Trade with India commenced well before 500 BCE ( before the widespread use of Sanskrit as a language in India ).

There he enjoyed the society of such eminent men as Antoine-Léonard de Chézy ( his primary instructor ), Silvestre de Sacy, Louis Mathieu Langlès, and, above all, of Alexander Hamilton ( 1762 – 1824 ), cousin of the U. S. statesman, who had acquired, when in India, an acquaintance with Sanskrit, and had brought out, along with Langlès, a descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts of the Imperial library.

In the library, Bopp had access not only to the rich collection of Sanskrit manuscripts ( mostly brought from India by Jean François Pons in the early 18th century ) but also to the Sanskrit books which had up to that time been issued from the Calcutta and Serampore presses.

Foundation of the Maurya Empire ( Sanskrit: म ौ र ् य र ा जव ं श, Maurya Rājavanśha ) which was geographically extensive and powerful empire in ancient India, ruled by the Mauryan dynasty from 321 to 185 BC. It was one of the world's largest empires in its time.

In 1954 Nehru signed with China the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, known in India as the Panchsheel ( from the Sanskrit words, panch: five, sheel: virtues ), a set of principles to govern relations between the two states.

Legend has it that Shancai ( also called Sudhana in Sanskrit ) was a disabled boy from India who was very interested in studying the dharma.

As part of his training with leading Indo-Europeanists in Germany in 1913-1914 Bloomfield studied the Sanskrit grammatical tradition originating with Pāṇini, who lived in northwestern India during the sixth century B. C.

The film thus pays homage to India, incorporating an Indian-themed play based on the ancient Sanskrit drama The Little Clay Cart and a Bollywood-style dance sequence with a song from the film China Gate.

The Mahabharata ( Sanskrit, ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.

A report by the Greek writer Dio Chrysostom ( c. 40-c. 120 CE ) about Homer's poetry being sung even in India seems to imply that the Iliad had been translated into Sanskrit.

Early writing on mineralogy, especially on gemstones, comes from ancient Babylonia, the ancient Greco-Roman world, ancient and medieval China, and Sanskrit texts from ancient India and the ancient Islamic World.

* The name Nepal is also supposed to be derived from the Sanskrit word " NEP "( न े प ), with the suffix " AL " ( आल ) added to it ; though still under controversy, NEP were the people who used to be cow herders — the GOPALS ( ग ो प ा ल )— who came to the Nepal valley for the first time from the Ganges plain of India.

Phonetics was studied as early as 500 BC in ancient India, with account of the place and manner of articulation of consonants in his 5th century BC treatise on Sanskrit.

The name Indus comes from the Sanskrit word sindhu, meaning ocean, from which also come the words Sindh, Hindu, and India.

Sanskrit is the ancient language of India, showing how old the usage of this spice is in this region.

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

In order to explain the common features shared by Sanskrit and other Indo-European languages, many scholars have proposed migration hypotheses asserting that the original speakers of what became Sanskrit arrived in what is now India and Pakistan from the north-west some time during the early second millennium BCE.

Palembang was a center for scholarly learning, and it was there the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim I Ching studied Sanskrit in 671 CE before departing for India.

It is also the only Indian language other than Sanskrit to be considered to be ancient and authentically original in its form and rich literature It has been described as " the only language of contemporary India which is recognizably continuous with a classical past " and having " one of the richest literatures in the world ".

* Theatre of India – began with Sanskrit theatre and flourished between the 1st century CE and the 10th, which was a period of relative peace in the history of India during which hundreds of plays were written.

Politics in India ( Hindi: भ ा रत ी य र ा जन ी त ि) takes place within the framework of a federal Westminster-style Parliamentary democratic constitutional republic, in which the President of India is head of state and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government.

Savarkar similarly believed that the Indian subcontinent ( which includes the area south of the Himalaya and the Hindu Kush or Akhand Bharat ( undivided India, अखण ् ड भ ा रत ) is the homeland of the Hindus.

He considered " Hindus " as those who consider India ( Bharat, भ ा रत ) to be their motherland ( matrubhumi ), fatherland ( pitrubhumi, प ि त ृ भ ू म ि) as well as their holy land ( punyabhumi, प ु ण ् यभ ू म ि), hence describing it purely in cultural terms.

The Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) ( abbreviated CPI ( M ) or CPM ; Hindi: भ ा रत क ी कम ् य ु न ि स ् ट प ा र ् ट ी ( म ा र ् क ् सव ा द ी) Bhārat kī Kamyunisṭ Pārṭī ( Mārksvādī )) is a left-wing Marxist political party in India.

The Communist Party of India ( CPI ) ( Hindi: भ ा रत ी य कम ् य ु न ि स ् ट प ा र ् ट ी Bhāratīya Kamyunisṭa Pārṭī ) is a left-wing political party in India.

Bhojpuri () ( Devnagri: भ ो जप ू र ी ; Nastaliq: بھوجپوري ) is a predominant language spoken in parts of northern-eastern India.

All India Law Students ' Association ( AILSA ) or अख ि ल भ ा रत ी य व ि ध ि छ ा त ् र स ं घ is a non-profit association of students and lawyers who are dedicated to the promotion of welfare of law students all over India.

The Indian Coast Guard ( Hindi: भ ा रत ी य तटरक ् षक, Bhāratīya Taṭarakṣaka ) ( ICG ) is an Armed Force of the Union Of India.

Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League ( ABGL ) ( Nepali: अख ि ल भ ा रत ी य ग ो र ् ख ा ल ी ग ) ( also called All India Gorkha League ( AIGL / IGL )) is a political party working amongst the Nepali-speaking population in Darjeeling District, West Bengal, India.

