In India some intellectual references of the movement can be found in the works of Vandana Shiva, an ecologist and feminist, who in her book Biopiracy documents the way that the natural capital of indigenous peoples and ecoregions is converted into forms of intellectual capital, which are then recognized as exclusive commercial property without sharing the private utility thus derived.

A number of bridges, both for military and commercial purposes, were constructed by the Mughal administration in India.

The primary commercial uses for Bakelite today remain in the area of inexpensive board and tabletop games produced in China, India and Hong Kong.

In other cases, central banks may incorporate the word " Central " ( for example, European Central Bank, Central Bank of Ireland ); but the Central Bank of India is a ( government-owned ) commercial bank and not a central bank.

In 1510, he seized Goa in India, which enabled him to gradually consolidate control of most of the commercial traffic between Europe and Asia, largely through trade ; Europeans started to carry on trade from forts, acting as foreign merchants rather than as settlers.

Relations with France and India are strong for both historical and commercial reasons.

The numeral system and the zero concept, developed by the Hindus in India slowly spread to other surrounding countries due to their commercial and military activities with India.

The bilateral relations between the Republic of India and the Federal Republic of Nigeria have considerably expanded in recent years with both nations building strategic and commercial ties.

Following commercial rivalries between the original English East India Company and a New East India Company created in 1698, a new Company was formed in 1708 by amalgamation, and entitled the “ United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies ”.

According to the Bible, during Solomon's reign Israel enjoyed great commercial prosperity, with extensive traffic being carried on by land with Tyre, Egypt, and Arabia, and by sea with Tarshish, Ophir, and South India.

Gladstone denounced Disraeli's policies of territorial aggrandizement, military pomp, and imperial symbolism ( such as making the Queen Empress of India ), saying it did not fit a modern commercial and Christian nation.

His early success in Canton as a commercial agent for opium merchants in India led to his admission in 1825 as a partner of Magniac & Co., and by 1826 he was controlling that firm's Canton operations.

Jardine Matheson then began its transformation from a major commercial agent of the East India Company into the largest British trading hong ( 洋行 ), or firm, in Asia.

The principal commercial source of zirconium is the silicate mineral, zircon ( ZrSiO < sub > 4 </ sub >), which is found primarily in Australia, Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa and the United States, as well as in smaller deposits around the world.

* Jahangir grants a British mission important commercial concessions at Surat on the west coast of India.

Improving technology and increasing control of world markets allowed British traders to develop a commercial chain in which raw cotton fibers were ( at first ) purchased from colonial plantations, processed into cotton cloth in the mills of Lancashire, and then exported on British ships to captive colonial markets in West Africa, India, and China ( via Shanghai and Hong Kong ).

The first commercial Hevea plantations in India were established at Thattekadu in Kerala in 1902.

The lack of prosperity of the territory mirrored the lack of commercial success of the Dutch West India Company as a whole.

On 23 June 1661, a marriage treaty was signed, Catherine's dowry securing to England Tangier ( in North Africa ) and the Seven islands of Bombay ( the latter having a major influence on the development of the British Empire in India ), together with trading privileges in Brazil and the East Indies, religious and commercial freedom in Portugal and two million Portuguese crowns ( about £ 300, 000 ); while Portugal obtained military and naval support against Spain and liberty of worship for Catherine.

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.

In India, its cultivation, as well as the manufacture and traffic to China, were subject to the East India Company, as a strict monopoly of the British government.

Extensive textual and pictorial sources also show that poppy cultivation and opium consumption were widespread in Safavid Iran and Moghol India.

The demand for cheap and docile labor to perform the hard work involved in its cultivation and processing drove first, the slave trade from Africa ( in particular West Africa ), followed by the indentured labor trade from South Asia ( in particular India ).

Cotton cultivation became more widespread during the Indus Valley Civilization, which covered a huge swath of the northwestern part of the South Asia, comprising today parts of eastern Pakistan and northwestern India.

During this time, cotton cultivation in the British Empire, especially India, greatly increased to replace the lost production of the American South.

Currently, India and Pakistan are the main producers of cluster bean, accounting for 80 % production of the world's total, while Thar, Punjab Dry Areas in Pakistan and Rajasthan occupies the largest area ( 82. 1 %) under guar cultivation in India.

In addition to its cultivation in India and Pakistan, the crop is also grown as a cash crop in other parts of the world ( Pathak et al 2010 ).

