* 1848 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social reformer ( d. 1919 )

* 1950 – Sudha Murty, Indian social worker and writer

At the BBC, Orwell introduced Voice, a literary programme for his Indian broadcasts, and by now was leading an active social life with literary friends, particularly on the political left.

* 1856 – Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Indian lawyer and social reformer ( d. 1920 )

Under Nehru, the Indian Parliament enacted many changes to Hindu law to criminalize caste discrimination and increase the legal rights and social freedoms of women.

The loss of vultures has had a social impact on the Indian Zoroastrian Parsi community, which traditionally uses vultures to dispose of human corpses in a Tower of Silence, but are now compelled to seek alternate methods of disposal.

The Indian Diaspora distributed opium-eaters in the same way, and both social groups survived as " lascars " ( seamen ) and " coolies " ( manual laborers ).

Britain's All-India Opium Act of 1878 formalized social distinctions, limiting recreational opium sales to registered Indian opium-eaters and Chinese opium-smokers and prohibiting its sale to workers from Burma.

The church had provided an essential ideological underpinning to Spanish rule by spreading the doctrine of the " divine right of kings " and inculcating the Indian masses with a resigned fatalism about their social status and economic prospects.

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* April 1 – Dr. Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji, Indian born social reformer

* August 28 – Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician

** Malayapuram Singaravelu Chettiar, Indian social reformer ( d. 1946 )

Sivaramakrishnan ( 2009 ) explores the boundaries between wildness and civility in Indian society, as well as connection of ideas of nature to different aspects of social life, especially labor, aesthetics, politics, commerce, and agriculture.

Lokmanya Tilak ( ), born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak ( – ), was an Indian nationalist, journalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement.

The Boycott movement consisted of the boycott of foreign goods and also the social boycott of any Indian who used foreign goods.

Ram Mohun Roy, Ram Mohun also spelled Rammohun, Rammohan, or Ram Mohan (; 14 August 1774 – 27 September 1833 ), was an Indian religious, social, and educational reformer who challenged traditional Hindu culture and indicated the lines of progress for Indian society under British rule.

She maintained an air of self-assured calm throughout all her public engagements in the years after the war, a period marked by civil unrest over social conditions, Irish independence and Indian nationalism.

* Anna Hazare ( born 1937 ): Indian social activist

With the revolution for independence from Spanish crown during the 19th century, South America underwent yet more social and political changes among them nation building projects, European immigration waves, increased trade, colonization of hinterlands, and wars about territory ownership and power balance, the reorganization of Indian rights and duties, liberal-conservative conflicts among the ruling class, and the subjugation of Indians living in the states frontiers, that lasted until the early 1900s.

The Indian caste system describes the social stratification and social restrictions in the Indian subcontinent, in which social classes are defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups, often termed as jātis or castes.

In Dubai, a nation governed by very strict cultural norms and laws, there are several Indian strip clubs offering at least partial nudity.

`` 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.