Although the Royal Navy is widely regarded as having been vital for the rise of the British Empire, and British dominance of the world, the British Army played an important role in the colonisation of India and other regions.

The Six Dynasties era saw the rise of the Xuanxue philosophical school and the maturation of Chinese Buddhism, which had entered China from India during the Late Han Dynasties.

The allegations such as " A recent phenomenon in India has been the rise of Hindu fundamentalism that has led to political mobilization against Muslims.

However, with the rise of the rival Dutch East India Company, Portuguese influence in Asia was gradually eclipsed.

But due to lack of royal patronage and its strict principles, along with the rise of Shankaracharya & Ramanujacharya, Jainism, once the major religion of southern India, began to decline.

The period also saw the rise of British power in the Persian Gulf as a result of their growing interests in India.

The final end of republics in India came with the rise of the Gupta Empire, and an associated philosophy of the divine nature of monarchy.

In 1799, the Dutch East India Company, formerly the world's largest company, became bankrupt, partly due to the rise of competitive free trade.

* The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Martínez de Perón as the first woman President in Argentina in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of Lesotho, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The comparative rise of China, India, and other developing countries also contributed to their growing clout in international fora.

Graeco-Roman Europe, India and China see the rise of literature.

The foreign relations of Pakistan and India remain unstable, but are now exacerbated by the nuclear arsenals of both states, as well as the rise of political parties promoting Hindu nationalism in India, and the rise of al-Qaeda Islamism in Pakistan, as well as intercommunal strife — ranging from the demolition of a historic mosque by communal hooligans with worshipers inside to a terrorist assault on Hindu shrines — could set off a nuclear war.

It is caused by the ongoing subduction of the India Plate beneath the Andaman island arc, which forces magma to rise in this location of the Burma Plate.

Breaking with the tradition of the Khmer kings, and influenced perhaps by the concurrent rise of Vaisnavism in India, he dedicated the temple to Vishnu rather than to Siva.

In India the rise of Dalit activism, government legislation starting as early as 1949, as well as ongoing work by NGOs and government offices to enforce labour laws and rehabilitate those in debt, appears to have contributed to the reduction of bonded labour there.

After the 1930s, the movement took on a strong socialist orientation, due to the increasing influence of left-wing elements in the INC as well as the rise and growth of the Communist Party of India.

This was in part a clash of personalities: Curzon once wrote on a document “ I rise from the perusal of these papers filled with the sense of the ineptitude of my military advisers ”, and once wrote to the Commander-in-Chief in India, Lord Kitchener advising him that signing himself “ Lord Kitchener of Khartoum ” took up too much time and space, which Kitchener thought petty ( Curzon simply signed himself “ Curzon ” as if he were an hereditary peer, although he later took to signing himself “ Curzon of Kedleston ”).

In the 2000s, the maquila industry faced competition due to rise of other countries with availability of cheap labor, including Malaysia, India, and Pakistan.

Atiśa's return from Sumatra and rise to prominence in India coincided with a flourishing of Buddhist culture and the practice of Dharma in the region, and in many ways Atiśa's influence contributed to these developments.

Rise of militarism in India dates back to the British Raj with the rise of several Indian independence movement organizations such as Indian National Army led by Subhash Chandra Bose.

After India gained independence in 1947, tensions with neighboring Pakistan over Kashmir dispute also led to rise militarism in India which also saw a boost during the various events that led to the political integration of India.

Instead of this the 1930's witnessed a tragic economic depression, the rise of Fascist dictators in Europe, the wasting Civil War in Spain.

The pattern of general business activity which probably lies ahead of us is a further moderate softening through the spring of 1961 before a new rise in economic activity gets under way.

This makes it certain that Federal expenditures for military preparedness and foreign economic aid are likely to rise further in the next several years.

In 2006, the primary economic concerns focused on: high national debt ($ 9 trillion ), high non-bank corporate debt ($ 9 trillion ), high mortgage debt ($ 9 trillion ), high financial institution debt ($ 12 trillion ), high unfunded Medicare liability ($ 30 trillion ), high unfunded Social Security liability ($ 12 trillion ), high external debt ( amount owed to foreign lenders ) and a serious deterioration in the United States net international investment position ( NIIP ) (- 24 % of GDP ), high trade deficits, and a rise in illegal immigration.

The country achieved notable economic growth during these years, while the unemployment rate would continue to rise until 2001 when it finally started falling.

Attlee and his ministers did much to transform Britain into a more prosperous and egalitarian society during their time in office with reductions in poverty and a rise in the general economic security of the population.

In the 19th century, Marx described feudalism as the economic situation coming before the rise of capitalism.

By 1917 Finland had experienced rapid population growth, industrialization, improvements in the economy and standard of living, and the rise of a comprehensive labor movement ; economic, social, and political divisions were deepening while the Finnish political system was in an unstable phase of democratization and modernization.

This led to the rise of a host of different political and economic groups in the country.

Although these reforms have sparked massive protests they are now credited with being in part responsible for the economic downswing and the rise of unemployment in Germany in the years 2006 / 7.

* Mancur Olson, The rise and decline of nations: economic growth, staglaction, and social rigidities ( New Haven & London 1982 ).

The " long nineteenth century ", from 1789 to 1914 sees the drastic social, political and economic changes initiated by the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, and following the reorganisation of the political map of Europe at the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the rise of Nationalism, the rise of the Russian Empire and the peak of the British Empire, paralleled by the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.

The stagnation in economic growth, and the political efforts to revive it with massive government spending from the 1980s onwards, eventually produced a severe rise in public debt.

The relationship probably hit a post-war nadir around the early 1990s, when Japan's " economic rise " was seen as a threat to American power.

Weber is perhaps best known for his thesis combining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major " elective affinities " associated with the rise in the Western world of market-driven capitalism and the rational-legal nation-state.

He argued that bureaucratic political and economic systems emerging in the Middle Ages were essential in the rise of modern capitalism ( including rational book-keeping and organization of formally free labour ), while they were a hindrance in the case of ancient capitalism, which had a different social and political structure based on conquest, slavery, and the coastal city-state.

The Tory government was dividing the country and proving highly controversial as its monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation were contributing to a significant rise in unemployment which had helped plunge Britain's economy into recession earlier in 1980.

The only craft in military service thereafter were four Zodiac Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats in São Tomé harbour and one in Príncipe. Improvements to naval capabilities are considered vital to increase security in the exclusive economic zone ( EEZ ) to protect oil concerns and to stem the rise of coastal trafficking operations in the Gulf of Guinea area.

It almost certainly will come some very strong reactions from the markets, which only will confirm that if in Spain eventually rise the crisis, the whole world will suffer the same fate, and nobody wants that situation, so that in the medium term despite all these financial reactions must moderate and the economic performance of Spain and Europe should return to normal and growth.

A sharp rise in world petroleum prices combined with economic fallout from the civil war led to inflation that peaked 20 %.

The formalization of the struggles over taxation between the monarch and other elements of society ( especially the nobility and the cities ) gave rise to what is now called the Standestaat, or the state of Estates, characterized by parliaments in which key social groups negotiated with the king about legal and economic matters.

By the late 1980s, structural flaws within the Soviet system, growing economic problems, the rise of anti-communist sentiment and the effects of the Afghan war made it increasingly impractical for the Soviet Union to impose its will on its neighbors.

From the 1970s to 1984, however, Thailand had suffered from many economic problems-ranging from decreasing American investment, current account deficit, a sudden rise in oil price to inflation.