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	Notes on India 2
		Modern Indians revere his memory, and the famous lion on the capital of one of his pillars has been adopted as the national seal of the present Indian republic.
		With the exception of a short period during the Mauryan Empire, the vast tableland of south India - the Deccan - and its fertile coastal plains remained outside the main forces of political change in the north.
		Indian birds (particularly talking parrots, costing more than human slaves) became the pets of wealthy Roman ladies, and Indian animals (lions, tigers, and buffaloes) were used in the wild beast shows of Roman emperors.
	www.emayzine.com /lectures/mauryanempire.htm (2943 words)

	Gupta Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gupta Empire was an Indian empire ruled by the Gupta dynasty in ancient India from around 320 to 550 CE.
		Despite the creation of the empire through war, the reign is remembered for its very influential style of Hindu art, literature, culture and science, especially during the reign of Chandra Gupta II.
		The empire disintegrated under the attacks of Toramana and his successor, Mihirakula; the Hunas conquered the northeast, and several provinces of the empire, including Malwa, Gujarat, and Thanesar, broke away under the rule of local dynasties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gupta_Empire (1933 words)

	Basdeo - INDIANS IN CANADA 1900-1914
		Indians were excluded "from mechanical unions, from employment in public and municipal works and from the professions of law and pharmacy, the last affecting the prospects of Canadian-born Sikhs pushed through high school by their parents" (28).
		The Indian Government was likewise condemned for not taking action to assist the plight of its citizens as the Japanese Government had done with respect to the treatment meted out to her citizens in Canada(32).
		As was the case in South Africa and Australia, the entry of Indians in Canada was seen as a challenge to Anglo-Saxon cultural homogeneity of the society, a challenge to British Columbia's white racial destiny and a threat to the economic and social status quo.
	www.saxakali.com /indocarib/sojourner11.htm (5799 words)

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		The 1857 Indian Mutiny, which briefly threatened British rule in the north, was almost a generation in the past; the "scramble for Africa" had not begun; and Britain's economic predominance was as yet unchallenged by Germany and the United States.
		The Victorian sense of empire was concentrated on India partly because of the subcontinent's strategic importance.
		Indian society was poorer and more backward than it had been in the 16th century, but solutions to its problems required both a sympathy and an understanding that a pseudohistorian in London simply did not possess.
	www.mrbauld.com /victindia.html (3151 words)

	British Empire page
		The costs of the empire were rising, not least because of the threat of guerrilla wars.
		India, the core of the empire, was by 1945 nearly ungovernable.
		The Indians had been promised self-government (Dominion status) during the war, to encourage recruitment into the Indian Army and support for Britain's side of the second world war.
	www.angelfire.com /mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/europe/empire.html (3247 words)

	Maurya Empire -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The Maurya Empire was the first to unite most of the Indian subcontinent under one ruler.
		Candragupta Maurya is notable in the history of India as the founder of the Maurya Empire.
		The state of Indian architecture in the period between the Indus Valley civilization and the rise of the Maurya Empire is largely unknown since most work was done in such perishable material as wood or brick.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275744?tocId=9275744 (791 words)

	A British view of the Empire
		Indian society was taken to be caste-ridden and led by the princes.
		Even with a liberal and objective viewpoint, it is difficult to accept that in this enterprise of the Empire, race or colour was not important and that it was the social class that was the main consideration with the Empire's builders and guardians.
		Describing the characteristics of various empires, Armitage says that if the Roman empire was built for expansion, that of Sparta for war, and that of China for natural tranquillity, the British Empire was built for commerce.
	www.hinduonnet.com /fline/fl1823/18230730.htm (1460 words)

	Indian History
		The empire was divided into provinces, districts, and villages governed by a host of centrally appointed local officials, who replicated the functions of the central administration.
		The Kushana Kingdom was the crucible of trade among the Indian, Persian, Chinese, and Roman empires and controlled a critical part of the legendary Silk Road.
		The Indian numeral system--sometimes erroneously attributed to the Arabs, who took it from India to Europe where it replaced the Roman system--and the decimal system are Indian inventions of this period.
	www.gatewayforindia.com /history.htm (3772 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: India
		One of the peculiarities of Indian life is the hill stations, "suburban towns" they might be called, to which those who have the opportunity flock from the plains in the hot seasons, and occasionally at other times, to recover from the enervating influence of the plains.
		In the fourteenth century the country south of the Kistna was held by the Indian princes with their capital at Vijayanagar, while north of this the Bahmani kingdom, and those of Malwa, Gondwana, Telingana, Behar, Bengal, Jaunpur, etc., were in various degrees independent of the Afghan dominion of Delhi.
		The empire of Akbar comprised the provinces of Kabul, Lahore, Multan, Delhi, Agra, Oudh, Allahabad, Ajmere, Gujerat, Malwa, Behar, Bengal, Khandesh, Berar, Ahmednagar, Orissa, Sind, and Kashmir, the southern boundary being roughly speaking marked by the River Godaveri and the latitude of Bombay.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07722a.htm (12511 words)

