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	Wikipedia: India
		India was also known as Hindustan (the land of the Hindus), but this name was depopularised after independence in 1947 as India chose to be a secular country.
		India's bicameral parliament consists of the upper house called 'The Council of States' (Rajya Sabha) and the lower House called 'The House of the People' (Lok Sabha), both of which were established by the Constitution of India.
		India is home to several major rivers such as the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Yamuna, the Godavari and the Krishna.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/i/in/india.html (2256 words)

	India - Further Reading - MSN Encarta
		Further Reading offers additional information about your topics.
		A journalist's account of her stay among the Rabari, a group of sheep and camel-herding nomads of northern India.
		River of Colour: The India of Raghubir Singh.
	encarta.msn.com /readings_761557562/India.html (466 words)

	Further reading on India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since there are obviously more books on India than any one person could read in a lifetime, this list should spotlight those volumes (a) that are well-known; (b) are eminently readable by the layman; (c) are superior in scholarship and accuracy; or (d) focus on subjects that are otherwise too seldom written about.
		India's epics are, of course, the foundation of India's written traditions.
		India: A Wounded Civilization (1997) is a vitriolic look at the supposed backwardness of Indian civilization, containing sections with such rubrics as "A Defect Of Vision" and comparing the national mindset to that of children's.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Further_reading_on_India (1118 words)

	Why War? Keywords: India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		India was also known as Hindustan (the land of the Hindus), but this name was given up after independence in 1947 as India chose to be a secular country.
		Fundamental concerns in India include the ongoing dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, overpopulation, environmental degradation, poverty, and ethnic and religious strife, all this despite impressive gains in economic investment and output.
		Although 83% of the people are Hindus, India is home to a large population of Muslims (11%) giving it the world's third largest Muslim population after Indonesia (approx.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/india (2643 words)

	Painting and Textile Holidays & Tours to India \| Indian Romance
		India is a slow country to travel in.
		Please bear in mind that travel in India does not always match European standards, so a reasonable degree of fitness is required, as well as tolerance and patience if things do not go as planned.
		India is an exotic and fascinating country and you should find the itineraries enable you to assimilate and become part of the colourful whirl and heady thrilling mixture and experience.
	www.indianromance.co.uk /further_reading.html (417 words)

	India Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		India will sideswipe you with its size, clamour and diversity - but if you enjoy delving into convoluted cosmologies and thrive on sensual overload, then it is one of the most intricate and rewarding dramas unfolding on earth, and you'll quickly develop an abiding passion for it.
		India is a litmus test for many travellers - some are only too happy to leave, while others stay for a lifetime.
		India's southern coast and island territories were hit hard by the December 2004 tsunami, resulting in property damage and much loss of life.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/asia/india (847 words)

	The National Archives \| Exhibitions & Learning online \| Black presence \| India
		Christianity came to southwest India in the 1st century AD, brought, according to legend, by the apostle St Thomas.
		The Mughals ruled over a population in India that was two-thirds Hindu, and the earlier spiritual teachings of the Vedic tradition remained influential in Indian values and philosophy.
		European control of early modern India began with merchants establishing forts and factories along the periphery of this ancient dominion.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/blackhistory/india/india_europeans.htm (583 words)

	CNN - Sonia Gandhi appointed head of India's Congress party - March 14, 1998
		NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of assassinated Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, on Saturday became head of the Congress party, the political body which has dominated Indian politics for decades but has suffered major setbacks in the past two years.
		She was seen as a prominent figure that reminded voters of the more glorious days of Congress, which was once the most influential party in India with independence heroes Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharalal Nehru in its ranks.
		Though Gandhi did not run for parliament in the recent elections, she could be appointed to a seat in the upper house, thus fulfilling the requirement that the prime minister be a member of either the lower or upper house of parliament.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /WORLD/9803/14/india.sonia.g (762 words)

	FSF India \| Free Software Foundation of India
		So long as there are no restrictions for any program to read and create a specified file format, so long as the file itself is fully compliant with requirements of the standards set out in the rules, it matters little which program created the file.
		4.1.7 Further, the Government of India would have to be content with prescribing that `portable document format' is to be used; but what the format itself is, will be decided by a private company; and the Government does not have any control over the format itself.
		Further, data in XML format can be displayed by any plain, simple text editor, and understood by any human being in its raw form.
	www.gnu.org.in /node/52 (3666 words)

	India at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		India is also known as Hindustan (the land of the Hindus), though its use as an indicator of the nation is debated.
		India became a formal crown colony of the United Kingdom in 1876, and the successive British monarchs assumed the title of "Emperor of India." The British held much pride over India, describing it as the "crown jewel" in the Empire.
		India is home to several major rivers such as the Ganga (anglicized to Ganges), the Brahmaputra, the Yamuna, the Godavari and the Krishna.
	wiki.tatet.com /India.html (3084 words)

