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  2. List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India - Wikipedia

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    Notes: Chandigarh U.A. was included in the list of million plus populous Towns/U.A.s as per provisional census [8] having 51st rank but in the final population totals, its population fell short of one million ranking 55th after two less than million populous Towns/U.A.s - Mysore U.A., Bareilly U.A. [9] and as a result of it, the number of million plus populous Towns/U.A.s in India is 52 though ...

  3. Multiculturalism - Wikipedia

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    The culture of India is an amalgamation of these diverse sub-cultures spread all over the Indian subcontinent and traditions that are several millennia old. [217] The previously prevalent Indian caste system describes the social stratification and social restrictions in the Indian subcontinent, in which social classes are defined by thousands ...

  4. Political integration of India - Wikipedia

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    The Saurashtra and Kathiawar regions of Gujarat were home to over two hundred princely states, many with non-contiguous territories, as this map of Baroda shows.. The termination of paramountcy meant that all rights flowing from the states' relationship with the British crown would return to them, leaving them free to negotiate relationships with the new states of India and Pakistan "on a ...

  5. Culture of India - Wikipedia

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    India has 28 states and 8 union territories with different cultures and is the most populated country in the world. [15] The Indian culture, often labeled as an amalgamation of several various cultures, spans across the Indian subcontinent and has been influenced and shaped by a history that is several thousand years old.

  6. Cultural amalgamation - Wikipedia

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    The origins of cultural amalgamation: When people from the Chinese culture meet people from the European culture and greet each other. Cultural amalgamation refers to the process of mixing two cultures to create a new culture. [1] [2] It is often described as a more balanced type of cultural interaction than the process of cultural assimilation.

  7. Merger (politics) - Wikipedia

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    In Canada, the 1990s saw the forced amalgamation of several municipal entities in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec into larger new municipalities. Even in cases where a central city merged with its suburbs, the amalgamated city was legally a new municipality, even if it was given the central city's name and was in effect a defacto annexation by the central city.

  8. Globalization in India - Wikipedia

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    Globalization is a process that encompasses the causes, courses, and consequences of transnational and transcultural integration of human and non-human activities. India had the distinction of being the world's largest economy till the end of the Mughal era, as it accounted for about 32.9% share of world GDP and about 17% of the world population.

  9. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu - Wikipedia

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    Legislation to this effect, the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Merger of Union territories) Bill, 2019, was tabled in the Parliament of India on 26 November 2019 and assented to by the President of India on 9 December 2019. [5] [6] The two union territories had previously shared a common administrator and government officials.