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Sentence Examples Unlike most Indian languages, Tamil does not distinguish aspirated and unaspirated consonants. Other contemporary Indian intellectuals such as Ashis Nandy have taken a more nuanced view of his work. G V Desani, an Indian writer of fiction, had a more negative opinion of Kipling. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, worked in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service. In October 1922 he sailed on board SS Herefordshire via the Suez Canal and Ceylon to join the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. Deciding against returning to Burma, he resigned from the Indian Imperial Police to become a writer. The Indian Queen was adapted from a tragedy by Dryden and Sir Robert Howard. In 1917, Ernest Hartley was transferred to Bangalore as an officer in the Indian Cavalry, while Gertrude and Vivian stayed in Ootacamund. Bakshi, a bungling Indian actor who accidentally receives an invitation to a lavish Hollywood dinner party. The sport is followed primarily in Australasia, Britain, the Indian subcontinent, southern Africa and the West Indies. After the success of Indian Premier League, many other domestic leagues were formed globally. Grand Slam tournaments are among the small number of events that last two weeks, the others being the Indian Wells Masters and the Miami Masters. In 1979, there was a putative detection of a covert nuclear test in the Indian Ocean, called the Vela incident. During World War I and World War II, Germany also made use of these tactics, both in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. By September 2012, the heyday of piracy in the Indian Ocean was reportedly over. In 2008, VSOS became the first authorized armed maritime security company to operate in the Indian Ocean region. Enrica Lexie was ordered into Kochi where her crew were questioned by officers of the Indian Police. The French and Spanish successfully took several West Indian islands and appeared to be on the verge of completely expelling the British there. In the 1784 peace treaty between the two nations, the Dutch lost the Indian port of Negapatam and were forced to make trade concessions. Americans' eagerness to expand westward prompted a long series of American Indian Wars. Show More Sentences The Trail of Tears in the 1830s exemplified the Indian removal policy that resettled Indians into the west on Indian reservations. The end of the Indian Wars further expanded acreage under mechanical cultivation, increasing surpluses for international markets. The United States also observes tribal sovereignty of the American Indian nations to a limited degree, as it does with the states' sovereignty. The Company's rule lasted until 1858, when, after the Indian rebellion of 1857, it was abolished. The most important such support came from the subsidiary alliances with Indian princes during the first 75 years of Company rule. Hastings' defenders countered that his actions were consistent with Indian customs and traditions. With increased British power in India, supervision of Indian affairs by the British Crown and Parliament increased as well. Haileybury emphasised the Anglican religion and morality and trained students in the classical Indian languages. The College was later to play an important role both in the development of modern Indian languages and in the Bengal Renaissance. In the first half of the 19th century, the British legislated reforms against what they considered were iniquitous Indian practices. In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole. The Indian Post Office delivered letters, newspapers, postcards, book packets, and parcels. The Great Indian Peninsular Railway was permitted to extend its experimental line to Poona. Across the Sahara, through the Red Sea, from the Indian Ocean ports and across the Atlantic. By far the most financially profitable West Indian colonies in 1800 belonged to the United Kingdom. Britain also controlled the Indian subcontinent and large portions of Africa. The resulting political union was also called the Indian Empire and after 1876 issued passports under that name. Burma and Aden became separate Crown Colonies under the Act from 1 April 1937, thereby ceasing to be part of the Indian Empire. In 1880, the standing Indian Army consisted of 66,000 British soldiers, 130,000 Natives, and 350,000 soldiers in the princely armies. Lastly, the British felt disenchanted with Indian reaction to social change. Show More Sentences Nevertheless, by the 1920s the student bodies had become hotbeds of Indian nationalism. In the 1890s, he launched plans to move into heavy industry using Indian funding. Most of the railway construction was done by Indian companies supervised by British engineers. The government's Stores Policy required that bids on railway contracts be made to the India Office in London, shutting out most Indian firms. Likewise, finished goods from England, were transported back, just as efficiently, for sale in the burgeoning Indian markets. The Indian Civil Service was prestigious and paid well, but it remained politically neutral. By 1900 reform movements had taken root within the Indian National Congress. The movement consisted of the boycott of foreign goods and also the social boycott of any Indian who used foreign goods. In local terms, British control rested on the Indian Civil Service, but it faced growing difficulties. The 1935 Act provided for more autonomy for Indian provinces, with the goal of cooling off nationalist sentiment. London paid most of the cost of the Indian Army, which had the effect of erasing India's national debt. The mutinies came