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  • August 6, 1925) was one of the earliest Indian political leaders during ... Banerjee was the second Indian to pass the Indian Civil Service examinations ...
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  • ; "orthodox") are technical terms used in Indian philosophy ... and Vedanta, while three other systems of Indian philosopy are considered ...
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  • and infused into painting, sculpture, literature, poetry, dance, and, more ... == Literature == Many great poets and men of letters from ancient times ...
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  • endeavor, they gave birth to Kannada literature and Carnatic music. They ... provided tremendous dividends for the Indian people. Hindu philosophers ...
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  • influence over the development of Indian literature in general. ... * Indian literature * Early Medieval literature * List of Sanskrit poets ...
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  • local school and acted as interpreter for Indian Agent Samuel Parrish. Parrish ... Winnemucca's book tells how the Indian Agent sold many of the supplies ...
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  • considered superlative examples of Indian literature. He built impressive ... one of the finest pieces of poetry in Indian literature. Written in Sanskrit ...
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  • The term Indian philosophy may refer to any of several traditions ... All the schools of Indian philosophy are characterized by some common ...
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  • in establishing scholarly interest in Indian culture, which laid the foundation ... of several important works of Indian literature. Jones died on April ...
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  • Southeastern United States (1946) and The Indian Tribes of North America ... He also worked with Earnest Gouge, a Creek Indian who recorded a large number ...
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  • fighter, and poet. Naidu was the first Indian woman to become the President ... Hyderabad and also the first member of the Indian National Congress in Hyderabad ...
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  • quot;) is the name of a genre of popular Indian scriptures, primarily found ... *Rocher, Ludo. The Puranas--A History of Indian Literature. Wiesbaden: ...
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  • 1896, and M.A. in 1897, both in English literature. After meeting with Franz ... be the last surviving member of the Yahi Indian tribe. Kroeber worked with ...
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  • fought and won the most successful war an Indian nation ever waged against ... began to try to balance both the white and Indian worlds, seeking the best ...
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  • proponent of the Samkhya system of Indian philosophy. He is said to ... Enlightened One. Unlike some of the other Indian philosophers, he is not the ...
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  • he was made a Companion, Order of the Indian Empire, in 1894. ... through a campaign to improve Bengali literature. He began publishing a ...
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  • traditions, such as Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy, and Iranian philosophy ... non-Western traditions, such as Chinese or Indian philosophy, often have strong ...
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  • philosophical and ascetic movement of the Indian subcontinent. Philosophically ... about the Ajivikas derives from the literature of rival groups and it ...
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  • of pleasure"), is an ancient Indian text widely considered to ... Indian tradition includes following the "four main goals of life ...
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  • location to develop his interest in Indian literature and philosophy. Elphinstone ... biographer, who wrote extensively on Indian literature and history, considered ...
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  • is used interchangeably for God in various Indian languages, along with other ... It was in the post-Vedic literature, especially the Bhagavadgita, ...
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  • Oddly, a direct line can be drawn between this and Indian independence ... a "single shelf of good European literature" was worth the entire ...
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  • of logic and epistemology, and its literature is closely allied to the ... release found in most other systems of Indian thought. Later Mimamsa thinkers ...
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  • baring the midriff. The history of Indian clothing traces the sari ... and Sri Lanka.Roshen Alkazi, Ancient Indian Costume (South Asia Books ...
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  • 5, 1888 – April 17, 1975), was an Indian philosopher and statesman ... other. He introduced Western idealism into Indian philosophy and was the first ...
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  • 11, 1976 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India), an Indian cricketer who occasionally ... Kartik grew up trying to emulate past Indian orthodox spinners Bishen ...
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  • began to expand his knowledge of art, literature and ethics. In 1912 he ... During his teens and early twenties his works were mainly literature ...
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  • Several references in Indian literature praise the knowledge of the ... ==The Yonas and other northwestern invaders in Indian literature == ...
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  • *Carlisle Indian School Warner coached at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania ...
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  • information gleaned from Sangam literature. Karikala has left history ... of Asian Studies, Encyclopedia of Tamil Literature (South Asia Books, 1990 ...
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  • were forcibly relocated to the Yurok Indian Reservation on the Klamath ... by the Yurok people. Their oral literature, together with the similar ...
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  • quot; in Malayalam) is a popular Indian percussion instrument used ... account credits the thirteenth-century Indian poet Amir Khusrau as having ...
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  • is one of the great accomplishments in Indian religious thought and influenced ... taught him Sanskrit grammar, logic and literature. It is said that in his ...
