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Indian diplomatic missions India has an extensive diplomatic network, reflecting its significant influence in the world and particuarly in the region in borders - Central Asia, the Middle East, East Africa, Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. There are also far-flung missions in the Carribean and the Pacific, locations of historical Indian diaspora communities.
Indian Distance Education Association Indian Distance Education Association (IDEA) is a body which has been formed to study the organization and functioning of the professional association of Indian Distance Educators, popularly nick named as IDEA.
Indian epic poetry Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent. Written in Sanskrit, Tamil and Hindi, it includes some of the oldest epic poetry ever created and some works form the basis of Hindu scripture.
Indian Elephant The Indian Elephant Elephas maximus indicus is a subspecies of the Asian Elephant primarily found in India. The subspecies can also be found in relatively small numbers in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Laos, mainland of Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Sumatra, and Vietnam.
Indian Emergency (1975-1977) The Indian Emergency of (1975-77) was an 18-month period between 1975 and 1977, when President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, upon advice by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergency under Article 352 of the Constitution of India, effectively bestowing on her the power to rule by decree, suspending elections and civil liberties. It is one of the most controversial periods in the history of independent India.
Indian Empire Society The Indian Empire Society was a London-based lobbying organization, formed in 1930 to promote the cause of the British empire in India. It was established by several former provincial governors of the Raj, among them Lord Sydenham, Lord Meston, Sir Reginald Craddock and Sir Michael O'Dwyer.
Indian English Indian English refers to the dialects or varieties of English spoken primarily in India, and also by Indian diaspora elsewhere in the world. Due to British colonialism that saw an English-speaking presence in India for over two hundred years, a distinctly Indian brand of English has evolved.
Indian English literature Indian English Literature (IEL) refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian diaspora, especially people like Salman Rushdie who was born in India.
Indian feudalism The term Indian feudalism is an attempt to classify Indian history according to a European model. Historians have become very reluctant to classify other societies into European models and today it is rare for Indian history to be described as feudal by academics; it still done in popular usage, however, but only for pejorative reasons to express disfavour, typically by critics.
Indian filter coffee South Indian Coffee, also known as Madras Filter Coffee is a sweet milky coffee made from dark roasted coffee beans (70%-80%) and chicory (20%-30%), especially popular in the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The most commonly used coffee beans are Peaberry (preferred), Arabica, Malabar and Robusta grown in the hills of Kerala (Malabar), Karnataka (Chikmagalur) and Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris).
Indian Football Association The Indian Football Association (IFA) is the organisation that administers association football in the state of West Bengal, India. It is the oldest Football Association in India and was founded in 1893 Contrary to the name, the association does not administer the game in India, a task which falls to the All India Football Federation] (AIFF).
Indian Foreign Minister The External Affairs Minister or the Indian Foreign Minister is a position of office at cabinet level within the Government of India. The chief responsibility of the External Affairs Minister is to represent India and its government in the international community.
Indian Foreign Service The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is one of the Services of the Government of India; other important services being the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Forest Service (IFS) and Indian Revenue Service (IRS).
Indian Forest Act, 1927 The Indian Forest Act, 1927 was enacted in the year 1927 to consolidate and reserve the areas having forest cover, or significant wildlife, to regulate movement and transit of forest produce, and duty leviable on timber and other forest produce. It also defines the procedure to be followed for declaring an area to be a Reserved Forest, a Protected Forest or a Village Forest.
Indian French Indian French is a dialect of French spoken by Indians in past colonies of Pondicherry, Chandernagore, Karikal, Mahe and Yanam. In this dialect, there is a considerable influence from Dravidian languages like Tamil (Pondicherry Tamil Dialect), Telugu (Yanam Telugu Dialect) and Malayalam (Mahe Malayalam Dialect).
Indian general election, 1999 General Elections were held in India in September-October, 1999, a few months after the Kargil War. The elections became necessary when the then prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee lost a no-confidence vote in the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) earlier that year and the opposition failed to unite to form the next government.
Indian general election, 2004 Legislative elections were held in India, the world's largest democracy, in four phases between April 20 and May 10, 2004. Over 670 million people were eligible to vote, electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha (the House of the People, the lower house of the Indian legislature).
Indian Giant Squirrel The Indian Giant Squirrel, Ratufa indica, is a large forest squirrel found in South Asia. Sometimes called the Malabar Squirrel in India itself, the species is distributed in tropical forest along the Western Ghats, central and north eastern India.
Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park Chaw'se Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park is a historical state park located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, eight miles east of Jackson. The park is named after a great outcropping of marbleized limestone with some 1,185 mortar holes — the largest collection of bedrock mortars in North America.
Indian highways "National Highways" in India is the class of roads maintained by the Central Government and is the main long-distance roadways. The National Highways, the majority 2 laned (one in each direction), constitute a total of about 58,000 km, of which 4,885 km are central-separated expressways.
Indian hip hop Indian hip hop, is a type of fusion music created by taking western hip hop and mixing it with Indian music. This may involve removing the words and replacing them with Indian ones, mixing the original track's chorus and replacing it with Punjabi or Hindi words.
Indian honours system The Indian honours system was first established under the auspices of the British East India Company. In 1858, India came directly under the authority of the British Crown as a result of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 - 1858.
Indian human spaceflight program The still unnamed Indian human spaceflight program of the Indian Space Research Organisation was proposed in November 2006. Its goal would be to design, develop and launch an Indian human spacecraft, a two-seat space capsule, which would be used to send an Indian into space by 2014.
Indian Harbour Lake, Nova Scotia Indian Harbour Lake is a small lakeside community in Guysborough County Nova Scotia of less than one hundred residents. Numerous summer homes are located in Indian Harbour Lake, many owned by German and American citizens.
