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8 unusual facts about Indian


Amerind peoples

Use of the term is intended to avoid the confusion inherent in using "Indian", which can also refer to inhabitants of India.

Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

He married secondly at Colombo, Ceylon or Paris, 23 June 1954, Anglo-Indian fashion model Nina Sheila Dyer (1930–1965), an heiress to properties in Ceylon; they had no children and divorced on 4 July 1956, pursuant to the settlement of which she received a château in France.

Bud Houghton

Houghton was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian family who emigrated to England in 1947 when India gained independence from British rule.

Indies

The designation East Indian was once primarily used to describe people of all of the East Indies, but more recently, it has been used widely to refer to an Indian from India, in order to avoid the potential confusion from the term American Indian who were once simply referred to as Indians (see the Native American name controversy for more information).

J. G. Coleman

James George Coleman (1824–1883) was an Anglo-Indian soldier, businessman and philanthropist who served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1879 to 1883.

Juliet Prowse

Juliet Anne Prowse (September 25, 1936 – September 14, 1996) was an Anglo-Indian dancer, whose four-decade career included stage, television and film.

Stuart Clark

Clark is the son of Anglo-Indian parents, his father Bruce Clark who is from Madras (now Chennai) was a student at Christ Church Anglo Indian-High School Madras, and his mother Mary Clark (née Boosey) is from the Kolar Gold Fields, Karnataka, India; her family is a famous sporting family.

William Delafield Arnold

In 1853, William published a novel of Anglo-Indian life, Oakfield; or, Fellowship in the East, which explores the inherent "common ground" between spiritual traditions East and West, while also predicting the "mutiny" that would occur shortly after.


1708 in piracy

Ferry's fleet proceeds up the Essequibo River burning Indian villages along the way before anchoring opposite of Bartica.

Anjum Anand

She has acted as consultant chef to Birds Eye brand to develop a range of healthy Indian ready meals.

Ayurveda in America

Robert Svoboda, a similar figure whose Ayurvedic education has roots in both formal and traditional Indian systems of schooling, also contributed to the promotion of Ayurveda in the late 1990s.

Bappaditya Bandopadhyay

It was the only Indian film other than Devdas selected at the 2003 Helsinki International Film Festival.

Basava Premanand

He was the founder of Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations, the convener of Indian CSICOP and the owner-publisher-editor of the monthly magazine, The Indian Skeptic, which scientifically investigates paranormal occurrences in India.

Cabramatta High School

The school's successful annual Peace Day celebrations continued to deliver warm welcomes to recipients of the Sydney Peace Prize, including Indian social justice and environmental activist, eco-feminist and author Vandana Shiva in 2010, American linguist and activist Noam Chomsky in 2011, as well as Zimbabwean senator Sekai Holland in 2012.

Carrier Air Wing Eleven

The 1972-1973 deployment was high lighted by an air power demonstration for the Shah of Iran and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while deployed to the Indian Ocean.

Charles Crombie

Crombie was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 16 March 1914 to David William Alexander Crombie, a grazing farmer, and his Indian-born British wife Phoebe Janet (née Arbuthnot), the daughter of Lieutenant General Sir Charles Arbuthnot.

Choudary

Chaudhary, a hereditary Indian title, or caste, meaning literally "holder of four".

Click Asia Summit

The speaker lineup comprised various experts in the field of online and social marketing from across the globe, including Dr. Shashi Tharoor (Indian Parliament), Bingham Willis, Lucy McCabe (Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore), Nick Decrock (Yento!, Belgium), Aditya Anupkumar (Saatchi & Saatchi, India), Namrita Sehgal (Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, India), Ramon Vullings (new shoes today, Netherlands), and Ankit Fadia (eSecure Solutions, India).

Cole Museum of Zoology

Specimens include a male Indian circus elephant skeleton, a 5 metre Reticulated Python skeleton containing 400 vertebrae, a fossil of the largest spider to ever have lived, and a False Killer Whale skeleton.

Coming Up for Air

He was the son of an Indian Civil Servant who was still in India, and he lived a genteel life with his mother and two sisters, though spending much of the year at boarding school at Eastbourne and later at Eton.

Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song

"Cora, The Indian Maiden's Song" ("The Wild Free Wind) is a song written by Shirley Brooks for his burletta, The Wigwam, sometime before 1847. Alexander Lee composed the music. In the song, Cora, the Indian maiden, is praising the wind: "Oh!

Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, is a 1969, non-fiction book by the lawyer, professor and writer Vine Deloria, Jr. The book was noteworthy for its relevance to the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement and other activist organizations, such as the American Indian Movement, which was beginning to expand.

David R. Courtney

In 1976 he married the well known Indian vocalist Chandra Courtney.

Derrubone

It was originally isolated from the Indian tree Derris robusta.

Ezekiel Isaac Malekar

Indian Jews also come here for important rituals like Brit milah, Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah for girls.

Frances Swiney

She studied under James Danby, son of Francis Danby, R.A., and specialised in pictures of Indian scenery and life, exhibiting at Simla, Madras, and Birmingham, England.

G. P. Pillai

The formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 led to increased agitation for Indian independence from British rule.

Gauthami Nair

Gauthami Nair is an Indian film actress who started her acting career by starring alongside Dulquar Salman in the Malayalam film Second Show.

Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy

In 1910 he travelled with H. Hesketh Prichard from Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador to Indian House Lake on George River, and contributed a chapter on fishing to Prichard's Through trackless Labrador (1911).

George F. Fitzpatrick

George Fitzpatrick married Phyllis Sinanan, sister of Mitra and Ashford Sinanan, uniting the Fitzpatrick family with another prominent political family of Trinidad (see Ashford Sinanan, Ambassador, Leader of the Opposition, Democratic Labour Party (DLP), West Indies Federation, Founder of the West Indian National Party (WINP) and High Commissioner to India.

Giovanni Lapentti

The only tournament that he participated in and failed to reach the second round during 2005 was the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, where he lost to Kevin Kim.

Hum Pyar Tumhi Se Kar Baithe

Hum Pyar Tumhi Se Kar Baithe is a 2002 Indian Bollywood film directed by Mohan Singh Rathor and produced by Ratan Jain.

Indian Trade

Other products desired by the Europeans produced other components of the Indian Trade, including the deerskin trade in the what is now the east coast of the United States, and the Pemmican and buffalo skin and meat trade on the Great Plains.

Indians in Germany

Tino Sehgal, Berlin-based artist of Indian and British descent

Jamnagar

Cricket is a major sport in Jamnagar, and a number veteran, well-established, and emerging Indian test cricketers originate from Jamnagar; including vinu mankad, Salim Durrani, karsan ghavri, Indrajitsinhji, Ajay Jadeja and Ravindra Jadeja.

Jeneda Benally

Not only has she been a Miss Flagstaff Indian Days Powwow Princess, she is also a national Native American Honor Roll Society member, a spokeswoman for the Navajo Nation Tribal Employee Program, and one of the founders of the Indigenous Youth Network.

Journey Beyond Three Seas

The film tells the story of Afanasy Nikitin (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th-century, Russian trader who travelled to India (1466-1472), and falls in love with an Indian girl Champa (Nargis Dutt).

Kumaramangalam estate

His son, Mohan Kumaramangalam, daughter Parvathi Krishnan and grandson Rangarajan Kumaramangalam have all served as members of the upper house of the Indian Parliament the Lok Sabha.

Kursath

Kursath, Unnao, town in Unnao district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh

Left Right Left

Left Right Left is an Indian television series that aired on SAB TV at 9:30pm IST, from Monday to Thursday, it was directed and produced by Tony Singh and Deeya Singh.

Mendocino Indian Reservation

In the summer of 1857, First Lieutenant Horatio G. Gibson, then serving at the Presidio of San Francisco, was ordered to take Company M, 3rd Regiment of Artillery to establish a military post one and one-half miles north of the Noyo River on the Mendocino Indian Reservation.

Mesopotamian Half Flight

Shortly afterwards, the Indian Army captured the town of Amarah, and the half-flight moved there on 9 June.

Millimeter wave scanner

Claims that images are immediately destroyed were questioned after Indian film star Shahrukh Khan said that his image was circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.

