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The education system of India is the world's second-largest. [453] India has over 900 universities, 40,000 colleges [454] and 1.5 million schools. [455] In India's higher education system, a significant number of seats are reserved under affirmative action policies for the historically disadvantaged.
In western India, the Kutch region in Gujarat and Koyna in Maharashtra are classified as a Zone IV region (high risk) for earthquakes. The Kutch city of Bhuj was the epicentre of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake , which claimed the lives of more than 1,337 people and injured 166,836 while destroying or damaging near a million homes. [ 51 ]
The Indian subcontinent is one of the most populated regions in the world, holding roughly 20–25 percent of the global population. Geographically, the peninsular region in Southern Asia is located below the Third Pole, delineated by the Himalayas in the north, the Hindu Kush in the west, and the Indo-Burman Ranges in the east. [9]
This also has an impact on the Eurovision Song Contest, when these countries added to Spain, are turned the BIG 5. BIMSTEC, a group of countries in South Asia and South East Asia around the Bay of Bengal to promote technological and economic co-operation, which includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
Alvin J. Johnson's map of Hindostan or British India, 1864. Hindūstān (pronunciation ⓘ) was a historical region, polity, and a name for India, historically used simultaneously for northern Indian subcontinent and the entire subcontinent, used in the modern day to refer to the Republic of India. [1]
In Hindi, the constitution replaces India with Bharat everywhere, except the part defining the country’s names, which says in Hindi, “Bharat, that is India, shall be a Union of States.”
The Western Chalukya Empire (/ tʃ ə ˈ l uː k j ə / chə-LOO-kyə) ruled most of the western Deccan, South India, between the 10th and 12th centuries.This Kannada-speaking dynasty is sometimes called the Kalyani Chalukya after its regal capital at Kalyani, today's Basavakalyan in the modern Bidar district of Karnataka state, and alternatively the Later Chalukya from its theoretical ...
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