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  South India Tours,South India Vacations,South India Holidays Vacations,Vacation Trip to South India,South India ...
It houses the St. Mary's church the oldest Anglican Church in India which was built in 1680 and the tombstones in its courtyard are the oldest British tombstones in India.
This erstwhile French colony on the east coast of South India merged with the rest of the country in 1954.
Called the Silicon Valley of India for its growing software industry, it is also known as the city of draught beer.
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  INDIA AND UNITED  NATIONS
India was the Chairman of the Commission, which implemented the ceasefire agreement between Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and France.
India provided a contingent comprising one infantry battalion and support elements to the UN assistance mission in Rwanda to help ensure security for the refugees, and to create conditions for free and fair elections.
India is also currently participating in the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) with an infantry battalion, a Force Reserve Company and a Field Engineer Construction Company.
www.un.int /india/india_and_the_un_pkeeping.html   (1727 words)

  
 INDIA/History
The East India Company was formed in England in 1600 with a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I. During the 1600's, the company established important trading posts and forts at Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras.
India adopted a policy of noninvolvement in the Cold War between Communist and democratic nations.
India did not join the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, an alliance that existed from 1954 to 1977, because of the nation's neutrality and fear of involvement in international struggles.
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 India Overland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
However, the colony of British India was split in two countries, the Republics of India (with a dominating Hindu majority) and Pakistan (with a dominating Muslim majority).
At the end of the Korean War, India assumed the presidency in the NNSC (Neutral Nations Supervisory Council) that was to supervise the armistice on the peninsula.
India's own conquests, her wars with Pakistan and her dispute with China discredited India as a leading force in the Non-Aligned Movement; it rather came to be regarded as a regional power.
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 The China-India Border War
India saw how weak her Army was, and began a massive buildup and modernization of her Army in the mid-1960s.
And while China and India dis- puted the border on two fronts (east in NEFA and west in Aksai Chin, this western border was especially significant, for China had built a military highway--to link Sinkiang and Tibet--here in 1956-57; Peking was adamant in retaining her right to this land.
India seemed almost totally unaware that she was heavily outnumbered along the border and that China (unlike India) was well prepared logistically and well versed in alpine warfare tactics.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1984/CJB.htm   (17833 words)

  
 IPCS - India
Whereas India had extended recognition to the Chinese republic in the month of January, reciprocation was delayed due to the Chinese insistence on India's position on Taiwan.
India held a military exercise in the South China Sea and China was not a participant in it.
India should not take it as aimed against her, it is their effort at reducing regional disparities.
www.ipcs.org /India_seminars2.jsp?action=showView&kValue=1706   (2138 words)

  
 Economy - India Bilateral Treaties and Agreements - Volume II
Article IX With effect from I November, 1954, Government of India shall take in their service all the civil servants and employees of the Establishments, other than those belonging to the metropolitan cadre or to the general cadre of the France d'Outre-Ministry.
Therefore, the Government of India shall immediately reimburse to the French Government the amount of Treasury loans and various funds placed by the latter at the disposal of the territory, as well as advances made by the "Caisse Central de La France d' Outre-Mer", with the exception of sums remitted as grants.
Article VI The Government of India will reimburse to the personnel of education and cultural establishments whose salaries are paid by the French Government, an amount equal to the Indian income-tax paid by them unless it is covered by Double Income Tax Avoidance Agreement between India and France.
meaindia.nic.in /treatiesagreement/1956/chap133.htm   (3006 words)

  
 India and Pakistan: Nuclear Capabilities
India and Pakistan are rivals and have maintained hostile relations since they gained independence from the British in 1948.
When India conducted its first nuclear test in 1974, it was perceived that even at that time the country either possessed or had the capability of quickly assembling nuclear weapons.
While India has maintained in the past that its nuclear testing was for peaceful purposes, it has stated openly that the last set of detonations, including one thermonuclear device, were military in nature.
www.yespakistan.com /kashmir/nuke_cap.asp   (1824 words)

  
 Disarmament and Peace Education > India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
India’s nuclear weapons program started in 1944, three years before independence, and has been driven primarily by three factors: India’s desire to be respected as a world power (both politically and in the scientific establishment), its relations with China, and its relations with Pakistan.
India’s program began in 1944, under the oversight of Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, who along with other Indian scientists was anxious to prove India’s capacity for scientific advancement.
Although India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was not a strong proponent of nuclear weapons development, a defeat in a 1962 Indo-Chinese border war led India to make a public declaration of its intent to develop nuclear weapons.
www.gsinstitute.org /newsite/dpe/countries/india.html   (787 words)

