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  Encyclopædia Britannica 1969 +246teaeb69+
In the tropical areas of southern India, Ceylon, and Indonesia, harvest continues throughout the year, but in the subtropical regions of northern India and China and in Japan and Formosa, the harvests are seasonal.
India, the worlds's largest producer of tea (mostly fl teas), supplied about one-third of the total in the mid-1960s and also led the world in tea exports.
In southern India tea is grown in the elevated region overlooking the Malabar Coast in Kerala and in the Nilgiris hills.
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 1932   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
1932 is a leap year starting on Friday.
June 6 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States (1 cent per gallon sold).
November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/1/19/1932.html   (1484 words)

  
 BBC World Service | Story Of Cricket
India became the sixth member of the “elite club” alongside England, Australia, South Africa, the West Indies and New Zealand in June 1932.
India’s inaugural match with England at Lords, attracted 24,000 strong crowd which included the King of England, who was also then the Emperor of India.
India clashed with the visiting Pakistan team in 1952 initiating a new intense sporting rivalry between the newly-formed neighbours.
www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/specials/1157_cricket_history/page6.shtml   (384 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - India vs Pakistan - 2004
India were shining today at the end of the second day’s play in the series-deciding third cricket Test against Pakistan, which ran into Rahul Dravid ‘The Wall’, who hit a gritty unbeaten century to put his team in command.
India’s wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel was today summoned by ICC match referee Ranjan Madugalle for a hearing after he was reported for excessive appealing during the second day’s play of the second cricket Test against Pakistan.
India were tantalisingly close to their first-ever Test win in Pakistan which was forced to follow on and left staring at defeat after Anil Kumble took seven wickets on the penultimate day of the Multan Test here today.
www.tribuneindia.com /2004/specials/indopak.htm   (6820 words)

  
 rediff.com: cricket channel: Statistical highlights: 4th & final day at Bulawayo
This was India’s 66th Test match victory since its first in February 10, 1952 against England at Madras (by an innings and 8 runs).
This was India 15th Test win abroad in 158 matches, since its first win on foreign soil against New Zealand at Dunedin (by 5 wickets) on February 20, 1968.
India’s total of 184-2 was its fifth highest score attempted in the fourth innings to win a Test match.
www.rediff.com /cricket/2001/jun/10stat.htm   (574 words)

  
 William Carey,  D. D. (1761-1834): Histories (India)
India Observed: India as Viewed by British Artists, 1760-1860: An Exhibition Organised by the Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum as Part of the Festival of India, 26 April-5 July 1982.
McEldowney, Philip F. Pindari Society and the Establishment of British Paramountcy in India." M.A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1966.
Wolpert notes that, because the East India Company refused to allow mission work, "...early missionary efforts in India were confined mostly to study, translation, and social science activities" (p.
www.wmcarey.edu /carey/bib/histories_india.htm   (2077 words)

  
 The Hindu : A victory to cherish
This was India's 66th Test victory since its first in February 10, 1952 against England at Madras (by an innings and 8 runs).
During this period India has won just two (in Sri Lanka in 1993 and Bangladesh in 2000) while losing 19, with rest of the 29 matches being drawn.
India's other eight-wicket wins were against New Zealand - at Wellington on February 29, 1968 and at Auckland on January 24, 1976.
www.hinduonnet.com /2001/06/12/stories/07120284.htm   (420 words)

  
 Mahatma Gandhi Research & Media Service - Chronology 1932
Discussed with the correspondents of The Times of India the scope and implication of resorting to fasting by political leaders.
The terms of settlement were communicated to the Government of India and the British Premier with the request to expedite revision of Co September
In interview to The Times of India, Gandhi denied rumour about his fast for opening all temples in India to untouchables.
www.gandhiserve.org /information/chronology_1932/chronology_1932.html   (2984 words)

  
 webindia123.com-Indian History-Modern-Prime Ministers of India
Daughter of the first P.M. of India Jawaharlal Nehru, was born at Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh) in 1917.
Her bold polices led India to victory in the 1971 war against Pakistan.
Born in 1932, he is best known as ' father of Indian Reforms'.
www.webindia123.com /history/modern/pm.htm   (418 words)

