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  • many have become famous pieces of Arabic literature in their own right. Notable ... ), a collection of ancient Indian and Persian folk tales. During the ...
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  • ), a form of ritual dance drama, originated in the Southern Indian ... Sacred Indian dance drama, such as Krishnattom and Ramanattom, emerged ...
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  • city of the state, serves as home to the Indian Navy's Eastern Naval ... Implementation with figures in millions of Indian Rupees follows. Accordingly ...
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  • Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion ... many sources: Platonism and Neoplatonism; Indian and Chinese scriptures; the ...
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  • used to bring stability and grandeur to Indian classical and folk compositions ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Music ...
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  • has become woven into the very fabric of Indian civilization and culture ... cultural, social and political contributions to Indian history. ...
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  • 93°36' E within two districts in the Indian state of Assam—the Kaliabor ... have been built with the help of the Indian Army for the animals' safety. ...
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  • ancient, largest and most magnificent of Indian cities, covering an area ... Many Indian observers see the controversy surrounding the mosque within ...
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  • Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie Kt. (June 19, 1947 - ) is an Indian-born ... a private school. His life as an expatiate Indian was colored by this experience ...
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  • by all major religions, including both Indian and Abrahamic faiths, and ... ====Iconography in Indian religions==== Central to the iconography ...
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  • The Upanishads belong to the class of sruti, or revealed literature ... the Atharvaveda.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy, Volume I. In ...
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  • indoarch.org/ Architecture of the Indian subcontinent] Gerard da Cunha ... ourkarnataka.com/history.htm Religion, Literature, Art and Architecture in ...
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  • Kannadiga origin and the other a north Indian origin. Mention of the north ... #039; find mention in the Tamil Sangam literature as totemic worshipers of ...
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  • He argues that some of the American Indian Wars had been caused by state ... of Ratification,"] Early American Literature 34(3) (1999): 223–240 ...
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  • Attending Magdalen College, Oxford, Turnbull studied music, literature ... where he gained a master’s degree in Indian religion and philosophy from ...
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  • He served in Burma, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, China, Canada, and ... brutal. What the British called the "Indian Mutiny," was a pure ...
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  • Indian inscriptions engraved into stone or other durable materials ... Amresh Datta and Mohan Lal, Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature (New ...
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  • actually stormed the legislature of the Indian state of Orissa with their ... by region. In India, charmers prefer the Indian cobra, though some may also ...
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  • Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park since 1982 ... Western Himalayas Endemic Bird Area. The Indian government has banned settlements ...
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  • legends, and oral histories. Their oral literature reflects the transitional ... There are eleven bands of the Pit River Indian tribe, which include the ...
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  • * Banerjee, P.Apsaras in Indian Dance. Cosmo, 2003. ISBN 978-8170200604. * Maurice Glaize. Maurice. Monuments of the Angkor Group. J. Maisonneuve ...
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  • clear and systematized form. The medieval Indian philosopher Adi Shankara ... and nondifference). The Advaita literature is extremely extensive ...
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  • in 1934, immediately joining the Indian Civil Service (ICS). During his ICS probation, he studied literature and history at Magdalene College ...
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  • known as Sita appearing in early Vedic literature is closely connected to ... Hindu religion, Sita is often depicted in Indian art, sculpture and iconography ...
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  • , born in Patiala State, India, became an Indian Christian missionary whose ... the 1920s, shared his view that many more Indian and Asian people have profound ...
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  • of medicine in South Asia. The earliest literature of Ayurveda appeared during ... property rights contested by Western and Indian institutions. ...
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  • Mohicans remains embedded in American literature courses. It is the most ... province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a massacre ...
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  • , is the official language of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, ... is known as the father of modern Telugu literature. His novel, Rajasekhara ...
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  • 1, London: 2003), 273-285. and invited Indian and Chinese Buddhist scholars ... Rinpoche, traces its history back to the Indian master Niguma, sister of ...
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  • and the arts including music and literature. Her name literally means ... a goddess associated with the river in the Indian tradition, a role which would ...
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  • minority athletes, Thorpe, a Sac and Fox Indian, overcame the "invisible ... What is known is that he was born in Indian Territory, although no birth ...
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  • a positive environment in which art, literature, science and mutual understanding ... (Mahajanapadas) which flourished in the Indian sub-continent during Buddha ...
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  • {{Infobox Indian Jurisdiction |native_name = Vrindavan | ... * Corcoran, Maura. Vṛndāvana in Vaiṣṇava Literature: History ...