Moon Palace

Due to the fever he mistakes Kitty for an Indian and calls her Pocahontas.

Murder of Kimberly Nees

Nees, a seventeen-year-old graduating senior, was bludgeoned to death while in her pickup near the Poplar River on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

Nadodi Raja

Nadodi raja is a 1982 Indian Tamil film, directed by S.M.Ummar, starring Rajiv and Aruna in lead roles.

Nancy Oestreich Lurie

Between 1954 and 1963, Lurie worked frequently as a researcher and expert witness for tribal petitioners in cases brought before the U. S. Indian Claims Commission, including Lower Kutenai (Ktunaxa), Lower Kalispe l(Kalispel), Quileute, Sac and Fox Nation, Winnebago (aka Ho-Chunk), Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Eastern Potawatomi; after 1963 she appeared as an expert witness in regard to the Wisconsin Chippewa and Menominee in federal courts.

Omkar Goswami

He has held the position of Chief Economist with the Indian business association Confederation of Indian Industry from August 1998 up to March 2004,.

Puducherry Legislative Assembly election, 2011

Several high-profile national politicians took part in the campaigning: Sonia Gandhi (president of the Indian National Congress), Rahul Gandhi (Indian National Congress general secretary), Pranab Mukherjee (Indian National Congress union minister), Nitin Gadkari (BJP president), Sushma Swaraj (BJP MP), Venkaiah Naidu (former BJP president), M. Karunanidhi (DMK chief minister of Tamil Nadu), J. Jayalalithaa (leader of AIADMK) and Vijayakanth (leader of DMDK).

Punjab Rights Forum

Another cause for the formation of the Punjab Rights Forum was in response to the crackdown on members of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), including the party's president, Simranjit Singh Mann and activists of the Dal Khalsa following a "Genocide Remembrance Parade" that had been carried out through the streets of Amritsar on June 5 in remembrance of those Sikh civilians and terrorists that had been slain by the Indian army during Operation Blue Star.

Quick Gun Murugun

Quick Gun Murugun is a 2009 Indian comedy film directed by Shashanka Ghosh and written by Rajesh Devraj.

Quit India Movement

The only outside support came from the Americans, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured Prime Minister Winston Churchill to give in to Indian demands.

Rajeevnath

The film, made with a minuscule budget of Rs. 6 lakh ($12000 as per 2012 conversion rate) was the Indian entry for Alexandria Film Festival.

Siege of Kut

These Indian troops were involved in the capture of the frontier city of Karman and the detention of the British consul there, and they also successfully harassed Sir Percy Sykes' Persian campaign against the Baluchi and Persian tribal chiefs who were aided by the Germans.

St. Labre Indian Catholic High School

Land was purchased by the Bishop, and on March 29, 1884, St. Labre Indian School, named for St. Benedict Joseph Labre, became a reality.

Subramanian Arun Prasad

Subramanian Arun Prasad (born 21 April 1988 in Salem) is an Indian Chess Grandmaster.

Susila Budhi Dharma

Although the author described himself as a conventional Muslim, the book's name chimes with ancient Indian wisdom.

Talat Ahmad

Talat Ahmad was recommended for the position by a search committee headed by former member of Planning Commission, Prof. Abid Hussain, former Indian Ambassador to USA, and comprising Professor G. K. Chadha, CEO, South Asian University and former Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Prof. Seyed E. Hasnain, an eminent Scientist and former Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad.


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2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff

The Pakistan military's information sources, the ISPR's spokesman Major-General Rashid Qureshi, claimed that the Parliament attack was a "drama staged by Indian intelligence agencies to defame the freedom struggle in 'occupied Kashmir'" and further warned that India would pay "heavily if they engage in any misadventure".

B. Venkateshwarlu

In 2005 Venkateshwarlu directed Trivarnam - Every Indian Heartbeat, a patriotic video album in Telugu.

Biju

It is highly likely that Viju is an affectionate version of the name Vijaya, which means Victory in Sanskrit and several Indian languages.

