In the first millennium BCE, there emerges in post-Vedic India the traditional medicine system known as Ayurveda, meaning the " complete knowledge for long life ".

Amomum is used as a spice and as an ingredient in traditional medicine in systems of the traditional Chinese medicine in China, in Ayurveda in India, Pakistan, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

In response to concerns of biopiracy raised by research into turmeric, neem and basmati rice, the Government of India has been translating and publishing ancient manuscripts containing old remedies in electronic form, and in 2001 the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library was set up as a repository of 1200 formulations of various systems of Indian medicine, such as Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha.

The basic medical degrees in India are MBBS ( Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ), BAMS ( Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery ), BHMS ( Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery ) and BUMS ( Bachelor of Unani Medicine and Surgery ).

Ayurveda (; Āyurveda, " the knowledge for long life "; ) or ayurvedic medicine is a Hindu system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine.

* Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy ( AYUSH ) – National Portal of India

" He says that historically meditation was a part of Ayurveda but that in India and the West, practitioners tend to prescribe Ayurvedic treatments without meditation, which makes it more difficult to integrate Ayurveda into a comprehensive system of health care.

Andrew Weil writes that, in India, Ayurveda is an inexpensive alternative to allopathic medicine available to all people, while Maharishi Ayurveda is expensive.

Ltd. ( MAPPL ) of New Delhi, India, Maharishi Ayurveda Products International ( MAPI ) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Maharishi Ayurveda Products Europe B. V., the Netherlands.

The product was manufactured by MAP Ltd. in India, and prescribed for her by a physician at the Maharishi Ayurveda Arogyadham clinic in Delhi.

Charaka Monument in the Pantanjali Yogpeeth Campus, Haridwar, IndiaCharaka, sometimes spelled Caraka, born c. 300 BC was one of the principal contributors to the ancient art and science of Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India.

* Ayurveda, traditional medicine of India

Basil is used for their medicinal properties in Ayurveda, the traditional medicinal system of India and Siddha medicine, a traditional Tamil system of medicine.

In India, Ayurveda medicine has used many herbs such as turmeric possibly as early as 1900 BC.

Traditional herbal medicine of India, known as Ayurveda, possibly dates back to the second millennium BCE tracing its origins to the holy Hindu Vedas and, in particular, the Atharvaveda.

The Maharishi's revised system of Ayurveda was endorsed by the " All India Ayurvedic Congress " in 1997.

The World Center for Ayurveda was founded in India in 1985 and other active organizations included the Institute For Social Rehabilitation and the International Center for Scientific Research.

In 2011, the Maharishi Ayurveda Hospital in New Delhi, India received accreditation from the National Hospital Accreditation Board of Hospitals ( NABH ).

** Deepak Chopra ( who makes claims linking Ayurveda ( traditional medicine native to India ) with quantum mechanics )

The first Ayurvedic telemedicine center was established in India in 2007 by Partap Chauhan, an Indian Ayurvedic doctor and the Director of Jiva Ayurveda.

Ayurveda ( the ancient Indian medicine system ) and Siddha ( the medicine system from Tamil-Nadu, a southern state in the country of India ) have more uses for this plant root and it has been used for centuries as a medicine.

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.

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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.

* A " luni-solar calendar " is based on a combination of both solar and lunar reckonings ; examples are the traditional calendar of China, the Hindu Calendar in India or the Hebrew calendar.

In India, cumin has been used for millennia as a traditional ingredient of curry.

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.

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.

PBS telecast the series, beginning in January 1980 ; the general format was that of Dr. Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr. Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof ( e. g. Hong Kong is commended for its free markets, while India is excoriated for relying on centralized planning especially for its protection of its traditional textile industry ).

* Ghoomar a traditional Bhil tribe women's folk dance of Rajasthan, India.

File: Chinese_type_gate_from_kerala. jpg | Chinese traditional type gate ( iron gate in front of house ) in Kerala, India

Heinz Ketchup is available in India in two varieties, with one being the traditional recipe, and another a recipe which does not contain garlic or onion.

Sometimes, the music of India will fuse with the traditional music of other countries.

From the school developed the Deobandi movement which became the largest philosophical movement of traditional Islamic thought in the subcontinent and led to the establishment of thousands of madrasahs throughout modern-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

After traditional land routes to India had been closed by the Ottoman Turks, Portugal hoped to use the sea route pioneered by Gama to break the Venetian trading monopoly.

In countries such as India, kerosene is the main fuel used for cooking, especially by the poor, and kerosene stoves have replaced traditional wood-based cooking appliances.

Even though the Gregorian calendar is in common and legal use, lunar calendars serve to determine traditional holidays in parts of the world such as India, China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Nepal.

* Pallanguzhi, traditional game in Tamil nadu, Southern India

Powdered mica glitter is used to decorate traditional water clay pots in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh ; it is also used on traditional Pueblo pottery, though not restricted to use on water pots in this case.

Marx applied the modern versus traditional parallel to British colonial rule in India that Marx saw in positive terms as he claimed that British colonial rule was developing India, bringing India out of its " rural idiocy " of its " feudalism ".

Spoken Sanskrit is still in use in a few traditional institutions in India and there are many attempts at revival.

* Wool is a traditional product exported mainly to America, followed by the UK and India.