Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.

Although some of his lands were restored to the control of his relatives, his safe return could not be arranged, and Hasan Ali Shah was forced to remain a permanent resident of India.

The vast majority of his Khoja Ismaili followers in India welcomed him warmly, but some dissident members, sensing their loss of prestige with the arrival of the Imam, wished to maintain control over communal properties.

In March 1880, a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan ; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as Amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent to it.

He knew this to be the only policy that would be supported by the Afghan nation ; and although for some time a rupture with Russia seemed imminent, while the Government of India made ready for that contingency, the Amir's reserved and circumspect tone in the consultations with him helped to turn the balance between peace and war, and substantially conduced towards a pacific solution.

It is surmised from the writings of Al Biruni that some Afghans who lived in west of India ( modern-day Afghanistan ) had not been completely converted to Islam.

At present, many such jobs appear to be flowing towards China, though some that require command of English are going to India and the Philippines.

By contrast, curry powders and pastes produced and consumed in India are extremely diverse ; some red, some yellow, some brown ; some with five spices and some with as many as 20 or more.

Colonial warfare in Morocco, Syria, the Middle East and the North West Frontier of India provided some opportunities for mounted action against enemies lacking advanced weaponry.

The word dessert is most commonly used for this course in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Ireland, while pudding or, informally, sweet or afters are alternative terms that may also be used in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries, including New Zealand and India.

* 1984 – Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3, 800 people outright and injures 150, 000 – 600, 000 others ( some 6, 000 of whom would later die from their injuries ) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.

When the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) was founded in 1602, some traders in Amsterdam did not agree with its monopolistic politics.

After the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, it became apparent that the Dutch West India Company was no longer capable of defending its own colonies, as Sint Eustatius, Berbice, Essequibo, Demerara, and some forts on the Dutch Gold Coast were rapidly taken by them.

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

It is claimed that some Indian companies buy Afghan pistachios for a very low price, process them in India and sell to western countries as Indian products.

Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons ( family Hylobatidae ) diverged from Great Apes some 18-12 million years ago, and that of orangutans ( subfamily Ponginae ) diverged from the other Great Apes at about 12 million years ; there are no fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a so-far-unknown South East Asian hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million years ago.

Yet in nations or regions where traditional folk music is a badge of cultural or national identity, the loss of traditional music can be slowed ; this is held to be true, for instance in the case of Bangladesh, Hungary, India, Ireland, Scotland, Latvia, Turkey, Portugal, Brittany, and Galicia, Greece and Crete all of which retain their traditional music to some degree, in some such areas the decline of traditional music and loss of traditions has been reversed.

In response, some were suspended from issuing fatwās and Indian Muslim leaders announced that they would create a new body that will monitor the issuing of fatwās in India.

" Since these tablets predate the Sulbasutras period by several centuries, taking into account the contextual appearance of some of the triples, it is reasonable to expect that similar understanding would have been there in India.

Certain international trade laws, such as those on intellectual property, are also enforced in India.

This period, witnessing a Hindu religious and intellectual resurgence, is known among its admirers as the " Golden Age of India ".

Nanda, these scriptures were Nehru's " first introduction to the religious and cultural heritage of .... provided Nehru the initial impulse for long intellectual quest which culminated ... in the Discovery of India.

Ronald Inden, a historian of India and University of Chicago professor, criticized Mircea Eliade, alongside other intellectual figures ( Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell among them ), for encouraging a " romantic view " of Hinduism.

In this work — completed in four volumes, published respectively in 1847 ( 2nd ed., 1867 ), 1849 ( 2nd ed., 1874 ), 1858 and 1861 — which forms one of the greatest monuments of untiring industry and critical scholarship, everything that could be gathered from native and foreign sources, relative to the political, social and intellectual development of India.

Another sympathiser, David Frawley, said about Goel that he was " modern India ’ s greatest intellectual kshatriya ", and " one of India ’ s most important thinkers in the post-independence era ".

Müller's connections with the East India Company and with Sanskritists based at Oxford University led to a career in Britain, where he eventually became the leading intellectual commentator on the culture of India, which Britain controlled as part of its Empire.

The book relates his mental and intellectual development, his life and growth at Calcutta, his observations of Vanishing Landmarks, the connotation of this is dual — changing Indian situation and historical forces that was making exit of British from India an imminent affair.

In contrast to many of the past leaders of the British Empire in India, he saw himself as an Orientalist monarch and believed his rule was that of a modernizer, attempting to bring the English intellectual revolution to India.

The Bhojpuri-speaking region, due to its rich tradition of creating leaders for building post-independence India such as first President Dr. Rajendra Prasad followed by many eminent politicians and humanitarians like Dr. Krishna Dev Upadhyaya, was never devoid of intellectual prominence which is evident in its literature.

Thereafter, he worked in the Department of Industrial Infrastructure, Government of Bihar and in the Ministry of Industry, government of India dealing with foreign industrial collaborations, technology imports, intellectual property rights and industrial approvals.

The designation " Renaissance philosophy " is used by intellectual historians to refer to the thought of the period running in Europe roughly between 1350 and 1650 ( the dates shift forward for central and northern Europe and for areas such as Spanish America, India, Japan, and China under European influence ).

Certain international trade laws, such as those on intellectual property, are also enforced in India.

During these years, Menon became a passionate proponent of India's freedom, working as a journalist and as secretary of the India League from 1929 to 1947, and a close friend of fellow Indian nationalist leader and future Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, as well as such political and intellectual figures as Bertrand Russell, J. B. S.

The consolidation of monastic organization made Buddhism the center of religious and intellectual life in India.