to a head with mutiny of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay in February 1946, followed by others in Calcutta, Madras, and Karachi. Moreover, Indian landlords had a stake in the cash crop system and discouraged innovation. The cabinet discussed Disraeli's proposal to position Indian troops at Malta for possible transit to the Balkans and call out reserves. This also increased its influence in the Indian Ocean to compete against the Portuguese with its close ally the Ajuran Empire. Despite the growing European presence in the Indian Ocean, Ottoman trade with the east continued to flourish. The loss of two brigades of 17th Indian Division meant that Rangoon could not be defended. The Indian Eastern Army intended to reoccupy the Mayu peninsula and Akyab Island, which had an important airfield. The Japanese were influenced to an unknown degree by Subhas Chandra Bose, commander of the Indian National Army. In Arakan, Indian XV Corps under Lieutenant General Philip Christison renewed the advance on the Mayu peninsula. Show More Sentences Ranges of steep hills channelled the advance into three attacks each by an Indian or West African division. North of Imphal, 50th Indian Parachute Brigade was defeated at Sangshak by a regiment from the Japanese 31st Division on its way to Kohima. While the 11th East Africa Division advanced down the Kabaw Valley from Tamu, the 5th Indian Division advanced along the mountainous Tiddim road. Late in February, the 7th Indian Division leading IV Corps, seized crossings at Nyaungu near Pakokku. It fell to 19th Indian Division on 20 March, though the Japanese held the former citadel which the British called Fort Dufferin for another week. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. In 2015, the Indian economy was the world's seventh largest by nominal GDP and third largest by purchasing power parity. Classical Sanskrit literature flowered as well, and Indian science, astronomy, medicine, and mathematics made significant advances. The Indian early medieval age, 600 CE to 1200 CE, is defined by regional kingdoms and cultural diversity. Expanding commerce during Mughal rule gave rise to new Indian commercial and political elites along the coasts of southern and eastern India. The original Indian plate survives as peninsular India, the oldest and geologically most stable part of India. The medicinal neem, widely used in rural Indian herbal remedies, is a key Indian tree. Many Indian species descend from taxa originating in Gondwana, from which the Indian plate separated more than 105 million years before present. The pervasive and ecologically devastating human encroachment of recent decades has critically endangered Indian wildlife. As of 2012 Much of the military expenditure was focused on defence against Pakistan and countering growing Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean. Until 1991, all Indian governments followed protectionist policies that were influenced by socialist economics. In the 19th century, Indian writers took a new interest in social questions and psychological descriptions. The Indian caste system embodies much of the social stratification and many of the social restrictions found in the Indian subcontinent. Traditional Indian dress varies in colour and style across regions and depends on various factors, including climate and faith. Show More Sentences The BCCI also conducts an annual Twenty20 competition known as the Indian Premier League. The canal instantly became strategically important, as it provided the shortest ocean link between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Prior to the American conquest of California 1846-1848, some of the secularized Mission Indian families obtained formal Mexican land grants. Some Black politicians accused the government of using this device to counter the West Indian immigration of previous decades. The British Indian Ocean Territory is one of only two British territories where traffic drives on the right, the other being Gibraltar. The strategic location of the island was also significant at the centre of the Indian Ocean, and to counter any Soviet threat in the region. Being a fusion of numerous cultures, such as Spanish, French, African, Indian and Amerindian, the Caribbean cuisine is unique and complex. As of June 2016 it applies to Chinese and Indian nationals and is limited to certain visa types. Garcia de Moguer died the same year on the return trip to Portugal in the Indian Ocean, off the South African coast. From 1881 until 1888, Diego Garcia was the location of two coaling stations for steamships crossing the Indian Ocean. For a brief period in the 1880s, it served as a coaling station for steamships transiting the Indian Ocean from the Suez Canal to Australia. The surface currents of the Indian Ocean also have a monsoonal regimen associated with the Asian Monsoonal wind regimen. The island was somewhat affected by the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Diego Garcia's seabird community includes thriving populations of species which are rapidly declining in other parts of the Indian Ocean. Tamil has official status in Singapore and there have been no attempts to discourage the use of other Indian languages. In popular culture, food items belong to a particular ethnicity, with Chinese, Malay, and Indian food clearly defined. Two RAF Chinooks transported Indian special forces to the outskirts of Kailahun. Other references to Indian timber used for shipbuilding is noted in the works of Ibn Jubayr. It is investigated by the Enforcement Directorate and Indian Income Tax Department. The British Indian Ocean Territory is connected to the region by a publication