Indian art evolved with an emphasis on inducing special spiritual or philosophical states in the audience, or with representing them symbolically.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

The Saraiki community diffused when Saraiki-speaking Hindus migrated to the neighboring Indian states of Bikaner and Jaisalmer during Partition and were replaced by Urdu-speaking Muslim refugees from India.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

Numerous people from Goa, India ( mainly from the southern Indian states ), south Asia and beyond visit Goa to attend the feast.

The Guatemalan region of Mesoamerica was dominated by the Maya civilization ( 2, 000 BC – AD 250 ), before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century ; although most of the great, Classic-era ( AD 250 – 900 ) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands of Guatemala, had been abandoned by the year AD 1, 000 ; however, the states in the Guatemalan central highlands, flourished until the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish Conquistador who began subjugating the Indian states of Guatemala in 1525.

The script is also widely used in the Indian states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and the national capital of Delhi, with Punjabi being one of the official languages in these states.

The same applies to Australian states, Indian states, etc.

The small early states that were established were greatly influenced by Indian culture.

Wars with the Javanese caused it to request assistance from China, and wars with Indian states are also suspected.

These were the first of the Rajput states, a series of kingdoms which managed to survive in some form for almost a millennium, until Indian independence from the British.

The Islamic Caliphate and other Islamic states took over the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia during the Muslim conquests of the 7th century, and later expanded into the Indian subcontinent and Malay archipelago.

Heading roughly clockwise, the states and territories ( in italics ) with a coastline on the Indian Ocean are:

It traverses 4, 057 km along the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.

* 1949 – The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi ( later re-organized as Kerala ) in the Indian Union ends more than 1, 000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family.

Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat have the largest Jain populations among Indian states.

Nehru was one of the first nationalist leaders to realise the sufferings of the people in the states ruled by Indian Princes.

But as the drafting of the constitution progressed and the idea of forming a republic took concrete shape ( due to the efforts of Nehru ), it was decided that all the Princely states / Covenanting States would merge with the Indian republic.

The British Indian Empire, which included present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, was divided into two types of territories: the Provinces of British India, which were governed directly by British officials responsible to the Governor-General of India ; and princely states, under the rule of local hereditary rulers who recognised British suzerainty in return for local autonomy, in most cases as established by treaty.

Between 1947 and about 1950, the territories of the princely states were politically integrated into the Indian Union under Nehru and Sardar Patel.

He gives no precise indication of their geographical situation but states that, together with six other tribes, they worshiped a goddess named Nerthus, whose sanctuary was located on " an island in the Ocean ".

Started by the second emperor, Taizong, military campaigns were launched to dissolve threats from nomadic tribes, extend the border, and submit neighboring states into a tributary system.

In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in Sicily, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and the Black Sea coasts.

The short story, " The Enchanted Buffalo ", claims to be a legend of a tribe of bison, and states that a key element made it into legends of Native American tribes.

Conquered populations — tribes, kingdoms, states, and cities — were allowed to practice their own religions and lifestyles, but had to recognize Inca cultural practices as superior to their own.

In many early Germanic states, ethnic Roman citizens continued to be governed by Roman laws for quite some time, even while members of the various Germanic tribes were governed by their own respective codes.

Colonists appropriated tribal land by force and treaty, including the Treaty of 1677, which made the signatory tribes tributary states.

Similarly, Epirote tribes / states are included in the Argive and Epidaurian lists of the Greek Thearodokoi ( hosts of sacred envoys ).

Some theorists hold that tribes represent a stage in social evolution intermediate between bands and states.

Other theorists argue that tribes developed after, and must be understood in terms of their relationship to, states.

In the popular imagination, tribes reflect a way of life that predates, and is more " natural ", than that in modern states.

States would encourage ( or require ) people on their frontiers to form more clearly bounded and centralized polities, because such polities could begin producing surpluses and taxes, and would have a leadership responsive to the needs of neighboring states ( the so-called " scheduled " tribes of the United States or of British India provide good examples of this ).

The population of Madhya Pradesh is a medley of a number of ethnic groups and tribes, castes and communities, including the indigenous tribals and relatively more recent migrants from other states.

Together, these groups were the ancestors of the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and some of the state-recognized tribes in surrounding states.

The territory occupied by the modern Tlingit people in Alaska is however not restricted to particular reservations, unlike most tribes in the contiguous 48 states.

It delegates some permitting, monitoring, and enforcement responsibility to U. S. states and Native American tribes.

Agreements cited by the Afghan government as proof of their claim over the Pashtun tribes include Article 11 of the Anglo – Afghan Treaty of 1921, which states: " The two contracting parties, being mutually satisfied themselves each regarding the goodwill of the other and especially regarding their benevolent intentions towards the tribes residing close to their respective boundaries, hereby undertake to inform each other of any future military operations which may appear necessary for the maintenance of order among the frontier tribes residing within their respective spheres before the commencement of such operations.

WAP reaches across all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Native American tribes.

The narrative continues by stating that Hashem gave Moses a response to give to the elders, namely that the daughters must each marry someone from the Gilead clan, but they are otherwise unrestricted in their choice ; the narrative also states that the general case was to be applied-that inheritances cannot pass between tribes, but instead any female that inherits land is compelled to marry someone from the same clan as her father.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes a significant portion of its members to be descended from Ephraim, arguing that they are charged with restoring the lost tribes in the latter days as prophesied by Isaiah, and that the tribes of both Ephraim and Judah will play important leadership roles for covenant Israel in the last days ; some believe that this would be the fulfilment of part of the Blessing of Jacob, where it states that Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall (, interpreting the " wall " as the ocean ).

In the 18th century, the Sauk and Meskwaki ( or Fox ) Native American tribes lived along the Mississippi River in what is now the U. S. states of Illinois and Iowa.