Indian Head Massage Indian Head Massage, also known under the trademarked term Champissage, is an alternative medicine massage therapy in which the head, neck and facial areas are massaged with the purpose of manipulating energy channels. The goal is to clear blocks in these energy channels that cause a build-up of negative energy that are purported to cause ailments.
Indian Head Park, Illinois Indian Head Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois slightly north of the intersection of Interstate 294 and Interstate 55. The village is south of Western Springs, north of Burr Ridge, and west of Countryside.
Indian Head test card The Indian Head test card was a black and white television test pattern that was introduced in 1939 by RCA of Harrison, New Jersey as a part of the RCA TK-1 Monoscope. Twentieth century television became so important socially that this mere technical image, covertly identified as a branded industrial product, has become a historic cultural icon.
Indian Hill (Metra) Indian Hill is the southernmost of the three commuter railroad stations in Winnetka, Illinois, an affluent suburb north of Chicago. It is served by Metra's Union Pacific/North Line trains, with service to Ogilvie Transportation Center in downtown Chicago.
Indian Hill Exempted Village School District, Hamilton County, Ohio The Indian Hill Exempted Village School District is a public school in Indian Hill, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is divided into four schools: High School, which is the ninth through twelfth grades; Middle School, which has sixth through eighth grades; Elementary School, which has third through fifth grades; and Primary School, which has Kindergarten, first, and second grades.
Indian Hills High School (Calabasas, California) Indian Hills High School is an alternative/continuation education high school serving students in grades 10-12 (most students are 16-18 years of age). It is in the Las Virgenes Unified School District which spans Westlake Village, California, USA to West Hills.
Indian Hills High School (New Jersey) Indian Hills High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Bergen County, New Jersey. The school is a part of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District, serving students from Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff.
Indian Hills Theater The Indian Hills Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, was built in 1962 as a movie theater showcasing films in the Cinerama wide-screen format. The theater's screen was the largest of its type in the United States.
Indian Humanist Union The Indian Humanist Union (IHU) is an Indian Humanist organisation established in 1960 by Narsingh Narain. The forerunner organisation, founded by Narain in 1954, was the "Society for Promotion of Freedom of Thought".
Indian Chinese cuisine Indian Chinese cuisine is the adaptation of Chinese seasoning and cooking techniques to South Asian tastes. It is widespread in certain localities in India, and is also enjoyed by Indian and Chinese communities in Malaysia, Singapore and North America.
Indian Church, Belize Indian Church Village is a small remote village in the Orange Walk District of the nation of Belize. It is located on the west bank of New River, neighbouring the town of San Carlos to its south, and the Maya ruins of Lamanai to its north.
Indian indenture ships to Fiji Between 1879 and 1916, a total of 42 ships made 87 voyages, carrying Indian indentured labourers to Fiji. Initiallly the ships brought labourers from Calcutta, but from 1903 all ships except two also brought labourers from Madras.
Indian indenture system The Indian indenture system started from the end of slavery in 1834 and continued until 1920, when thousands of Indians were transported to various colonies of European powers to provide labour for the (mainly sugar) plantations, under the indenture system.
Indian independence activists This is a listing of people who campaigned against foreign domination and cultural imposition on the Indian sub-continent. In India such individuals are often referred to as freedom fighters, but usage of this term is controversial.
Indian independence movement The Indian independence movement incorporated the efforts by Indians to liberate the region from British rule and form the nation-state of India. It involved a wide spectrum of Indian political organizations, philosophies, and rebellions between 1857 and India's emergence as a unified nation-state on August 15, 1947.
Indian ink Indian ink (or India ink in American English), also called Chinese ink, is a simple black ink once widely used for writing and printing, and now more commonly used for drawing, especially when inking comics. Indian ink is usually not suitable for fountain pens: it will readily clog the pen.
Indian Indonesian Indian Indonesians are a group of people who live in Indonesia and whose ancestors originally came from the Indian subcontinent. Therefore this term can be regarded as a blanket term for not only Indonesian Indian proper, but also Indonesian Pakistanis, Indonesian Sinhalese etc.
Indian Ink (play) Indian Ink is a 1995 play by Tom Stoppard, based on his 1991 radio play In the Native State. Indian Ink had its first performance at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and opened at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on February 27, 1995.
Indian Institute of Advanced Study The Indian Institute of Advanced Study is a prestigious research institute based in Shimla, India. It was set up by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 1964 and it started functioning from October 20, 1965.
Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology Indian Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (IIEST) are institutes proposed by the Government of India to meet the growing demand for IITs by every state in India. A number of colleges have been selected for upgradation to the status of IIESTs.
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was set up in 1963 by the government of India as an autonomous organisation to help professionalise the country's foreign trade management and increase exports by developing human resources; generating, analysing and disseminating data; and conducting research. Today it is one of India's most prestigious business schools.
Indian Institute of Forest Management Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal (IIFM) (founded 1982) is an autonomous institution located at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, India, established by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India with financial assistance from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and course assistance from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. The Institute's objective is to fulfill the growing need for managerial human resource in forest and llied sectors.
Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, IICTis a premier national level research laboratory under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, (CSIR]). IICT conducts state-of- the art research in basic and applied chemistry and biochemistry.
Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior (IIITM Gwalior), is a deemed university, which was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Developement, Government of India as an initiative to foster IT and management education in India. It is located in the city of Gwalior, in the northern part of the state of Madhya Pradesh.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad, also known as IIMA), was the second Indian Institute of Management to be established in India after IIM Calcutta. It is considered one of the premier institutes of management education in India and is widely considered to be one of the toughest to get in MBA programmes all over the world.
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) is a national institute imparting post graduate education in management. It is located at Joka, on the southern outskirts of Kolkata city, in the state of West Bengal, India.
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM K) is one of the six Indian Institutes of Management set up by the Government of India. The Institute was founded in 1996 in collaboration with the State Government of Kerala.
