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Gandhi Seva Loka (formerly known as Bombay Merchants Association) is a charitable institution run by the Sindhi community and is engaged mainly in educational and social activities. The India Club is a social organisation of PIO/NRI professionals. An Indian Women's Association brings together PIO/NRI spouses and undertakes charitable activities.
NRI or Nri may refer to : Kingdom of Nri, an Igbo kingdom that flourished between the 10th century and early 20th century; National Radio Institute, a now defunct ...
The Kingdom of Nri (Igbo: Ọ̀ràézè Ǹrì) was a medieval polity located in what is now Nigeria.The kingdom existed as a sphere of religious and political influence over a significant part of what is known today as Igboland prior to expansion, and was administered by a priest-king called an Eze Nri.
The historian Elizabeth Allo Isichei says "Nri and Aguleri and part of the Umueri clan, [are] a cluster of Igbo village groups which traces its origins to a sky being called Eri." [ 53 ] Archaeological evidence suggests that Nri influence in Igboland may go back as far as the 9th century, [ 54 ] and royal burials at the Igbo-Ukwu sites have ...
The Nri culture is believed to stretch back to at least the 13th century, with a traditional foundation by Eri dated 948. The 15th recorded Eze Nri , Òbalíke , was deposed by the British administration in favour of the "warrant chief" system, but the title continued to be held; the current eze Nri , Ènweleána II Obidiegwu Onyeso , was ...
"The country (varṣam) that lies north of the ocean and south of the snowy mountains is called Bhāratam; there dwell the descendants of Bharata." [38] [39] In early Vedic literature, the term Āryāvarta (Sanskrit: आर्यावर्त) was in popular use before Bhārata.
Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Hindi: प्रवासी भारतीय दिवस, Pravāsī Bhāratīya Divasa, English: Overseas Indian Day) is a celebratory day observed (starting in 2003) on 9 January by the Republic of India to mark the contribution of the Overseas Indian community towards the development of India.
In July 2005, MTV premiered a spin-off network called MTV Desi which targets Indian Americans. [157] It has been discontinued by MTV. In 2012, the film Not a Feather, but a Dot directed by Teju Prasad, was released which investigates the history, perceptions and changes in the Indian American community over the last century.