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The Rarámuri are believed to be descended from a people of the Mogollon culture. [3] The Rarámuri repulsed and were never conquered by the Spanish conquistadors or fully converted by the Jesuit missionaries. When the Spanish arrived in the 1500s, they called these native people the "Tarahumara". [4]
Pathani Samanta [a] better known as Mahamahopadhyaya Chandrasekhara Singha Harichandana Mahapatra Samanta, [b] was an Indian astronomer, mathematician and scholar who measured the distance from the Earth to the Sun with a bamboo pipe, and traditional instruments.
Yearling group of Raramuri Criollo Bulls at the Jornada Experimental Research Range, NM, USA.. The Rarámuri Criollo is a landrace biotype of Criollo cattle indigenous to the Sierra Tarahumara region of the Copper Canyon, Mexico.
In 1872, it was renamed "Samarasa Suddha Sanmarga Sathya Sangam", [3] meaning "Society for pure truth in universal self-hood". Ramalinga was influenced by Valluvar and was drawn towards the teachings of the Tirukkural from a young age. He soon started teaching its message by conducting regular Kural classes to the masses. [9]
The foundation is based in Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and offers Best Science Teacher Award to pre-university and high school science teachers. [59] Rao established the International Centre for Materials Science (ICMS) which offers the C N R Rao Prize Lecture in Advanced Materials since 2010. [60]
Bharatendu Harishchandra (9 September 1850 – 6 January 1885) was an Indian poet, writer, and playwright.He authored several dramas, biographical sketches, and travel accounts with the goal of influencing public opinion.
G S Ghurye was born, in a Saraswat Brahmin community [5] on 12 December 1893, at Malvan, in present-day Maharashtra. [2] His early schooling was at the Aryan Education Society's High School, Girgaum, in Bombay, and then at Bahadur Khanji High School, Junagadh, in the princely state of Junagadh. [2]
[9] While temperamentally he ranged from reclusive to exclusive, he had a keen social sense and championed the cause of the downtrodden without involving himself in ground level activities. In 1950, he founded the Lokahitawādi Mandal (लोकहितवादी; organisation for social good) in Nashik which is still in existence.