Indian Institute of Science The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a premier post-graduate institution of research and higher learning located in Bangalore, India. It offers postgraduate and doctoral research programmes to over 2,000 active researchers working in 48 specialized departments ranging from aerospace engineering to molecular biophysics to management.
Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management The Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, located at Management House, College Square West, Kolkata-700073, was the first management institute in India and was established in 1953. It was established in 1953 and is the first B-School of India.
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, popularly known as IIT Bombay or IIT-B, is an autonomous university located in Powai, in north central Mumbai (formerly Bombay). It is the second-oldest campus of the Indian Institutes of Technology system and the largest university in the state of Maharashtra.
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati or IITG), an autonomous institute for education and research in science, engineering and technology located in Guwahati, in north east India. It is the sixth member of the IIT fraternity.
Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination The Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (popularly known as IIT-JEE or just JEE) is an annual college entrance examination in India. A total of nine colleges use JEE as a sole criteria for admission to their undergraduate programs.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is one of the Indian Institutes of Technology, set up in the then-industrial city of Kanpur in 1960. IIT Kanpur has grown into one of the top technological institutes in India, primarily focused on research in engineering and science, and the teaching of undergraduates.
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) is located in Roorkee, a small township in Uttaranchal, India. Instituted as Thomason college of Civil Engineering in year 1847 by British, it was rechristened as University of Roorkee in year 1949.
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology or IITM is a scientific institution based in India for expanding research in monsoon meteorology of the tropics in general with special reference to monsoon meteorology of India.
Indian Institutes of Management The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are the coveted management / business schools of India, located in the cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Indore, Kolkata, Kozhikode, and Lucknow. They award post-graduate diplomas in management (equivalent to an MBA) with various specializations.
Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research The Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER) are a group of premier institutes being created by the Government of India to promote education and research in the sciences. Five IISER's have been currently planned across the country in the following locations -- Kolkata in West Bengal, Pune in Maharashtra, Mohali in Punjab, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala http://pib.
Indian Institutes of Technology The Indian Institutes of Technology (Hindi: ŕ¤ŕ¤ľŕ¤°ŕ¤¤ŕĄ€ŕ¤Ż प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान), or IITs, are a group of seven autonomous engineering and technology oriented institutes of higher education established and declared as Institutes of National Importance by the Government of India. The IITs were created to train scientists and engineers, with the aim of developing a skilled workforce to support the economic and social development of India after independence in 1947.
Indian Intercourse Act The Indian Intercourse Acts were several acts passed by the United States Congress regulating commerce between American Indians and non-Indians and restricting travel by non-Indians onto Indian land. The first of these acts, An Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse With the Indian Tribes, was passed July 22 1790.
Indian Jewelry Indian Jewelry is a band from Houston, Texas that is known for its droning vision music and seizure-inducing stage show. Since forming in 2002, the band has gone through several touring incarnations as NTX+Electric, Turquoise Diamonds, the Corpses of Waco, and the Perpetual War Party Band, among others.
Indian Journal of Gastroenterology Indian Journal of Gastroenterology (Indian J Gastroenterol or IJG) is a premier peer-reviewed bi-monthly medical journal related to gastroenterology published from India. It is published by the Indian Society of Gastroenterology and its office is located at Mumbai.
Indian Journal of Law and Technology The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (often simply referred to as the IJLT) is an annual academic publication brought out by the students of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. It is managed and published by the Law and Technology Committee of the Student Bar Association at the National Law School, and is edited by an editorial board comprised of students and an independent Article Review Board comprising industry and legal experts.
Indian Kashmir barrier The Indian Kashmir barrier which takes its inspiration from Israel is a 550 km (330 mile) separation barrier along the 740 km disputed 1972 Line of Control (or ceasefire line) between Indian and Pakistani controlled Kashmir: Jammu and Kashmir, India and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. The rest of the Line of Control is too inaccessible for construction of a barrier.
Indian King Tavern The Indian King Tavern was a colonial American tavern in Haddonfield, New Jersey which was the site of a 1777 meeting of the New Jersey General Assembly that officially ratified the Declaration of Independence and adopted its Great Seal. It was the first State Historic Site, adopted as such in 1903.
Indian licence plates All motorised road vehicles are tagged with a licence number in India. The licence plate number is issued by the district-level Regional Transport Office (RTO) of respective states - the main authority on road matters.
Indian literature Indian literature is generally acknowledged, but not wholly established, as the oldest in the world. India has 22 officially recognized languages, and a huge variety of literature has been produced in these languages over the years.
Indian Labour Organization The Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS) is a national trade union center in India founded by eminent Nationalist and Trade Unionist Shri Basawon Singh (Sinha). Basawon Singh (Sinha) himself formed over 300 trade unions in his lifetime.
Indian Lake (New Jersey) Indian Lake is a man-made lake and unincorporated area situated 500 feet above sea level in Denville, New Jersey with Snake Hill to its west and Chestnut Hill to its east, both of which rise to 800 feet above sea level.
Indian Lake Local School District, Logan County, Ohio Indian Lake Local School District also known as "Indian Lake Local Schools" is a school district comprising the northwestern part of Logan County, Ohio. The President of the Board of Education is Tracy McPherson, and the Superintendent is Dr.
Indian maritime history India has had a maritime history dating back to around 4,500 years, since the Indus Valley Civilization. The impetus to later re-develop maritime links was trade (primarily in cotton, pepper and other spices), due to the monopoly of the Persians and later the Arabs over land-based caravan routes.
Indian massacre of 1622 The Indian massacre of 1622 (also known as the Jamestown Massacre) occurred in the Virginia Colony on Good Friday, March 22, 1622. Almost 1/3 of the English colonists were killed by a coordinated series of surprise attacks of the Powhatan Confederacy under Chief Opechancanough.
Indian massacres In the long history of the European colonization of North America, the term "Indian massacre" was often used to describe either mass killings of Europeans by indigenous people of the North American continent ("Indians") or mass killings of indigenous peoples by Europeans. In theory, massacre applied to the killing of civilian noncombatants or to the summary execution of prisoners-of-war.
