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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/India
India is referred to as the largest democracy in the world, by virtue of the fact that it has the largest electing population among democratic countries.
India's climate is strongly influenced by the Himalayas and the Thar Desert.
India is the second fastest growing major economy in the world, with a GDP growth rate of 9.1%, as of the first quarter of 2006.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/India   (3348 words)

  
 [Genocide/1971] Nicholas Wheeler: "India as rescuer? Humanitarian Intervention in International Society"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The fact that India was not condemned in the General Assembly, and that, with the exception of the USA, governments did not impose sanctions should not be interpreted as evidence of the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention in the society of states.
Although India's intervention was not motivated by primarily humanitarian reasons, it counts as a humanitarian one, because (in addition to meeting the requirements of necessity and proportionality) the security reasons that led it to intervene and the means employed did not undermine the humanitarian benefits of the intervention.
India did not justify its use of force in terms of the self-defence rule in Article 51 of the Charter, but its argument of 'refugee aggression' came close to invoking this defence, which is the legitimate right of all states.
www.globalwebpost.com /genocide1971/articles/1971/india_rescuer.htm   (10049 words)

  
 India Pakistan 1971 War as covered by Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A third factor, of course, is India's unspoken desire to weaken its neighbor by detaching a sizable chunk of its territory.
India's overall troop strength is about 980,000 compared with Pakistan's 392,000, but an estimated eight mountain divisions are on guard along India's borders with China.
As India seemed to be engaged primarily in a holding action in the west while aiming a quick knock out in the East.
www.vidyasoft.com /interest/war/WarDec13_3.html   (1087 words)

  
 1971 India-Pakistan War: Origins of the Crisis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
India, which became independent on 15 August 1947, stood for a secular, equitable polity based on the universally accepted idea that all men are created equal and should be treated as such.
Pakistan was suggesting that should India continue with its plans it should expect total war as in 1965.
Indira Gandhi in a broadcast to the nation declared that India was at war with Pakistan.
www.freeindia.org /1971war/origins.html   (884 words)

  
 India - Pakistan War, 1971; Introduction
Under US pressure, meanwhile, India was becoming increasingly isolated at the UN: up to the end of July the USSR attempted maintaining a balanced approach to New Delhi and Islamabad in an effort to increase her influence on the sub-continent.
India contemplated military action already in May, but decided to wait until its Army was trained to fight in the flat conditions of East Pakistan.
India signed a licence agreement in September 1956 and by early 1973, HAL delivered a total of 165 Gnats to the IAF, in addition to receiving 25 F.Mk.1s and 25 sets of parts from Folland.
www.acig.org /artman/publish/printer_326.shtml   (13218 words)

  
 1971 India-Pakistan War: Defending the West
India felt that whoever held the most territory would end up as the winner because the final word on the war would only be spelt out during the post-war negotiations that were expected to follow.
India had been preparing for war for some months but the Pakistanis were not perturbed.
The stories of the 1971 War ensured that those traditions would be carried on by many generations of fighting men in the years to come.
www.subcontinent.com /1971war/west.html   (2424 words)

  
 Bangladesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
European traders had arrived in the late 15th century and eventually the British East India Company controlled the region by the late 18th century, from which the British extended their rule over all of India.
The Partition of India saw Bengal divided between the two new countries: an eastern part called East Bengal corresponding to what is now Bangladesh, and a western part, the Indian state of West Bengal.
India took 93,000 prisoners of war who were held in camps in India to avoid reprisals by an enraged Bangladeshi population.
bangladesh.iqnaut.net   (2551 words)

  
 Pakistan - India
Pakistan was created despite the opposition of the most powerful political party in prepartition India, the Hindu-dominated Indian National Congress, and the suspicion remains among Pakistanis that India has never reconciled itself to the existence of an independent Pakistan.
India refused to condemn the Soviet action, while Pakistan provided sanctuary for Afghan refugees and was a conduit for supplying arms from the United States and others to the Afghan mujahidin.
The rise of militant Hinduism in India, and the accompanying violence against Muslims there, was a further source of uneasiness between the two countries.
countrystudies.us /pakistan/83.htm   (909 words)

  
 Cricbuzz.com :: The Worldwide Hub of Cricket
Soon India was 70/6 and it was once again upto that pair — Sardesai and Solkar — to put on a marvelous rescue act — this time all of 186 runs — to see India out of the woods.
India were set a score of 335 in a little over a hundred overs.
Most importantly, India had managed to hang on to that precious lead and on the 19th of April, 1971 India completed its first ever overseas series win.
cricbuzz.com /.../Cricket/Memories_:_1971_-_India_in_the_West_Indies   (3162 words)

