After an accidental meeting between Jamsetji N. Tata and Swami Vivekananda on a ship in 1893 where they discussed Tata's plan of bringing the steel industry to India, Tata wrote to Vivekananda five years later:

After the death of his guru, Vivekananda became a wandering monk, extensively touring the Indian subcontinent and acquiring first-hand knowledge of conditions in India.

Rabindranath Tagore's suggestion ( to Nobel Laureate Romain Rolland ) was – " If you want to know India, study Vivekananda.

Swami Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Dutta in Calcutta, the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival.

Vivekananda travelled extensively in India for five years, visiting centres of learning, acquainting himself with the diverse religious traditions and different patterns of social life.

Vivekananda Temple on Vivekananda rock at Kanyakumari ( town ) | Kanyakumari, India

At Kanyakumari, Vivekananda had the " Vision of one India ", also commonly called " The Kanyakumari resolve of 1892 ".

Dr. Barrows, the president of the Parliament said, " India, the Mother of religions was represented by Swami Vivekananda, the Orange-monk who exercised the most wonderful influence over his auditors.

Vivekananda wrote several letters to India, giving advice and sending money to his followers and brother monks.

Vivekananda left for India on 16 December 1896 from England with his disciples, Captain and Mrs. Sevier, and J. J. Goodwin.

In the background of germinating nationalism in the British-ruled India, Vivekananda crystallised the nationalistic ideal.

More than any other single individual of that period Vivekananda had made his contribution to the new awakening of India.

The first governor general of independent India, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, said " Vivekananda saved Hinduism, saved India.

" According to Subhas Chandra Bose, a major proponent of armed struggle for Indian independence, Vivekananda " is the maker of modern India "; for Mahatma Gandhi, Vivekananda's influence increased his " love for his country a thousandfold.

Swami Vivekananda statue near Gateway of India, Mumbai.

Many years after Vivekananda's death, Rabindranath Tagore told French Nobel Laureate Romain Rolland, " If you want to know India, study Vivekananda.

Vivekananda argued that the explanation of the Shiva-Linga as a phallic emblem was brought forward by the most thoughtless, and was forthcoming in India in her most degraded times, those of the downfall of Buddhism.

Swami Vivekananda was the chief architect who profoundly projected the rich culture of India to the west at the end of 19th century.

Youth Day in India is celebrated on 12 January on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda.

In 1984, the Government of India declared and decided to observe the Birthday of Swami Vivekananda ( 12 January, according to the English calendar ) as National Youth Day every year from 1985 onwards.

The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.

I have the honor to refer to the Agricultural Commodities Agreement signed today between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of India ( hereinafter referred to as the Agreement ) and, with regard to the rupees accruing to uses indicated under Article 2, of the Agreement, to state that the understanding of the Government of the United States of America is as follows: 1.

It is agreed that any goods delivered or services rendered after the date of this agreement for projects within categories A, B, and C under paragraph 2 above which may later be approved by the United States will be eligible for financing from currency granted or loaned to the Government of India.

It is like medical schools in India where, in that fairy-land of religious inhibition, the dissection of dead bodies is frowned upon.

Arrack is distilled from fermented rice in India.

India is the most populous United Nations member with more than 400,000,000 inhabitants.

Again, India has imposed formidable barriers against the entrance of additional missionaries, and fanatical Hindu parties are expected to seek further action against Christians once the influence making for tolerance due to Nehru and his followers is gone.

Under Parthian and Sassanian Iranian empires, scholars concentrated on exchanging knowledge and inventions by the countries around them – India, China, and the Roman Empire, when it is thought to be expanded over the other countries.

Most alphabetic scripts of India and Eastern Asia are descended from the Brahmi script, which is often believed to be a descendant of Aramaic.

The Asterales order probably originated in the Cretaceous ( 145 – 65 Mya ) on the supercontinent Gondwana which broke up from 184 – 80 Mya, forming the area that is now Australia, South America, Africa, India and Antarctica.

The name in the Hindu zodiac is likewise kumbha " water-pitcher ", showing that the zodiac reached India via Greek intermediaries.

* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

* 1942 – Indian leader Mohanda Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

In the history of India, Ashoka is referred to as Samraat Chakravartin Ashoka – the " Emperor of Emperors Ashoka ".

* 1942 – Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.

Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to Theyyam gods, despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, Theyyam deities are propitiated through the cock sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

* 1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between Dominion of India and Dominion of Pakistan is revealed.

Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.

Yersin also noted that rats were affected by plague not only during plague epidemics but also often preceding such epidemics in humans, and that plague was regarded by many locals as a disease of rats: villagers in China and India asserted that, when large numbers of rats were found dead, plague outbreaks soon followed.

Although the Royal Navy is widely regarded as having been vital for the rise of the British Empire, and British dominance of the world, the British Army played an important role in the colonisation of India and other regions.

Pakistan, even being an ethnically diverse country, is regarded as a nation state due to its ideology on basis of which it got independence from British India as a separate nation rather than as a unified India.

This put him in a small group of spinners whose career averages were inferior to their performances against India, generally regarded as the best players of spin in the world.

To resolve any doubts about the Indian position, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru declared in parliament that India regarded the McMahon Line as its official border < sup >( what year was this?

His attention had been directed to the growing importance of the affairs of India, and there is evidence in his correspondence that he was meditating a comprehensive scheme for transferring much of the power of the East India Company to the crown, when he was withdrawn from public business in a manner that has always been regarded as somewhat mysterious.

During the feudal and colonial times in India hunting was regarded as a regal sport in the numerous princely states, as many maharajas, nawabs, as well as British officers maintained a whole corps of shikaris, who were native professional hunters.

Virginia Woolf was writing and publishing her most widely-read modernist novels and essays, E. M. Forster completed A Passage to India which remains the most highly regarded novel on British imperialism in India.

* Job Charnock ( c. 1630 – 1692 ), English East India Company administrator traditionally regarded as the founder of the city of Calcutta

Emperor Samprati is regarded as the " Jain Ashoka " for his patronage and efforts to spreading Jainism in east India.

Therefore he is also regarded as the " Bismarck of India " and " Iron Man of India ".

However, Patel is credited for being almost single-handedly responsible for unifying India on the eve of independence. Till date, he is regarded as the most successful Home Minister.

Pythagoras, whom the Neo-Pythagoreans regarded as an exemplary sage, was believed to have travelled to India.

Further afield, in northeast India, the Kuki-Chin-Mizo Jews claim descent from Manasseh, and call themselves Bnei Menashe ; in 2005 Shlomo Amar, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, announced that he regarded this claim to be true, which under the Law of Return allows them to migrate to Israel, as long as they formally convert to Judaism in accordance with halachic standards.

The first non-congressman to run a government for its full term, Vajpayee is often regarded as one of the best prime minister of India.

Shatabdi Express, Jan Shatabdi Express, Rajdhani Express and Duronto Expresses are the fastest Inter-city services in India among which the Bhopal Shatabdi Express is the fastest train of India and regarded as prestigious train.

The university is regarded as a prominent institution in attracting international students from Central Asian republics, Afghanistan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Thailand, India, China, Yaman, Bahrin, Africa and many other localities of the Asia.

Ranjit D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra ( AIR 1965 SC 881 ) was eventually laid before a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, where Chief Justice Hidayatullah declared the law on the subject of when a book can be regarded as obscene and established important tests of obscenity such as the Hicklin test.