of Jane's for security considerations. Show More Sentences The use of the term Indian subcontinent began in the British Empire, and has been a term particularly common in its successors. Maldives, the country consisting of a small archipelago southwest of the peninsula, is considered part of the Indian subcontinent. While Afghanistan is not considered as a part of the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan is often included in South Asia. Similarly, Myanmar is included by some scholars in South Asia but not in Indian subcontinent. South Asia's northern, eastern, and western boundaries vary based on definitions used, while the Indian Ocean is the southern periphery. Buddhism spread beyond the Indian subcontinent, through northwest into Central Asia. The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union shall be the international form of Indian numerals. An Indian court clarified that Hindi is not the national language of India because the constitution does not mention it as such. Besides the native region it is also spoken by the majority of the population in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and in Barak Valley of Assam. It is also a major language in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. The Tamil Lexicon, published by the University of Madras, was one of the earliest dictionaries published in the Indian languages. Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages, a family of around 26 languages native to the Indian subcontinent. Tamil is the official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and one of the 22 languages under schedule 8 of the constitution of India. English had and continues to have a considerable influence over Indian languages. In this way, Indian speech can be sprinkled with English words and expressions, even switches to whole sentences. Between 1803 and 1813, there were more than 10,000 lascars from the Indian subcontinent visiting British port cities and towns. During this time, the Delhi Sultanate took over northern parts of Indian subcontinent. From 1911 to 1914, he was back at Harvard studying Indian philosophy and Sanskrit. Show More Sentences It used various animal fables and magical tales to illustrate the central Indian principles of political science. His wife Fanny, seated in an Indian dress, is visible in the lower right corner. In Indian politics, Rushdie has criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Elsewhere in Asia, the Indian Bollywood musical, mostly in the form of motion pictures, is tremendously successful. It is a symbol of the British Council's work rooted in the Indian cultural scene. He first suggested that I think about the mural as an Indian flag turning into a Union Jack. Greek foliage decoration was also influential, with Indian versions of the Corinthian capital appearing. His father, from a Hindu Punjabi family, was a hydrographer in the Indian Navy. Gill myxoboliasis, caused by Myxobolus and Henneguya, has caused heavy losses in Indian major carps, mainly Catla catla, in Bangladesh. In May 2009, ITV acquired the rights to broadcast live cricket from the Indian Premier League. He offers the example of an Indian Prince, who, having grown up in a hot country, refuses to believe that water has frozen. The Asir region differs in that it is influenced by the Indian Ocean monsoons, usually occurring between October and March. Some similarities have been found between the Greek hetaera, the Japanese oiran, and also the Indian tawaif. It juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, lying along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. The eastern boundary is the Central Indian Ridge, the northern portion of which is also known as the Carlsberg Ridge. The mountains descend in a huge escarpment to the Red Sea and more steadily to the Indian Ocean. However, Indian merchants continued to trade in the port cities of the Somali peninsula, which was free from Roman interference. For centuries, Indian merchants brought large quantities of cinnamon to Somalia and Arabia from Ceylon and the Spice Islands. These rivers mainly flow southwards, with the Jubba River entering the Indian Ocean at Kismayo. From the coast on the Indian Ocean, the low plains rise to central highlands. Show More Sentences Djibouti is strategically located near some of the world's busiest shipping lanes, controlling access to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. The Sikhs attached themselves to the Indian state with the promise of religious and cultural autonomy. By his own admission, Radcliffe was heavily influenced by his lack of fitness for the Indian climate and his eagerness to depart India. Two days later, the CHTPA resolved not to abide by the award and hoisted the Indian flag. It was only when the award was made public that the Pakistani flag was replaced by the Indian flag in Malda. Located in the east of Lesser Sunda Islands, East Nusa Tenggara faces the Indian Ocean in the south and Flores Sea in the north. In the same publication, one of his students, James Richardson Logan, used Indonesia as a synonym for Indian Archipelago. Wars were recurrent between the French and the British during the French and Indian Wars. Ledger withdrew to Quebec on August 22 after his Indian support abandoned him. As a result of the defeat, the vast majority of Burgoyne's Indian support abandoned him. Suffren arrived off the Indian coast in February 1782, where he clashed with a British fleet under Hughes, winning a narrow tactical victory. Throughout the negotiations, Britain never consulted her American Indian allies, forcing them to reluctantly accept the treaty. The majority led careers