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  • [[Image:Indian visitors attending Potlatch at Kok-wol-too village ... An Act further to amend "The Indian Act, 1880," S.C. 1884 ...
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  • India and Greece paled compared to later Indian-Roman trade. ... the voyage and to carry on traffic in Indian merchandise." ...
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  • He authored numerous immortal pieces of literature, including The Recognition ... Meharauli Pillar. Kusumanjali problems of Indian history series, no. 1. Meerut ...
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  • the thirteenth century C.E. with the south Indian Vaishnava theologian Madhva ... realist in the same category as other Indian philosophical schools such ...
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  • the college as a vehicle to educate Indian students of every caste and ... and the children, including females, of the Indian people. ...
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  • George Coleman, was three-quarter Choctaw Indian. Her parents worked as sharecroppers ... she was an excellent student. She loved literature and established herself ...
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  • (see Sufi Music, Gregorian Chants, Indian Classical Music) Moreover ... by the music of other cultures. East Indian music and culture influenced ...
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  • of British rule, even though during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 some Indian ... Girls' School, King George Royal Indian Military School, St. Paul ...
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  • philosophy, language, customs, arts, literature, myths, superstitions, ... history which fused images and concepts, literature and history, and religion ...
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  • with a bachelor’s degree in English literature in 1941. He continued with ... Elman Service researched Latin American Indian ethnology, cultural ...
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  • tales, and oral histories. Serrano oral literature is closely linked with ... followed and by 2008, the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino employed ...
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  • and philosophy and were considered the Indian "Golden Age." ... at the prospect of facing another giant Indian army at the Ganges, mutinied ...
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  • a seaport on the southern-most tip of the Indian peninsula, and in later times ... Pandyas are mentioned in Sangam literature (c. 100 – 200 C.E.) as ...
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  • ) (born June 2, 1943 as Gnanadesikan), an Indian film composer, singer ... prominent composer of film music in South Indian cinema during the late 1970s ...
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  • the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was one of the most ... Paz was introduced to literature early in his life through the influence ...
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  • the Navaratna (nine jewels) of Sanskrit literature assembled, inaugurating ... the Navaratna (nine jewels) of Sanskrit literature inaugurated a golden age ...
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  • one of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy and ... It should be noted, however, that the Indian pre-Shankara Buddhist ...
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  • the Oxus river to the Indus Valley and the Indian Ocean; and in the west it ... The wealth brought back from the Indian expeditions to Ghazni was ...
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  • from earlier devotion to the male Indian bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara ... a white flowing robe, wearing necklaces of Indian/Chinese royalty. In her right ...
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  • M. Winternitz, A History of Indian Literature (Delhi, IN: Motilal ... * Winternitz, M. A History of Indian Literature. Delhi, IN: Motilal ...
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  • represents the first Malayalam venture of Indian director Santosh Sivan as ... which has been an inspiration for major Indian films [https://h2g2 ...
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  • on the 25.948 km² (10.0185 sq mi) Cocopah Indian Reservation, which is composed ... they live in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and Gila River ...
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  • an enormous impact on both Hinduism and Indian culture in general, especially ... to the religion, art, music, and literature of India. According to ...
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  • Article 346 of the Indian Constitution recognizes Hindi in Devanāgarī ... country. These consist of English plus 22 Indian languages: Assamese, Bengali ...
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  • *Humor: Fables are a didactic mode of literature; that is their primary ... The fable is one of the most enduring forms of folk literature, and ...
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  • demographics of the ethnically diverse Indian subcontinent. India's ... colonial period added to the diversity of Indian cuisine. ...
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  • Kāma (Devanagari: काम) is the Indian notion of pleasure, which ... in colloquial Western understandings of Indian culture. This text expounds ...
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  • ) (January 1, 1894 – February 4, 1974) was a Bengali Indian physicist ... top ten achievements of twentieth-century Indian science and could be considered ...
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  • Muslim rule over a substantial part of the Indian Sub-Continent, he permanently ... The Indian kingdoms of Nagarkot, Thanesar, Kannauj, Gwalior, and Ujjain ...
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  • extending from the Middle East through the Indian sub-continent to Indo-China ... Eastern art and literature were still seen as "exotic" and ...
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  • mestizos (persons of mixed European and Indian ancestry) but sometimes were ... Long a part of South American folk literature, gaucho lore became ...
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  • Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Though her personal ... woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she accepted on ...
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  • cutlery, carpets and marble products. The Indian Air Force, Indian Army and ... * Sen, Siba Pada. History in Modern Indian Literature. Calcutta: Institute ...