Indian mottled eel The Indian mottled eel, Anguilla bengalensis bengalensis, is a species of eel in the genus Anguilla of the family Anguillidae. It is found throughout the Indian subcontinent and neighbouring regions including the East Indies.
Indian Malaysian The Indian Malaysians are a group of Malaysians largely descended from those who migrated from South India during the British colonization of Malaya. Prior to British colonization, Tamils had been conspicuous in the archipelago much earlier, especially since the period of the powerful South India kingdom of the Cholas in the 11th century.
Indian March of Paul Indian March of Paul, (Russian: ĐндийŃкий поход Павла) is the Westerner name for the Cossack cavalry deployment that was the first stage of a planned allied Russo-French expedition against the British forces in India. The whole operation was scuttled following the assassination of Emperor Paul I of Russia in mid-March of 1801.
Indian Medical Association The Indian Medical Association (IMA), the national organization of “Doctors of Modern Scientific System of Medicine”, was organized in 1928, and currently IMA has around 100,000 members belonging to different branches of medical profession and function through a network of more than 1700 local branches, located in different part of India.
Indian Merchants' Chamber Indian Merchants’ Chamber, established on 7th September 1907, is an organization of India, representing interests of Indian trade, commerce, and industry. It was organized originally during the British Raj to promote trade, commerce, and industry by Indian entrepreneurs.
Indian Mound Park Indian Mound Park, also known as Shell Mound Park, is a prehistoric ceremonial ground on Dauphin Island, off the coast of Mobile County, Alabama, in the United States. On August 8, 1973, the park was listed with the National Register of Historic Places.
Indian Museum The Indian Museum was founded by Dr Nathaniel Wallich a Danish botanist at Serampore (originally called Frederischnagore) near Kolkata (Calcutta), India, in 1814. It is a multi-disciplinary institution of national standing and is one of oldest museums in the world.
Indian national academy of enginering The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), founded in 1987, comprises India's most distinguished engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists covering the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines. The aims and objects of the Academy are to promote and advance the practice of engineering and technology, related sciences and disciplines and their applications to problems of national importance.
Indian national calendar The Indian national calendar (sometimes called Saka calendar) is the official civil calendar in use in India. It is used, alongside the Gregorian calendar, by the Gazette of India, news broadcasts by All India Radio, and calendars and communications issued by the Government of India.
Indian national cricket captains This is a list of all men, boys and women who have captained an Indian national cricket team at official international level. India became a full member of the Imperial Cricket Conference (now the International Cricket Council) on 31 May 1926.
Indian nationality law Indian citizenship/nationality law: The Constitution of India provides for a single citizenship for the entire country. The provisions relating to citizenship at the commencement of the Constitution are contained in Articles 5 to 11 in Part II of the Constitution of India.
Indian numbering system The traditional, ancient Indian numbering system, used today in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Burma), is based on a unique grouping of 2 decimal places, rather than the 3 decimal places commonplace in the West (China and Japan, for instance, use 4). The terms crore and lakh are in widespread use today in Indian English.
Indian numerals Most of the positional base 10 numeral systems in the world have originated from India, which first developed the concept of positional numerology. The Indian numeral system is commonly referred to in the West as Hindu-Arabic numeral system, since it reached Europe through the Arabs.
Indian National Association The Indian National Association was the first political organization founded in British India. It was founded by on July 26th 1876, by Bengali leader Surendranath Banerjea, and held its annual conference in Calcutta.
Indian National Congress Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party or Congress (I), abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. Created in 1885 by AO Hume, the Indian National Congress became the nation's leader in the Independence Movement, with over 15 million Indians involved in its organizations and over 70 million participants in its struggle against the British Empire.
Indian National Congress (Organisation) The Indian National Congress (Organisation) or Congress (O) was a political party in India formed when Indira Gandhi (then the Congress president) broke away from the leadership of the Congress Party (which became known as Congress (I)). As Indira had control over the state machinery, her faction was recognized as the "real" INC by the Election Commission of India, so the rump INC became known as the INC(O), or informally the "Old Congress".
Indian National Defence Workers Federation Indian National Defence Workers Federation is a trade union in India, affiliated to the Indian National Trade Union Congress, that organizes civilian workers in factories and other establishments under the Ministry of Defence.
Indian National Highway 8 National Highway 8 is the major commercial artery that connects Mumbai with New Delhi. The highway passes through the state capitals of Gandhinagar and Jaipur, as well as important places like Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara.
Indian National Olympiad in Informatics The Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI) is the second of the three rounds of the Indian Computing Olympiad towards selection of the Indian team for the annual International Olympiad in Informatics. Selected students are eligible for a fortnight long training camp.
Indian National Satellite System Indian National Satellite System (INSAT) is a series of multipurpose Geo-Stationary satellites launched by ISRO to satisfy the telecommunications, broadcasting, meteorology, and "search and rescue" needs of India. Commissioned in 1983, INSAT is the largest domestic communication system in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Indian National Science Academy The Indian National Science Academy promotes science and its use in India. It was originally established in 1935 and was known as the National Institute of Sciences of India until the present name was adopted in 1970.
Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, also known as INTACH, is an autonomous non-governmental Indian non-profit society that seeks to preserve Indian culture and heritage. It was founded in 1984.
Indian Neck Hall Reputed to have been the largest estate on Long Island in the United States, Indian Neck Hall was a country residence of Frederick Gilbert Bourne, President of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The large house was designed by noted architect Ernest Flagg.
Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest body of water in the world, covering about 20% of the Earth's water surface. It is bounded on the north by Southern Asia (including the Indian subcontinent, after which it is named); on the west by the Arabian Peninsula and Africa; on the east by the Malay Peninsula, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean (or, traditionally, by Antarctica).
