There has been a growing presence of Indian English in dialogue and songs as well.

In the early 1960s, the UK was withdrawing its military presence from the Indian Ocean area, not including the base at RAF Gan to the north of Diego Garcia in the Maldives ( which remained open until 1976 ), and agreed to permit the US to establish a Naval Communication Station on one of its island territories there.

Various political parties in India repeatedly called for the military base to be dismantled, as they saw the US naval presence in Diego Garcia as a hindrance to peace in the Indian Ocean.

The Theravada school remained a presence on the Indian mainland long after its establishment in Sri Lanka, however.

The Floridas, still a Spanish territory but with no Spanish presence to speak of, became a refuge for runaway slaves and Indian raiders.

A palpable presence in Indian culture, Jains have contributed to Indian philosophy, art, architecture, and science.

The goal of Portuguese presence was not settlement but the establishment of naval bases that would give Portugal control of the Indian Ocean.

The Portuguese presence in East Africa served the purpose of controlling trade within the Indian Ocean and securing the sea routes linking Europe to Asia.

Seychelles follows a policy of what it describes as " positive " nonalignment and strongly supports the principle of reduced superpower presence in the Indian Ocean.

The Seychelles government is one of the proponents of the Indian Ocean zone of peace concept and it has promoted an end to the United States presence on Diego Garcia.

After the Roman conquest of the Nabataean Empire and the Roman naval presence at Aden to curb piracy, Arab merchants barred Indian merchants from trading in the free port cities of the Arabian Peninsula because of the nearby Roman presence.

The Yongle emperor designed them to establish a Chinese presence, impose imperial control over trade, impress foreign peoples in the Indian Ocean basin and extend the empire's tributary system.

Besides outnumbering the Portuguese presence at Goa, the Indian frigates were new ships, presenting greater displacement, equipped with modern armament and greater speed.

In order to properly detect the presence of illegal activity in the Indian gaming industry law enforcement offices with jurisdiction in Indian gaming violations should:

In the interim, the administration expanded the U. S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.

In Pickawillany, Ohio, Lorimier had supported the British and had led Shawnee and Delaware Indian raids against the growing American presence there.

Not knowing the fact that at the time of dispersal, the Indian Ocean was much narrower than it is today, and that South America was closer to the Antarctic, one would be hard pressed to explain the presence of many " ancient " lineages of perching birds in Africa, as well as the mainly South American distribution of the suboscines.

They named the town Mount Pleasant when it was incorporated in 1876 due to the presence of a nearby Indian burial mound.

The presence of the Indian Cemetery there is an abiding point of reference for him and a place to which he often returns, in person and more often, in memory.

Gallup is sometimes called the " Indian Capital of the World ", for its location in the heart of Native American lands, and the presence of Navajo, Zuni, Hopi and other tribes.

The French maintained a presence in the area until the end of the French and Indian War in 1763.

Destructive Indian raids continued despite a heavy U. S. presence near the Mexican border.

* 1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

* 1872 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and philosopher ( d. 1950 )

* 1950 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher ( b. 1879 )

The Territory of the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia, located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Christmas Island and approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka.

Curry () ( plural, Curries ) is a generic term primarily employed in Western culture to denote a wide variety of dishes originating in Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Thai or other Southern and Southeastern Asian cuisines, as well as New World cuisines influenced by them such as Trinidadian or Fijian.

The 1996 championship was held in the Indian subcontinent for a second time, with the inclusion of Sri Lanka as host for some of its group stage matches.

In the semi-final, Sri Lanka, heading towards a crushing victory over India at Eden Gardens ( Calcutta ) after their hosts lost eight wickets while scoring 120 runs in pursuit of 254, were awarded victory by default after crowd unrest broke out in protest against the Indian performance.

* 2004 – A 9. 3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230, 000 people including over 1700 on a moving train.

* 1879 – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher ( d. 1950 )

* 1836 – Sri Ramakrishna, Indian Bengali guru of Swami Vivekananda ( d. 1886 )

Library associations in Asia include the Indian Library Association ( ILA ), Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers ( IASLIC ), Bengal Library Association ( BLA ), Kolkata, Pakistan Library Association, the Pakistan Librarians Welfare Organization, the Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists, the Library Association of Bangladesh and the Sri Lanka Library Association ( founded 1960 ).

Less than 12 hours later, Indian paratroopers arrived on Hulele, causing some of the mercenaries to flee toward Sri Lanka in their freighter.

Three days later an Indian frigate captured the mercenaries on their freighter near the Sri Lankan coast.

* 1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed few thousand ethnic Tamil civilians, several hundred Tamil Tigers and few hundred Indian Army soldiers.

He was also responsible for first intervening and then sending Indian troops ( Indian Peace Keeping Force or IPKF ) for peace efforts in Sri Lanka in 1987, which soon ended in open conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

There is considerable racial segregation in the United Arab Emirates, where there are areas that house large numbers of South Asian migrant workers ( primarily Indian, as well as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka ).

Sri Lanka (,, or ;, ), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in the northern Indian Ocean off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia.

Sri Lanka has been called The Pearl of the Indian Ocean.

One of the first written references to the island is found in the Indian epic Ramayana, which provides details of a kingdom named Lanka that had been created by the divine sculptor Vishwakarma, for Kubera, the lord of wealth.

In 1987, the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord was signed and Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) was deployed in northern Sri Lanka to stabilize the region by neutralising the LTTE.

The island of Sri Lanka lies atop the Indian tectonic plate, a minor plate within the Indo-Australian Plate.

Sri Lanka is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.

According to the Hindu mythology, a land bridge existed between the Indian mainland and Sri Lanka.