Indian History - The History of India information. Indian History - Important events. Period Description ANCIENT EMPIRES ca. 2500-1600 B.C. Indus Valley culture. ca. 1500-500 B.C. Migrations of Aryan-speaking tribes; the Vedic Age. ca. 1000 B.C. Settlement of Bengal by Dravidian-speaking peoples. ca. 563-ca. 483 B.C. Life of Siddartha Gautama--the Buddha; founding of Buddhism. ca. 326-184 B.C. Mauryan Empire; reign of Ashoka (269-232 B.C.); spread of Buddhism. ca. 180 B.C.-A.D.
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ASIA 398 Term Paper From ancient Greece‚ India‚ Pre-modern China to feudal Japan‚ there is a treasure trove of literature and epics from the ancient times available to us. Each is valued for having contributed to the way society thinks today. These literary masterpieces have shaped our ideas about human life and spiritual growth and have sparked riveting debates about the existence of God and the importance of spirituality. Among these great works of art is the Ramayana‚ a tale where Dharma‚ or
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Marathi: Big Newspapers Are Elephants By Robin Jeffrey To understand the Marathi press‚ one needs to appreciate two cities-Mumbai (Bombay) and Pune (Poona). Mumbai is the Manhattan of India-a buzzing‚ multi- lingual magnet of an island. As well as the industrial and commercial focus of India‚ it is the base for the advertising industry and for India’s two biggest newspaper chains‚ The Times of India and The Indian Express. Pune‚ on the other hand‚ is Maharashtra’s Boston (indeed‚ both have brahmins)
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SOME IMPORTANT THINGS OF KANPUR Kanpur spelled as CAWNPORE before 1948‚ it is the tenth most popular city in INDIA and the largest within the state of UTTAR PRADESH. It is the second largest city of the HINDI-speaking city after Delhi. It remains one of the oldest industrial townships of NORTH INDIA although it has not kept pace with IT industry growth in the rest of India due to political indifference. It has a metropolitan area of over 1‚640square kilometres (630 semi) and a city area of around
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Introduction In the culture of South Asia‚ hijras or chakka in Kannada‚ khusra inPunjabi and kojja in Telugu are physiological males who have feminine gender identity‚ women ’s clothing and other feminine gender roles. Hijras have a long recorded history in the Indian subcontinent‚ from the antiquity‚ as suggested by the Kama Sutra period onwards. This history features a number of well-known roles within subcontinental cultures‚ part gender-liminal‚ part spiritual and part survival. In South Asia
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released from the circle of life and reincarnation. Water of this sacred river is used for religious rituals and many other purposes. Most Hindus have their ashes deposited in this river so they can be purified before reaching heaven. The king of Ayodhya‚ Sarga eagerly desired children‚ but his wife was barren. His elder wife was Keshini and the second wife was Sumati‚ sister of the immortal Garuda who was the pet of Vishnu .With this problem in mind‚ he came to the Himalaya for an austere penance
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Asmitatheatre | ------------------------------------------------- Top of FormBottom of Form | | Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions Final Solutionsby Mahesh Dattani Direction Arvind Gaur Translation Shahid Anwar MusicDr.Sangeeta Gaur Kavita Nagpal Hindustan TimesMahesh Dattani’s final solutions in its Hindustan avatar sound and look much better than it did in the original English. Translator Shahid Anwar and director Arvind Gaur have made major improvements – and not merely of the cosmetic
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make might not turn our lives into what we want. For example Rama went through all the trouble to defeat Ravana to get Sita back‚ but even after all that he has to exile her. ?I have tried to think of a way to deal with this problem. I cannot rule Ayodhya and not have my people respect my queen. Therefore‚ with great sorrow and resolve‚ I have made a decision. Before dawn tomorrow you and Sumantra will take Sita back to the forest. Leave her there and return."[footnoteRef:5] According to the dialect
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Radicalisation of Indian Youth India faces several threats to its national security in this increasingly globalised environment and the radicalisation of the Indian youth is the greatest threat to our security. This was the view put forward by Mr. Rajnath Singh‚ the Home Minister of India while speaking to a group of reporters in Tel Aviv‚ the capital of Israel during his visit there on 6th November 2014. This was the first visit of an Indian Home Minister to Israel‚ since June 2000‚ marking an
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toward Agamemnon’s men and is about to slay when Athena appears to control his anger. Achilles stops fighting for Agamemnon and tells his mother to ask Zeus for revenge on Agamemnon’s army. The Ramayana starts off with Ram‚ who was the prince of Ayodhya was on his way to get crowned to become a king. Ram who is known for his kind nature is asked by his mother in law to go the forest and live there for 14 years because she wanted her own son to be crowned king. Ram without hesitation accepts the
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