	The Age of the Guptas and After
		Under Chandragupta I (320-335), empire was revived in the north.
		It was his son, however, Samudragupta (335-376), and later his grandson, Chandragupta II (376-415), who extended the kingdom into an empire over the whole of the north and the western Deccan.
		Harsha was perhaps one of the greatest conquerors of Indian history, and unlike all of his conquering predecessors, he was a brilliant administrator.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCINDIA/GUPTA.HTM (815 words)

	Indian Union vs. EIP
		Case History: The Indian Union claimed that the EIP was (and is) a natural part of itself, unnaturally separated, and demanded from Portugal their cession.
		Upon the refusal of Portugal, the Indian Union, through its agents, claiming to be private citizens, both of the EIP and of the Indian Union, invaded and seized the enclaves of Dadra and of Nagar-Haveli in 1954, which were then 'merged' by these terrorists and this 'merger' accepted, by the Indian Union.
		In 1937, the predecessor in title of the Indian Union, the British East Indian Empire was partitioned, with the active acquiescence of the political parties of the remainder of the Empire, to create the new Dominions of Burma and Ceylon (including the Maldive Islands Archipelago), on the basis that these territories had Buddhist majorities.
	www.geocities.com /prakashjm45/goa/case.html (1611 words)

	Indian History
		It is in the reign of the Mauryas that Hinduism took the shape that fundamentally informs the religion down to the present day.
		The European presence in India dates to the seventeenth century, and it is in the latter part of this century that the Mughal empire began to disintegrate, paving the way for regional states.
		The Rebellion of 1857-58, which sought to restore Indian supremacy, was crushed; and with the subsequent crowning of Victoria as Empress of India, the incorporation of India into the empire was complete.
	www.indhistory.com (407 words)

	guptaindia.html
		The fundamental unit of the Indian state was the village, which was run by a headman and village council.
		Indian law distinguished the groups in terms of purity and pollution, and caste laws were expressed in three general kinds of regulations:
		It enabled Indians to deal with new cultures and communities simply by treating them as new castes, and gave a kind of social stability to Indian society by providing rules on how each member of the society should treat others.
	www.loyno.edu /~seduffy/guptaindia.html (2215 words)

	The Tribune...Sunday Reading
		Achievements of Indians in our country and abroad have been catapulted into the international arena thus influencing the world to adopt the flavour of India as a part of their lifestyle.
		Latest census reports in the UK describe the Indian community as the "new Jews, displaying upward mobility, university degrees and professional qualifications." So British Indians, just 1.5 per cent of the population, are gearing themselves up to exert a more real influence on British life in the coming decade.
		According to her, Indian curry is as much a part of the supermarket shelves as pasta.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99sep19/sunday/head1.htm (1852 words)

	Opium and the British Indian Empire
		If anything, given the central role of opium in ordinary Indian life, it might be argued that by the 1890's the policy had tilted too far in the direction of restraint and increased costs to the consumer.
		To support its general conclusion that opium was not harmful in the Indian context, the Commission relied heavily upon an analysis of the evidence developed in a separate memorandum by Sir William Roberts.
		Indian and British physicians alike testified that moderate, habitual use of opium within the individual level of tolerance did not have harmful effects on either health or longevity.
	www.drugpolicy.org /library/opium_india.cfm (5809 words)

	The First Indian Empire
		height the empire included all the subcontinent except the extreme south.
		the Indus in an attempt to regain Alexander's Indian conquests.
		Modern Indians revere his memory, and the famous lion on the capital of
	history-world.org /indian_empire.htm (1149 words)

	Greater India (Site not responding. Last check: )
		No single, all-encompassing empire took shape immediately, but as the earlier inhabitants of the region (the Dravidians) were pushed ever southward, numerous states emerged from the Indus Valley to the Ganges and Brahmaputra River systems, and extending south into the Deccan Plateau.
		Two of the largest and most stable were the core of the Mauryan Empire, Magadha, located in the central Ganges plain, and Satavahana, in the central Deccan and the south.
		This was the center and capital of Portuguese Asia and during the hetday of the Portuguese Empire in the 16th century it was of great power and influence in southern Asia generally.
	www.hostkingdom.net /india.html (2722 words)

	Architronic v6n1.05b
		The objective of the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in South Kensington, London, was "to give to the inhabitants of the British Isles, to foreigners and to one another, practical demonstration of the wealth and industrial development of the outlying portions of the British Empire."
		This narrative that sought to justify the merit of empire and the necessity of British tutelage for the colonies was conveyed in several ways: the choice of settings and their arrangement, catalogues explaining the exhibits, and the ceremonial and commemorative artifacts of the exhibition.
		In addition it contained a curious collection of artifacts indicating the all-encompassing nature of the economic agenda of empire: a model of an indigo factory and a temple of Kali, trophies of grain and rope, and twelve ethnological groups representative of the 'races' of India.
	architronic.saed.kent.edu /v6n1/v6n1.05b.html (1552 words)

	All Empires History Forum: If Alexander had faced a unified Indian empire (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Indian's were too numorous to be conquered as a whole, even around the time of alexander we had 1/3 of the worlds population living within our borders.
		As we see he was able to engage different types of troops according to the type of war he was conducting and to the terrain and type of enemy he was facing.
		The rest of the indian army was not a match for the Greeks.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3753&PN=1 (2531 words)