  
 1932 Los Angeles Olympics
India retained the Olympic Gold it had first won in the 1928 Amsterdam Games.
The Los Angeles sport writer, way back in 1932, was wrong about the wives (whether one or many), though he was right about the lions.
A report in a Los Angeles daily, filed by a woman correspondent, said: "All the colour, glamour and pageantry of Rudyard Kipling's India might well have found its incarnation in the personnel of the Indian team which is to represent the land of Mahatma Gandhi.
www.bharatiyahockey.org /olympics/golden/1932.htm   (719 words)

  
 20s   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
These years in India were marked by political turmoil and nationalist agitations as India fought its way to independence.
It also argues that Britain should have granted freedom to India in the early 1930s rather than 1947, avoiding the disastrous partition of the nation and the birth of Pakistan.
The present Ambassador of India, Naresh Chandra, writes about the book, "I am delighted to know a person who had the courage to stand up against oppression and who stood with my countrymen in their hour of need and struggle for independence." The Halsteads can be contacted at P.O. Box 52, Peru, VT, 05152.
www.haverford.edu /publications/winter99/20s.htm   (235 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Organized school cricket at the all- India level began early so that talent could be identified and nurtured.
The BCCI administrators, unlike their counterparts in other disciplines in India, were generally conscientious and honest, hard-working and accessible.
As it is usual in India, the organizations governing other sports are seething in jealousy and speculators are trying to get onto the cricket bandwagon.
www.telegraphindia.com /1041111/asp/opinion/story_3988311.asp   (834 words)

  
 News India-Times.com, Online Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
And, it is quite possible that the 35-member Wisden jury, comprising former Test cricketers, journalists and cricket administrators, had found many other reasons to choose the swashbuckling allrounder ahead of batting maestros Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar from the short-listed 16 nominees, at the Wembley Conference Center in London on July 23.
Going by the general reaction in India, it can be safely said that the most deserving player won the coveted award, which comprised a specially-designed trophy, presented to Kapil by the great West Indies batsman Vivian Richards, and a diamond studded, commemorative edition watch from Timex, one of the several co-sponsors of the event.
The indomitable Kapil single-handedly won many matches for India with his swing bowling, forceful batting and electric fielding, and formed a formidable opening attack with Karsan Ghavri and Madan Lal in the 1980s.
www.newsindia-times.com /2002/08/02/tow-top34.html   (1246 words)

  
 Muslim cricketers played for India, The Milli Gazette, Vol. 2 No. 10
Mohammed Nisar is among those cricketers who represented India in its very first test in 1932 against England.
He also played against England in 1932, which was the inaugural test of India.
He came into limelight when as Vice-Captain of the ‘India under-15’ team for 1996, in Lambard Challenge Cup in England he averaged over 90 runs and was voted the best batsman of the championship.
www.milligazette.com /Archives/15052001/19.htm   (1527 words)

  
 Test Cricket Trivia, Quizzes, Quiz Questions, Fun Facts, Information
Considered by some to be the best three-test series of all time, the contests between India and Australia in February and March of 2001 had almost everything.
This is a quiz on the 4th test between India and Australia.
India had last won against Australia in Australia in 1981 when they had beaten Australia by 59 runs..
www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/sports/cricket/test_cricket.html   (691 words)

  
 Stats Corner: Comparing India's captains || Indian Cricket Fever - Unofficial Indian Cricket News and Views
India's current captain Sourav Ganguly is set to equal Sunil Gavaskar's and Mohammad Azharuddin's joint record of 47 Tests at the helm, the most Tests ever captained by an Indian.
India’s first captain to win three series in a row: Ajit Wadekar 1970-71 v.
India’s first captain to Win the World Cup: Kapil Dev (this is not related to Tests, but it is a significant milestone nonetheless)
www.sportnetwork.net /main/s119/st69356.htm?fromrss=1   (1302 words)

