Other Western artists such as the Grateful Dead, Incredible String Band, the Rolling Stones, the Move and Traffic soon incorporated Indian influences and instruments, and added Indian performers.

Mercury was influenced early on by the Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar along with western influences such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and The Beatles.

He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exeget, theologian, and logician-a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.

In Britain, the Yardbirds, with Jeff Beck as their guitarist, increasingly moved into psychedelic territory, adding up-tempo improvised " rave ups ", Gregorian chant and world music ( in particular Indian ) influences to their songs, including " Still I'm Sad " ( 1965 ) and " Over Under Sideways Down " ( 1966 ), and singles such as " Heart Full of Soul " ( 1965 ), " Shapes of Things " ( 1966 ) and " Happenings Ten Years Time Ago " ( 1966 ).

Mountains in the south obstruct the flow of warm air masses from the Indian Ocean, while the plain of the west and north makes the country open to Arctic and Atlantic influences.

Additionally, Meroe maintained contact with Arab and Indian traders along the Red Sea coast and incorporated Greek Hellenistic and Indian Hindu cultural influences into its daily life.

Southern Vietnam has also been the region where influences from foreign cuisines ( Chinese, Indian, French, Thai, etc.

Very little is known about Southeast Asian religious beliefs and practices before the advent of Indian merchants and religious influences from the 2nd century BCE onwards.

Two influences on Boole were later claimed by his wife, Mary Everest Boole: a universal mysticism tempered by Jewish thought, and Indian logic .. Mary Boole stated that an adolescent mystical experience provided for his life's work:

were the main handicrafts that inherited these foreign influences and assimilated them in accordance with the Indian milieu.

The area around the Indian River was in the Indian River variant of the St. Johns culture, with influences from the Belle Glade culture to the south.

Hellenistic cultural and artistic influences appear in many of the forms and human depictions ( from amorini to rings with the depiction of Athena and her name inscribed in Greek ), attributable to the existence of the Seleucid empire and Greco-Bactrian kingdom in the same area until around 140 BC, and the continued existence of the Indo-Greek kingdom in the northwestern Indian sub-continent until the beginning of our era.

In recent times there are also substantial influences and culinary trends from American cuisine, French cuisine, Indian cuisine, Japanese cuisine, Moroccan cuisine and Spanish cuisine.

The title song of the Sufi fusion band Indian Ocean's album Jhini is an energetic rendering of Kabir's famous poem " The intricately woven blanket ", with influences from Indian folk, Sufi traditions and progressive rock.

These sauces generally take influences from Chinese, Japanese, Caribbean, and Indian cuisines.

With increased eclecticism, the album boasted the influences of country, bluegrass, psychedelia, and Middle-Eastern and Indian music.

It is one of two main sub-genres of Indian classical music that evolved from ancient Hindu traditions ; the other sub-genre being Hindustani music, which emerged as a distinct form because of Persian and Islamic influences in North India.

Owing to Persian and Islamic influences in North India from the 12th century onwards, Indian classical music began to diverge into two distinct styles, being Hindustani music and Carnatic music.

Art historian Robert Hillenbrand ( 1999 ) likens the movement to the foundation of an " Islamic Rome ", because the meeting of Eastern influences from Iranian, Eurasian steppe, Chinese, and Indian sources created a new paradigm for Islamic art.

The wide distances travelled have introduced a multitude of influences, starting with Indian roots and adding elements of Greek, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Czech, Slavic, Romanian, German, French and Spanish musical forms.

`` I care not how soon we reach Calcutta, and are placed in a still room, with a bowl of milk and a loaf of Indian bread.

The three Indian brass deities, though -- Ganessa, Siva, and Krishna -- are an altogether different cup of tea.

The fact of Indian ancestry and `` free '' status during the days of slavery, are important distinctions made by members of the group.

Indian philosophy begins with the Vedas where questions related to laws of nature, the origin of the universe and the place of man in it are asked.

The Six schools of Indian philosophy are:

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

The only places outside of Japan in which Y-haplogroup D is common are Tibet and the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The Andaman forests are largely unspoiled, despite logging and the demands of the fast-growing population driven by immigration from the Indian mainland.

They are descended from the Hindu-Arabic numeral system developed by Indian mathematicians, in which a sequence of digits such as " 975 " is read as a numeral.

* The Devanagari numerals used with Devanagari and related variants are grouped as Indian numerals.

Plancius called the constellation " Paradysvogel Apis Indica "; the first word is Dutch for ' bird of paradise ', but the others are Latin for " Indian Bee "; " apis " ( Latin for " bee ") is presumably an error for " avis " or " bird ".

Of particular concern to Indian drama and literature are the term ' Bhava ' or the state of mind and rasa referring generally to the emotional flavors / essence crafted into the work by the writer and relished by a ' sensitive spectator ' or sahṛdaya or one with positive taste and mind.

The back and sides of a particular guitar are typically made of the same wood ; Brazilian or East Indian rosewood and Honduras mahogany are traditional choices, however, maple has been prized for the figuring that can be seen when it is cut in a certain way ( such as " flame " and " quilt " patterns ).

While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two die from the British / Indian troops.

There are also the gulfs of Cambay and Kutch on the Indian coast.

There are also the many North American Indian festivals tied to harvest of autumnally ripe foods gathered in the wild, the Chinese Mid-Autumn or Moon festival, and many others.

In Indian and Pakistani cuisine, bay leaves are sometimes used in place of Indian bay leaf, although they have a different flavor.

Bay ( laurel ) leaves are frequently packaged as tejpatta ( the Hindi term for Indian bay leaf ), creating confusion between the two herbs.

country code-267 ; international calls are made via satellite, using international direct dialing ; 2 international exchanges ; digital microwave radio relay links to Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa ; satellite earth station-1 Intelsat ( Indian Ocean ) ( 2007 )

In the ancient Indian work the Kama Sutra, light scratching of the breasts with nails and biting with teeth are considered erotic.

Legal meaning of the terms bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation and dissolution are contested in the Indian legal system.

There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda ( also known as the pygmy blue whale ) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.

The states, Indian tribes, and federal government are all engaged in efforts to restore and improve the water, land, and air quality of the Columbia River drainage basin and have committed to work together to enhance and accomplish critical ecosystem restoration efforts.