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.

In the state of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India, it is called Chaulai and is a popular green leafy vegetable ( referred to in the class of vegetable preparations called saag ).

In ‑ plane weather avionics are especially popular in Africa, India, and other countries where air-travel is a growing market, but ground support is not as well developed.

Even in contemporary India the term rasa denoting " flavor " or " essence " is used colloquially to describe the aesthetic experiences in films ; " māsala mix " describes popular Hindi cinema films which serve a so called balanced emotional meal for the masses, savored as rasa by these spectators.

This early use has cast doubt on the origin through expatriates in India, though it is known that it was popular there in the 1870s and that the first rules were drawn up in Poonah in 1873.

Seep is a classic Indian fishing card game mainly popular in northern parts of India.

* Thums Up, popular in India.

Cheap calico prints, imported by the East India Company from " Hindustan ", had become popular.

In some parts of Europe and India, Datura has been a popular poison for suicide and murder.

The trend thrived best in India, where the influence of the country's traditional song-and-dance drama made the musical the basic form of most sound films ( Cook, 1990 ); virtually unnoticed by the Western world for decades, this Indian popular cinema would nevertheless become the world's most prolific.

By the 13th century, Hindustān emerged as a popular alternative name of India, meaning the " land of Hindus ".< ref >

The music of India includes multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, classical music and R & B.

The biggest form of Indian popular music is filmi, or songs from Indian films, it makes up 72 % of the music sales in India.

Machas With Attitude are one of the most popular Hip Hop group in India and are famous for their songs in movies like Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge and Aayirathil Oruvan ( 2010 film ).

Hip hop exposure has since grown in both India, and the world, with it becoming ever popular with today's younger generation.

* Antaragni: Annual cultural festival held over 4 days in October. It is one of the most popular college festivals in India.

It is also popular sport of the Sub-Continent and in many parts of India and Bangladesh, Kabaddi is played with equal zeal and enthusiasm.

Recently this trend has become very popular amongst amateur singers in Japan, also India and China.

The instrument is also very popular in Goa, India ( a former Portuguese colony ).

* 1975 – India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favor of merging with India.

In India, the most popular potato dishes are aloo ki sabzi, batata vada, and samosa, which is spicy mashed potato mixed with a small amount of vegetable stuffed in conical dough, and deep fried.

Vada pav is a popular vegetarian fast food dish in Mumbai and other regions in the Maharashtra in India.

Aloo posto ( a curry with potatoes and poppy seeds ) is immensely popular in East India, especially Bengal.

According to tradition, the bitter taste of antimalarial quinine tonic led British colonials in India to mix it with gin, thus creating the gin and tonic cocktail, which is still popular today in many parts of the world, especially the UK, United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Indian indentured servants that were brought over from India by different European powers, brought this dish, as well as their culture, to the West Indies.

In India, dill is prepared in the manner of yellow moong dal as a main-course dish.

A dish called masala dosa from South India is very notable all over India.

The southern regions of India distinguish shallots from onions in recipes more often, especially the much loved tiny varieties ( about the width of a finger ); these are widely used in curries and different types of sambar, a lentil-based dish.

Chana masala, a popular dish from Delhi, India.

Baked tapioca dish from Kerala, India

* In Assam, India, they are boiled for extracting silk and the boiled pupa is taken directly with salt or fried with chilli pepper and or herbs to take as snack or dish.

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 ).

The reference point for flavour and spice heat is the Madras curry sauce ( the name represents the area of India where restauranteurs obtained their spices rather than an actual dish ).

In many parts of Asia, particularly India, Malaysia, and Singapore, the word " gravy " is used to refer to any thickened liquid part of a dish.

Special celebratory dishes in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh include Lachcha / ল া চ ্ চ া or sivayyan / শ ি ম া ই, a dish of fine, toasted sweet vermicelli noodles with milk and dried fruit.

In Tamil Nadu, India the dish is known as uppu kandam which forms part of authentic non vegetarian cuisine.

Rice and lentils are also cooked together in khichdi, a popular dish in the Indian subcontinent ( India and Pakistan ); a similar dish, kushari, made in Egypt, is considered one of two national dishes.

* Channa, a dish made with boiled chickpeas in a spicy gravy from Northern India which this type of bread was traditionally served.

It is widely believed that the dish was brought to the United Kingdom by returning British colonials who had enjoyed it in India and introduced it to the UK as a breakfast dish in Victorian times, part of the then fashionable Anglo-Indian cuisine.

An alternative view is that the dish originated from Scotland and was taken to India by Scottish troops during the British Raj, where it was adapted and adopted as part of Indian cuisine.

According to this theory the dish travelled to India then returned to the wider UK.

Some people have drawn comparisons between chicken tikka masala and butter chicken, another Indian dish including chicken and gravy which was probably invented in Northern India.

* Saag, a spinach and / or mustard leaf curry dish eaten in India and Pakistan

In India, Ash gourd is used to make a liquefied dish with curds or buttermilk ( a popular traditional South Indian recipe )

Vindaloo is a popular dish in many parts of India.