In the cosmology of Hinduism, the term Yuga (meaning: "age" ... In Hinduism, the devolution from the Satya Yuga to the Kali Yuga is ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 21:36, 4 June 2023
- Sri Lanka was ceded to the British Empire in 1815. Its status as capital ... the nation gained independence from Britain in 1948, and several decades of ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- 200px|right|Sherpa porter carrying wood in the Himalaya, near Mount Everest ]] the most mountainous region of Nepal, high in the Himalayas. In Tibet shar ...16 KB (2,467 words) - 14:10, 27 January 2023
- universal themes, and roles of religion in society. There is particular ... writing extensively on the role of religion in society. Today, sociologists ...35 KB (5,329 words) - 21:52, 30 January 2023
- Indian state of West Bengal. It is located in eastern India on the east bank ... Kolkata served as the capital of India during the British Raj until ...53 KB (7,548 words) - 03:33, 8 June 2024