	Project South Asia
		A New Geography of the Indian Empire and Ceylon (1926)
		It was so in the time of the Moghals, who quartered troops here for the defense of the eastern frontier of their empire; and in modern days it has a large cantonment of British and Indian troops, and is the headquarters of a division of the army.
		Bahawalpur is an Indian state embracing the desert country of the Punjab south of the Sutlej, Panjnad, and Indus.
	projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu /GEOGRAPHY/SecondaryDocs/NewGeography.htm (18942 words)

	Gupta Empire in India, art in the Gupta empire, Indian history - India
		The golden age was confined to the north, and the classical patterns began to spread south only after the Gupta Empire had vanished from the historical scene.
		The Gupta period marked a watershed of Indian culture: the Guptas performed Vedic sacrifices to legitimize their rule, but they also patronized Buddhism, which continued to provide an alternative to Brahmanical orthodoxy.
		The Indian numeral system--sometimes erroneously attributed to the Arabs, who took it from India to Europe where it replaced the Roman system--and the decimal system are Indian inventions of this period.
	www.indianchild.com /gupta_empire.htm (1146 words)

	Chronology of Indian Activity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By 1607, Powhatan was the despotic ruler of the largest and most politically complex Indian empire in Virginia.
		The fighting between the Indians and the English came to a halt and peaceful negotiations began.
		His death led to the signing of a peace treaty in which the various tribes agreed to be loyal subjects and allies of the crown.
	www.nps.gov /colo/Jthanout/IndinAct.html (439 words)

	From a Deep-Fryer in a Garage to an Indian Food Empire
		Their company, with headquarters in Union, N.J., is the leading Indian packaged food manufacturer in the United States, according to authorities like Julie Sahni, the Indian cookbook author and teacher.
		By 1991, the Indian population had increased to 400,000 in the New York area alone.
		The pantry is filled with imported ingredients, including at least 10 kinds of dal (lentils, peas and beans), essential to an Indian vegetarian diet, and spices, which the family grinds fresh.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0403/235.html (1030 words)

	All Empires History Forum: The Mughal Empire: Turkish or Indian?
		The Mughal Empire was established by Central Asians pushed out of there homeland and set out and conquered South Asia, it is by no means an indian empire, in fact the Mughal empire conquered and wiped out several indian empires, enslaving them.
		He did not trouble the local Indians but was a constant threat to the British forces.
		Such was the fear the British had of him that when finally he was captured his head was severed and stuck on a pole outside the jail for a month as an abject lesson to the local population not to oppose their 'masters'.
	www.allempires.net /forum_posts.asp?TID=16931&PID=460459#460459 (887 words)

	Pakistan Link - Letter & Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, the demand for a separate homeland by the Muslims of geographically contiguous northwestern and eastern zones of the British Indian Empire, and the support they received from their fellow Muslims living in other parts of the empire, was not a queer phenomenon nor a strange and unique demand as Mr.
		Sher is looking for an example of a helpless minority being oppressed and brutalized by a majority, he should look at Kashmir where the poor Kashmiris under Indian occupation have been suffering for so long and have yet to receive their right of self-determination.
		Indian Muslims should try to assimilate into their own political system and wish Pakistan well in overcoming its political and economic difficulties.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Letters/2000/Sep/22/01.html (540 words)

	Opinion
		Muslim subjects of British India rejected this claim and made a counterclaim of their own that within the empire existed not one but two nations and the empire must be divided between the two.
		Once the empire was divided and the two new nations emerged, the term of the theory expired and the two newly created nations were to chart their own course independent of each other.
		As for Bangladesh; the fact that it is a separate country outside Indian Union is a testimony to the two-nation claim of the pre-partition days.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Opinion/2005/Jan05/14/04.htm (240 words)

	At midnight on August 14, 1947, Britain’s partition of its Indian Empire into India and Pakistan became effective (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The intent of this paper is to reflect upon the future directions of Indian foreign policy—especially in relation to the United States and the Asia-Pacific.
		Indian scholars often reflect upon the relationship of domestic and international affairs.
		These Indian initiatives were consistently rejected by the nuclear weapons states on the grounds that such proposals were idealistic and the dangers of the Cold War required such weapons as a deterrent.
	www.ndu.edu /inss/symposia/pacific99/goldberg.html (7550 words)

	Early Indian (900 BC - 545 AD) - DBA 21a
		The Early Indian army represents the Later Vedic or Brahmanic culture until 320BC, the Mauryan Empire, the post-Mauryan period during which the northwestern territories were invaded and ruled in turn by the Sakae, Bactrian Greeks, Parthians and Kushans, and finally the Gupta Period.
		The Mauryans, under Chandragupta Maurya (ruled 321 BC 298 BC) established the first Indian Empire when they conquered the Republican states and the territory vacated by Alexander and concluded a treaty with the Seleucids, securing peace on their western borders.
		The majority of Indian foot were armed with a large bamboo bow as well as a massive two handed sword.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/dba21a.html (1620 words)

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