His empire stretched from the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan to the present-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of Assam in the east, and as far south as northern Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

He is generally considered a world conquest military genius, given his successful strategy: he attempted to close all the Indian Ocean naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific, transforming it into a Portuguese mare clausum established over the Ottoman power and their Muslim and Hindu allies .< ref >

The numeral system came to be known to both the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, whose book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals written about 825 in Arabic, and the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi, who wrote four volumes, " On the Use of the Indian Numerals " ( Ketab fi Isti ' mal al -' Adad al-Hindi ) about 830.

These include Hindu astrology ( also known as " Indian astrology " and in modern times referred to as " Vedic astrology ") and Chinese astrology, both of which have influenced the world's cultural history.

Bal Keshav Thackeray (; born 23 January 1926 ), popularly known as Hindu Hriday Samraat Balasaheb Thackeray is an Indian politician, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Hindu nationalist, and Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

Indian Hindu artisans from the period of the Chola empire in Tamil Nadu, used bronze to create intricate statues via the lost wax casting method with ornate detailing depicting the Gods of Hinduism mostly, but also the lifestyle of the period.

Dicing is mentioned as an Indian game in the Rigveda, Atharvaveda and Buddha games list ; it also plays a critical role in the great Hindu epic Mahabharata, where Yudhisthira plays a game of dice against the Kauravas for the northern kingdom of Hastinapura, which becomes the trigger for a war.

The title of Samrāṭ has been used by many rulers of the Indian subcontinent as claimed by the Hindu mythologies.

Until 1947, the East Wing of Pakistan, separated from the West Wing by 1, 600 km of Indian territory, had been heavily dependent on Hindu management.

Hindu () is a term used to refer to the adherents of Indian religions.

The term ‘ Hindu ’ came to include persons professing any Indian religion ( i. e. Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism or Sikhism ) after India became an independent country

More recently, Hindu nationalists have created a version of history for the schools to support their demands for " Hindutva " (" Hinduness ") in Indian society.

The Indian Independence Movement drew inspiration from the numerous goddesses of the Hindu pantheon, to the point that many Indians refer to their country as " Bharat Mata ".

In contrast to Carnatic music, the other main Indian classical music tradition originating from the South, Hindustani music was not only influenced by ancient Hindu musical traditions, historical Vedic philosophy and native Indian sounds but also enriched by the Persian performance practices of the Mughals.

A great arc of mountains, consisting of the Himalayas, Hindu Kush, and Patkai ranges define the northern Indian subcontinent.

Akhand Bharat is another irridentist call for " undivided India " to include Pakistan and Bangladesh into India to form a Hindu Rashtra raised by mainstream Indian political organization Vishva Hindu Parishad ( VHP ), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ) and Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ).

* 1565 – Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.

* 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

* 1830 – Swaminarayan, Indian Hindu figure ( b. 1781 )

Maybe the Indian wasn't too much at fault, Ramey thought.

In the Pan Indian philosophic thought the term ' Satyam Shivam Sundaram ' is another name for the concept of the Supreme.

Since Chinese traditional thought focuses more on ethics rather than metaphysics, it has developed several schools distinct from the originating Indian schools.

Such mixtures are commonly thought to have first been prepared by Indian merchants for sale to members of the British Colonial government and army returning to Britain.

Prince Philip thought that the Indian public's reception would more likely reflect response to the uncle than to the nephew.

Cārvāka was an Indian hedonist school of thought that arose approximately 600 BCE, and died out in the 14th century CE.

He observed the effects of superstition on the lives of the Indian people and wrote of religion that “… it shuts its eyes to reality .” Nehru thought that religion was at the root of the stagnation and lack of progress in India.

The first university in modern India was setup by the British in Calcutta in 1861 as a means of spreading western philosophical thought among the elite in India and to create in the words of Lord Macaulcay, “ a class of Indians who would be Indian in blood and colour but western in thought and ideas .” This initiative was furthered by the passing of the Universities Act of 1904.

Like other Indian and oriental schools of thought, the Gurbani also accepts the doctrines of karma and reincarnation as the facts of nature.

In the 1970s and 1980s it was thought that leg spin would disappear from the game due to the success of West Indian and later Australian teams exclusively using fast bowlers.

However, in her book, Brando for Breakfast, she claimed that she really is half Indian and that the press incorrectly thought that her stepfather, O ' Callaghan, was her real father.

The Indian theorist Gayatri Spivak, described Deconstruction as an approach fundamental to many different fields of postmodernist thought, including postcolonialism.

In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a Tibetan and an Indian restaurant may both be thought of as " ethnic restaurants ," but a French restaurant will be simply " French.

A theology of world religions: Interpreting God, self, and world in Semitic, Indian, and Chinese thought ( Augsburg Publishing House, 1987 ).

A theology of world religions: Interpreting God, self, and world in Semitic, Indian, and Chinese thought ( Augsburg Publishing House, 1987 ).

Two influences on Boole were later claimed by his wife, Mary Everest Boole: a universal mysticism tempered by Jewish thought, and Indian logic .. Mary Boole stated that an adolescent mystical experience provided for his life's work:

Mary Boole claimed profound influence ( via her uncle George Everest ) of Indian thought on Boole, as well as Augustus De Morgan and Charles Babbage:

Many renowned Indian philosophers such as Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Ananda Coomaraswamy and others used the writing of Plotinus in their own texts as a superlative elaboration upon Indian monism, specifically Upanishadic and Advaita Vedantic thought.

For instance, the natives most certainly would have thought the trade included the value of the Dutch as potential military allies against rival Indian nations -- a ' good ' that cannot be valued strictly in currency.

He initially came to the West as a Northern Indian classical musician, having received the honorific " Tansen " from the Nizam of Hyderabad, but he soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi thought and practice.

Unlike Christopher Columbus, who thought he had reached the East Indies, the Portuguese, most notably Vasco da Gama, had already reached India via the Indian Ocean route when they reached Brazil.

The pigment euxanthin, known as Indian yellow, is often thought to be produced from the urine of cattle fed mango leaves ; the practice is described as having been outlawed in 1908 due to malnutrition of the cows and possible urushiol poisoning.