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  • and S. Akademi, 1997, Medieval Indian Literature, an Anthology (Sahitya ... *Ayyappapanicker, K. and Sahitya Akademi. 1997. Medieval Indian Literature: ...
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  • folklore of the nation of India and the Indian subcontinent. Folklore is ... above their social circumstances. Most Indian folklore has a religious ...
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  • astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy ... " whereas Bhata is a typical north Indian name—found today usually ...
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  • the Mughal Empire, which ruled most of the Indian subcontinent until its decline ... early days of Islamic influence. Persian literature was instrumental in the ...
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  • important department of the examiner of Indian correspondence. He gradually ... Mill had a thorough acquaintance with Greek and Latin literature, ...
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  • uses the term to refer to the above literature of the early schools, as ... used to refer vaguely to non-canonical literature, whether Indian or Chinese ...
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  • was one of the first works of Indian literature to become known in ... on several Sanskrit works, on all Indian literature. [http://www.poemhunter ...
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  • Vedas are said to contain the essence of Indian philosophy, and Vedic studies ... and Brāhmaṇas. A History of Indian literature, Vol. 1. Veda and Upanishads ...
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  • of Sir William Johnson, superintendent of Indian Affairs for the northern ... built by her father on the Six Nations Indian Reserve outside of Brantford ...
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  • various sources employed include folk literature, inscriptions, historical ... became the fountainhead of the Vachana literature used as the vector to propagate ...
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  • stm UN boost for ancient Indian chants]—bbc.co.uk Category:Music Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 132077444 ...
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  • Indian Theravadin Buddhist commentator and scholar. Strong 2004, 75 ... Despite the general belief that he was Indian by birth, he later may have ...
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  • and Dream Interpretation in the Qumran Literature." The Jewish Quarterly ... *Thundy, Zacharias P. Buddha and Christ: Nativity Stories and Indian ...
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  • ===The Indian Bamboo Flute=== The Indian bamboo flute, one of the instruments of Indian classical ...
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  • Tulsidas. He is considered one of the northern Indian Saints. ... in Dr. Grierson's Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan, (p. 51). ...
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  • a modern one. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932. ... of society depicted in the proceeding literature of Victorian England. The ...
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  • origin. Several times it calls then "Indian cymbals." Other adjectives ... * Taal – Indian cymbal (clash cymbal) * Manjira – Indian cymbal ...
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  • The Indian city of Varanasi, (also known as Benares, Banarasm Benaras ... district of India. According to the Indian political system, urban groupings ...
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  • Shiwalik Hills (or Lower Himalaya) in the Indian state of West Bengal, located at ... a part of the district of Darjeeling. The Indian Army has a major forward ...
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  • distinct meanings in the context of Indian religious tradition: first ... ) form a part of the corpus of Sanskrit Sutra literature. Their topic ...
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  • In Indian culture, a person without a guru or a teacher (acharya) ... Parampara is the word traditionally used in ancient Indian culture ...
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  • amp;pg=PA1130 Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti,] ... id=m1R2Pa3f7r0C&pg=PA126 Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Surveys ...
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  • science and education combined with Indian traditions, that is, for ... ==Early Indian period== Carey, his eldest son Felix, Thomas, and his ...
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  • treaty signed by the Modoc and left the Indian reservation where they had ... Lake. In response, Ben Wright, a notorious Indian hater, ...
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  • of several traditions of classical Indian music, having received the ... Inayat Khan was born into a princely Muslim Indian family (he was ...
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  • Mahadevi Verma (March 26, 1907 – September 11, 1987) was an Indian ... her to write poems and to take an interest in literature. ...
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  • ) refers to an Indian royal dynasty that ruled large parts of southern ... For the first time in history, a South Indian kingdom took control and ...
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  • Englishman to earn the Nobel Prize for Literature. Kipling's reputation ... the most enchanting classics of children's literature. ...
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  • In 1880 she did marry a Cherokee Indian named Samuel Starr and settled ... To keep her residence on Indian land, she "married" ...
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  • 1907–March 23, 1931) fought an Indian freedom fighter, considered ... fast in jail, demanding equal rights for Indian and British political prisoners ...
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  • Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Anthropology ... his 20 volume work, The North American Indian. Covering over 80 tribes ...
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  • deities were assimilated from ancient Indian folk religion. ... to have the largest Jain population among Indian states. Another state of ...
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  • in Turkey today. Alternatively, an older Indian instrument called the rudra ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 100294473 ...
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  • is, indeed, a strong current in Bengali literature expressing human unity ... As the Indian independence movement gained momentum, Britain also ...
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