The adherence of many in the population to the Indian background in their pedigree, and emphasis upon the fact that their ancestors had never been slaves, becomes of prime interest in determining how far these elements promote the self-image of the intermediate status of the group in society.

It was in fact directed by Vincenzo Leone, father of Sergio Leone, and starred his mother Bice Walerian in the title role as Indian princess fatale.

Many Indian restaurants of the sizeable Thai-Indian community will also have vegetarian dishes on offer, due to the fact that vegetarianism is held as an ideal by many followers of the Hindu faith.

The historical significance of the Tantric method lies in the fact that it impacted every major Indian religion extant in the early medieval period ( c. 500-1200 CE ): thus the Hindu sects of Shaivism, Shaktism and Vaishnavism, as well as Buddhism and Jainism all developed a well-documented body of Tantric practices and related doctrines.

West-Pakistan accused East-Pakistan for not taking any action even, in fact, Eastern Air Command of Indian Air Force did attack the East-Pakistan's Air Force.

Beside the fact of the first voyage itself, it was his astute mix of politics and war on the other side of the world that placed Portugal in a prominent position in Indian Ocean trade.

This left the British forces vulnerable to German attack, and after the German Spring Offensives Lloyd George misled the House of Commons in claiming that Haig's forces were stronger at the start of 1918 than they had been a year earlier-in fact the increase was in the number of Chinese, Indian and black South African labourers, and Haig had fewer infantry, holding a longer stretch of front.

Anthropologist David Graeber has noted that, historically, the first wage labor contracts we know about – whether in ancient Greece or Rome, or in the Malay or Swahili city states in the Indian ocean – were in fact contracts for the rental of chattel slaves ( usually the owner would receive a share of the money, and the slave, another, with which to maintain his or her living expenses.

Therefore, the original song is quite clearly understandable, and in fact, remains almost unchanged in several widely different Indian languages.

Compounding this was the fact that while citizenship tests existed for Native Americans living in newly annexed areas before and after forced relocation, individual U. S. states did not recognize tribal land claims, only individual title under State law, and distinguished between the rights of white and non-white citizens, who often had limited standing in court ; and Indian removal was carried out under U. S. military jurisdiction, often by state militias.

Maya or Māyā ( Sanskrit ), in Indian religions, has multiple meanings, usually quoted as " illusion ", centered on the fact that we do not yet experience the environment directly but rather through some projection of itMaya sustains the self by blessing self judgement of self creation.

It is commonly mistaken that the majority of Indian restaurants in Britain are run by entrepreneurs of Indian origin, when in fact they are predominantly Bangladeshi and Pakistani.

Those who believe that the Queen saw Brown as little more than a servant point to the fact that after his death she became similarly attached to an Indian servant, Abdul Karim ( the Munshi ), one of two who had come to work for her in late June 1887.

Two examples are most commonly cited: the insistence of Indian and Northern Affairs ’ representatives that the Naskapis live in row houses that, in the event, proved not to be adequately soundproofed and that had a variety of other faults ; and the fact that the brochure prepared by Indian and Northern Affairs showed a fully landscaped site with trees and bushes, whereas no landscaping was done, and no trees or bushes were ever planted.

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.

The lake was named Indian Lake due to the fact that settlers found Native Americans encamped along the lake's shores when they first arrived in 1869.

The fact that Balliol ( in contrast to Trinity ) had admitted a number of Indian and Asiatic students also gave many of the taunts from the Trinity side a distinctly racist tone: Balliol students, for example, were sometime referred to as " Basutos ".

The fact that Balliol ( in contrast to Trinity ) had admitted a number of Indian and Asiatic students also gave many of the taunts from the Trinity side a distinctly racist tone: Balliol students, for example, were sometime referred to as " Basutos ".

In the Indian subcontinent, balaclavas are commonly referred to as monkey caps, due to their typical earth tone colours, and the fact that they blot out most human facial features.

In fact the Sepoy Mutiny of 1806 that broke out inside the Velor fought against the British authority is considered to be a prelude to the Great Revolt of 1857, which is often described by some historians as the the First Indian War of Independence.

Cuvier's analysis established, for the first time, the fact that African and Indian elephants were different species and that mammoths were not the same species as either African or Indian elephants and therefore must be extinct.

Additionally, the claimants to this ancestry also claim descendancy from Sargon of Akkad ( whose dynasty died out over 1500 years before the Assyrian dynasty fell ), and from Nabopolassar, who was a Chaldean, politically and militarily opposed to Assyria, and not in fact an Assyrian.

In fact, of the more than 1 million people of Cape Verdean ancestry in the world, only a little more than one-third actually live on the islands.

