His empire stretched from the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan to the present-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of Assam in the east, and as far south as northern Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

* 2012 – At least 30 people have been killed as a result of heavy monsoon rain in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

In 2001, Indian scientists and politicians debated and critiqued a proposal to use state money to fund research into astrology, resulting in permission for Indian universities to offer courses in Vedic astrology.

Of particular concern to Indian drama and literature are the term ' Bhava ' or the state of mind and rasa referring generally to the emotional flavors / essence crafted into the work by the writer and relished by a ' sensitive spectator ' or sahṛdaya or one with positive taste and mind.

The former princely state became part of the new Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh, and most of the territory of the former state, including the town of Ajaigarh, became part of Panna District, with a smaller portion going to Chhatarpur District.

His adventurous life, his forcible character, the position of his state as a barrier between the Indian and the Russian empires, and the skill with which he held the balance in dealing with them, combined to make him a prominent figure in contemporary Asian politics and will mark his reign as an epoch in the history of Afghanistan.

Bal Keshav Thackeray (; born 23 January 1926 ), popularly known as Hindu Hriday Samraat Balasaheb Thackeray is an Indian politician, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Hindu nationalist, and Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

The historic under-commitment by the US within France's sphere of interest in the Indian Ocean looks set to continue after a November 2009 meeting between heads of state.

Image: Honour guard, India 20060302-9 d-0108-2-515h. jpg | The mounted President's Bodyguard of the Indian Army during a state visit by a foreign dignitary in New Delhi, India.

The state was 68. 9 % White ( 65. 3 % Non-Hispanic White Alone ), 21. 4 % Black or African American, 0. 5 % American Indian and Alaska Native, 3. 2 % Asian, 0. 0 % Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 3. 4 % from Some Other Race, and 2. 7 % from Two or More Races.

* 1996 – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.

In the years immediately following the First Anglo-Afghan War, and especially after the Indian rebellion of 1857 against the British in India, Liberal Party governments in London took a political view of Afghanistan as a buffer state.

Alaskans also use the term Alaska Native, which is inclusive of all Eskimo, Aleut and Indian people of Alaska, and is exclusive of Inuit or Yupik people originating outside the state.

East Pakistan (; Purbo Pakistan, ; Mashriqī Pākistān ) was a provincial state of Pakistan that existed in Bengal region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent from 1955 until 1971, following the One Unit programme which laid the existence of East Pakistan.

Many Bengali Hindus left for Calcutta after partition, and their place, particularly in commerce, was taken mostly by Muslims who had migrated from the Indian state of Bihar or by West Pakistanis from different provinces.

First-class teams are usually representative of a geopolitical region such as an English county, an Australian state or a West Indian nation.

In the eastern Indian state of Bihar, there is a written tradition of genealogical records among Maithil Brahmins and Karna Kayasthas called " Panjis ", dating to the 12th century CE.

Such works continued and after several millennia, in the 7th century, carved pillars of Ajanta, Maharashtra state present a fine example of Indian paintings, and the colors, mostly various shades of red and orange, were derived from minerals.

Kangchenjunga, on the border between Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim, is the highest point in India at and the world's 3rd highest peak.

Indian state governments led by various political parties as of March 2009.

She was also the only Indian Prime Minister to have declared a state of emergency in order to ' rule by decree ' and the only Indian Prime Minister to have been imprisoned after holding that office.

Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

Despite this setback, within ten days he had caught up with his group and continued on to Khambhat in the Indian state of Gujarat.

Some Indian regions, such as Rajasthan, Gujarat and Karnataka, have been strongly influenced by Jains and often the majority of the local Hindus of every denomination have also become vegetarian.

Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat have the largest Jain populations among Indian states.

Off the coast of the Indian state of Gujarat

* Ralli Quilting – Indian quilting, often associated with the Gujarat region.

In the western Indian state of Gujarat, an event of the Makar Sankranti festival is kozhi kettu, the rooster fight.

The majority of the population of Madagascar today is a mixture of Austronesian, North Indian, Arab, Somali and Bantu settlers from Southeast Asia, Gujarat, the Arabian Peninsula, Somalia and East Africa, respectively.

Inayat Khan was born in Vadodara, Gujarat to a noble Muslim Indian family ( his mother was a descendant of the uncle of Tipu Sultan, the famous eighteenth century ruler of Mysore ).

By 2010 Peugeot planned on pursuing new markets, mainly in China, Russia and South America and in 2011 decided to re-enter the Indian market after 14 years with a new factory at Sanand, Gujarat, India.

Meeting Gandhi a month later at the Gujarat Political Conference in Godhra, Patel became the secretary of the Gujarat Sabha — a public body which would become the Gujarati arm of the Indian National Congress — at Gandhi's encouragement.

The province was bordered by the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan to south and east, the princely states of Bahawalpur and Khairpur to the northeast and Karachi and the princely states of Kalat and Las Bela to the west.

In 2009, Monsanto scientists initially discovered that insects had developed resistance to the Bt Cotton planted in Gujarat and when studies were completed, Monsanto communicated this to the Indian government and its customers, stating that " Resistance is natural and expected, so measures to delay resistance are important.

* India – Pakistan maritime trespassing: frequent trespassing and violation of respective national territorial waters of India and Pakistan in peacetime occurs commonly by Pakistani and Indian fishermen operating along the coastline of the Indian state of Gujarat and the Pakistani province of Sindh.

It is native to the Indian state of Gujarat, where it is the chief language, and to the adjacent union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

Nanavati, a former chief justice of the Indian Supreme Court, constituted to examine allegations of Gujarat state administration's involvement in the riots of 2002 said that there was no evidence to implicate either Modi or his administration in the riots.

Batley has an Asian Muslim population made of people from Pakistan and the Indian state of Gujarat.

The king responded with a ship full of spices and, later, an Indian Rhinoceros sent to him from the sultan Muzaffar Shah II of Gujarat.

* The beach at Alang in the Indian state of Gujarat is the site of a large complex of shipbreaking yards.

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* October 19 – Indian Airlines Flight 113, a Boeing 737-2A8, strikes trees and a high-tension pylon while on approach in fog to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and crashes, killing 130 of the 135 people on board and leaving all five survivors injured.

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Mallika Sarabhai (, ) ( born 9 May 1954 ) is an activist and Indian Classical Dancer from Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.