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6 unusual facts about Indian


Al Rasheed Street

The British were defeated by the Ottomans on the 29th of April 1916 in Kut (south of Baghdad), where tens of thousands of Anglo-Indian troops died or were wounded, and thousands more were taken prisoner, including their commander Sir Charles Townshend.

Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

He married secondly at Colombo, Ceylon or Paris, 23 June 1954, Anglo-Indian fashion model Nina Sheila Dyer (1930–1965), an heiress to properties in Ceylon; they had no children and divorced on 4 July 1956, pursuant to the settlement of which she received a château in France.

Bud Houghton

Houghton was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian family who emigrated to England in 1947 when India gained independence from British rule.

Church of the Province of Myanmar

The great majority of the Anglo-Burmese and Anglo-Indian communities in the country were also Anglicans and the number of schools run by the Church of England to educate British and Eurasian children increased.

Nancy Ann Cynthia Francis

She is a non-elected, nominated member who represents the Anglo-Indian community.

William Delafield Arnold

In 1853, William published a novel of Anglo-Indian life, Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East, which explores the inherent "common ground" between spiritual traditions East and West, while also predicting the "mutiny" that would occur shortly after.


2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff

The Pakistan military's information sources, the ISPR's spokesman Major-General Rashid Qureshi, claimed that the Parliament attack was a "drama staged by Indian intelligence agencies to defame the freedom struggle in 'occupied Kashmir'" and further warned that India would pay "heavily if they engage in any misadventure".

Aroon Tikekar

His Ph.D. thesis The Kincaids, Two Generation of a British Family in the Indian Civil Service was published as a book, exploring the lives of the civil servants and authors Charles Augustus Kincaid and his son Dennis Kincaid.

Ayodhyecha Raja

After the 2003 fire at the National Archives of India, Pune in which prints of first Indian talkie Alam Ara (1931) were lost, it is also the earliest surviving talkie of Indian cinema.

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay

It was the only Indian film other than Devdas selected at the 2003 Helsinki International Film Festival.

Barry Yelverton, 3rd Viscount Avonmore

Adelaide Matilda Yelverton (1821–1884), married 1860, Lt-Gen Humphrey Lyons, Indian Army

Basava Premanand

He was the founder of Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations, the convener of Indian CSICOP and the owner-publisher-editor of the monthly magazine, The Indian Skeptic, which scientifically investigates paranormal occurrences in India.

Cabramatta High School

The school's successful annual Peace Day celebrations continued to deliver warm welcomes to recipients of the Sydney Peace Prize, including Indian social justice and environmental activist, eco-feminist and author Vandana Shiva in 2010, American linguist and activist Noam Chomsky in 2011, as well as Zimbabwean senator Sekai Holland in 2012.

Carrier Air Wing Eleven

The 1972-1973 deployment was high lighted by an air power demonstration for the Shah of Iran and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while deployed to the Indian Ocean.

Cole Museum of Zoology

Specimens include a male Indian circus elephant skeleton, a 5 metre Reticulated Python skeleton containing 400 vertebrae, a fossil of the largest spider to ever have lived, and a False Killer Whale skeleton.

Colin Masica

At the University of Chicago, he taught Hindi at all levels, and occasionally other South Asian languages, along with North Indian cultural history and literature, for three decades, and published on both Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages.

Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song

"Cora, The Indian Maiden's Song" ("The Wild Free Wind) is a song written by Shirley Brooks for his burletta, The Wigwam, sometime before 1847. Alexander Lee composed the music. In the song, Cora, the Indian maiden, is praising the wind: "Oh!

Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, is a 1969, non-fiction book by the lawyer, professor and writer Vine Deloria, Jr. The book was noteworthy for its relevance to the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement and other activist organizations, such as the American Indian Movement, which was beginning to expand.

Deeds

Development Education Society (DEEDS), an Indian non-governmental organization

Demetrius II of India

Justin's Demetrius may have been a relative of the Indian king Apollodotus I or a fugitive prince of the Euthydemid dynasty.