  
 February 2000 Monthly Features
Another report in a Los Angeles daily said: "All the colour, glamour and pageantry of Rudyard Kipling's India might well have found its incarnation in the personnel of the Indian team which is to represent the land of Mahatma Gandhi.
He captained India in the semi final and the final and was the centre half of the team.
Women's hockey in India has not known any champion apart from the Railways in the past two decades.
www.bharatiyahockey.org /2000/feb2000photo.html   (1641 words)

  
 M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence :: Founders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Born in 1934 in Durban, South Africa, Arun is the fifth grandson of India’s legendary leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi.
Born in 1932 in India’s Gujarat province, Sunanda, married Arun in 1958 and later co-founded the M. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.
She was in charge of the women’s section, the children’s section, and a special tutorial supplement to aid children in mathematics, biology, and other science subjects.
www.gandhiinstitute.org /AboutUs/Founders.cfm   (768 words)

  
 UF Alumni Association Online!!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
hen Indra Vasil was born in India in 1932, the country could not grow enough food to feed its population.
Mixed in with his early memories of growing up in a comfortable family in a rural area surrounded by woods and fields of wheat, rice and sugar cane was an awareness of the hunger, poverty and illness that existed elsewhere in his country.
India is growing huge amounts of transgenic cotton,” Vasil says.
www.ufalumni.ufl.edu /today/Fall2004/Feature1.asp   (2099 words)

  
 Category:India-related stubs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This stub category is for short or unfinished general articles relating to India.
For articles related or pertaining to the economy of India, add {{India-eco-stub}} instead.
All India State Bank of India Staff Federation
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:India-related_stubs   (162 words)

  
 Welcome to Reliance Petroleum
The Reliance Group founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002) is India's largest business house with total revenues of over Rs 99,000 crore (US$ 22.6 billion), cash profit of Rs 12,500 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs 6,200 crore (US$ 1.4 billion) and exports of Rs 15,900 crore (US$ 3.6 billion).
Reliance emerged as India's Most Admired Business House, for the third successive year in a TNS Mode survey for 2003.
The company emerged 'India's biggest wealth creator' in the private sector over a 5-year period in a study by Business Today - Stern Stewart in 2004.
naukri.com /gpw/reliancepetro   (363 words)

  
 Cycas beddomei   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The third introduction was of plants collected by Colonel Puckle, another director of the Lal Bagh (Government Gardens) at Bangalore, and imported by the English plant trader William Bull in 1877, who described it is his catalogue as `a distinct Indian cycad, from the Presidency of Madras', under the name C.
The myth that this species was almost stemless was propagated in the literature from there, for example by Fischer (1928), Schuster (1932) and Raizada and Sahni (1960).
This species has been one of the few in the genus that has been fairly clearly understood from its beginning, with little misapplication of the name and no misunderstanding of the type.
plantnet.rbgsyd.gov.au /cgi-bin/taxon.pl?name=Cycas+beddomei   (773 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library: Ananda Coomaraswamy
What he said about India and the decadent Indian culture at that time is rightly applicable to present Sri Lanka.
He elaborated on his warnings in one of his early essays of genius, 'Young India' and advocated that nationalism should positively contribute to resolve problems that face the whole wide world, and no longer merely those of a single race or continent.
Linking the Sri Lankan struggles with those of India were of utmost importance to Ananda, as was his concern at the loss of eastern traditions to those of the west, both themes which were to continue to be vitally important to his work throughout his life.
www.lankalibrary.com /cul/ananda.htm   (3452 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 144   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
On October 5, at a Loquations meeting in the darkened Sunken Garden of the National Centre of Performing Arts in Mumbai, a quiet tribute was paid to Arun Kolatkar (1932-2004), "India's best kept literary secret", in the words of his poet friend Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.
The contest is open to all residents of India, and Indian citizens anywhere in the world, and the last date is October 31.
If they succeed - and there is no reason why they shouldn't, given their determination to do so - it spells good news for all those young writers in India who have despaired of ever seeing their work in print.
www.thedailystar.net /2004/10/16/d41016210295.htm   (1164 words)