C. H. Sibghatullah

H. Sibghatullah (4 November 1913-14 May 1985) was an Indian politician who served as mayor of Madras from 1951 to 1952.

Deeds

Development Education Society (DEEDS), an Indian non-governmental organization

Djiboutian cuisine

Djiboutian cuisine consists of a mixture of Somali, Afar, Yemeni and French cuisine, with some additional Asian and Indian culinary influences.

Early history of Cambodia

According to legend Cambodia was founded through the marriage of an Indian Brahman named Kaundinya to a Naga princess whose father ruled the sunken lands of Kambuja.

Family medicine

A medical graduate who has successfully completed the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) course and has been registered with Indian Medical Council or any state medical council is considered a general practitioner.

George Scott Robertson

In 1888, he was attached to the Indian Foreign Office and assigned as agency surgeon in Gilgit, in northern Pakistan.

India–Panama relations

Also, cooperation over IT & E-Governance, cyber security and training, and Indian space agency ISRO's proposed TTC station in Panama were discussed.

John Alexander McCreery

Miss Ravenshaw, a member of the prominent and noble Ravenshaw Family of England, was a daughter of Charles Withers Ravenshaw, a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Political Service appointed by Queen Victoria who later served as a governor of the British colony of Nepal from 1902-1905.

Joseph A. Dandurand

Joseph A. Dandurand is a Kwantlen Indian (Xalatsep) from Kwantlen First Nation in British Columbia.

KFLA-LD

KFLA was originally owned by the Indian Wells Valley TV Booster, providing over-the-air reception of KCAL-TV to the Indian Wells Valley.

Lionel de Nicéville

He worked with most 'Indian' entomologists of the day but especially with Henry John Elwes, Taylor, Wood–Mason, Martin and Marshall.

M.V. Subbiah

M.V. Subbiah is an Indian industrialist, patriarch of the Murugappa family, and a former executive chairman of the Murugappa Group, known for his turnaround of EID Parry.

May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss

May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss is the first book of Arnab Ray, the famous Indian blogger.

MKM Educational Trust

MKM Educational Trust ("Trust") is a Non-Profit and Non-Governmental Indian based trust foundation established and founded by Mr MKM Aboobakar.

Nancy Ann Cynthia Francis

She is a non-elected, nominated member who represents the Anglo-Indian community.

National Whistleblowers Center

In 1999, former FBI special agent Jane Turner brought to the attention of her management team serious misconduct concerning failures to investigate and prosecute crimes against children in Indian Country and in the Minot, North Dakota community.

Native News Today

It looks at various events happening throughout Indian Country from an Indian perspective and also endeavors to show some of the good that Native Americans and Indian Tribes are doing throughout their areas.

Pratima Singh

Sister Divya Singh (Currently Coach of U16 Indian Men Basketball Team)

Raasaleela

Raasaleela is a 1975 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by N. Sankaran Nair and produced by Carmel Johny for RJD Films, starring Kamal Hassan and Jayasudha.

Shantha Biotechnics

It is the first Indian company to develop, manufacture and market recombinant human healthcare products in India.

Shye Ben Tzur

In addition to musical ventures with Indian Folk artists, Shye has collaborated with the famous Indian singer Shubha Mudgal, the Spanish guitar maestro Fernando Perez, Yossi Fine, Mishko M’ba, Eli Magen, Zohar Fresco, and many others.

SPTR

Silapathar railway station, in the Indian Railways code system

Suresh Kalmadi

Mr Kalmadi, asf the Indian Olympic Association, signed an agreement to bring the Formula One Grand Prix to India in 2007.

Tahader Katha

Tahader Katha is a 1992 award winning Bengali-language Indian feature film directed by Budhhadeb Dasgupta, starring Mithun Chakraborty, who won the 1993 National Film Awards for Best Actor for the film, while the film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.

Uttara Kuru Kingdom

At some point during the reign of Pururavas-Aila (the first king mentioned in the line of lunar dynasty of Indian kings) Uttara Kuru and the Kurus of India could have belonged to the same Kuru Empire.

Wally Grout

Grout loved billiards, and met champion Indian billiards player Wilson Jones in Kolkata in 1960; the test team cheered Wilson in the World Amateur Billiards Championship, which was being held at the same time as the test.