Indian Distance Education Association Indian Distance Education Association (IDEA) is a body which has been formed to study the organization and functioning of the professional association of Indian Distance Educators, popularly nick named as IDEA.
Indian epic poetry Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent. Written in Sanskrit, Tamil and Hindi, it includes some of the oldest epic poetry ever created and some works form the basis of Hindu scripture.
Indian Elephant The Indian Elephant Elephas maximus indicus is a subspecies of the Asian Elephant primarily found in India. The subspecies can also be found in relatively small numbers in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Laos, mainland of Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Sumatra, and Vietnam.
Indian Emergency (1975-1977) The Indian Emergency of (1975-77) was an 18-month period between 1975 and 1977, when President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, upon advice by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergency under Article 352 of the Constitution of India, effectively bestowing on her the power to rule by decree, suspending elections and civil liberties. It is one of the most controversial periods in the history of independent India.
Indian Empire Society The Indian Empire Society was a London-based lobbying organization, formed in 1930 to promote the cause of the British empire in India. It was established by several former provincial governors of the Raj, among them Lord Sydenham, Lord Meston, Sir Reginald Craddock and Sir Michael O'Dwyer.
Indian English Indian English refers to the dialects or varieties of English spoken primarily in India, and also by Indian diaspora elsewhere in the world. Due to British colonialism that saw an English-speaking presence in India for over two hundred years, a distinctly Indian brand of English has evolved.
Indian English literature Indian English Literature (IEL) refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian diaspora, especially people like Salman Rushdie who was born in India.
Indian feudalism The term Indian feudalism is an attempt to classify Indian history according to a European model. Historians have become very reluctant to classify other societies into European models and today it is rare for Indian history to be described as feudal by academics; it still done in popular usage, however, but only for pejorative reasons to express disfavour, typically by critics.
Indian filter coffee South Indian Coffee, also known as Madras Filter Coffee is a sweet milky coffee made from dark roasted coffee beans (70%-80%) and chicory (20%-30%), especially popular in the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The most commonly used coffee beans are Peaberry (preferred), Arabica, Malabar and Robusta grown in the hills of Kerala (Malabar), Karnataka (Chikmagalur) and Tamil Nadu (Nilgiris).
Indian Football Association The Indian Football Association (IFA) is the organisation that administers association football in the state of West Bengal, India. It is the oldest Football Association in India and was founded in 1893 Contrary to the name, the association does not administer the game in India, a task which falls to the All India Football Federation] (AIFF).
Indian Foreign Minister The External Affairs Minister or the Indian Foreign Minister is a position of office at cabinet level within the Government of India. The chief responsibility of the External Affairs Minister is to represent India and its government in the international community.
Indian Foreign Service The Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is one of the Services of the Government of India; other important services being the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Forest Service (IFS) and Indian Revenue Service (IRS).
Indian Forest Act, 1927 The Indian Forest Act, 1927 was enacted in the year 1927 to consolidate and reserve the areas having forest cover, or significant wildlife, to regulate movement and transit of forest produce, and duty leviable on timber and other forest produce. It also defines the procedure to be followed for declaring an area to be a Reserved Forest, a Protected Forest or a Village Forest.
Indian French Indian French is a dialect of French spoken by Indians in past colonies of Pondicherry, Chandernagore, Karikal, Mahe and Yanam. In this dialect, there is a considerable influence from Dravidian languages like Tamil (Pondicherry Tamil Dialect), Telugu (Yanam Telugu Dialect) and Malayalam (Mahe Malayalam Dialect).
Indian general election, 1999 General Elections were held in India in September-October, 1999, a few months after the Kargil War. The elections became necessary when the then prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee lost a no-confidence vote in the Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) earlier that year and the opposition failed to unite to form the next government.
Indian general election, 2004 Legislative elections were held in India, the world's largest democracy, in four phases between April 20 and May 10, 2004. Over 670 million people were eligible to vote, electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha (the House of the People, the lower house of the Indian legislature).
Indian Giant Squirrel The Indian Giant Squirrel, Ratufa indica, is a large forest squirrel found in South Asia. Sometimes called the Malabar Squirrel in India itself, the species is distributed in tropical forest along the Western Ghats, central and north eastern India.
Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park Chaw'se Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park is a historical state park located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, eight miles east of Jackson. The park is named after a great outcropping of marbleized limestone with some 1,185 mortar holes — the largest collection of bedrock mortars in North America.
Indian highways "National Highways" in India is the class of roads maintained by the Central Government and is the main long-distance roadways. The National Highways, the majority 2 laned (one in each direction), constitute a total of about 58,000 km, of which 4,885 km are central-separated expressways.
Indian hip hop Indian hip hop, is a type of fusion music created by taking western hip hop and mixing it with Indian music. This may involve removing the words and replacing them with Indian ones, mixing the original track's chorus and replacing it with Punjabi or Hindi words.
Indian honours system The Indian honours system was first established under the auspices of the British East India Company. In 1858, India came directly under the authority of the British Crown as a result of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 - 1858.
Indian human spaceflight program The still unnamed Indian human spaceflight program of the Indian Space Research Organisation was proposed in November 2006. Its goal would be to design, develop and launch an Indian human spacecraft, a two-seat space capsule, which would be used to send an Indian into space by 2014.
Indian Harbour Lake, Nova Scotia Indian Harbour Lake is a small lakeside community in Guysborough County Nova Scotia of less than one hundred residents. Numerous summer homes are located in Indian Harbour Lake, many owned by German and American citizens.
Indian Head Massage Indian Head Massage, also known under the trademarked term Champissage, is an alternative medicine massage therapy in which the head, neck and facial areas are massaged with the purpose of manipulating energy channels. The goal is to clear blocks in these energy channels that cause a build-up of negative energy that are purported to cause ailments.