	SparkNotes: Alexander the Great: India
		India, in Alexander's time, meant the land of the Indus–not necessarily the area where the modern country of India stands.
		India, to the Greeks, meant the area in western Pakistan, particularly the Punjab and Sind territories.
		Perhaps most important, India was the end of Asia as far as Alexander knew; its acquisition was necessary if he was to rule the entire continent.
	www.sparknotes.com /biography/alexander/section11.rhtml (970 words)

	Welcome to Air India
		Air India is installing 180-degrees, flat-bed seats, sleeperettes in its First Class on all its Boeing 747-400 aircraft which are deployed on the Mumbai, Delhi-London/Paris - New York,Chicago/Newark routes.
		The two independent single First Class seats assembled on a common basic structure will be upholstered in blue coloured leather to lend elegance and match the poly-carbonate parts which are in a combination of light and dark grey.
		Simultaneously, Air India is also introducing kerbside meet-n-greet service at Mumbai and Delhi Airports, which would include exclusive entrance and X-ray machine; enhanced mileage points for Flying Return members; direct connections to domestic points in India viz.
	www.airindia.com /article.asp?articleid=25 (576 words)

	CNN - India to hold national elections 3 years early - December 4, 1997
		NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Voters in the world's largest democracy will be called to the polls for the second time in less than two years, following the dissolution of India's lower house of Parliament by President K.R. Narayanan on Thursday.
		None of India's political parties was able to cobble together enough support to propose a replacement government, leaving the president no option other than to start from scratch.
		Gujral was the third prime minister to resign since India's 600 million voters elected a government in mid-1996.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9712/04/india.parliament (556 words)

	CNN - Hindus massacred in northern India - January 26, 1998
		WANDHAMA, India (CNN) -- Suspected Muslim separatists dragged Hindu villagers from their homes and slaughtered 23 in the troubled northern state of Jammu and Kashmir.
		India accuses Pakistan of training and arming Muslim militants fighting an insurgency in Kashmir that has killed more than 15,000 people since 1989.
		Trouble also erupted Monday in India's northeastern states where seven people were killed in clashes between separatists and troops.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9801/26/india.republic.day/index.html (526 words)

	Civil Disobedience Increases in Northeast India - by news
		IMPHAL (Manipur) - As turmoil rages in India's troubled northeastern state of Manipur, with most government offices shutting down Monday, and employees boycotting work to support a public rebellion against a federal law giving the army unlimited powers, experts fear the unrest could fuel insurgency in the region.
		India's federal home minister Shivraj Patil told journalists in New Delhi that the law was "required in Manipur till normalcy returns."
		Experts are concerned that as the protests turn violent, and public anger against the federal government's attitude gains steam, it could further boost insurgency in the region.
	www.antiwar.com /news/?articleid=3277 (859 words)

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		India has billion people living in 25 states, speaking 19 major languages and over a 100 dialects, practicing over about 6 religions and belonging to thousands of castes and sub-castes.
		India's population growth rate has been declining from 24.6% in the decade 1971-81 to 21.3% during 1991 to 2001 and predicts population stabilization by 2015 or 2020.
		India remains a nation where hundreds of millions of people in the cities and the countryside live in poverty.
	www.overpopulation.org /India.html (9916 words)

	Laputan Logic - The Evolution of Numbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In the last few centuries BC, India emerged from a dark age that had endured since the fall of the Indus valley civilization fifteen hundred years earlier.
		It was at this time that the written word started to reappear, especially in the form of edicts and inscriptions left by Ashok, the great emperor of the Mauryan Empire.
		It has been argued that the reason why this innovation occurred in India rather than the West was largely because of a peculiarly Indian fascination with astronomically huge numbers.
	www.laputanlogic.com /articles/2003/06/01-95210802.html (1177 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| India 'loses 10m female births'
		Researchers in India and Canada for the Lancet journal said prenatal selection and selective abortion was causing the loss of 500,000 girls a year.
		The latest research is by Prabhat Jha of St Michael's Hospital at the University of Toronto, Canada, and Rajesh Kumar of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Research in Chandigarh, India.
		It is an idea that many say carries over from the time India was a predominantly agrarian society where boys were considered an extra pair of hands on the farm.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/4592890.stm (510 words)

	Federal Foreign OfficeThe Federal Foreign Office at the Frankfurt Book Fair (4-8 October 2006)
		The Federal Foreign Office is delighted that the choice in 2006 has fallen on the world's largest democracy and a country whose wealth and diversity in all matters cultural is almost unparalleled.
		India's millennia-old classics have had a firm place in the canons of world literature for the past two hundred years, thanks not least to their popularization by Goethe and the German romantics.
		The fact that over 40 authors and some 150 publishers from India plan to attend the Frankfurt Book Fair is a clear indication of just how fruitful this cultural exchange has become.
	www.auswaertiges-amt.de /diplo/en/Aussenpolitik/Kulturpolitik/Buchmesse2006.html (837 words)

