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The root of the Sanskrit word Vande is Vand, which appears in Rigveda and other Vedic texts. [27] [note 1] According to Monier Monier-Williams, depending on the context, vand means "to praise, celebrate, laud, extol, to show honour, do homage, salute respectfully", or "deferentially, venerate, worship, adore", or "to offer anything respectfully to".
Under the deal, Scotland's landed families gained access to the East India Company, and gradually become its dominant force. Scots came into India as writers, traders, engineers, missionaries, tea and indigo planters, jute traders and teachers. By 1771 almost half of the East India Company's writers were Scots.
The Scottish Film Council was established in 1934 as the national body for film in Scotland. Its founding aim was to 'improve and extend the use in Scotland of films for cultural and educational purposes and to raise the Scottish standard in the public appreciation of films'.
The script for India Song was based on an unproduced play which Marguerite Duras finished in July 1972. [1] The play had been commissioned for the Royal National Theatre by Peter Hall. [2] Duras had only visited India briefly in her teens, but chose to not consult any photographs from Calcutta while she worked on India Song, preferring to ...
Local Hero is a 1983 British comedy-drama [1] film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by David Puttnam.It stars Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi, and Fulton Mackay.
Films set in the partition of India (64 P) Pages in category "Films set in the Indian independence movement" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total.
Films created by the British Indian community, as well as British films starring a majority Indian origin cast and Indian films set in the United Kingdom. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
In the 1970 movie Patton, the British Eighth Army, led by General Montgomery, marches through the streets of Messina to "Scotland the Brave" until they encounter General Patton's US Seventh Army. After a short exchange between the two commanders, the British band strikes up "Scotland the Brave" again, only for it to be symbolically drowned out ...