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According to the Constitution of India, at the state level, the governor is de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the state legislative assembly , the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the state government .
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: 9 June 1980 24 December 1987 44 Nripen Chakraborty: Tripura: 5 January 1978 5 February 1988 10 years, 31 days Communist Party of India (Marxist) 45 Vasundhara Raje: Rajasthan: 8 December 2003 12 December 2008 10 years, 8 days Bharatiya Janata Party: 13 December 2013 17 December 2018 46 Digvijaya Singh ...
Joseph E. Schwartzberg (2008) proposes that the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilization (c. 2500–1900 BCE) may have known "cartographic activity" based on a number of excavated surveying instruments and measuring rods and that the use of large scale constructional plans, cosmological drawings, and cartographic material was known in India with some regularity since the Vedic period (1st ...
Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.
Gujarat, India - Ceremonial sari (patola) - Google Art Project.jpg 4,511 × 3,104; 5.18 MB PCI Mizoram Synod Office.jpg 640 × 430; 59 KB Procession passing through Narasimharaja Road towards Kanteerava stadium.JPG 1,008 × 698; 78 KB
The Times Atlas of the World, rebranded The Times Atlas of the World: Comprehensive Edition in its 11th edition and The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World from its 12th edition, is a world atlas currently published by HarperCollins Publisher L.L.C. Its most recent edition, the sixteenth, was published on October 12th, 2023.
India's territorial waters extend into the sea to a distance of 12 nautical miles (13.8 mi; 22.2 km) from the coast baseline. [7] India has the 18th largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 2,305,143 km 2 (890,021 sq mi). The northern frontiers of India are defined largely by the Himalayan mountain range, where the country borders China, Bhutan, and ...
India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [20] is a country in South Asia.It is the seventh-largest country in the world by area and the most populous country.Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; [k] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and ...