in the British Army or the British Indian Army, rising through the ranks to eventually become a field marshal. He would also be President of the Army Polo Committee and founder of the Indian Polo Association. Other major communities in the area are North West River and the large Indian reserve known as Sheshatshiu. The inner bark of the grand fir was used by some Plateau Indian tribes for treating colds and fever. Most Scottish Hindus are of Indian origin, or at least from neighbouring countries, such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. The distinct turban that differentiates a Sikh from other turban wearers is a relic of the rules of the British Indian Army. The Sikh population has the lowest gender balance in India, with only 903 women per 1,000 men according to the 2011 Indian census. Historically, most Indians have been farmers and 66 percent of the Indian population are engaged in agriculture. Show More Sentences The Punjab is the wealthiest Indian state per capita, with the average Punjabi income three times the national average. The Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards in retaliation. The Indian violin, while essentially the same instrument as that used in Western music, is different in some senses. The way the musician holds the instrument varies from Western to Indian music. This position is essential to playing well due to the nature of Indian music. It is believed to have been introduced to the Indian tradition by Baluswamy Dikshitar brother of Muthuswami Dikshitar. Narasimhan is among the leading players in the South Indian film industry, with many hits in the film world. The Bronze Age on the Indian subcontinent began around 3300 BC with the beginning of the Indus Valley civilization. Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India, instrumental in the Indian independence movement. Miohqsoo, or Myoxeo, was another noted Indian of Nope. He was a convert of Hiacoomes, whom he had sent for to inquire of him about his God. Fishes called herring are also found in the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, and Bay of Bengal. As a way to amend this problem, the British began exporting large amounts of opium grown in the Indian colonies. There was a prevalent view among the contemporary British West Indian plantocracy that racial intermarriage was abhorrent. Learie Constantine, a West Indian cricketer, was a welfare officer with the Ministry of Labour when he was refused service at a London hotel. In British English usage, the term Asians usually refers to people with roots in South Asia, essentially the Indian subcontinent. British Indians tend to originate mainly from the two Indian States, Punjab and Gujarat. In 1932, the Indian National Congress survey of 'all Indians outside India' estimated that there were 7,128 Indians in the United Kingdom. He is the only Indian artist to have achieved 7 top forty hits in the National UK charts. The Hadramis migrated to Southeast Asia, East Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Indian cuisine comprises of a wide variety of regional and traditional cuisines native to the Indian subcontinent. Show More Sentences Also, Middle Eastern and Central Asian influences have occurred on North Indian cuisine from the years of Mughal rule. Later, trade with British and Portuguese influence added to the already diverse Indian cuisine. During the Middle Ages, several Indian dynasties were predominant, including the Gupta dynasty. Many types of meat are used for Indian cooking, but chicken and mutton tend to be the most commonly consumed meats. The use of curry leaves and roots for flavouring is typical of Gujarati and South Indian cuisine. The food of Andhra Pradesh is known for its heavy use of spices, and similar to South Indian cuisine, the use of tamarind. Delhi cuisine is actually an amalgam of different Indian cuisines modified in unique ways. Subsequent influences have included the cuisines of Central Asia and the North Indian plains. The taste is very different from mainland Indian cuisines because of the use of various aromatic herbs and roots that are peculiar to the region. Meghalayan cuisine is unique and different from other Northeastern Indian states. Flavours are usually subtle and delicately spiced, unlike the spicy curries typically associated with Indian cuisine. Mughlai cuisine is a style of cooking developed in the Indian subcontinent by the imperial kitchens of the Mughal Empire. These cuisines tend to adapt Indian seasoning and cooking techniques to foreign dishes. While Indian Chinese cuisine is heavily derived from traditional Chinese cuisine, it bears little resemblance to its Chinese counterpart. Many Indian desserts, or mithai, are fried foods made with sugar, milk or condensed milk. There are two varieties of coffee popular in India, which include Indian filter coffee and instant coffee. Indian food is gaining popularity in China, where there are many Indian restaurants in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. It extends southward into the Indian Ocean with the Arabian Sea to the southwest and the Bay of Bengal to the southeast. Starting in 1914, Hardy was the mentor of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, a relationship that has become celebrated. They initially had chocolate brown or Indian red frames but this was changed in the twentieth century to black. Show More Sentences She met and married Henry Beveridge in Calcutta where she had gone in 1873 to open a school for native Indian girls. The southern plains are home to mongooses, civets, hares, the Asiatic jackal, the Indian pangolin, the jungle cat, and the desert cat. Pakistan's political