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India saw a 44% surge in tiger deaths in the 10 years 2011–21 with 1059 deaths in the time period. Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest number of deaths in these ten years, followed by Maharshtra and Karnataka. The number of deaths have increased from 88 in 2012 to 127 in 2021. [82]
In some the released animal is a crocodile, in some a snake, [5] a tiger [6] and in others a wolf. Folklorist Joseph Jacobs stated that the tale can be found in early Indian sources. [7] Some variants are very old, going back at least to the Panchatantra or Fables of Bidpai [citation needed] and the Jataka tales.
In the year 1972, Meitei language was given the recognition by the National Sahitya Akademi, the highest Indian body of language and literature, as one of the major Indian languages. [ 88 ] [ 89 ] On 20 August 1992, Meitei language was included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and made one of the languages with official ...
The highly diverse Nilo-Saharan languages, first proposed as a family by Joseph Greenberg in 1963 might have originated in the Upper Paleolithic. [1] Given the presence of a tripartite number system in modern Nilo-Saharan languages, linguist N.A. Blench inferred a noun classifier in the proto-language, distributed based on water courses in the Sahara during the "wet period" of the Neolithic ...
Waghoba (Marathi: वाघोबा) is an ancient tiger/leopard deity worshipped by a number of tribes in India for centuries. Depending on the region of India, the deity is either described exclusively as a tiger or a leopard as a deity that can take both forms.
Early Indian research into sociolinguistics can be said to have begun in the early 1960s. Charles A. Ferguson published Diglossia (1959) on variation as a developmental and functional phenomenon of language, while John J. Gumperz published on the linguistic aspects of caste differentiation in 1960. Both topics were quickly picked up by Indian ...
The tiger symbol of Chola Empire was later adopted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the tiger became a symbol of the unrecognised state of Tamil Eelam and Tamil independence movement. [27] The Bengal tiger is the national animal of India and Bangladesh. [28] The Malaysian tiger is the national animal of Malaysia. [29]
Karamveer Puraskar; Awarded with the title of "Tiger Princess of India" by National Geographic Latika Nath is an Indian author, photographer and wildlife conservationist that has received multiple awards including “Tiger Princess of India” by National Geographic.