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.

I have the honor to refer to the Agricultural Commodities Agreement signed today between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of India ( hereinafter referred to as the Agreement ) and, with regard to the rupees accruing to uses indicated under Article 2, of the Agreement, to state that the understanding of the Government of the United States of America is as follows: 1.

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.

The United States recognizes the desire of India to accumulate, as quickly as possible, a substantial part of the one million ton reserve stock of rice provided for in this Agreement to assist in stabilizing the internal markets for this commodity in India.

In India, especially in South India, residential plots are measured in cents or decimel, which is one hundredth of an acre, or.

It is reputed to be one of the oldest hill forts in India and the world.

New Crowns for Old depicts Disraeli as Abanazer from the pantomime version of Aladdin offering Queen Victoria | Victoria an imperial crown in exchange for a royal one. Disraeli cultivated a public image of himself as an Imperialist with grand gestures such as conferring on Queen Victoria the title “ Empress of India ”.

Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centres of film production in the world.

At the time nutmeg was one of the " fine spices " kept expensive in Europe by disciplined manipulation of the market, but a desirable commodity for Dutch traders in the ports of India as well ; economic historian Fernand Braudel notes that India consumed twice as much as Europe.

Fort Belgica, one of many forts built by the Dutch East India Company, is one of the largest remaining European forts in Indonesia.

Widespread distribution of Permo-Carboniferous glacial sediments in South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, India, Antarctica and Australia was one of the major pieces of evidence for the theory of continental drift.

Coin of Chandragupta II or Vikramaditya, one of the most powerful emperors of the Gupta empire during times referred to as the Golden Age of India

Image: Roman gold coins excavated in Pudukottai India one coin of Caligula 31 41 and two coins of Nero 54 68. jpg | Roman gold coins excavated in Pudukottai, India, examples of Indo-Roman trade during the period.

For certain genetic strains of cholera, such as the one present during the 2010 epidemic in Haiti and the 2004 outbreak in India, death can occur within two hours of becoming ill.

* 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.

Simple queries like " find all the people in India " required the program to walk the entire data set and collect the matching results one by one.

The Deccan Traps are a large igneous province located on the Deccan Plateau of west-central India ( between 17 °– 24 ° N, 73 °– 74 ° E ) and one of the largest volcanic features on Earth.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

But the crafty Afghan ruler clearly viewed the war as an opportunity to play one side off against the other, for he also offered the British to resist a Central Powers attack on India in exchange for an end to British control of Afghan foreign policy.

The Saint Thomas Christians (" Nasrani ") of southwestern India may have connections with the Essenes, according to the Manimekalai, one of the great Tamil epic poems, which refers to a people called " Issani ".

His efforts left a significant impression upon the missionary history of India and, as one of the first Jesuit missionaries to the East Indies, his work is of fundamental significance to Christians in the propagation of Christianity in China and Japan.

India is, however, one of the biggest franchising markets because of its large middle-class of 300 million who are not reticent about spending and because the population is entrepreneurial in character.

They explained that they desired only to stop in India until a ship traveling on to Burma could be found.

Ultimately the U.N. army in the Congo reached a top strength of 19,000, including about 5,000 from India and a few soldiers from Eire and Sweden, who were the only whites.

Scott's only son Walter did not live to enjoy the property, having died on his way from India in 1847.

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.

Through this treaty, the Marathas controlled virtually the whole of India from their capital at Pune and Mughal rule was restricted only to Delhi ( the Mughals remained the nominal heads of Delhi ).

Scholars accept that Brahui could only have migrated to Balochistan from central India after 1000 AD.

Yersin also noted that rats were affected by plague not only during plague epidemics but also often preceding such epidemics in humans, and that plague was regarded by many locals as a disease of rats: villagers in China and India asserted that, when large numbers of rats were found dead, plague outbreaks soon followed.

Originally announced as Tales of India and Irony ( a collection of non fantasy / science fiction / horror tales, planned to be available only to subscribers of above collection ).

Meanwhile Baltimore Clippers still continued to be built, and were built specifically for the China opium trade running opium between India and China, a trade that only became unprofitable for American shipowners in 1849.

India is the only country still manufacturing DDT, with China having ceased production in 2007.

However, monarchs heading empires have not always used the title — the British sovereign did not assume the title until the incorporation of India into the British Empire, and even then used it only in a limited context.

The only period when British monarchs held the title of Emperor in a dynastic succession started when the title Empress of India was created for Queen Victoria.

After India was invaded by the Mongol Khans and Turkic Muslims, the rulers of their major states on the subcontinent were titled Sultān, In this manner, the only empress-regnant ever to have actually sat on the throne of Delhi was Razia Sultan.

During the time of partition, the Bengali Hindus did not migrated to India, only few colonies close to border re-located in India.

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.

The most famous Arabic mathematician is considered to be Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī ( 780 – 850 ), who produced a comprehensive guide to the numbering system developed from the Brahmi system in India, using only 10 digits ( 0-9, the so-called " Arabic numerals ").

The Muslim rulers were keen to invade India, which was a rich region, with a flourishing international trade and the only known diamond mines in the world.

The Delhi Sultanate is the only Indo-Islamic empire to have enthroned one of the few female rulers in India, Razia Sultana ( 1236 – 1240 ).

Thus, North India is kept warm or only mildly cooled during winter ; in summer, the same phenomenon makes India relatively hot.

In addition, Idaho is one of only two places in the world where star garnets can be found ( the other is the Himalaya Mountains, in India ).

In many common law jurisdictions ( e. g. the Republic of Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand ), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury ( in contrast to a summary offence ).

Gandhi was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India.