  
 Indiachildren - History of India (1971 - 1980)
Pakistan declared war on India on December 3, 1971 and in a surprise move bombed Indian airfields and border territories in the west.
The implosion caused a crater of 150 meter's in the diameter in the ground.
India thus became the sixth nuclear power in the world.
www.indiachildren.com /lifestyles/history/1971-80.htm   (685 words)

  
 Mahesh's Opinion - India-Pakistan 1971 War
I was curious to know the details of the war because my father was in Indian Navy and went to 1971 war.
It is interesting to note that before the war, India was portrayed as a bad guy in US media, even when the human tragedy in Bangladesh was unfolding.
When the war unfolded the US journalists went to Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, and what they saw, put India in favorable light almost immediately, and against the policy of their own (US) government.
www.vidyasoft.com /interest/opinion/india/o_war71.html   (566 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: India
The Congress party, which ruled India for most of the time since independence, is defeated in national elections by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In February, the prime ministers of India and Pakistan sign the Lahore Declaration, in which both sides agree to work together to prevent conflict between the two nuclear powers.
India's prime minister and Pakistan's president meet at the northern Indian city of Agra.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/india/timeline.html   (947 words)

  
 NTI: Country Overviews: India: Nuclear Chronology
India's Consultative Committee on Foreign Affairs and Atomic Energy persuades the government to study, or restudy the costs of developing nuclear weapons.
The Government of India and the Socialist Republic of Rumania (Romania) sign an agreement, which calls for "cooperation in the utilization of atomic energy for peaceful purposes" in Bucharest.
The Government of India and the Federal Republic of Germany sign an agreement that calls for "cooperation in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and space research" in New Delhi.
www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/India/Nuclear/2296_6264.html   (2076 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
India is celebrating Vijay Divas in a major way after almost six years after the two countries engaged in the Kargil War.
All these years India had been celebrating this day as Kargil Vijay Divas and that too on a low key for the sacrifice made by the soldiers during the Kargil war and then later during the stand-off with Pakistan following the attack on Parliament in 2001.
As part of the celebrations, a special exhibition was organised by the Ministry of Defence at the India Gate lawns and a cultural programme was presented by NCC cadets.
www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20051217/main8.htm   (283 words)

  
 News India-Times.com, Online Edition
The United States believed in 1971 that India was trying to dismember West Pakistan and had asked the then Soviet Union to restrain New Delhi, according to secret British official papers released by the Public Record Office in London, on Jan. 1.
The papers from 30 years ago shed new light on the bloody confrontation between India and Pakistan that saw the breakup of Pakistan’s two separate territories, the flight of hundreds of thousands of refugees into India and the birth of the state of Bangladesh, Sanjay Suri reports.
In India, 562 royals are said to have ruled over 90 million people before World War II, while the British were still in India.
www.newsindia-times.com /nit/2003/01/10/index.html   (373 words)

  
 Nixon plotted war against India in 1971
But, the signing of the India-Soviet Union Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation in August 1971, while not a mutual security treaty, was viewed in Washington as a blank check to India in its confrontation with Pakistan, it said.
1971, that the scheduled meetings of the newly elected National Assembly would be postponed indefinitely.
It is a historucal fact that India was not conside...
www.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=46310   (838 words)

  
 1971: The rising - Indian Cricket-News-Sections-Indiatimes - Cricket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The dangerous opener Roy Fredericks, who had helped wipe off India's first innings lead of 138, was run out for 80.
India had done the unthinkable: asked Sobers to follow-on.
The Calypso Charmers were knocked out for 261 and India overcame the target with over a day to spare.
cricket.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1524825.cms   (870 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Kissinger 'regrets' 1971 comments on India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
NEW DELHI (AP) — Former secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who derided India and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in a private 1971 conversation with President Nixon, expressed regret in an interview aired Friday and insisted the comments be viewed in the context of Cold War politics.
Kissinger said the Nov. 5, 1971, conversation had to be viewed as a reflection of the Cold War, during which India leaned toward Soviet Russia.
The damning of the entire people of India is unacceptable in any civilized dialogue between countries and people," Sharma said.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-07-01-henry-india_x.htm?csp=34   (701 words)

