Instead, the Government of India exercised its right of parens patriae to appropriate all the claims of the victims and proceeded to litigate on their behalf, first in the New York courts and later, in the Indian courts.

The Essenes were often of Levite or Cohen heritage and this may further explain the frequent ' priestly heritage ' claims of several Nazerean families of India.

* Madagascar claims Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands and Juan de Nova Island

During the era of New Imperialism the territorial claims of the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) expanded into a fully fledged colony named the Dutch East Indies.

The English sought to stake out claims in India at the expense of the Portuguese dating back to the Elizabethan era.

Mauritius claims the entire Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean ; claims the whole French-administered Tromelin Island, Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, and Juan de Nova Island

Abdel Allah ibn Zakwan Abi al-Zanad claims that Ramadan originally had roots in India and the Middle East.

However, the McMahon Line lay south of the boundary India claims.

Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, in November 1956, again repeated Chinese assurances that the People's Republic had no claims on Indian territory, although official Chinese maps showed of territory claimed by India as Chinese.

In 1960, Zhou Enlai unofficially suggested that India drop its claims to Aksai Chin in return for a Chinese withdrawal of claims over NEFA.

One study claims that if these post-harvest wheat grain losses could be eliminated with better infrastructure and retail network, in India alone enough food would be saved every year to feed 70 to 100 million people over a year.

During the negotiations, the British also became aware of two older historical claims, the 1628 patent granted to the Earl of Carlisle ( which was inconsistent with Hunthum's title being sold to him by the Dutch West India company ), and an order of the King in 1694 to prevent foreign settlement in the Virgin Islands.

Modern scholarship has almost unanimously agreed that claims of the travels of Jesus to Tibet, Kashmir or India and the influence of Buddhism on his teachings are without historical basis.

Rawlinson, in his book: Ancient and Medieval History of India claims the first Arab Muslims settled on the Indian coast in the last part of the 7th century.

He also claims the title of the Fifth Beatle, although Paul McCartney ( who first met Apu during The Beatles ' stay in India ) disagrees with Apu's claim.

The ROC's constitution still raises claims of sovereignty over Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau – territories that today constitute the PRC – but, according to some interpretations, also over Mongolia, Tuva ( Russia ), and other, minor areas which today are part of Afghanistan, Myanmar, India and Japan.

India claims Aksai Chin as the eastern-most part of the Jammu and Kashmir state.

India does not recognise that Pakistan and China have a common border, and claims the tract as part of the domains of the pre-1947 state of Kashmir and Jammu.

E. W. Hopkins, in his The Ethics of India ( 1924 ) claims that Cārvāka philosophy was contemporaneous to Jainism and Buddhism, mentioning " the old Cārvāka or materialist of the 6th century BC ".

Fuller claims trading of sesame between Mesopotamia and regions that are now Pakistan and India occurred by 2000 BC.

The claim is that suicide rates of farmers in India have increased as farmers are finding it harder to earn a living using more expensive Monsanto seeds that, despite claims, still require specific pesticide and fertilizer ( see above ).

The interest rate will be similar to those prevailing in India on comparable loans and the maturities will be consistent with the purposes of the financing.

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

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.

The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.

Abdur Rahman left on those who met him in India the impression of a clear-headed man of action, with great self-reliance and hardihood, not without indications of the implacable severity that too often marked his administration.

Cultures such as those in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and India developed the process of brewing beer.

These changes came about partly as the result of the urgings of Edwin Samuel Montagu, an influential anti-Zionist Jew and secretary of state for India, who was concerned that the declaration without those changes could result in increased anti-Semitic persecution.

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

After the Tang dynasty there emerged a line dividing Asia into two groups, those who depend on milk products ( India, Tibet, Central Asians ) and those who reject those foods.

Other dishes may be featured with varying strengths, with those of north Indian origin, such as butter chicken, tending to be mild, and recipes from the south of India tending to be hotter.

The United States showed a 12 % increase in demand during each year of the first three decades of the twentieth century, a rate of growth that is now being experienced by emerging economies such as those of India or China .< ref >

Mountbatten also developed a strong relationship with the Indian princes, who ruled those portions of India not directly under British rule.

Many large Hindu temples in southern India, particularly those built by the 11th century king Rajaraja Chola I, were made of granite.

In the 64 years since India's independence, India has been ruled by the Indian National Congress ( INC ) for 51 of those years.

Later, the English and the French established settlements in India and established a trade with China and their own acquisitions would gradually surpass those of the Dutch.

President Clinton received many messages of sympathy, including those from Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Narasimha Rao of India.

Greek writers about India such as Megasthenes and Arrian describe many of the states having republican governments akin to those of Greece.

The telegraph lines from Britain to India were connected in 1870 ( those several companies combined to form the Eastern Telegraph Company in 1872 ).

Between 1994 and 2009, the Wildlife Protection Society of India has documented 893 cases of tigers killed in India, which is just a fraction of the actual poaching and illegal trade in tiger parts during those years.

Increasing numbers of migrants from Burma, Laos, and Cambodia as well as nations such as Nepal, India, along with those from the West and Japan have pushed the number of non-nationals residing in Thailand to close to 2 million in 2008, up from about 1. 3 million in the year 2000.

A scientific conference for those who study thermophiles has been held since 1990 at locations throughout the world, including Viterbo, Italy ; Reykjavik, Iceland ; New Delhi, India ; and Bergen, Norway.