His personal experience of ascendance from dire circumstances, improvements in India's infrastructure, and changing patterns of scientific emigration and immigration have convinced him that India is fated to become one of the world's greatest intellectual and economic engines.

The India Inspired panel discussion is one of the intellectual highlights of Antaragni.

He is considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the political and intellectual history of modern India and Pakistan and has written fiction and nonfiction books on the topics.

Driven in part by the intellectual ferment of the discipline and in part by the political compulsions in both Britain and India, two dominant views of caste emerged among the administrator-scholars of the day.

Under his rule, Mālwa and its capital Dhar became one of the chief intellectual centres of India.

The flute has also always been an essential part of Indian culture and mythology, and the cross flute believed by several accounts to originate in India as Indian literature from 1500 BCE has made vague references to the cross flute.

India has one of the oldest musical traditions in the world — references to Indian classical music ( marga ) are found in the Vedas, ancient scriptures of the Hindu tradition.

One of the earliest historical references to sugarcane is in Chinese manuscripts dating back to 8th century BC which mention the fact that the use of sugarcane originated in India.

" As an example, Davidson cites a funeral dirge from the Gondi people in India as recorded by Verrier Elwin, stating that " it contains references to Bagri Maro, the horse with eight legs, and it is clear from the song that it is the dead man's bier.

In India, ghee has been a symbol of purity and an offering to the gods — especially Agni, the Hindu god of fire — for more than 3000 years ; references to ghee's sacred nature appear numerous times in the Rigveda, circa 1500 – 1200 BCE.

4th c .), a famed dialectician of the Gupta Empire, contextualizes the prestige of dialectic and cut-throat debate in classical India and makes references to the possibly apocryphal story of the banishment of Moheyan post-debate with Kamalaśīla ( fl.

One of the most important references to the Cārvāka philosophy is the Sarva-darśana-saṅgraha ( etymologically all-philosophy-collection ), a famous work of 14th century Advaita Vedanta philosopher Mādhava Vidyāraṇya from South India, which starts with a chapter on the Cārvāka system.

" Though materialism in some form or other has always been present in India, and occasional references are found in the Vedas, the Buddhistic literature, the Epics, as well as in the later philosophical works we do not find any systematic work on materialism, nor any organised school of followers as the other philosophical schools possess.

Early references to Wakf in India, can be found in 13th century CE work, Insba-i-Mahru by Aynul Mulk Mulltani, described by historian Ziauddin Barani as one of the officers of Jalal ud din Firuz Khilji ( r. 1290-1296 ) first Indian ruler of the Delhi sultanate and the founder of the Khilji dynasty.

* Members of the Bahá ' í Faith have interpreted the prophecies of Kalki's arrival as being references to the arrival of Bahá ' u ' lláh, which has played a major role in the growth of the Bahá ' í Faith in India.

One of the earliest references to shanty-like songs that has been discovered was made by an anonymous “ steerage passenger ” in a log of a voyage of an East India Company ship, entitled The Quid ( 1832 ).

Like other places in India, the references to Til ( Sesame seeds ) and Gud ( Jaggery ) are also found in the songs sung on this day

Countries with non-Leninist / communist references to socialism in their constitutions include India and Portugal.

From references, it can also be inferred that Kinnoch is influenced by Ireland, Krondor by London, Darkmoor by Germany, Bas-Tyra by France, Novindus by India and Australia, and Rodez by Spain.

From the references noted above, it appears certain that the Yavana invasion of Majjhimadesa ( Mid India ) was jointly carried out by the Yavanas and the Kambojas.

Recently, however, Dmitri Panchenko has argued persuasively, on the basis of apparent references to Scylax's work in the late Greek author Philostratos, that Scylax in fact travelled across N. India, made his way down the Ganges, and arrived at Taprobane ( Sri Lanka ).

The Bhāgavata Purāṇa contains apparent references to the South Indian Alvar saints and it makes a post factum prophecy of the spread of Vishnu worship in Tamil country ( BP XI. 5. 38 – 40 ); these facts, along with its emphasis on " emotional Bhakti to Krishna " and the " Advaita philosophy of Sankara ", lead many scholars to trace its origins to South India.

After studying Nikitin's account, and especially his references to Islam ( at the time much of India was ruled by Muslim sultans and there were considerable numbers of Muslim merchants living along the coast ), particularly the prayers he transliterates from Arabic and Turkic into Cyrillic letters, Gail Lenhoff and Janet Martin concluded that Nikitin probably converted to Islam while in India.

it is a form of divine sublimation of spiritual energy obtained from meditation of female divine goddess, clearly an aspect originated from sri vidya an ancient tantra tradition ( daksheenmargee tantra ) which was more developed by adi shankaracharya in India books references might give some idea because it is totally described in oral tradition by guru to his followers no written text strictly agama shashtra and transformed through shaktipaat to the kind fellow of tantra tradition. no vammargee rituals are performed during white tantra practices.

Later references are found from " the accounts of India " written by various European travellers ( Bernier for example ).

Indian texts like Markandeya Purana, Vishnu Dharmottari Agni Purana, Garuda Purana, Arthashastra of Barhaspatya and Brhatsamhita of Vrahamihira attest Kamboja references in south-western and southern India.

In classical sources, the problem of identifying references to ancient China is exacerbated by the interpretation of the Latin term " Seres " whose meaning fluctuated and could refer to a number of Asian people in a wide arc from India over Central Asia to China.

These incidents are documented in numerous records of the East India Company and by several authors 1810 ( Vol I and II ), Marshman Vol I, Unknown 1829 ; see references below.