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ruler. Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Muḥammad Bakhtiyār Khaljī,[2]also known as Bakhtiyar Khalji,[3][4]was a Turko-Afghan[5][6]military general of the Ghuridruler Muhammad of Ghor,[7]who led the Muslim conquestsof the eastern Indian regions of Bengaland parts of Biharand established himself as their ruler. [8][9][10][11]He was the founder of the Khalji ...
Website. www.jk.gov.in. Jammu[b] and Kashmir[c]; (abbreviated J&K) is a region administered by India as a union territory [1] and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959. [3]
The Marwari or Marwadi (Devanagari: मारवाड़ी) are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group that originate from the Marwar region of Rajasthan, India. Their language, also called Marwari, comes under the umbrella of Rajasthani languages, which is part of the Western Zone of Indo-Aryan languages. Apart from India, they have sizeable ...
The Khalji dynasty was of Turko-Afghan [8] [9] [10] origin whose ancestors, the Khalaj, are said to have been initially a Turkic people or a Turkified people [11] of possibly of Indo-Iranain origin [12] who migrated together with their ancestors the Hunas and Hephthalites from Central Asia, [13] into the southern and eastern regions of modern-day Afghanistan as early as 660 CE, where they ...
Geography of India. India is situated north of the equator between 8°4' north (the mainland) to 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' east to 97°25' east longitude. [ 2 ] It is the seventh-largest country in the world, with a total area of 3,287,263 square kilometres (1,269,219 sq mi). [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] India measures 3,214 km (1,997 mi) from north ...
Geography (from Ancient Greek γεωγραφίαgeōgraphía; combining gê 'Earth' and gráphō 'write') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. [ 1 ] Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of Earth and its human and natural complexities —not merely where objects are, but ...
Five themes of geography. Location. Place. Human-Environment Interaction. Movement. Region. The five themes of geography are an educational tool for teaching geography. The five themes were published in 1984 [1] and widely adopted by teachers, textbook publishers, and curriculum designers in the United States. [2]
N. [edit] nadir. narrows. Also narrow. A land or water passage that is confined or restricted by its narrow breadth, often a strait or a water gap. nation. A stable community of people formed on the basis of a common geographic territory, language, economy, ethnicity, or psychological make-up as manifested in a common culture.