By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

A tribe in ancient India believed the earth was a huge tea tray resting on the backs of three giant elephants, which in turn stood on the shell of a great tortoise.

It was night on this hemisphere, but the light blazed from the megalopolises of Australia, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, India, Siberia.

All around the Mediterranean Sea, Asia Minor, northern India, and Tibet, Hebrew was the native tongue.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

In other types of alphabet either the vowels are not indicated at all, as was the case in the Phoenician alphabet ( such systems are known as abjads ), or else the vowels are shown by diacritics or modification of consonants, as in the devanagari used in India and Nepal ( these systems are known as abugidas or alphasyllabaries ).

When two of the founders of that society, Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott, moved to India at the end of that year, he was constituted as the President of the American body.

At the beginning, it was considered a sort of Taoist sect, and there was even a theory about Laozi, founder of Taoism, who went to India and taught his philosophy to Buddha.

Turing was conceived at Chhatrapur, Orissa, in British India.

His father's civil service commission was still active, and during Turing's childhood years his parents travelled between Hastings in England and India, leaving their two sons to stay with a retired Army couple.

* Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India in 1947.

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.

Aga Khan I (; or, less commonly but more correctly (; ), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (; ; 1804 in Kohak, Iran – 1881 in Bombay, India ), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in the Indian Subcontinent.

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.

While in India, Hasan Ali Shah continued his close relationship with the British, and was even visited by the Prince of Wales when the future King Edward VII was on a state visit to India.

He was nominated to represent India to the League of Nations in 1932.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

The first known states were created in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, the Americas ( e. g. Aztec civilization, Inca civilization ) and others, but it is only in relatively modern times that states have almost completely displaced alternative " stateless " forms of political organization of societies all over the planet.

As East Pakistan struggled to become the separate state of Bangladesh during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, the political and military turmoil and associated atrocities led to a massive refugee problem, with 7 million displaced people pouring into neighbouring India.

It resulted in a struggle between the newly constituted states of India and Pakistan and displaced up to 12. 5 million people with estimates of loss of life varying from several hundred thousand to a million ( most estimates of the numbers of people who crossed the boundaries between India and Pakistan in 1947 range between 10 and 12 million ).

Based on 1951 Census of displaced persons, 7, 226, 000 Muslims went to Pakistan from India while 7, 250, 000 Sikhs and Hindus moved to India from Pakistan immediately after partition.

* Camps for Sri Lankan Tamils, 110, 000 in India in 1998, and more than 560, 000 internally displaced 1983

Among the social groups whose causes she has advocated are slum dwellers, displaced Kashmiri Pandit migrants and victims of the earthquake at Latur ( Maharashtra, India ).

Further, they point out that even more educated highly trained workers with higher-value jobs such as software engineers, accountants, radiologists, and journalists in the developed world have been displaced by highly educated and cheaper workers from India and China.

After independence, the Maharana of Udaipur displaced the Nizam of Hyderabad as the most senior prince in India, and the style Highness was extended to all rulers entitled to 9-gun salutes.

India was the top producer of tea for nearly a century, but was displaced by China as the top tea producer in the 21st century.

After him, the Indo-Sassanid s displaced Kushan rule in North India.

* the 1984 anti-Sikh riotsand only, All India riots in which the Congress party played a major active role in the killing of more than 2, 000 Sikhs & Over 5, 000 displaced following the assassination of Indira Gandhi.

An increase in alcoholism due to displacement has led to a marked rise in domestic violence in India. In the Lincoln Park Community of Chicago, Illinois, where Jose ( Cha-Cha ) Jimenez founded the human rights Latino organization: Young Lords, Mayor Richard J. Daley displaced tens of thousands Puerto Ricans and the poor. This displacement helped to proliferate growing street gangs. Today these gangs enterprises with murder for hire, arson for profit and drug sales as its prime motivation. Displacement has made men feel helpless or insecure and turned women and children into scapegoats.

The Austro-Asiatic tribals are hypothesized to have been the earliest inhabitants of India, while incoming Indo-European tribes may have displaced Dravidian-speaking tribals southward.

The National Physical Laboratory, India is the premier research laboratory in India in the field of physical sciences.

The state is home to some of the premier educational and research institutions of India including IIM Indore, IIT Indore, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur and Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, School of Planning and Architecture ( Bhopal ), Indian Institute of Forest Management, National Law Institute University Bhopal, MANIT ( Bhopal ), University Institute of Technology RGPV Bhopal,

The premier was forced to equivocate over the Hastings trial, because to oppose Hastings would have been to endanger the support of the king and the East India Company, while to openly support him would have alienated country gentlemen and principled supporters like Wilberforce.

The Armed Forces Medical College ( AFMC ) is a premier medical college in India.

This premier institute is ranked as second best medical college of India only after the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Benazir Bhutto deliberately attempted to warm the relations with neighboring India and met with prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1989 where she negotiated for a trade agreement when the Indian premier paid a farewell visit to Pakistan.

* Institute of Chemical Technology, a premier institute located in the city of Mumbai, India

The CBI is a premier investigating police agency in India.

Deitch regularly contributed comical, psychedelia-tinged comic strips ( featuring the flower child " Sunshine Girl " and " The India Rubber Man ") to New York City's premier underground newspaper, the East Village Other, beginning in 1967.

The office of the Mayor combines a functional role of chairing the Corporation meeting as well as ceremonial role associated with being the First Citizen of the premier city of India.

In 2003 the Vellore Christian Medical Center was the largest Christian hospital in the world, with 2000 beds, and its medical school is now one of the premier medical colleges in India.

Anna University ( AU ), formerly Perarignar Anna University of Technology ( PAUT ), is a premier technical university in Tamil Nadu, India.

Calicut Medical College is a premier medical college located in the city of Kozhikode ( Calicut ) in Kerala, India.

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay one of the premier institutions of science and technology in India is located to the east of the lake.

The Faculty of Commerce has been a premier institute of education in business studies since 1949 and it was the first of its kind in India.

This department is recognised worldwide as one of the premier institutes of India and unarguably the best in Western India for education in the emerging field of Biochemistry.

For Pakistan & India there are different Ten Sports Live Tv Channels Ten Sports was launched on April 1, 2002, and became the world's premier sports channel for South Asians, reaching over 55 million homes across the Arab world, Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.

* Ravenshaw Management Centre, a premier management institute, Cuttack, India

The Chairman and Members of CBDT are selected from Indian Revenue Service ( IRS ), a premier civil service of India, whose members constitute the top management of Income Tax Department and other various departments.

* Dehradun Institute of Technology, Dehradun-a premier engineering college of India

Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute ( VJTI ), formerly Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute, is a premier regional engineering and technical institute aided by Government, located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, and one of the oldest engineering colleges in Asia.