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Base map of Kochi with city limits and water bodies File:Kochi India area locator map.svg; Base map of Hyderabad (India) with city limits and water bodies File:Hyderabad Outer Ring Road and its radial roads.png; Base map of Patna with city limits and water bodies File:Patna area locator map.svg
In 1858, Allahabad (now Prayagraj) became the capital of India for a day when it also served as the capital of North-Western Provinces. [3] During the British Raj, until 1911, Calcutta was the capital of India. [4] By the latter half of the 19th century, Shimla had become the summer capital. [5]
The following outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to, India: The seventh-largest country by area, India is located on the Indian subcontinent in South Asia . India was home to the ancient Indus Valley civilisation , and is the birthplace of four world religions: Hinduism , Sikhism , Buddhism , Jainism .
India consists of 29 states and 7 Union Territories. All states and territories, including the two union territories of Puducherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, have elected legislatures and governments patterned on the Westminster system. The other five union territories are directly ruled by the Centre through appointed ...
India comprises 28 states and 8 union territories. All states and territories, including the three union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, the National Capital Territory of Delhi and Puducherry have elected legislatures and governments patterned on the Westminster system. The other six union territories are directly ruled by the Centre through ...
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In an 800-square-foot room tucked away on Chicago’s Devon Avenue, a 20-something Gujarati immigrant was on the verge of creating an empire. How Chicago’s ‘Little India’ gave birth to the ...
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 ...