  
 Air India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In 1953 the Government of India chose to its option to purchase a majority stake the carrier and Air India International Limited was born as one of the of the Air Corporations Act that nationalised air transportation industry.
In 1986 Air India made the decision to its fleet with Airbus A310s and began to accept delivery of aircraft later that year.
Air India's mascot the Maharaja is a turban clad king with moustache and a royal dress.
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 ipedia.com: Air India Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In 1953, the Government of India chose to exercise its option to purchase a majority stake in the carrier and Air India International Limited was born as one of the fruit of the Air Corporations Act that nationalised the air transportation industry.
Air India's security department became the first aviation security organisation in the world to acquire ISO 9002-1994 certification(January 31, 2001).
Air India's mascot, the Maharaja, is a turban clad king with over-sized moustache and a royal dress.
www.ipedia.com /air_india.html   (1618 words)

  
 Brief History of India
The third voyage of the Company was the first to India and arrived at the port of Surat, the chief town of Gujarat, where the first Presidency was established in 1629 that was shifted to Bombay in 1687.
The Governor General of India became the Viceroy of India, and the President of the Board of Control in London became the Secretary of State for India.
India took over the French Settlements in India in 1954 and the Portuguese possessions in 1961.
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 India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The flag of India consists of three equal sized horizontal stripes - the top stripe is orange (saffron); the middle one is white; and the bottom stripe is green.
In the middle of the white stripe and the flag is a blue emblem (Ashoka Chakra), a 24-spoked wheel which represents the wheel of the law.
The subcontinent was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan.
www.vdiest.nl /Asia/india.htm   (1716 words)

  
 UNICEF India - About UNICEF - History of UNICEF in India
Government of India and UNICEF swing into action almost simultaneously, to face the unimagined emergency that put the life of millions of innocent children of the fleeing refugee families from East Pakistan at risk.
Initiated by the government all over India, the uni-purpose workers of various vertical national programmes are converted into multi-purpose workers, this is a significant step forward in the provision of rural health care in the country.
The Supreme Court of India passes a landmark school feeding law in 2001.Under the new legislation all state governments have to introduce a cooked mid-day meal in all primary schools.
www.unicef.org /india/about_unicef_190.htm   (1366 words)

  
 India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
1947 - India became an independent nation with a Hindu majority at midnight August 15, and Pakistan with a Muslim majority was partitioned east and west.
The Hindu maharaja of the state of Jammu and Kashmir had refused to to join either India or Pakistan, but when attacked by West Pakistan Muslims, decided in October to join India, causing the first India-Pakistan war 1947-48, ended by a United Nations-sponsored cease-fire Jan. 1, 1949, with 30% of Kashmir under Pakistan control.
India agreed that any plutonium from power reactors will not be used for atomic weapons, but India does not sign the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty, and with the help of France builds and tests its first atomic bomb in 1974.
history.acusd.edu /gen/20th/india.html   (715 words)

  
 India - China
In April 1954, India and China signed an eight-year agreement on Tibet that set forth the basis of their relationship in the form of the Panch Shila.
China's construction of a military post and helicopter pad in the area in 1986 and India's grant of statehood to Arunachal Pradesh (formerly the North-East Frontier Agency) in February 1987 caused both sides to deploy new troops to the area, raising tensions and fears of a new border war.
India and China agreed to broaden bilateral ties in various areas, working to achieve a "fair and reasonable settlement while seeking a mutually acceptable solution" to the border dispute.
countrystudies.us /india/129.htm   (1914 words)

  
 Centenary of India Postage Stamps - 1st October 1954
On 1st October 1954, India completed 100 Years of the issue of its First Postage Stamp, which also coincided with the placing of the Post Offices under the centralised control of a Director General.
One of the monstrous idea of the P and T Department of the Government of India was to reprint complete sets of all Indian Postage Stamps from 1854 to 1954 from original dies, during Indian Postage Stamps Centenary celebrations to be held in October 1954.
It appears that India is the first country in the world to have produced such a representative record of stamps issued during the past 100 Years.
www.geocities.com /indianphilately/chapter47.htm   (746 words)

  
 1996 India Special Weapons News
This provision which makes ratification by India and 43 other countries essential for Entry into Force of this Treaty was introduced after India had clearly stated that it was not in a position to subscribe to this treaty in its present form.
Arundhati Ghose, Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the UN Offices at Geneva, Plenary of the Conference on Disarmament on August 8, 1996 -- This text, while it does contain a Treaty, does not contain the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty we had been mandated to negotiate nor does it meet India's basic concerns.
Arundhati Ghose, Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to UN Plenary Meeting of the Conference On Disarmament, Geneva on June 20, 1996 -- The CTBT that we see emerging appears to be shaped more by the technological preferences of the nuclear weapon states rather than the imperatives of nuclear disarmament.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/india/1996   (981 words)

  
 India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
India's fuel situation, with shortage of fossil fuels, is driving the nuclear investment for electricity, and 25% nuclear contribution is foreseen by 2050, from one hundred times the 2002 capacity.
India and Pakistan (along with Pakistan and Israel) was originally a "threshold" country in terms of the international non-proliferation regime, possessing, or quickly capable of assembling one or more nuclear weapons.
India has taken the view that solutions to regional security issues should be found at the international rather than the regional level, since its chief concern is with China.
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 India, Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Pakistan's criminal folly in Kashmir: the drama of accession and rescue of Ladakh.
Politics of terrorism in India: the case of Punjab.
New Delhi, India: Knowledge World in Association with Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 1999.
users.skynet.be /terrorism/html/india.htm   (1040 words)