Indian Head Park, Illinois Indian Head Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois slightly north of the intersection of Interstate 294 and Interstate 55. The village is south of Western Springs, north of Burr Ridge, and west of Countryside.
Indian Head test card The Indian Head test card was a black and white television test pattern that was introduced in 1939 by RCA of Harrison, New Jersey as a part of the RCA TK-1 Monoscope. Twentieth century television became so important socially that this mere technical image, covertly identified as a branded industrial product, has become a historic cultural icon.
Indian Hill (Metra) Indian Hill is the southernmost of the three commuter railroad stations in Winnetka, Illinois, an affluent suburb north of Chicago. It is served by Metra's Union Pacific/North Line trains, with service to Ogilvie Transportation Center in downtown Chicago.
Indian Hill Exempted Village School District, Hamilton County, Ohio The Indian Hill Exempted Village School District is a public school in Indian Hill, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is divided into four schools: High School, which is the ninth through twelfth grades; Middle School, which has sixth through eighth grades; Elementary School, which has third through fifth grades; and Primary School, which has Kindergarten, first, and second grades.
Indian Hills High School (Calabasas, California) Indian Hills High School is an alternative/continuation education high school serving students in grades 10-12 (most students are 16-18 years of age). It is in the Las Virgenes Unified School District which spans Westlake Village, California, USA to West Hills.
Indian Hills High School (New Jersey) Indian Hills High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Bergen County, New Jersey. The school is a part of the Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District, serving students from Franklin Lakes, Oakland and Wyckoff.
Indian Hills Theater The Indian Hills Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, was built in 1962 as a movie theater showcasing films in the Cinerama wide-screen format. The theater's screen was the largest of its type in the United States.
Indian Humanist Union The Indian Humanist Union (IHU) is an Indian Humanist organisation established in 1960 by Narsingh Narain. The forerunner organisation, founded by Narain in 1954, was the "Society for Promotion of Freedom of Thought".
Indian Chinese cuisine Indian Chinese cuisine is the adaptation of Chinese seasoning and cooking techniques to South Asian tastes. It is widespread in certain localities in India, and is also enjoyed by Indian and Chinese communities in Malaysia, Singapore and North America.
Indian Church, Belize Indian Church Village is a small remote village in the Orange Walk District of the nation of Belize. It is located on the west bank of New River, neighbouring the town of San Carlos to its south, and the Maya ruins of Lamanai to its north.
Indian indenture ships to Fiji Between 1879 and 1916, a total of 42 ships made 87 voyages, carrying Indian indentured labourers to Fiji. Initiallly the ships brought labourers from Calcutta, but from 1903 all ships except two also brought labourers from Madras.
Indian indenture system The Indian indenture system started from the end of slavery in 1834 and continued until 1920, when thousands of Indians were transported to various colonies of European powers to provide labour for the (mainly sugar) plantations, under the indenture system.
Indian independence activists This is a listing of people who campaigned against foreign domination and cultural imposition on the Indian sub-continent. In India such individuals are often referred to as freedom fighters, but usage of this term is controversial.
Indian independence movement The Indian independence movement incorporated the efforts by Indians to liberate the region from British rule and form the nation-state of India. It involved a wide spectrum of Indian political organizations, philosophies, and rebellions between 1857 and India's emergence as a unified nation-state on August 15, 1947.
Indian ink Indian ink (or India ink in American English), also called Chinese ink, is a simple black ink once widely used for writing and printing, and now more commonly used for drawing, especially when inking comics. Indian ink is usually not suitable for fountain pens: it will readily clog the pen.
Indian Indonesian Indian Indonesians are a group of people who live in Indonesia and whose ancestors originally came from the Indian subcontinent. Therefore this term can be regarded as a blanket term for not only Indonesian Indian proper, but also Indonesian Pakistanis, Indonesian Sinhalese etc.
Indian Ink (play) Indian Ink is a 1995 play by Tom Stoppard, based on his 1991 radio play In the Native State. Indian Ink had its first performance at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and opened at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on February 27, 1995.
Indian Institute of Advanced Study The Indian Institute of Advanced Study is a prestigious research institute based in Shimla, India. It was set up by the Ministry of Education, Government of India in 1964 and it started functioning from October 20, 1965.
Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology Indian Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (IIEST) are institutes proposed by the Government of India to meet the growing demand for IITs by every state in India. A number of colleges have been selected for upgradation to the status of IIESTs.
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was set up in 1963 by the government of India as an autonomous organisation to help professionalise the country's foreign trade management and increase exports by developing human resources; generating, analysing and disseminating data; and conducting research. Today it is one of India's most prestigious business schools.
Indian Institute of Forest Management Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal (IIFM) (founded 1982) is an autonomous institution located at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, India, established by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India with financial assistance from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and course assistance from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. The Institute's objective is to fulfill the growing need for managerial human resource in forest and llied sectors.
Indian Institute of Chemical Technology Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, IICTis a premier national level research laboratory under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, (CSIR]). IICT conducts state-of- the art research in basic and applied chemistry and biochemistry.
Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior (IIITM Gwalior), is a deemed university, which was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Developement, Government of India as an initiative to foster IT and management education in India. It is located in the city of Gwalior, in the northern part of the state of Madhya Pradesh.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad, also known as IIMA), was the second Indian Institute of Management to be established in India after IIM Calcutta. It is considered one of the premier institutes of management education in India and is widely considered to be one of the toughest to get in MBA programmes all over the world.
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta The Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) is a national institute imparting post graduate education in management. It is located at Joka, on the southern outskirts of Kolkata city, in the state of West Bengal, India.
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM K) is one of the six Indian Institutes of Management set up by the Government of India. The Institute was founded in 1996 in collaboration with the State Government of Kerala.
Indian Institute of Science The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a premier post-graduate institution of research and higher learning located in Bangalore, India. It offers postgraduate and doctoral research programmes to over 2,000 active researchers working in 48 specialized departments ranging from aerospace engineering to molecular biophysics to management.
Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management The Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, located at Management House, College Square West, Kolkata-700073, was the first management institute in India and was established in 1953. It was established in 1953 and is the first B-School of India.
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, popularly known as IIT Bombay or IIT-B, is an autonomous university located in Powai, in north central Mumbai (formerly Bombay). It is the second-oldest campus of the Indian Institutes of Technology system and the largest university in the state of Maharashtra.
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati or IITG), an autonomous institute for education and research in science, engineering and technology located in Guwahati, in north east India. It is the sixth member of the IIT fraternity.
Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination The Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (popularly known as IIT-JEE or just JEE) is an annual college entrance examination in India. A total of nine colleges use JEE as a sole criteria for admission to their undergraduate programs.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is one of the Indian Institutes of Technology, set up in the then-industrial city of Kanpur in 1960. IIT Kanpur has grown into one of the top technological institutes in India, primarily focused on research in engineering and science, and the teaching of undergraduates.
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) is located in Roorkee, a small township in Uttaranchal, India. Instituted as Thomason college of Civil Engineering in year 1847 by British, it was rechristened as University of Roorkee in year 1949.
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology or IITM is a scientific institution based in India for expanding research in monsoon meteorology of the tropics in general with special reference to monsoon meteorology of India.
Indian Institutes of Management The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are the coveted management / business schools of India, located in the cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Indore, Kolkata, Kozhikode, and Lucknow. They award post-graduate diplomas in management (equivalent to an MBA) with various specializations.
Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research The Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER) are a group of premier institutes being created by the Government of India to promote education and research in the sciences. Five IISER's have been currently planned across the country in the following locations -- Kolkata in West Bengal, Pune in Maharashtra, Mohali in Punjab, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala http://pib.
Indian Institutes of Technology The Indian Institutes of Technology (Hindi: ŕ¤ŕ¤ľŕ¤°ŕ¤¤ŕĄ€ŕ¤Ż प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान), or IITs, are a group of seven autonomous engineering and technology oriented institutes of higher education established and declared as Institutes of National Importance by the Government of India. The IITs were created to train scientists and engineers, with the aim of developing a skilled workforce to support the economic and social development of India after independence in 1947.
Indian Intercourse Act The Indian Intercourse Acts were several acts passed by the United States Congress regulating commerce between American Indians and non-Indians and restricting travel by non-Indians onto Indian land. The first of these acts, An Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse With the Indian Tribes, was passed July 22 1790.
Indian Jewelry Indian Jewelry is a band from Houston, Texas that is known for its droning vision music and seizure-inducing stage show. Since forming in 2002, the band has gone through several touring incarnations as NTX+Electric, Turquoise Diamonds, the Corpses of Waco, and the Perpetual War Party Band, among others.
Indian Journal of Gastroenterology Indian Journal of Gastroenterology (Indian J Gastroenterol or IJG) is a premier peer-reviewed bi-monthly medical journal related to gastroenterology published from India. It is published by the Indian Society of Gastroenterology and its office is located at Mumbai.
Indian Journal of Law and Technology The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (often simply referred to as the IJLT) is an annual academic publication brought out by the students of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. It is managed and published by the Law and Technology Committee of the Student Bar Association at the National Law School, and is edited by an editorial board comprised of students and an independent Article Review Board comprising industry and legal experts.
Indian Kashmir barrier The Indian Kashmir barrier which takes its inspiration from Israel is a 550 km (330 mile) separation barrier along the 740 km disputed 1972 Line of Control (or ceasefire line) between Indian and Pakistani controlled Kashmir: Jammu and Kashmir, India and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. The rest of the Line of Control is too inaccessible for construction of a barrier.
Indian King Tavern The Indian King Tavern was a colonial American tavern in Haddonfield, New Jersey which was the site of a 1777 meeting of the New Jersey General Assembly that officially ratified the Declaration of Independence and adopted its Great Seal. It was the first State Historic Site, adopted as such in 1903.
Indian licence plates All motorised road vehicles are tagged with a licence number in India. The licence plate number is issued by the district-level Regional Transport Office (RTO) of respective states - the main authority on road matters.
Indian literature Indian literature is generally acknowledged, but not wholly established, as the oldest in the world. India has 22 officially recognized languages, and a huge variety of literature has been produced in these languages over the years.
Indian Labour Organization The Hind Mazdoor Sabha (HMS) is a national trade union center in India founded by eminent Nationalist and Trade Unionist Shri Basawon Singh (Sinha). Basawon Singh (Sinha) himself formed over 300 trade unions in his lifetime.
Indian Lake (New Jersey) Indian Lake is a man-made lake and unincorporated area situated 500 feet above sea level in Denville, New Jersey with Snake Hill to its west and Chestnut Hill to its east, both of which rise to 800 feet above sea level.
Indian Lake Local School District, Logan County, Ohio Indian Lake Local School District also known as "Indian Lake Local Schools" is a school district comprising the northwestern part of Logan County, Ohio. The President of the Board of Education is Tracy McPherson, and the Superintendent is Dr.
Indian maritime history India has had a maritime history dating back to around 4,500 years, since the Indus Valley Civilization. The impetus to later re-develop maritime links was trade (primarily in cotton, pepper and other spices), due to the monopoly of the Persians and later the Arabs over land-based caravan routes.
Indian massacre of 1622 The Indian massacre of 1622 (also known as the Jamestown Massacre) occurred in the Virginia Colony on Good Friday, March 22, 1622. Almost 1/3 of the English colonists were killed by a coordinated series of surprise attacks of the Powhatan Confederacy under Chief Opechancanough.
Indian massacres In the long history of the European colonization of North America, the term "Indian massacre" was often used to describe either mass killings of Europeans by indigenous people of the North American continent ("Indians") or mass killings of indigenous peoples by Europeans. In theory, massacre applied to the killing of civilian noncombatants or to the summary execution of prisoners-of-war.