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  • and Confucian texts and contemporary literature have used the form of a ... sutras, mythologies, to contemporary literature, a dialogue as a literary ...
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  • ranking post. During the First War of Indian Independence he distinguished ... as a scholar of Sanskrit and of Hindu literature. William began to develop ...
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  • meaning "deceivers") were an Indian network of secret fraternities ... of the Thuggees played a part in securing Indian loyalty to the British Raj. ...
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  • For those who aim to prove that the Indian race had its origin in India ... earliest attested forms that makes an Indian origin for the family unlikely ...
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  • and published a weekly journal of art, literature, and satire entitled Ye ... sketches; and adaptations from foreign literature which were published in ...
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  • in Kannada) stood as a prominent South Indian empire that ruled most ... the fine arts. That patronage encouraged literature to flourish in Kannada ...
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  • Shri Madhvacharya (shortened as Madhva) (1238 – 1317 C.E.) was a ... in the Tulunadu area of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Madhva ...
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  • and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent (now part ... In 1945, she began studying Polish literature before switching to sociology ...
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  • to India and the Western attitude toward Indian science. He was a man of ... Bose wanted to go to England to compete for the Indian Civil Service ...
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  • foremost dialecticians in the history of Indian philosophy, and was famed ... of the Dvaita school of Vedānta and its literature. Bombay: Booksellar's ...
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  • said to have been familiar with Greek literature: "These places, from ... not least as a result of the transformed Indian Ocean trading system. ...
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  • , the capital and largest town of the Indian state of Sikkim, situates ... signed between the Chogyal and the then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal ...
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  • ) (November 7, 1888 – November 21, 1970) was an Indian physicist ... involved in sports, physical culture, and Indian Carnatic music, among other ...
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  • |caption=Seal of the Penobscot Indian Nation of Maine |poptime=3-4,000 ... island-village (which they called "Indian Old Town" because it ...
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  • first use of scrolls in the recording of literature before the codex or bound ... and were later imported into European and Indian communities. ...
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  • quot;liberating" Bengali poetry and literature from its medieval mold ... mosque. He learned of poetry, drama, and literature while working with theatrical ...
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  • German (all previous translations of Indian literature having been translated ... *Winternitz, Maurice. History of Indian Literature. New Delhi: Oriental ...
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  • a tiger is 60-110 cm long.) The heaviest Indian Tiger (P. t. tigris) that ... other carnivores other than the dhole or Indian wild dog, which makes up ...
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  • volumes deals with the recorded sayings of Indian patriarchs from the earlier ... seon), in addition to the themes in the Indian fascicle. The first ...
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  • listed in catalogues of Sanskrit literature, which do not appear to ... * Dasgupta, Surendranath. 1973. A History of Indian Philosophy, Vol ...
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  • originally occupied by a number of Pueblo Indian villages with founding dates ... they began the development of the Pueblo Indian pottery industry, a major ...
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  • Persian and Arabic script is thought to have influenced Indian calligraphy ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure ...
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  • unlike other Transmission of the Lamp literature, there is no biographical ... These two texts are unique in early Chan literature as they can be precisely ...
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  • during this period he studied the Etowah Indian Mounds of the Mississippian ... advancement of its members in science, literature, and art" (Cosmos ...
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  • Buddhism. Today, the Institute of Ethnic Literature of the Republic of China ... ) and Odyssey (12,000 verses), and the Indian Ramayana (18,000 odes with ...
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  • One of his most popular was of a woodland Indian, titled, The Moose Call, ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:biography ...
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  • After recovering he began working at the Indian Packing Company, a ... The 22 year old Lambeau then went to his Indian Packing Company boss ...
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  • where debates were common about black literature advancing the cause of ... Her father, Peter Walker, was a black West Indian from Saint Croix. Her father ...
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  • or British India, officially the British Indian Empire, and internationally ... the Moghul Empire. After the First War of Indian Independence (known as the ...
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  • famed for his encyclopedic knowledge of Indian and Vedantic learning. His ... Kumarajiva took the opportunity to study Indian medicine, astronomy and astrology ...
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  • extinct, there remains a large body of literature, mainly religious texts. ... in the Silk Road trade than their southern Indian and Bactrian neighbors. ...
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  • Gurmukhi, for writing their sacred literature. Although the exact origins ... The Gurmukh language Script is also the official script for the Indian ...
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  • existence, but exists only in art and literature, representing human desire ... html The Sphinx in Early Indian Art.] Retrieved February 9, 2007. ...
