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unusual facts about Subcontinent


Chattisinghpora, Pathribal, and Barakpora massacres

The massacre, which took place on the eve of U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit to the Subcontinent, was widely condemned by both the Indian and Pakistani governments, as well as the leaders of the Kashmiri separatist movement.


A Little Bit of Soap

It made Cliff Foenander a household name in South Asia: Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia, played the number one hit across the Indian subcontinent.

Asad ibn Hashim

Large number of Asad's descendants can be found in Arab countries, Multan (Pakistan), Allahabad, Delhi, Meerut (India) and among the Muhajir population in Karachi and Hyderabad (Pakistan) which migrated from these Indian cities after partition of the subcontinent in 1947.

Battle of Delaware Bay

The sloop-of-war was armed with sixteen 6-pounders and had a crew of about 110 men, officers and marines and was named Hyder Ally after Hyder Ali, the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore on the Indian subcontinent and a British enemy.

Blue lotus

Nymphaea nouchali, also known as the Red and blue water lily, Blue star water lily or Star lotus, an aquatic flower native to the Indian subcontinent

Branchipodopsis

Rock pools of this nature occur in various regions of the Southern African subcontinent, including mountain ranges in the Drakensberg, the Western Cape and the Eastern Free State.

Copper Hoard Culture

Paul Yule, Addenda to "The Copper Hoards of the Indian Subcontinent: Preliminaries for an Interpretation", Man and Environment 26.2, 2002, 117–120

Friends of Peoples Close to Nature

Oceania: the Tjapukai in Australasia, the tribes of West Papua - the Adivasis, Chenchu and Kurumba of the Indian subcontinent, the Kwaio and Landalanga on Malaita in the south west Pacific, (commonly referred to as Negritos)

Gareth Batty

The off-spinner has been largely backup to Ashley Giles throughout his career, though he did play four Tests in the English tour of the subcontinent in 2003, as conditions favoured the inclusion of a second spinner in a team.

Gharib Nawaz

Moinuddin Chishti (1141-1230), the most famous Sufi saint of the Chishti Order of the Indian Subcontinent.

Ghat Roads

Ghat Roads are the name of the access routes into the mountainous Western and Eastern Ghats mountain ranges of the Indian Subcontinent.

Gorakshanath

He traveled widely across the Indian subcontinent, and accounts about him are found in some form in several places including Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Punjab, Sindh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Nepal, Assam, Bengal, Kathiawar(Gujarat), Maharashtra, Karnataka, and even Sri Lanka.

Indomalaya ecozone

The Hindu Kush, Karakoram, Himalaya, and Patkai ranges bound the bioregion on the northwest, north, and northeast; these ranges were formed by the collision of the northward-drifting Indian subcontinent with Asia beginning 45 million years ago.

Mubarak Khan

Mubarak Khan also Mubarak Khilji (died 1320 AD) (son of Alauddin Khilji) named himself regent of Khilji dynasty (controlling large portions of the northern Indian subcontinent) after escaping an assassination attempt on him by Malik Kafur, once his father's trusted general.

Nawab Faizunnesa

In 1873, Faizunnesa Choudhurani established a high school for girls in Comilla, which is one of the earliest female schools privately established in Indian subcontinent, which is now called Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School.

Origins of North Indian and Pakistani foods

Most of the food items that define modern North Indian and Pakistani cooking have origins inside the Indian subcontinent though many foods that are now a part of them are based on fruits and vegetables that originated outside the Indian subcontinent.

Prazosin

The drug is usually recommended for severe bitings from Indian Red Scorpion Hottentotta tamulus in Indian Subcontinent.

Rajya Pala

Rajya Pala (908-940 AD), seventh ruler of the Pala Empire of eastern Indian subcontinent, mainly the Bengal and Bihar regions

Red-wattled Lapwing

It breeds from West Asia (Iraq, SW Iran, the Arabian/Persian Gulf) eastwards across South Asia (Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the entire Indian subcontinent up to Kanyakumari and up to 1800m in Kashmir/Nepal), with another sub-species further east in Southeast Asia.

Saraca asoca

A popular tree known as "false ashoka tree" or even as "ashoka tree", Polyalthia longifolia, is cultivated to resemble the growth pattern of erect pillar-like Mediterranean cypress trees It is a popular park and garden plant, much used in landscaping on the Indian subcontinent.

Sharjah International Book Fair

Others from the Indian Subcontinent who came for the 2012 Book Fair:- Anupam Kher, Arundhati Roy, Benyamin, Deepti Naval, H. M. Naqvi, Namita Gokhale, Pankaj Mishra, Paul Zachariah, Samrat Upadhyay, Sethu, Shehan Karunatilaka, Tahmima Anam, Vidya Shah and William Dalrymple.

Shree

Sri, an honorific commonly used in the Indian subcontinent

Substratum in Vedic Sanskrit

There is a clear predominance of retroflexion in the Northwest (Nuristani, Dardic, Khotanese Saka, Burushaski), involving affricates, sibilants and even vowels (in Kalasha), compared to other parts of the subcontinent.

White-footed fox

The white-footed fox (Vulpes vulpes pusilla), also known as the desert fox, is a small, Asiatic subspecies of red fox which occurs throughout most of northwestern Indian subcontinent, Pakistan's desert districts from Rawalpindi to Rajputana and Kutch in India, Baluchistan, southern Iran, and Iraq.


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