If van der Heul was indeed of African ancestry, this fact would make him the highest ranking black pirate so far identified.

Berber vocabulary and cultural traits remain common, despite the fact that many Saharawi people today claim Arab ancestry.

In fact, Caesar was informed that a large part of the Belgae had Germanic ancestry, and in particular the Belgae living in the area stretching from eastern Belgium to the Rhine were referred to by Caesar as the Germani cisrhenani.

As of the 2000 Census, 29. 7 % of Cedar Grove's residents identified themselves as being of Italian ancestry ( adjusted from the 34. 8 % reported to reflect the fact that residents reported multiple ancestries ), the 18th highest of all municipalities in New Jersey.

The family was of mixed English and Scandinavian ancestry, as is shown by the fact that Stigand's name was Norse but his brother's was English.

Eysenck was brought up by his grandmother, who was a fervent Catholic, though of Jewish ancestry — a fact he did not know until after her death in a concentration camp ( p. 80 ).

Although it is sometimes used to describe individuals of mixed European and African descent, it originally referred to anyone with mixed ethnicities ; in fact, in the United States, " mulatto " was also used as a term for those who were African American and Native American ancestry during the early census years.

In the final episode, Thomas discovers a fact about his ancestry that makes him even more insufferable.

Although aware his father was born in Calcutta, India, Alistair and his sister Kay were unaware of the fact that their father had a Anglo-Indian background until McGowan explored his ancestry on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are?

) Under this theory, the officials denied the imperial ancestry of these children in fear of the fact that they were also descendants of Empress Dowager Lü and her clan, and therefore might avenge the slaughter of the Lü clan — a reason that they themselves admitted.

However, genetic analysis shows that its ancestry is in fact nested within the wattlebird genus Anthochaera, and hence it is correctly described as Anthochaera phrygia.

However, if Saavik's mixed ancestry were to be made canon, it would violate the continuity created by the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " Balance of Terror " ( which takes place after Saavik's birth ) in which Starfleet learns for the first time that Romulans resemble Vulcans, a fact that appears to be unknown to Vulcans ( or at least the extremely knowledgeable Mr. Spock ) as well.

A legitimate dispersion such as this would shroud the fact that Herod ’ s ancestry is undocumented in the meticulous records of returned Jewish families.

... the fact that the criterion which we happen to use has a fine ancestry in highbrow statistical theorems does not justify its use.

Although he is often referred to as a black African from Madagascar, he also may have been of partial Malay ancestry, which would have been quite common owing to the fact that Madagascar had been originally settled by diverse peoples of both South-East Asia as well as Africa.

Apart from the Germani, the report of Caesar seems to indicate that more of the Belgae ( most of them in fact ) had similar ancestry and ethnicity.

Nevertheless, those who are well-connected in Korean society are sometimes said to have " yangban " connections, and though these claims may have some merit, such references are not usually intended to suggest any real yangban lineage or ancestry ( though given the fact that many descendants of those in the yangban class live today, and that the changing fortunes of those in that class rendered so many individuals of " former " yangban status, it is not a stretch to assume that many, if not most, Koreans today have at least some connection to the yangban class, if not any direct descent ; in addition, the acquisition / outright theft of clan lineage records or jokbo during tumultuous times in Korea's history has thrown some doubt on to the veracity of some claims of yangban descent ).

Berber vocabulary and cultural traits remain common, despite the fact that most if not all of the Sahrawi / Moorish tribes today claim Arab ancestry ; several are even claiming to be descendants of Muhammad, so-called sharifian tribes ( pl.

Evidence against sauropod ancestry within Prosauropoda comes from the fact that prosauropods had a smaller outer toe on their hind feet than the sauropods.

The Renaissance dukes of Lorraine tended to arrogate to themselves claims to Carolingian ancestry, as illustrated by Alexandre Dumas, père in the novel La Dame de Monsoreau ( 1846 ); in fact, so little documentation survives on the early generations that the reconstruction of a family tree for progenitors of the House of Alsace involves a good deal of guesswork.

However, Hilke Thuer examined the old notes and photographs of the now-missing skull, and concluded that it shows signs of an admixture of African and Egyptian ancestry mixed with classical Grecian features – despite the fact that Boas, Gravlee, Bernard and Leonard and others have demonstrated that skull measurements are not a reliable indicator of race.

It was assumed that far more mallard drakes mate with Grey Duck females than vice versa based on the fact that most hybrids show a mallard-type plumage, but this is not correct ; it appears that the mallard phenotype is dominant, and that the degree to which species contributed to a hybrid's ancestry cannot be determined from the plumage.