Archeology delivers traces of dance from prehistoric times such as the 9, 000 year old Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka paintings in India and Egyptian tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from c. 3300 BC.

Turmeric figures prominently in the bridal beautification ceremonies of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

Total World War I dead were 1, 115, 597 ( UK and former colonies 886, 939 ; Undivided India 74, 187 ; Canada 64, 976 ; Australia 61, 966 ; New Zealand 18, 052 ; South Africa 9, 477 These figures also include the Merchant Navy.

Cosmas Indicopleustes, a merchant of Alexandria, who lived in the 6th century, and made a voyage to India, and subsequently wrote works on cosmography, gives a figure of the unicorn, not, as he says, from actual sight of it, but reproduced from four figures of it in brass contained in the palace of the King of Ethiopia.

The chili pepper figures heavily in the cuisine of the Goan region of India, which was the site of a Portuguese colony ( e. g., vindaloo, an Indian interpretation of a Portuguese dish ).

Ronald Inden, a historian of India and University of Chicago professor, criticized Mircea Eliade, alongside other intellectual figures ( Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell among them ), for encouraging a " romantic view " of Hinduism.

Together with Warren Hastings he was one of the key early figures in the creation of British India.

In any event, the name fitted well with other place names in the district ( Napier, Havelock and Clive ), which were also named after prominent figures in the history of British India.

She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and for Indian nationalists a symbol of resistance to the rule of the British East India Company in the subcontinent.

Kapil won the match for India with the innings bowling performance of 16. 4 – 4 – 28 – 5, a bowling performance that figures in his five best bowling performance.

Following a victory against Zimbabwe, India lost the next two matches – Australia ( despite Kapil Dev's best career figures of 5 / 43 ) and West Indies.

The first sculptures in India date back to the Indus Valley civilization, where stone and bronze figures have been discovered.

The name comes from the shape of a throne, having the figures of two peacocks standing behind it, their tails being expanded and the whole so inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, pearls and other precious stones of appropriate colors as to represent life, created for the Mughal Badshah Shah Jahan of India in the 17th century.

Many figures in Japanese myth were transmitted from China ( some having entered China from India ), including all of the Seven Lucky Gods except Ebisu.

The academy has 21 regular members, including prominent Romani academics and public figures from 11 European countries, India, and the United States.

West India Docks by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson ( figures ) from Rudolph Ackermann's Microcosm of London, or, London in Miniature ( 1808-11 ).

Archeology delivers traces of dance from prehistoric times such as the 9, 000 year old Bhimbetka rock shelters paintings in India and Egyptian tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from circa 3300 BC.

Archaeology delivers traces of dance from prehistoric times such as the 9, 000 year old Bhimbetka rock shelters paintings in India and Egyptian tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from c. 3300 BC.

West India Docks by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson ( figures ) from Rudolph Ackermann's Microcosm of London, or, London in Miniature ( 1808-11 ).

These figures were produced in India and were made from a low quality recycled plastic, which caused the figures ' hands and feet to crack and break easily.

With sitar legend Ravi Shankar and other leading figures of Indian classical music and literature, Singh voiced his concerns over politicisation of arts and culture in India and lack of support experienced by the practitioners of India's traditional art forms, particularly folk artists and musicians.

Sri Lanka's new mystery spinner, Ajantha Mendis, grabbed figures of 6 / 13 that left India in tatters.

According to M. B. Emeneau, the successive decennial Census of India figures for the Toda are: 1871 ( 693 ), 1881 ( 675 ), 1891 ( 739 ), 1901 ( 807 ), 1911 ( 676 ) ( corrected from 748 ), 1951 ( 879 ), 1961 ( 759 ), 1971 ( 812 ).

At the beginning, it was considered a sort of Taoist sect, and there was even a theory about Laozi, founder of Taoism, who went to India and taught his philosophy to Buddha.

The historical Buddha lived during a time of spiritual and philosophical revival in Northern India when the established mythologies and cosmological explanations of the vedas came under rational scrutiny.

At the beginning, it was considered a sort of Taoist sect, and there was even a theory about Laozi, founder of Taoism, who went to India and taught his philosophy to Buddha.

* 1974 – Nuclear test: under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.

India also operates a number of PHWRs, often termed ' CANDU-derivatives ', built after the Government of Canada halted nuclear dealings with India following the 1974 Smiling Buddha nuclear weapon test.

Other pilgrimage places in India and Nepal connected to the life of Gautama Buddha are: Savatthi, Pataliputta, Nalanda, Gaya, Vesali, Sankasia, Kapilavastu, Kosambi, Rajagaha, Varanasi.

The Buddha lived at a time of great philosophical creativity in India when many conceptions of the nature of life and death were proposed.

Detonation occurred on 18 May 1974, Buddha Jayanti ( a festival day in India marking the birth of Gautama Buddha ).

* c. Late 1st century-early 2nd century – Buddha and Attendants, from Katra Keshavdev, Mathura, Madhya Pradesh, India, is made.

** Nuclear test: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the 6th nation to do so.

* Ancient India: The Buddha and Mahavira found Buddhism and Jainism

* According to legend, Nagasena creates the Emerald Buddha figurine in Patna, India.

A statue of Gautama Buddha | Siddhartha Gautama ( India )

In 747, a Buddhist saint, Padmasambhava ( known in Bhutan as Guru Rimpoche and sometimes referred to as the Second Buddha ), came to Bhutan from India at the invitation of one of the numerous local kings.

Likewise, in 2012, Vesak or the birth anniversary of the Buddha will be observed on 28 April in Hong Kong and Taiwan, on 5 May in Sri Lanka, on 6 May in India, on 28 May in South Korea and on 4 June in Thailand.

The earliest documented materialist in India is Ajita Kesakambali, a senior contemporary of the Buddha ( sixth / fifth century BCE ).

Since, according to the learned researches of Sir William Jones, Odin and Buddha are probably the same person, it is curious to see the names of Bondvar, Wodansdag, and Votan designating in India, Scandinavia, and in Mexico the day of a brief period.

* Pokhran-I ( Smiling Buddha ): On 18 May 1974 India detonated an 8 Kiloton nuclear device at Pokhran Test Range becoming the first nation to become nuclear capable outside the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council as well as dragging Pakistan along with it into a nuclear arms race with the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto swearing to reciprocate India .< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.

The most notable finds included a small Buddha statuette from North India and a christening scoop from Egypt, both dating from the 6th century.

* Mercury-In India, stands for the Buddha and reflects an “ enlightened ” consciousness.

A statue of the Sakyamuni Buddha in Tawang Gompa, India.