Some of Ancient India's water systems were pulled by oxen.

* Luijendijk, D. H. ( 2005 ) Kalarippayat: India's Ancient Martial Art, Paladin Press, ISBN 1-58160-480-7

Sharma, India's Ancient Past, ( Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-19-568785-9 )

Past Sikh politicians in India have included former President Giani Zail Singh, India's first Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh, Dr. Gurdial Singh Dhillon, Speaker of the Parliament of India.

The writer Arundhati Roy is famous for her anti-nuclear position and her activism against India's massive hydroelectric dam project, sponsored by the World Bank.

Unlike these states, which were ruled by local nobles who acknowledged British suzerainty, Ajmer-Merwara was administered directly by the British, until 1858 by the East India Company and after 1858 by a chief commissioner who was subordinate to the Governor-General of India's agent for the Rajputana Agency.

India's " Father of the Nation ," Mohandas K. Gandhi, was shot to death in 1948 by Nathuram Godse.

On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.

** Two of them are triple-centuries ( matched by Australia's Donald Bradman, India's Virender Sehwag, and West Indies ' Chris Gayle ).

The long road from Bandar-Abbas in southern Iran to highway 1 in southern Afghanistan is carried out by state-owned Border Roads Organisation ( BRO ), the mission statement of which states that the BRO is India's " most reputed, multifaceted, transnational, modern construction organization committed to meeting the strategic needs of the armed forces.

India's national song is derived from the poem Vande Mataram by Bankim Chandra Chatterji, which implies devotion to " Mother India " as a point of patriotic duty.

In 2009, India's Chandrayaan-1 satellite, NASA's Cassini spacecraft and the Deep Impact probe have each detected the presence of water by evidence of hydroxyl fragments on the Moon.

The Indian Ocean is bounded by India's Lakshadweep Islands to the north.

It is expected that, in 2020, the average age of an Indian will be 29 years, compared to 37 for China and 48 for Japan ; and, by 2030, India's dependency ratio should be just over 0. 4.

India's population exceeds that of the entire continent of Africa by 200 million people.

In the 64 years since India's independence, India has been ruled by the Indian National Congress ( INC ) for 51 of those years.

Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister in 1947, and re-elected when the Congress party won India's first general election in 1951.

India's policy of weaponisation via indigenous sources and self-sufficiency began in earnest under Nehru, completed by his daughter Indira Gandhi, who later led India to a crushing military victory over rival Pakistan in 1971.

Gandhian activists such as Vinoba Bhave and Jayaprakash Narayan were involved in the Sarvodaya movement, which sought to promote self-sufficiency amidst India's rural population by encouraging land redistribution, socio-economic reforms and promoting cottage industries.

* Two refurbished and regauged locomotives to be supplied by India's Golden Rock.

He was assassinated on 30 January 1948 by a Hindu nationalist who thought Gandhi was too sympathetic to India's Muslims.

26 January 1930 was celebrated as India's Independence Day by the Indian National Congress meeting in Lahore.

Stanley Wolpert has argued, The " plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi ... who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.

In 2008, she was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award by the Government of India.

Professor K. N. Raj, a renowned economist who played an important role in India's planned development, drafting sections of India's first Five Year Plan, and a member of the first UN Committee for Development Planning in 1966, was the main person behind this study.

At the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, for example, Professor Anil Gupta has espoused a search for marketable inventions among India's poor.

His maternal uncle was Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, India's first planner.

Following a two-year hiatus in Indian cinema, he opted against reviving his magnum opus, Marudhanayagam, and filmed his second directorial venture, Hey Ram, a period drama told in flashback with a semi-fictional plot centering around India's Partition and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.

* India's Only Communalist: an Introduction to the Work of Sita Ram Goel.

* India's Only Communalist: In Commemoration of Sita Ram Goel ( edited by Koenraad Elst, 2005 ) ISBN 81-85990-78-6

* JP's visit to an RSS camp, as told by Sita Ram Goel in " Perversion of India's Political Parlance "

* 29 April – Minister for Coal and Mines Ram Vilas Paswan resigns on the issue of the Gujarat violence, which he says has " tarnished India's image " while the government's role appears to be that of a " silent spectator ".

The most significant was that of Jagjivan Ram, who commanded great support amongst India's Dalit communities.

The bulldozing of slums near the Jama Masjid was widely unpopular amongst India's Muslims, and the defection of Jagjivan Ram significantly diminished support for the Congress ( R ) amongst India's Dalits.

* Narasimhan Ram Managing-Director of The Hindu Group, one of India's leading publication group

One of his brothers is one of India's greatest artists Ram Kumar.

While Oak's theories have been summarily rejected in academia, they have found a popular following among some members of India's Hindu right ( Narasimhan Ram, editor of The Hindu newspaper, calls him a " Sangh historian ") and Indocentrists.

In the ensuing investigations, one of India's wealthiest businessmen, Ram Kishan Dalmia, owner of the Times of India newspaper, was sent to prison for two years.

* Jagjivan Ram-Named WAM-1 which is named after India's ex-Railway Minister Babu Jagjivan Ram

The current secretary-general India's Kamalesh Sharma, who replaced Don McKinnon as secretary-general on 1 April 2008.

In the most recent election, at the 2011 CHOGM, India's Kamalesh Sharma was re-elected to his second term unopposed.

The episode named " India's Geniuses " was aired on 13 Dec. 07 and was hosted by Bollywood actress Konkona Sen Sharma.

* On India's NDTV Imagine's popular soap opera Jyoti, Sudha Sharma exhibits dual personality, morphing into the confident and brazen character " Devika " by night.