Early history of Cambodia

According to legend Cambodia was founded through the marriage of an Indian Brahman named Kaundinya to a Naga princess whose father ruled the sunken lands of Kambuja.

Family medicine

A medical graduate who has successfully completed the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) course and has been registered with Indian Medical Council or any state medical council is considered a general practitioner.

Frances Swiney

She studied under James Danby, son of Francis Danby, R.A., and specialised in pictures of Indian scenery and life, exhibiting at Simla, Madras, and Birmingham, England.

Francisco Casanovas

He also collaborated in India with the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature Rabindranath Tagore; thus, while the Indian national anthem's lyrics are Tagore's, the harmonisation is by Casanovas.

Gauthami Nair

Gauthami Nair is an Indian film actress who started her acting career by starring alongside Dulquar Salman in the Malayalam film Second Show.

Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy

In 1910 he travelled with H. Hesketh Prichard from Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador to Indian House Lake on George River, and contributed a chapter on fishing to Prichard's Through trackless Labrador (1911).

Hariprasad Chaurasia

He has collaborated with several western musicians, including John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek, and Ken Lauber, and has composed music for Indian films.

Imperial Service Troops

From 1914 to 1916, as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force commanded by General Maxwell, the 15th Imperial Service Cavalry Brigade with the 10th and 11th Indian Divisions, the Bikanir Camel Corps and three batteries of Indian Mountain Artillery, took part in the Defence of the Suez Canal Campaign at the beginning of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.

Indian Trade

Other products desired by the Europeans produced other components of the Indian Trade, including the deerskin trade in the what is now the east coast of the United States, and the Pemmican and buffalo skin and meat trade on the Great Plains.

Jamnagar

Cricket is a major sport in Jamnagar, and a number veteran, well-established, and emerging Indian test cricketers originate from Jamnagar; including vinu mankad, Salim Durrani, karsan ghavri, Indrajitsinhji, Ajay Jadeja and Ravindra Jadeja.

John Heckewelder

He studied carefully the languages, manners, and customs of the Indians, particularly the Delawares, and after he had become a member of the American Philosophical Society, at Philadelphia, several of his contributions of Indian archaeology were published in their transactions.

Juaquin Gallardo

In February 2007, Gallardo upset Lenin Arroyo to win the WBC Latino Light Welterweight Championship, the bout was held at the Miccosukee Indian Gaming Resort in Miami, Florida.

Juliet Prowse

Juliet Anne Prowse (September 25, 1936 – September 14, 1996) was an Anglo-Indian dancer, whose four-decade career included stage, television and film.

Kandwala

A large majority are Bhullars, as well as Sandhus who fled here after the Indian/Pakistan partition.

Lionel de Nicéville

He worked with most 'Indian' entomologists of the day but especially with Henry John Elwes, Taylor, Wood–Mason, Martin and Marshall.

Mesopotamian Half Flight

Shortly afterwards, the Indian Army captured the town of Amarah, and the half-flight moved there on 9 June.

Millimeter wave scanner

Claims that images are immediately destroyed were questioned after Indian film star Shahrukh Khan said that his image was circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.

Moon Palace

Due to the fever he mistakes Kitty for an Indian and calls her Pocahontas.

Murder of Kimberly Nees

Nees, a seventeen-year-old graduating senior, was bludgeoned to death while in her pickup near the Poplar River on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

Nadodi Raja

Nadodi raja is a 1982 Indian Tamil film, directed by S.M.Ummar, starring Rajiv and Aruna in lead roles.

Nandini Singh

She shot to fame as Kesar in Ekta Kapoor's popular hit series Kesar that aired from (2004–2007) on Star Plus and another Ekta Kapoor's Indian soap opera, Kkavyanjali (2005).

