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India has an estimated 92,873 species of fauna, roughly about 7.5% of the species available worldwide. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Insects form the major category with 63423 recorded species. India is home to 423 mammals , 1233 birds , 526 reptiles , 342 amphibians , 3022 fish apart from other species which form 7.6% of mammal, 14.7% of amphibian, 6% of bird ...
[7] [8] Bengal Subah later emerged as a prosperous part of the Mughal Empire. The last independent Nawab of Bengal was defeated in 1757 at the Battle of Plassey by the East India Company. The company's Bengal Presidency grew into the largest administrative unit of British India with Calcutta as the capital of both Bengal and India until 1911.
[9] [10] [7] They are known as "Eastern Gangas" to distinguish them from the Western Gangas who ruled over Karnataka. The territory ruled by the dynasty consisted of the whole of the modern-day Indian state of Odisha , as well as major parts of north Andhra Pradesh , parts of Chhattisgarh [ 11 ] and some southern districts of West Bengal . [ 12 ]
The Gupta period marked a watershed of Indian culture: the Guptas performed Vedic sacrifices to legitimise their rule, but they also patronised Buddhism, an alternative to Brahmanical orthodoxy. The military exploits of the first three rulers – Chandragupta I , Samudragupta , and Chandragupta II – brought much of India under their ...
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Nalanda was founded by the Gupta emperors in the early 5th century and then expanded over the next 7 centuries. Nalanda's dateable history begins in the 5th century. A seal discovered at the site identifies a monarch named Shakraditya ( Śakrāditya - r. c. 415–455 CE) as its founder and attributes the foundation of a sangharama (monastery ...
[56] One day, Gupta's technical assistant announced that he had evidence of the sources of fossil frauds and was planning to reveal them; he was killed in a hit-and-run accident the following night. [5] Gupta also put a price to whoever would make physical assaults on the co-authors of the Courier paper, Goel and Kumar. A few days later, the ...
It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha in the district of Purba Bardhaman. Etymology