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Kuru was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India of the Bharata and Puru tribes.The Kuru kingdom appeared in the Middle Vedic period [2] [3] (c. 1200 – c. 900 BCE), encompassing parts of the modern-day states of Haryana, Delhi, and some North parts of Western Uttar Pradesh.
C. N. R. Rao. Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, FNA, FASc, FRS, FTWAS, HonFRSC, MAE, HonFInstP [1][2][3][4][5] (born 30 June 1934), is an Indian chemist who has worked mainly in solid-state and structural chemistry. He has honorary doctorates from 86 universities from around the world and has authored around 1,800 research publications and 58 ...
Bhishma. Bhishma (Sanskrit: भीष्म, romanized: bhīṣma, lit. 'mighty'), [1] also known as Pitamaha, Gangaputra, and Devavrata, was a prince, statesman and commander of ancient Indian Kuru kingdom and is a major character of the epic Mahabharata and the protagonist of the Bhishma Parva episode. He was the supreme commander of the ...
Panchal is a Master Craftsman caste of India. Panchal is a collective term for class of engineers, architects, priests, sculptors and temple builders. They belong to the Vishwakarma sect [1] Panchal. Languages. Hindi, Punjabi, Haryanvi, Pahadi [citation needed] Religion. Hinduism. Related ethnic groups.
The Indian monk Atisha (980–1054 CE) introduced the Indian practice of printing on cloth prayer flags to Tibet. [74] Tanning (leather) – Ancient civilizations used leather for waterskins, bags, harnesses and tack, boats, armour, quivers, scabbards, boots, and sandals.
Draupadi (Sanskrit: द्रौपदी, romanized: draupadī, lit. 'Daughter of Drupada '), also referred to as Krishnā, Panchali, and Yajnaseni, is the main female protagonist of the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, and the wife of the five Pandava brothers— Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. [1] She is noted for her ...
C. V. Raman. Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS (/ ˈrɑːmən /; [1] 7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) known as C. V. Raman or just Venkata Raman, was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. [2] Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S. Krishnan discovered that when light traverses ...
Rosenmund reduction. The Rosenmund reduction is a hydrogenation process in which an acyl chloride is selectively reduced to an aldehyde. The reaction was named after Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund, who first reported it in 1918. [1] The reaction, a hydrogenolysis, is catalysed by palladium on barium sulfate, which is sometimes called the Rosenmund ...