experience is essentially related to the struggle of Indian Muslims to regain the power they lost to British colonisation. The legendary Vanga Kingdom is mentioned in the Indian epic Mahabharata covering the region of Bangladesh. Mughal Viceroys promoted agricultural expansion and turned Bengal into the rice basket of the Indian subcontinent. It was the first major benefit concert in history and was organized by Beatles star George Harrison and Indian Bengali sitarist Ravi Shankar. The Indian and Bangladeshi armed forces maintain robust strategic engagement. The Adina Mosque of undivided Bengal was the largest mosque built in the Indian subcontinent. Bangladesh has a rich tradition of Indian classical music, which uses instruments like the sitar, tabla, sarod and santoor. In Fiji curries are made in most Indian homes and is eaten with rice or roti. In 1908, Oxo, Odol mouthwash and Indian Foot Powder became official sponsors of the London Olympic Games. At the Indian Grand Prix McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh stated that the length of Button's new contract was 3 years. Today, this area is dominated by mostly Indian companies with Hero MotoCorp emerging as the world's largest manufacturer of two wheelers. The Indian citizenship and nationality law and the Constitution of India provides single citizenship for the entire country. This form of nationalism took many guises, including the peaceful passive resistance movement led by Mahatma Gandhi in the Indian subcontinent. The means can extend from peaceful demonstrations, like in the case of the Indian independence movement, to a violent civil war. Leger's Indian support abandoned him, forcing him to break off the siege and return to Quebec. In 1884 an attempt was made at autonomy with the formation of two West Indian Conferences, however by 1903 the venture had failed. Most Scottish Hindus are of Indian origin, or at least from neighbouring countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. The major result was the permanent defeat of the Indian allies the British had counted upon. Show More Sentences In the Indian rebellion of 1857 almost the entire Bengal army, both regular and irregular, revolted. A silver hoop, or ring, which the Indian women fasten round their naked ancles, because they use neither shoes nor stockings. She was the daughter of an English officer, who having fallen in love with an Indian Begum gave up home, country, and friends, and married her. The many Indian restaurants all over Britain are a by-product of the large waves of immigration from the subcontinent. The mash grass, through which the Indian canoes had slithered so caressingly, turned harsh and brittle. All the heat of a decade of fierce Indian summers is stored in the pitch-black, polished walls of the corkscrew staircase. The poor Alderney Islands of Britain were curryless for long and Indian food was flown in on the last flight every day from Guernsey Islands. The favourite device of one of the Indian desert foxes here is of a donnybrookian flavour. I'm e-quainted with someone who goes to the VA there and he says he sees Indian groceries when he goes there. So I fell back on the simple methods of the plainsman and Indian and jogged along on their trail. Currently some 6 million faredodgers every year find out just how far their ownership of Indian Railways extends. All the legendry, of course, white and Indian alike, died down during the nineteenth century, except for occasional atavistical flareups. Have you seen the Colgate Total ad with the female Indian dentist? Would you let her give you a gobby? I would. She has a perdy mouth. In this context, the humiliating defeat of 1971 and the Indian nuclear test were major factors in the Pakistani decision to go nuclear. The Indian may go off the reservation, he can steal from the whites and run back to the reservation with impunity. Many of these migrants came from the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent. While Portuguese were making huge gains in the Indian Ocean, the Spanish invested in exploring inland in search of gold and valuable resources. Much of contemporary Indian law shows substantial European and American influence. Webb and Veikko watched across a meadow of larkspur and Indian paintbrush, and behind them a little creek rushed down the hillside. It was a warm night, Indian summer. The whole city seemed to be out of doors. It was like an enormous block party. Show More Sentences There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs. The British Parliament's efforts to levy new taxes following the French and Indian War were deeply unpopular in the colonies. There were also reported sightings of European captives at various Indian settlements during the same time period. English traders frequently engaged in hostilities with their Dutch and Portuguese counterparts in the Indian Ocean. The war took place on Indian soil, between the company troops and the French forces. He knew that Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn had amassed a substantial fortune from the Levant and Indian trades. In the early 19th century the Indian question of geopolitical dominance and empire holding remained with the East India Company. The Settlements were also used as penal settlements for Indian civilian and military prisoners. In addition, Penang, one of the states in Malaya, became the fourth most important settlement, a presidency, of the Company's Indian territories. The Crown took over its Indian possessions, its administrative powers and machinery, and its armed forces. The government took it over in 1858, and renamed it the Royal Indian Military College. The East India