  
 E-ASPAC
Thus for instance in the Northern Areas of Pakistan (territory disputed by India and Pakistan), musicians (called Dom in the Shina language) play the double-reed surnai, the fipple flute, or the transverse flute, the dadañ 'double-headed drum' and the damal 'pair of kettledrums'.
Sykes, who studied the 'gypsies' of Khorasan working in the Naqqarkhana of Herat concluded that they were recruited from castes of hereditary locksmiths, and retained some words of Indic origin in their speech which was different from the ambient Persian language [25].
The task of explaining its diffusion in lands west of India is facilitated by the observation that peoples of predominantly Indic origin, who are disproportionately represented in the sphere of music-making, live all over the Middle East and Eastern Europe [44].
mcel.pacificu.edu /easpac/2005/karanth.php3   (6627 words)

  
 India in England, 1971
India in England Jul/Aug 1971 - Test Averages
DH Robins' XI v Indians at Eastbourne, 30 Jun-2 Jul 1971
Surrey v Indians at The Oval, 31 Jul-2 Aug 1971
www.cricinfo.com /db/ARCHIVE/1970S/1971/IND_IN_ENG   (241 words)

  
 The 1971 India-Pakistan War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
On the 3rd of December 1971, the Pakistani Air Force (PAF) struck a number of Indian airfields in northern India.
By midnight, India was officially at war with Pakistan.
Note: This material is not in the public domain and may not be copied or re-used in any manner.
freeindia.org /1971war   (165 words)

  
 Independent India
Although western media often shows modern images of India as that of poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century.
Today's India is on the threshold of regaining its lost glory.
India conducted three underground Nuclear tests at teh Pokhran Range in Rajasthan
www.diehardindian.com /demogrph/moredemo/independ.htm   (207 words)

  
 India 1970-1971 - Tom (Lee) McKnight's year in India
I traveled to India from Europe by going overland by bus from Istanbul, Turkey through Iran, Afganistan and Pakistan.
In Mashad, Iran we met a group of Iranians who let us sleep at their newly built home where all of the following 4 photos are taken.
We spent all night in the crypt that the Taj is, meditating, chanting, and meditating and chanting...
tommcknight.com /family/mcknight/india/india01.htm   (315 words)

  
 India
Shackleton, R, Jr, "The French in India," The New Englander, vol.
Robert D. Blackwill, Ambassador to India, "The United States, India and Asian Security," Presented to the Institute for Defense Analyses 5th Asian Security Conference, New Delhi, India, January 27, 2003
Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, "India and Pakistan: On the Heels of President Bush's Visit," Remarks to the Heritage Foundation, Washington, DC, March 6, 2006
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/india.htm   (1117 words)

  
 Village & Town Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Socio-economic survey of Pal: A Village in Goa by Roy Burman, B. Delhi, 1971.Census of India, 1961, Vol.
Demographic and Socio-economic Profiles of the Hill Areas of North-East India by Roy Burman, B. Delhi, n.
Census of India, 1971, Series 1, India, Part VI-B, Special Survey Reports on Selected Towns, Monograph No.2.
www.censusindia.net /villtown.html   (352 words)

  
 India-Pakistan Wars: The 1971 War
Indo-Pakistani relations deteriorated when civil war erupted in Pakistan, pitting the West Pakistan army against East Pakistanis demanding greater autonomy.
The fighting forced 10 million East Pakistani Bengalis to flee to India.
When Pakistan attacked Indian airfields in Kashmir, India attacked both East and West Pakistan.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0858806.html   (123 words)

  
 Peace Corps Online | India 1971 - 73
My brother, Thomas B. Ridgeway, was a PCV in JabalPur starting in 1971.
He returned to the University of Washington in Seattle, made one more visit to India, and went on to get a Ph.D in Asian Linguistics in 1986.
His photo album of India was assembled with great care, and it was clear to me that it was a highlight of his life.
peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2031.html   (197 words)

  
 Aerospaceweb.org | Aircraft Museum - Tu-126 'Moss'
The Tu-126 may also have been equipped with powerful jamming equipment for use in an offensive jamming role, but its primary purpose was to supplement Soviet ground-based radars and direct interceptors against low-flying targets.
Although the capabilities of the Tu-126 were often derided by the West who doubted the performance of Soviet electronics, one Tu-126 transferred to the Indian Air Force was highly rated as an exceptional platform during the nation's 1971 war with Pakistan.
Nevertheless, the type was withdrawn by about 1990 and replaced by the much more modern A-50.
www.aerospaceweb.org /aircraft/recon/tu126   (278 words)

  
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