In India, finger millet ( locally called by various name including ragi and nachani ) is mostly grown and consumed in Karnataka, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Maharashtra, Kumaon ( Uttarakhand ) and Goa.

In the Kumaon region of northern India, it is called Maddua and is traditionally fed to women after child birth.

This beautiful valley in the Kumaon hills is located at the foot of the Milam glacier from which the river Goriganga originates.

In the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, the Dasara festival starts with the performance of Ramlila which is unique as it is based on the musical rendering of the katha or story of Lord Rama.

In Nepal and the Kumaon & Garhwal region of Northern India, stinging nettle is known as Sisnu and Kandeli respectively.

In the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand Makar Sankranti is celebrated with great gusto.

In Kumaon region of Uttranchal, several beautifully carved temples are dedicated to Duryodhana and he is worshipped as a minor deity.

Rangoli art is an adornment or decoration that has different names in different provinces of India ; for example, Purna in Uttar Pradesh, Mmandn in Rajasthan, Aripan in Bihar, Bengal Alpana in Maharashtra, Rangavallie in Karnataka, Kollam in Tamil Nadu, Muggu in Andhra Pradesh, Alikhthap in Kumaon, Kolam in Kerala, and Saathiyo in Gujarat.

The race in the western part is intermedius and is found in Kashmir and Kohat down to the Salt Range and along the Himalayas to Kumaon.

This myna is a resident breeder from Kumaon division in India ( 80 ° E longitude ) east through Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, the lower Himalayas, terai and foothills up to 2000 m ASL.

This species is distributed from the Lower Himalayas from Kumaon east to Burma, thence to central Laos and central Vietnam.

The Pindari Glacier is a glacier found in the upper reaches of the Kumaon Himalayas, to the southeast of Nanda Devi, Nanda Kot.

Kumaon ( Hindi: क ु म ा ऊ ं) or Kumaun is one of the two regions and administrative divisions of Uttarakhand, a mountainous state of northern India, the other being Garhwal.

It is home to a famous Indian Army regiment, the Kumaon Regiment.

Nainital is the administrative centre of Kumaon Division and this is where the Uttarakhand high court is located.

The rest of Kumaon is a maze of mountains, part of the Himalaya range, some of which are among the loftiest known.

The region of Kumaon is named after as such.

The Kumaon Regiment is one of the most decorated regiments of the Indian Army.

Lying in the Himalayas, It is bounded on the north by Tibet, on the east by Kumaon region, on the south by Uttar Pradesh state, and on the north-west by Himachal Pradesh state.

In the north and west of India, the Vaikrita system, which occurs in Hundes, Kumaon and Spiti areas, the Dailing series in Sikkim and the Shillong series in Assam are believed to be of the same age as the Dharwar system.

The second division, at Benares, under command of Major-General Wood, having subsequently removed to Gorakhpur, was meant to enter the hills by the Bhootnuill pass, and, turning to the eastward, to penetrate the hilly districts, towards Kathmandu, and cooperate with the first division, while its success would have divided the enemy's country and force into two parts, cutting off all the troops in Kumaon and Garhwal from communication with the capital.

Although it has not been conclusively established, some linguists have hypothesized that Dardic may, in ancient times, have enjoyed a much bigger linguistic zone, stretching from the " mouth of the Indus " ( i. e. Sindh ) northwards in an arc, and then eastwards through modern day Himachal Pradesh to Kumaon.

... " started hill trekking at the age of six months, camping in tents in the hills of Kumaon ... brought up within sight of Nanda Devi and Trisul-who could fail to have a love of mountains and natural history?

Known as the Almora or Kumaon style, Ramlila has been recognised by UNESCO in its 2008 report as one of the representative styles of Ramlila in India.

While the Gorkhali had been expanding their empire – into Sikkim in the east, Kumaon and Garhwal in the west and into the British sphere of influence in Awadh, or Oudh as the British called it, in the south – the British East India Company had consolidated its position in India from its main bases of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay.

The regiment, having been brought into the line of the Bengal Army, was briefly titled the 18th Bengal Native Infantry in 1861 before the regiment gained its present numeral designation when it became the 3rd Goorka ( The Kumaon ) Regiment.

In the month of October 1814, Major General Sir Rollo Gillespie of the British army had advanced along with 3, 500 troops and eleven pieces of cannon to occupy the Nepali territories situated between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in the Gharwal and Kumaon regions that had been occupied by the Nepali forces.

The cuisine mainly consists of food from two different sub regions — Garhwal and Kumaon — though their basic ingredients are the same.

He hailed from the Johaar Valley of Kumaon.

He was born in Nainital on 5 January 1934, hailing from the Kumaon Hills region of Nainital northern India which today form a part of the state of Uttarakhand.

Popular Dances like Choliya from the Kumaon region of India, and khukri dances from Nepal are prominent in the sub-continent, while all known linked (" hilt-and-point ") sword dances are from Europe.

According to the Hindu religious texts, on the day of Uttarayani also called Ghughuti ( घ ु घ ु त ि) in Kumaon, the sun enters the Zodiacal sign of ' Makar ' ( Capricon ) from the Zodiacal sign of the Kark ( Cancer ), i. e. from this day onwards the sun becomes ' Uttarayan ' or it starts moving to the north.

In 1815 the Kumaon Division was acquired after the Gurkha War, and a further portion of Bundelkhand from the Maratha Peshwa in 1817.

Originally, from Joshimath, during their reign they dominated lands of varying extent from the ' Katyur ' ( modern day Baijnath ) valley in Kumaon, between 7th and 11th centuries AD, and established their capital, at Baijnath in Bageshwar district, which was then known as Kartikeyapura and lies in the centre of ' Katyur ' valley. Brahmadev mandi in Kanchanpur District of Nepal was established by Katyuris king Brahma deo.

According to folklore when a British official was saved from the prison of the Tibetan Jongpong ( Governor ) of Taklakot in Tibet by some Kumaonis he pursued their case with the Resident at Delhi and convinced him to attack the Gorkhas in Kumaon.

Inspired by their bravery the British granted on the people of Kumaon the title of martial race. They heavily recruited from them and the result was the Kumaon Regiment ( Earlier the Hyderabad Regiment which consisted mostly of Kumaonis ).

The Katyuri Raja of Uttarkhand ( Kumaon and Garhwal ) was styled, Sri Basdeo Giriraj Chakara Churamani, and the earliest traditions record that the possessions of Joshimath Katyuris in Garhwal extended from Satluj as far as Gandaki and from the snows to plains, including the whole of Rohilkhand.

It did not consist entirely of Gurkhas but of men from Kumaon and Garhwal.

He continued to call his state Kurmanchal, and established its capital in Champawat in Kali Kumaon, called so, due to its vicinity to river Kali.

Kurmanchal named this region Kumaon.

Another eight units would follow after ten years for " Indianisation ", one of which was the wartime 8th Battalion, 19th Hyderabad Regiment, today the 4th Battalion, the Kumaon Regiment in the Indian Army.