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  • influential writer of children's literature in nineteenth-century Britain ... are a good example of the importance of literature in the transmission of ...
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  • is one of the two styles of Indian classical music; the other is Hindustani ... Like all art forms in Indian culture, Carnatic music is believed to ...
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  • , born: July 3, 1980 in Jalandhar, Punjab, India) has been an Indian ... Harbhajan works also an employee of Indian Airlines, for whom he does ...
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  • much more respect and power in the Indian context than its translations ... The Bhakti literature created by those Alvars has contributed to the ...
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  • performing as "Dan George and His Indian Entertainers." George ... Hospital in North Vancouver, on the same Indian Reserve where he was born ...
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  • lasting legacy. Their patronage of Tamil literature and their zeal in building ... Chola Dynasty. Mention in ancient Tamil literature and in inscriptions provides ...
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  • of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy. Its influence ... of the six orthodox systems (darshans) of Indian philosophy. Its influence ...
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  • in prominent works of religion and literature, such as the eight plagues ... (North Africa, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent) and its ability ...
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  • or wheel) is a widely used concept in Indian religion and politics that ... Another use of the term "chakra" is found in classical Indian ...
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  • Tamil people, a Dravidian people from the Indian subcontinent, have ... in India, has the oldest extant literature amongst other Dravidian ...
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  • and the Ramayana as well as Puranic literature (the itihasa). They were ... with the Daradas and Gandharas in Indian literature and also find mention ...
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  • 9, 1877 – April 21, 1938) was an Indian Muslim poet, philosopher ... of a "state in northwestern India for Indian Muslims" in his 1930 ...
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  • as conquest, subterfuge, treaties with Indian princes and other means of ... Mill argued in 1858 after the First War of Indian Independence that "150 ...
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  • Muslim rule; and pre-Islamic Iranian and Indian philosophy. Many of the early ... During the Abbasid caliphate in Spain, Arabic philosophic literature ...
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  • Eric Blair was born on June 25, 1903, to an Anglo-Indian family in ... means to pay his tuition, Eric joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma ...
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  • (the Chinese transposition of Buddha), an Indian dhyana master who came to ... The Indian dhyana master Batuo (跋陀, Bátuó, also, Fotuo or Buddhabhadra ...
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  • in the North Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, the South Pacific ... throughout their empire but their own literature and revolutionary legacy ...
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  • of the Mauryan Empire. He is known as the Indian Machiavelli because of his ... injury) as their highest ethical ideals of Indian religion and civilization. ...
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  • contributed significantly to both forms of Indian classical music, the Carnatic ... well recognized in the arena of Indian literature, with several Kannada ...
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  • effective rule over the whole of the Indian Sub-Continent. ... The story was amplified in colonial literature, but the facts are widely ...
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  • Plains and published them as Scenes in the Indian Country. His photographs ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:American ...
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  • necessity. Rinzai also emphasizes koan literature and intellectual knowledge ... in China to Bodhidharma, a sixth century Indian Buddhist missionary, and ...
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  • The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), constitute an elite group ... and honoring the contributions of Indian Americans to economic innovation ...
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  • constituents back into himself. In later literature, Brahmā becomes a more ... of learning and the arts such as music, literature and speech. One legend ...
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  • ) is a genre of Latin American literature that challenges the role ... thematic tradition in Latin American literature," and he traces the ...
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  • an interest in remaking not only The Indian Tomb (a story that Lang had ... returned to Germany in order to make his Indian Epic, which is regarded as ...
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  • Anthropomorphism is frequently used as a device in art, literature ... ==In literature, art, and song== [[Image:Peter Rabbit - Benjamin and ...
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  • It features interviews with Miskito Indian people and some non-Miskito ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure ...
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  • as one of the greatest poets of Turkic literature and a prominent figure ... sue/77486/1303895 "Turkish Literature of the Period of Sultan ...
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  • they left a rich legacy of architecture, literature, and art in the southern ... credit in the fields of art, music, literature and architecture. The development ...
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  • Beaumont and Fletcher, and Guyomar in The Indian Emperor by John Dryden. While ... . Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Merriam Webster, 1995 ...
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  • Nehru, and extensively advised the Indian government on economic matters ... first computer science departments at the Indian Institute of Technology in ...
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  • off the coast of Africa in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 560 miles ... By 1871, more than two-thirds of the population was Indian. ...
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  • the material and moral progress of its Indian subjects, as, while trade ... service, and advised in his 1835 Minute on Indian Education that official funds ...
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