Indian mottled eel The Indian mottled eel, Anguilla bengalensis bengalensis, is a species of eel in the genus Anguilla of the family Anguillidae. It is found throughout the Indian subcontinent and neighbouring regions including the East Indies.
Indian Malaysian The Indian Malaysians are a group of Malaysians largely descended from those who migrated from South India during the British colonization of Malaya. Prior to British colonization, Tamils had been conspicuous in the archipelago much earlier, especially since the period of the powerful South India kingdom of the Cholas in the 11th century.
Indian March of Paul Indian March of Paul, (Russian: ĐндийŃкий поход Павла) is the Westerner name for the Cossack cavalry deployment that was the first stage of a planned allied Russo-French expedition against the British forces in India. The whole operation was scuttled following the assassination of Emperor Paul I of Russia in mid-March of 1801.
Indian Medical Association The Indian Medical Association (IMA), the national organization of “Doctors of Modern Scientific System of Medicine”, was organized in 1928, and currently IMA has around 100,000 members belonging to different branches of medical profession and function through a network of more than 1700 local branches, located in different part of India.
Indian Merchants' Chamber Indian Merchants’ Chamber, established on 7th September 1907, is an organization of India, representing interests of Indian trade, commerce, and industry. It was organized originally during the British Raj to promote trade, commerce, and industry by Indian entrepreneurs.
Indian Mound Park Indian Mound Park, also known as Shell Mound Park, is a prehistoric ceremonial ground on Dauphin Island, off the coast of Mobile County, Alabama, in the United States. On August 8, 1973, the park was listed with the National Register of Historic Places.
Indian Museum The Indian Museum was founded by Dr Nathaniel Wallich a Danish botanist at Serampore (originally called Frederischnagore) near Kolkata (Calcutta), India, in 1814. It is a multi-disciplinary institution of national standing and is one of oldest museums in the world.
Indian national academy of enginering The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), founded in 1987, comprises India's most distinguished engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists covering the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines. The aims and objects of the Academy are to promote and advance the practice of engineering and technology, related sciences and disciplines and their applications to problems of national importance.
Indian national calendar The Indian national calendar (sometimes called Saka calendar) is the official civil calendar in use in India. It is used, alongside the Gregorian calendar, by the Gazette of India, news broadcasts by All India Radio, and calendars and communications issued by the Government of India.
Indian national cricket captains This is a list of all men, boys and women who have captained an Indian national cricket team at official international level. India became a full member of the Imperial Cricket Conference (now the International Cricket Council) on 31 May 1926.
Indian nationality law Indian citizenship/nationality law: The Constitution of India provides for a single citizenship for the entire country. The provisions relating to citizenship at the commencement of the Constitution are contained in Articles 5 to 11 in Part II of the Constitution of India.
Indian numbering system The traditional, ancient Indian numbering system, used today in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar (Burma), is based on a unique grouping of 2 decimal places, rather than the 3 decimal places commonplace in the West (China and Japan, for instance, use 4). The terms crore and lakh are in widespread use today in Indian English.
Indian numerals Most of the positional base 10 numeral systems in the world have originated from India, which first developed the concept of positional numerology. The Indian numeral system is commonly referred to in the West as Hindu-Arabic numeral system, since it reached Europe through the Arabs.
Indian National Association The Indian National Association was the first political organization founded in British India. It was founded by on July 26th 1876, by Bengali leader Surendranath Banerjea, and held its annual conference in Calcutta.
Indian National Congress Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party or Congress (I), abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. Created in 1885 by AO Hume, the Indian National Congress became the nation's leader in the Independence Movement, with over 15 million Indians involved in its organizations and over 70 million participants in its struggle against the British Empire.
Indian National Congress (Organisation) The Indian National Congress (Organisation) or Congress (O) was a political party in India formed when Indira Gandhi (then the Congress president) broke away from the leadership of the Congress Party (which became known as Congress (I)). As Indira had control over the state machinery, her faction was recognized as the "real" INC by the Election Commission of India, so the rump INC became known as the INC(O), or informally the "Old Congress".
Indian National Defence Workers Federation Indian National Defence Workers Federation is a trade union in India, affiliated to the Indian National Trade Union Congress, that organizes civilian workers in factories and other establishments under the Ministry of Defence.
Indian National Highway 8 National Highway 8 is the major commercial artery that connects Mumbai with New Delhi. The highway passes through the state capitals of Gandhinagar and Jaipur, as well as important places like Ahmedabad, Surat and Vadodara.
Indian National Olympiad in Informatics The Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI) is the second of the three rounds of the Indian Computing Olympiad towards selection of the Indian team for the annual International Olympiad in Informatics. Selected students are eligible for a fortnight long training camp.
Indian National Satellite System Indian National Satellite System (INSAT) is a series of multipurpose Geo-Stationary satellites launched by ISRO to satisfy the telecommunications, broadcasting, meteorology, and "search and rescue" needs of India. Commissioned in 1983, INSAT is the largest domestic communication system in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Indian National Science Academy The Indian National Science Academy promotes science and its use in India. It was originally established in 1935 and was known as the National Institute of Sciences of India until the present name was adopted in 1970.
Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, also known as INTACH, is an autonomous non-governmental Indian non-profit society that seeks to preserve Indian culture and heritage. It was founded in 1984.
Indian Neck Hall Reputed to have been the largest estate on Long Island in the United States, Indian Neck Hall was a country residence of Frederick Gilbert Bourne, President of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The large house was designed by noted architect Ernest Flagg.
Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third largest body of water in the world, covering about 20% of the Earth's water surface. It is bounded on the north by Southern Asia (including the Indian subcontinent, after which it is named); on the west by the Arabian Peninsula and Africa; on the east by the Malay Peninsula, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean (or, traditionally, by Antarctica).
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