Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, [4] are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well-known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Rural society in India (1 C, 2 P) S. Sanskrit revival (3 C, ... Slavery in India (4 C, 17 P) Social class in ...
No civilized society of today presents more survivals of primitive times than does the Indian society like the custom of exogamy. The creed of exogamy, is not that sapindas (blood-kins) cannot marry, but a marriage between sagotras (gotras or clans of the same class) is regarded as a sacrilege. In spite of the endogamy of the castes within them ...
[1] [2] The earliest archaeological site in the subcontinent is the palaeolithic hominid site in the Soan River valley. [3] Soanian sites are found in the Sivalik region across what are now India, Pakistan, and Nepal. [4] [5] Some of the Bhimbetka rock shelters were inhabited by Homo erectus more than 100,000 years ago. [6] [7]
Aspects of Indian civilisation, administration, culture, and religion spread to much of Asia, which led to the establishment of Indianised kingdoms in the region, forming Greater India. [6] [5] The most significant event between the 7th and 11th centuries was the Tripartite struggle centred on Kannauj.
Whole India (mainly North India) It is a re-enactment of God Rama's life according to Ramayana. 00110: Ramman, religious festival and ritual theatre of the Garhwal Himalayas, India 2009 Festival Garhwal, Uttarakhand: It is a festival of the Garhwali people of Saloor Dungra village. Not performed anywhere in the Himalayas. 00281: Chhau dance: 2010
The Royal India Society was a 20th-century British learned society concerned with British India. The Society has had several names: [1] [2] [3] The India Society (founded 1910); The Royal India Society (from 1944); The Royal India and Pakistan Society (after the Partition of India in 1947); The Royal India, Pakistan and Ceylon Society (after 1948);
The society is now known as The History and Culture Society, and is chaired by Prof. D.P Tiwari, a professor in the Department of Ancient Indian History and Archaeology at the University of Lucknow. [1] The Society aims to promote and organize interdisciplinary studies of Indian history and culture and to provide a common platform for ...