  
 Irfan Pathan: 27th Muslim to play test for India, The Milli Gazette, Vol.5 No.01, MG95 (1-15 Jan 04)
In the first cricket team of India in 1932 there were many Muslim players.
He is the first bowler to bowl for India, first to claim a wicket for India and also the first to claim five wickets in an innings.
Under his captaincy India won 14 tests which is a maximum by any Indian captain.
www.milligazette.com /Archives/2004/01-15Jan04-Print-Edition/0101200447.htm   (1158 words)

  
 Bibliography: Disabilities and Childhood in the Middle East and South Asia (N-Z)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Underlines that ancient education and society in South India cannot be understood by reference to the Vedic literature (p.
This school is probably the first of its kind in India and trains children who through mental or physical defects cannot derive much benefit from the instruction given in ordinary schools.
The essence of the indigenous system which made India great was the separation of pupil from his home and parents, relocating him to the elevating spiritual atmosphere of his guru's home.
www.socsci.kun.nl /ped/whp/histeduc/mmiles/mesabib4.html   (9980 words)

  
 Desi Talk.com, Online Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Born in India in 1932, he was initiated at the age of 14 into Vajrayana Tantric rituals by Bikham Yogi, a spiritual master from Bengal who had taken up residence at a temple in the Kangra Hills.
Qadri spent years in meditation in the Himalayas and in Tibet, studied art in Simla, had a solo show of his work in East Africa in 1966, before moving on to Europe and America.
Soham was in India with me this year for a big show at Kumar Gallery in New Delhi.
desitalk.newsindia-times.com /2004/09/17/arts20-top.html   (622 words)

  
 Ceylon in India : Dec 1932/Feb 1933
India v Ceylon at Lahore, 18-20 Dec 1932
Patiala v Ceylon at Patiala, 24-26 Dec 1932
India v Ceylon at Delhi, 30 Dec 1932-1 Jan 1933
www.cricinfo.com /db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1932-33/CEYLON_IN_IND   (72 words)

  
 Electronic Guide to the Anderson Family CollectionPrepared by Robert Drew Simpson, Assistant Archivist, Kristen Turner ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Karl E. Anderson (1867-1946) and his wife, Emma Jennie Wardle Anderson, were education missionaries with the Methodist Episcopal Church in India from 1899-1932.
He was active in the Upper Iowa and Northwest Iowa Conferences, but was later reappointed to India on November 19, 1913 to work in Kolar, Bangalore, and Bidar.
She was first appointed to the India field in April of 1903 and sailed to India on September 19, 1903.
www.gcah.org /ead/gcah648.htm   (729 words)

  
 The Hindu : Andy Flower - Mr. Consistent
After two official tours to Zimbabwe in 1992 and 1998, India was appearing at this venue for the first time.
For the second time in its Test history since 1932 India went in to a Test match with two genuine left-arm pace bowlers (Nehra and Zaheer).
Zimbabwes total of 173 was its lowest against India in the six Tests between the two countries.
www.hinduonnet.com /2001/06/08/stories/07080288.htm   (312 words)

  
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Was mem of Cttee to formulate a scheme of reforms, 8th Session of All India Muslim League, Bombay, Dec 1915; presided over a mass meeting (15-20 thousand) of Bombay Muslims at Nagpada, 19 Mar 1919, which adopted resolutions on Khilafat issue and also authorized the establishment of a Khilafat Cttee.
On his joining the Khilafat Movement was cold-shouldered by the Govt and was not given futher business contracts; was offered a baronetcy on condition of his severing all contacts with the Khilafat Movement but he refused.
Biog and Occasion: Muslims in India, A Biographical Dictionary, Edited with an introduction by Naresh Kumar Jain, New Delhi, 1979, Vol 1, p 142.
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