In India, it is known as lauki ( ल ौ क ी / લ ૌ ક ી), dudhi ( द ू द ी / દ ૂ દ ી) or ghiya ( घ ी य ा / ઘ ી ય ા) in Hindi / Urdu / Gujarati ; Laau ( ଲ ା ଉ ) in Oriya ; aal ( आल ) in Marwari ; churakka ( ച ു രക ് ക ) in Malayalam ; jatilao in Assamese ; lau ( ল া উ ) in Bengali ; sorakaaya ( స ొ ర క ా య ) or anapakaya in Telugu ; dudhi-Bhopala ( द ु ध ी भ ो पळ ा) in Marathi ; sorekayi in Kannada ; sajmain in Maithili and suraikkaai ( ச ு ர ை க ் க ா ய ் colloquilly sorakkay ) in Tamil.

Democratic Youth Federation of India ( in Hindi भ ा रत क ि जनव ा द ी न ौ जवन सभ ा, Bharat ki Janvadi Naujavan Sabha ), is an Indian left-wing youth organization founded in 1980.

Akhil Bharatiya Sena ( अख ि ल भ ा रत ी य स े न ा, All India Army ) is a political party in India.

Akhand Bharat ( Hindustani: अखण ् ड भ ा रत ) or Undivided India is an irredentist call to include Pakistan and Bangladesh into India to form a Hindu Rashtra raised by mainstream Indian political organization Vishva Hindu Parishad ( VHP ), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ) and Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

Bhakri ( भ ा कर ी bhākrī or Dhebra ) is a round flat unleavened bread often used in the cuisine of western and central India, especially in the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Malwa, Goa and northern Karnataka.

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.

In India and Pakistan, ginger is called adrak in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, aad in Maithili, aadi in Bhojpuri, aada in Bengali, Adu in Gujarati, hashi shunti ( ಹಸ ಿ ಶ ುಂ ಟ ಿ) in the Kannada, allam ( అల ్ ల ం) in Telugu, inji ( இஞ ் ச ி) in Tamil and Malayalam, inguru ( ඉඟ ු ර ු) in Sinhalese, alay in Marathi, and aduwa ( अद ु व ा ) in Nepali.

Local words in India include: Hindi / Marathi स ा ब ु द ा ण ा sābūdānā ( literally, ' grains of sago '), স া ব ু দ া ন া ( Shabudana ) in Bengali, સ ા બ ુ દ ા ણ ા ( Sabudana ) in Gujarati, Urdu sābūdānā ( a variant of the preceding word ), Malayalam kappa or maraccīni, Tamil maravaḷḷiki < u > l </ u > anku, and Kannada sabakki ( ಸ ಾ ಬಕ ್ ಕ ಿ).

During the festival season in Northern India, Sabudana is usually consumed during Fasts ( Vrat in Hindi ), either prepared as a " Khichdi " "( ख ि चड ी)" ( savory ) Sabudana Khichadi ( स ा ब ु द ा ण ा ख ि चड ी) or Kheer ख ी र ( sweet ).

In India and Pakistan the name most similar to the English hookah is used: huqqa ( ह ु क ़् क ़ा / حق ّ ہ ).

It is known as bissap in West Africa, karkadé in Egypt and Sudan, flor de Jamaica in Mexico, gudhal ( ग ु ड ़ हल ) in India and gongura in Brazil.

The Central Bureau of Investigation, traces its origin to the Special Police Establishment ( SPE ) ( Hindi: व ि श े ष प ु ल ि स स ं स ् थ ा पन Vishesh Police Sansthapan ), which was set up in 1941 by the Government of India.

The partition of India ( Hindi-Urdu: ह ि न ् द ु स ् त ा न क ा बटव ा र ा ) was the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics.

A kurta ( ( প া ঞ ্ জ া ব ী), Persian / Urdu: ک ُ رتا, Hindi: क ु रत ा, ; also kurti for a shorter version ) is a traditional item of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

Yugādi, Ugādi, or Samvatsarādi ( or స ం వత ్ సర ా ద ి samvatsarādi,, Konkani / Marathi: य ु ग ा द ी yugādi ) is the New Year's Day for the people of the Deccan region of India.

Maithili calendar or Tirhuta Panchang ( त ि रह ु त ा प ं च ां ग / ত ি রহ ু ত া পঞ ্ চ া ঙ ্ গ ) is a community calendar followed by the Maithil community of India and Nepal.

In north India a colloquial term sustānā ( स ु स ् त ा न ा), which literally means " taking small nap " ( possibly of Persian origin ), is used, although it does not necessarily mean siesta but it is used in same way.

In the Hindu epic the Mahābhārata, Duryodhana ( द ु र ् य ो धन, ధ ు ర ్ య ొ ధన ా, ಧ ು ರ ್ ಯ ೋ ಧನ ಾ, ' difficult to fight with ', his real name was Suyodhana ) is the eldest son of the blind king Dhritarashtra by Queen Gandhari, the eldest of the one hundred Kaurava brothers, Emperor of the world at that time which means Emperor of India or Bharatvarsha as it was known at that time, cousin and the chief antagonist of the Pandavas.

Hutatma Chowk ( Marathi: ह ु त ा त ् म ा च ौ क ) (" Martyrs ' Square ") is the official name of a square in South Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Chenopodium album is extensively cultivated and consumed in Northern India as a food crop, and in English texts it may be called by its Hindi name bathua or bathuwa ( बथ ु आ ).

Gorkha National Liberation Front ( GNLF ) ( Nepali: ग ो र ् ख ा र ा ष ् ट ् र ि य म ु क ् त ि म ो र ् च ा) is a political party in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal, India.

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha ( झ ा रख ं ड म ु क ् त ि म ो र ् च ा) ( English: Jharkhand Liberation Front ) is a state political party in the state Jharkhand, India.