Meanwhile, also in the 19th century, the plant's seeds and cuttings were smuggled out for new cultivation at cinchona plantations in colonial regions of tropical Asia, notably by the British to the British Raj and Ceylon ( present day India and Sri Lanka ), and by the Dutch to Java in the Dutch East Indies ( present day Indonesia ).

Due to Han Chinese expansion, Mongol invasion pressures, and a search for lands more suitable for wet-rice cultivation, the Tai peoples moved south towards India, down the Mekong River valley, and as far south as the Malay Peninsula.

They have been considered to be beneficial to palm cultivation in southern India due to their foraging on the grubs of the destructive weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus.

Fields in established and stable shifting cultivation systems are cultivated and fallowed cyclically. This type of farming is called jhumming in India.

Tribal groups in the northeastern states of India like Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland, and also in the districts of Bangladesh like Khagrachari and Sylhet refer to slash and burn agriculture as " Jhum " or " Jhoom cultivation ".

Seen in this photo is a patch of forest in Namdapha National Park in Northeast India cleared for Jhum cultivation.

Habitat loss and the spread of cultivation are serious problems for wildlife in both India and Sri Lanka.

Its precise natural distribution is uncertain due to extensive cultivation, but is thought to be in southern Asia, between Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal ( called as Bayar ), the Korean peninsula, and southern and central China, and also southeastern Europe though more likely introduced there.

After trade routes opened to the east, indigo was imported from India as a substitute for woad, and the cultivation of woad became uneconomical in Europe.

The Udyan Pandit Award is given for excellence in fruit cultivation in India.

Black gram originated in India, where it has been in cultivation from ancient times and is one of the most highly prized pulses of India.

The paddy cultivation plays a major role in socio-cultural life of rural India.

A natural harbor in Vizhinjam, India

The price of raw and other natural commodities such as oil, gold, and uranium have risen substantially in recent years, due to increased demand from China, India, and other industrializing countries.

The language referred to as " the cultured language " has by definition always been a " sacred " and " sophisticated " language, used for religious and learned discourse in ancient India, and contrasted with the languages spoken by the people, " natural, artless, normal, ordinary ".

* Tamilakam, In an academic context, Tamilakam is used to refer to these territories as a single cultural area, where Tamil was the natural language and culture of all people It is also used, less correctly, to refer to the modern state of Tamil Nadu in India

In 1972, Project Tiger was founded in India aiming at ensuring a viable population of tigers in the country and preserving areas of biological importance as a natural heritage for the people.

The Thar Desert (, Hindi: थर मर ु स ् थल, ) also known as the Great Indian Desert ) is a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent and forms a natural boundary running along the border between India and Pakistan.

The partition also divided the natural resources, industries, economic infrastructure, and manpower, with India greatly benefited being the largest share owner.

The bamboo fire cycle theory is considered by a few scientists to be unreasonable ; they argue that fires only result from humans and there is no natural fire in India.

Unicorns are not found in Greek mythology, but rather in accounts of natural history, for Greek writers of natural history were convinced of the reality of the unicorn, which they located in India, a distant and fabulous realm for them.

Bhopal is known as the City of Lakes for its various natural as well as artificial lakes and is also one of the greenest cities in India.

In India and the Philippines, the median age of natural menopause is considerably earlier, at 44 years.

His experiments with one of the by-products of tar, naphtha, led to his invention of waterproof fabrics, the essence of his patent being the cementing of two thicknesses of natural ( India ) rubber together, the rubber being made soluble by the action of the naphtha.

* Palk strait, between Tamil Nadu state in India and Sri Lanka, the location of Ram Sethu and rich in natural resources.

This species had a large natural distribution from Britain and Ireland to northern Africa, across Europe, Arabia, Central Asia, India, the Himalayas and up into China and Mongolia.

Some people in India also use rose water as spray applied directly to the face for natural fragrance and moisturiser, especially during winters.

The town is connected to the rest of India by road and rail, and its historic sites and natural beauty attract tourists.

* 400 million m³ — predicted volume of natural gas required per day by India in 2025

The natural range of Pueraria montana in east Asia, is the India, Myanmar, Indochina, China, Korea and Japan to Thailand, Malaysia, the Pacific Islands and north Australia.

They claim that he instead died a natural death in India, a position which they have adopted as a characteristic of their faith.

Homing pigeons were still employed in the 21st century by certain remote police departments in Orissa state in eastern India to provide emergency communication services following natural disasters.

A former director of the Geological Survey of India, S. Badrinarayanan, claims that such a natural formation would be impossible.