  
 U.S. Policy / India
One disturbing reference is the bombing of the Air India plane carrying the Chinese delegation to the Bandung Conference in 1955.
Smith is asked by Jack Curran, his wife's boss, to deliver a bag to a KMT agent in New Delhi, and is told later by his wife that it contained the bomb which destroyed the plane.
Despite the obvious propaganda jargon, this booklet appears to be a reliable account of CIA activities in India in the 1950s.
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 Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files—India: Internal Affairs and
The files of the American ambassadors to India during this time—Henry F. Grady and Loy W. Henderson—and their staffs provide convenient access to thousands of official records on both the political, economic, and social affairs of modern India and on India’s key role in the international politics of the postwar era.
From 1947 until 1964, India was led by Jawaharlal Nehru, a charismatic prime minister from a nationally prominent family.
Inspired by Nehru, India became a model for other Third World nations in Asia and Africa who were determined to maintain their neutrality in the cold war.
www.lexisnexis.com /Academic/2upa/Ias/sdCentralIndia.asp   (1011 words)

  
 Holy Eucharist from the Church of South India (1954)
The Chuch of South India is the representative of the Anglican Communion in southern India and was formed by a union of Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregational churches in the 1950's.
This Eucharistic liturgy dates from 1954 and is one of the earliest examples of the "modern" liturgies used in most Anglican Churches today.
This text was taken from a booklet published in 1954 (see cover at left) and seems to be identical to that appearing in the 1963 Book of Common Worship of the Church of South India (CSI).
justus.anglican.org /resources/bcp/India/SIndia_euchr_intro.htm   (1949 words)

  
 India Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
Damao [Daman] 1954 (Topographic Map) original scale 1:250,000.
India 1760 from The Public Schools Historical Atlas edited by C. Colbeck.
India 1882 from A Dictionary Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation by J.R. M'Culloch.
www.lib.utexas.edu /maps/india.html   (466 words)

  
 Timeline 1954
1954 Nov 26, Jonas Zemaitis (b.1909), a founder of the Lithuanian independence movement and presidium head, was shot to death in Moscow.
1954 Charles Diggs (d.1998 at 75) was elected to the House of Representatives from the 13th district (around Detroit) and stayed in congress for 25 years.
1954 In Egypt the statue of Ramses II was moved from Memphis to Cairo.
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 Colombo Cup 1952-1955   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Colombo Cup, the trophy for the tournament, was confined to the countries of the former Indian Empire - Burma, Ceylon, India and Pakistan.
India 4-2 Burma India 1-0 Ceylon [2-0?] India 1-0 Pakistan Pakistan 1-1 Burma Pakistan 6-0 Ceylon Burma 3-2 Ceylon 1.INDIA 3 3 0 0 6- 2 6 2.Pakistan 3 1 1 1 7- 2 3 3.Burma 3 1 1 1 6- 7 3 4.Ceylon 3 0 0 3 2-10 0
India 1-1 Ceylon India 2-1 Burma India 3-1 Pakistan Burma 1-2 Ceylon Pakistan 1-1 Burma Pakistan 2-1 Ceylon 1.INDIA 3 2 1 0 6- 3 5 2.Ceylon 3 1 1 1 4- 4 3 3.Pakistan 3 1 1 1 4- 5 3 4.Burma 3 0 1 2 3- 5 1
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 Hist269: Rule and Resistance in India, 1857-1954
The Revolt of 1857 was a shock from which British rule in India never recovered.
This section of the module culminates in the terrible events of the Partition, when communities and families were torn apart to give birth to the new, independent nation states of India and Pakistan.
The module will end by exploring how India's nationhood and the inheritances of Partition were expressed in cinema.
www.lancs.ac.uk /depts/history/undergrad/hist269.htm   (365 words)

  
 1953 in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1952 in India, other events of 1953, 1954 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.
Government of India sets up first backward classes commission headed by Kaka Kalelkar.
This page was last modified 18:45, 8 April 2006.
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 Indo-Pak cricket history: Trappings of a potboiler : Cricket News : IndiaExpress.Com
A peep into the rich history of India-Pakistan cricket would be enough to whet the appetite of even the uninitiated, given the interplay of drama, intrigue and passion that underlines each of their encounters.
It would thus not be an exaggeration to suggest India and Pakistan have enriched world cricket with their love for the game and bitterness for each other.
Pakistan played their first ever Test series in late 1951 in India, which set the tone for the rest of their on and off encounters.
www.indiaexpress.com /news/sports/cricket/20060112-0.html   (704 words)

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