	Hardwicke more information
		Hardwicke had a distinguished military career in India during which time he was engaged in military action and travelled extensively over the subcontinent.
		By the time Hardwicke left India, he possessed the largest collection of drawings of Indian animals ever formed by a single individual.
		Hardwicke’s enthusiasm in India was matched by the leading naturalists in England, with whom he corresponded.
	www.nhm.ac.uk /library/art/india/more/cat_more_info.htm (705 words)

	India Office Records: Further Reading on the East India Company and India Office
		This page offers suggestions for further reading on the archives and history of the East India Company and the India Office.
		F.C. Danvers, Report to the Secretary of State for India in Council on the Records of the India Office: Records relating to Agencies, Factories, and Settlements not now under the Administration of the Government of India (London, 1888).
		Researchers may consult these works in the Oriental and India Office Collections by using the services and facilities of the Reading Room.
	www.bl.uk /collections/iorreadg.html (1535 words)

	india 2.0
		india 2.0: a conversation about the impending (r)evolution of indian consumer web services and our experience in making a contribution to it.
		As I read through some recent funding blog posts of guruji and a range of comments and remarks relating the opportunity to Baidu, I wondered if I am missing anything basic here.
		Without really researhcing them further I cannot comment, but it was evident that there is no really big and successful company that had come out of this incubator as yet.
	blog.indiagoes.com (2119 words)

	KING ASHOKA: His Edicts and His Times
		The language used in the edicts found in the western part of India is closer to Sanskrit although one bilingual edict in Afghanistan is written in Aramaic and Greek.
		He went on pilgrimages to Lumbini and Bodh Gaya, sent teaching monks to various regions in India and beyond its borders, and he was familiar enough with the sacred texts to recommend some of them to the monastic community.
		The Ajivikas were a sect of ascetics in ancient India established by Makkhali Gosala, a contemporary of the Buddha.
	www.cs.colostate.edu /~malaiya/ashoka.html (7945 words)

	The British Library - India Office Select Materials - About the collections
		They relate primarily to the British experience in India in the period 1600-1947, but there is also some material on neighbouring countries from central Asia to Indonesia and from Egypt to Japan, and a few collections extend into the post-colonial period after 1947.
		Further details are provided elsewhere on this website.
		While the bulk of the material relates to India prior to 1947, there are also major collections from neighbouring areas such as Burma, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet and Chinese Central Asia.
	portico.bl.uk /catalogues/indiaofficeselect/aboutcolls.asp (413 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories
		The Government of India had, in its latest communication to the department, informed that it had referred the department’s plea of delisting portions of these lands from the Forest Acts to the Supreme Court, the letter by Mr Bala further stated.
		It was further pointed out that in case the municipal laws and forest laws were not mutually exclusive as claimed by the Department of Local Bodies, then why was not the constitution of the Nagar Panchayat done last year itself when the preliminary notification in this regard was published.
		The sources further said the matter was being politicised by the local leaders of the village and they were trying to mislead the investigations by implicating certain persons, who were not involved in the incident.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20061031/cth1.htm (7593 words)

	How do I research my first essay? - Finding books. Leeds University Library
		You may find that you need to read material that is not on your reading list, either because the books listed are out on loan to other students, or because you want to read more widely on your area of interest.
		Although you are looking for books which are not on your reading list, you can still start by identifying books on your reading list which are relevant to your essay title.
		For example if you are interested in India, but are finding too much material, try to focus on a particular region instead.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /library/subjects/arts/history/artsinductionfirstessaybooks.htm (927 words)

	E: The Environmental Magazine: INDIA: Clouds Got In the Way - the poor air quality of India has begun to affect the ...
		In fact, however, India is the world's fifth-largest producer of global warming gas (the U.S. is first) and emissions there are bound to get worse as the population soars past one billion and private car sales (up 58 percent between 1998 and 1999) skyrocket.
		"India is simply following the global trend of higher temperatures." Lal predicted that India could heat up by as much as 37 degrees F by the end of the century, with "a major impact on the country's food production and water reserves."
		Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a professor of atmospheric and ocean sciences at the Scripps Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate, is co-director of the so-called Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) with Paul Crutzen of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1594/is_5_11/ai_65913641 (1052 words)

	SOAS: BA South Asian Studies (Single & Combined Honours Degrees) at SOAS
		Further courses relevant to South Asia are selected from options taught in other departments.
		Courses in modern languages concentrate on all four linguistic skills — understanding, speaking, reading and writing; classes are small and interactive, with students being encouraged to use the language actively from the outset.
		Year 2 A further course or courses in the same language; plus an introductory course in a second South Asian language or discipline; plus other non-language courses with a South Asian emphasis to a total of four units.
	www.soas.ac.uk /studying/courseinfo.cfm?courseinfoid=85 (1068 words)

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