National Whistleblowers Center

In 1999, former FBI special agent Jane Turner brought to the attention of her management team serious misconduct concerning failures to investigate and prosecute crimes against children in Indian Country and in the Minot, North Dakota community.

Puducherry Legislative Assembly election, 2011

Several high-profile national politicians took part in the campaigning: Sonia Gandhi (president of the Indian National Congress), Rahul Gandhi (Indian National Congress general secretary), Pranab Mukherjee (Indian National Congress union minister), Nitin Gadkari (BJP president), Sushma Swaraj (BJP MP), Venkaiah Naidu (former BJP president), M. Karunanidhi (DMK chief minister of Tamil Nadu), J. Jayalalithaa (leader of AIADMK) and Vijayakanth (leader of DMDK).

Quick Gun Murugun

Quick Gun Murugun is a 2009 Indian comedy film directed by Shashanka Ghosh and written by Rajesh Devraj.

Quit India Movement

The only outside support came from the Americans, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured Prime Minister Winston Churchill to give in to Indian demands.

Raasaleela

Raasaleela is a 1975 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by N. Sankaran Nair and produced by Carmel Johny for RJD Films, starring Kamal Hassan and Jayasudha.

Ranikhet

Maintained by the Kumaon and the Naga Regiment of the Indian Army, the museum has a wide collection ranging from stories of the heroics of the First World War till date.

Seal of Kerala

The current emblem of Kerala was adopted in 1960 when Pattom A. Thanu Pillai's government came to power after removal of communist government by Indian Central Government.

Shantha Biotechnics

It is the first Indian company to develop, manufacture and market recombinant human healthcare products in India.

Shaukat Kaifi

They had two children together, Shabana Azmi (b. 1950), a renowned actress of Indian cinema and Baba Azmi, a noted cameraman, and is part of the Akhtar-Azmi family.

Shye Ben Tzur

In addition to musical ventures with Indian Folk artists, Shye has collaborated with the famous Indian singer Shubha Mudgal, the Spanish guitar maestro Fernando Perez, Yossi Fine, Mishko M’ba, Eli Magen, Zohar Fresco, and many others.

Siege of Kut

These Indian troops were involved in the capture of the frontier city of Karman and the detention of the British consul there, and they also successfully harassed Sir Percy Sykes' Persian campaign against the Baluchi and Persian tribal chiefs who were aided by the Germans.

Subramanian Arun Prasad

Subramanian Arun Prasad (born 21 April 1988 in Salem) is an Indian Chess Grandmaster.

Suzuki Wagon R

The Maruti Wagon R is an Indian version of the international Suzuki Wagon R, manufactured and sold by Suzuki's Indian subsidiary Maruti Suzuki.

Uttara Kuru Kingdom

At some point during the reign of Pururavas-Aila (the first king mentioned in the line of lunar dynasty of Indian kings) Uttara Kuru and the Kurus of India could have belonged to the same Kuru Empire.


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1708 in piracy

Ferry's fleet proceeds up the Essequibo River burning Indian villages along the way before anchoring opposite of Bartica.

Anjum Anand

She has acted as consultant chef to Birds Eye brand to develop a range of healthy Indian ready meals.

Ayurveda in America

Robert Svoboda, a similar figure whose Ayurvedic education has roots in both formal and traditional Indian systems of schooling, also contributed to the promotion of Ayurveda in the late 1990s.

Biju

It is highly likely that Viju is an affectionate version of the name Vijaya, which means Victory in Sanskrit and several Indian languages.

C. H. Sibghatullah

H. Sibghatullah (4 November 1913-14 May 1985) was an Indian politician who served as mayor of Madras from 1951 to 1952.

Click Asia Summit

The speaker lineup comprised various experts in the field of online and social marketing from across the globe, including Dr. Shashi Tharoor (Indian Parliament), Bingham Willis, Lucy McCabe (Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore), Nick Decrock (Yento!, Belgium), Aditya Anupkumar (Saatchi & Saatchi, India), Namrita Sehgal (Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, India), Ramon Vullings (new shoes today, Netherlands), and Ankit Fadia (eSecure Solutions, India).