Company had a long lasting impact on the Indian Subcontinent, with both positive and harmful effects. It may even be seen further back in time to the first of the French and Indian Wars. The Indian Ocean island of Mayotte voted in referendum in 1974 to retain its link with France and forgo independence. In 1869 the Suez Canal opened under Napoleon III, linking the Mediterranean with the Indian Ocean. Like karate, for instance, which would appear to derive from the ancient Indian martial art kalarippayattu. Wellington was waiting to be debriefed on his Indian operations, and Nelson on his chase and future plans. For supper, Coloured and Indian prisoners received a quarter loaf of bread and a slab of margarine. At the outbreak of World War II, the British Indian Army numbered 205,000 men. Churchill permanently broke with Stanley Baldwin over Indian independence and never again held any office while Baldwin was prime minister. Show More Sentences Even during the time Churchill was campaigning against Indian independence, he received official and otherwise secret information. Politically, the Indian subcontinent usually includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Sometimes, the term South Asia is used interchangeably with Indian subcontinent. Its use to refer to the Indian subcontinent is seen from the early twentieth century. The Indian subcontinent has been a term particularly common in the British Empire and its successors. There is no globally accepted definition on which countries are a part of South Asia or Indian subcontinent. The Indian subcontinent drifted northeastwards, colliding with the Eurasian plate nearly 55 million years ago, towards the end of Paleocene. The zone where the Eurasian and Indian subcontinent plates meet remains one of the geologically active areas, prone to major earthquakes. Most of this region rests on the Indian Plate and is isolated from the rest of Asia by large mountain barriers. Whether called the Indian subcontinent or South Asia, the definition of the geographical extent of this region varies. Maldives, the small archipelago southwest of the peninsula, is considered part of the Indian subcontinent. The geopolitical definition and the use of terms such as Indian subcontinent, South Asian subcontinent and South Asia is a contested topic. The Marksville culture takes its name from the Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. A significant West Indian black community existed in the city since the first two decades of the 20th century. There are large Chinatowns in Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle, and communities from the Indian subcontinent in all major towns. The Indian factory is still very successful, with new Indian models and has taken Royal Enfield into its third century of manufacturing. In February 2008, India planned to order 57 more Hawks, with 40 going to the Indian Air Force and the remaining 17 to the Indian Navy. As of 2015, a total of 123 aircraft were on order by the Indian Air Force and 17 by the Indian Navy. Bangladesh shares its culinary heritage with the neighboring Indian state of West Bengal. The Delhi Durbar of 1911 saw King George V and Queen Mary bedecked in sapphires and rubies lording it over half a million Indian subjects. Show More Sentences The West Indian cricket team includes the South American nation of Guyana, the only former British colony on the mainland of that continent. British Chinese women also have the individual incomes among all ethnic groups in the UK followed by White British and Indian women. On the Indian subcontinent, the Lodhi Dynasty ruled over the Delhi Sultanate during its last phase. Finally, the only documented widespread lingua franca to be a sign language is Plains Indian Sign Language, used across much of North America. Alongside or a derivation of Plains Indian Sign Language was Plateau Sign Language, now extinct. Economic writings date from earlier Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, Indian subcontinent, Chinese, Persian, and Arab civilizations. Then, government boarding schools severely punished American Indian students who were overheard speaking their own language. To avoid beatings and other punishments, Yuchi, and other Indian children abandoned their native languages in favor of English. The reservation held members of 27 different Indian bands speaking many languages. Punjabi is the official language of the Indian states of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. Despite a rich heritage of Punjabi literature, Punjabi Television serial industry in Indian Punjab has totally disappeared. Urdu is historically associated with the Muslims of the northern Indian subcontinent. Some Indian schools teach Urdu as a first language and have their own syllabi and exams. Ram Mohan Roy an Indian reformer of the 18th century, was a Unitarian who published a book called Precepts of Jesus. After the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, they arrived immediately at some of the worst disaster sites to help retrieve and bury the dead. Scholars regard Hinduism as a fusion or synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions, with diverse roots and no founder. Although it is an Indian religion, Sikhism rejects claims that any particular religious tradition has a monopoly on Absolute Truth. Vajrayana, a body of teachings attributed to Indian siddhas, may be viewed as a third branch or merely a part of Mahayana. Buddhism, like all Indian religions, was an oral tradition in the ancient times. As with any ancient Indian tradition, transmission of teaching was done orally. Find more words! 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