Coming Up for Air

He was the son of an Indian Civil Servant who was still in India, and he lived a genteel life with his mother and two sisters, though spending much of the year at boarding school at Eastbourne and later at Eton.

Ctenella chagius

It forms solid, smooth hemispherical domes and is found in the Indian Ocean in the vicinity of the Chagos Archipelago.

Dan Kubiak

In 1972, he published a second book, A Monument to a Black Man: The Biography of William Goyens, a study of the African American who served as an aide to Sam Houston and was a negotiator for Indian treaties.

David R. Courtney

In 1976 he married the well known Indian vocalist Chandra Courtney.

Djiboutian cuisine

Djiboutian cuisine consists of a mixture of Somali, Afar, Yemeni and French cuisine, with some additional Asian and Indian culinary influences.

Fall Creek Massacre

Early sources close to the case, such as the Federal Indian agent John Johnston, described them as a mixed band of Seneca and Shawnee, or Mingo, from Logan, Ohio, named for the chief.

G. P. Pillai

The formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 led to increased agitation for Indian independence from British rule.

Greenwood High International School

The majority of graduates attends university for their higher education either in India or around the world including ivy league universities,IIT etc.IB Diploma is well accepted by Indian universities including UGC, AICTE and MCI.

Hindu philosophy

However, medieval philosophers like Vidyāraṇya classify Indian philosophy into sixteen schools, where schools belonging to Saiva, Pāṇini and Raseśvara thought are included with others, and the three Vedantic schools Advaita, Vishishtadvaita and Dvaita (which had emerged as distinct schools by then) are classified separately.

Jasuben Shilpi

Her sculpture works have been installed in Indian states like Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttarakhand.

Joseph A. Dandurand

Joseph A. Dandurand is a Kwantlen Indian (Xalatsep) from Kwantlen First Nation in British Columbia.

Kumaramangalam estate

His son, Mohan Kumaramangalam, daughter Parvathi Krishnan and grandson Rangarajan Kumaramangalam have all served as members of the upper house of the Indian Parliament the Lok Sabha.

Left Right Left

Left Right Left is an Indian television series that aired on SAB TV at 9:30pm IST, from Monday to Thursday, it was directed and produced by Tony Singh and Deeya Singh.

Mihir Bose

Mihir Bose told Paddy O'Connell on Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme that he went to school with the Indian cricketer Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar.

Native News Today

It looks at various events happening throughout Indian Country from an Indian perspective and also endeavors to show some of the good that Native Americans and Indian Tribes are doing throughout their areas.

Omkar Goswami

He has held the position of Chief Economist with the Indian business association Confederation of Indian Industry from August 1998 up to March 2004,.

Punjab Rights Forum

Another cause for the formation of the Punjab Rights Forum was in response to the crackdown on members of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), including the party's president, Simranjit Singh Mann and activists of the Dal Khalsa following a "Genocide Remembrance Parade" that had been carried out through the streets of Amritsar on June 5 in remembrance of those Sikh civilians and terrorists that had been slain by the Indian army during Operation Blue Star.

Rajeevnath

The film, made with a minuscule budget of Rs. 6 lakh ($12000 as per 2012 conversion rate) was the Indian entry for Alexandria Film Festival.

Ramon Tikaram

Born in Singapore, Tikaram is the son of Fijian-Indian British Army soldier Pramod Tikaram and Sarawakian mother Fatimah Rohani.

SPTR

Silapathar railway station, in the Indian Railways code system

Susila Budhi Dharma

Although the author described himself as a conventional Muslim, the book's name chimes with ancient Indian wisdom.

Wally Grout

Grout loved billiards, and met champion Indian billiards player Wilson Jones in Kolkata in 1960; the test team cheered Wilson in the World Amateur Billiards Championship, which was being held at the same time as the test.