Background India - situated North of the equator - covers on area of 3.28 million square kilometers. - population is 970 million. - 7th largest country in the world in land area. 4 Main Regions 1. Himalayan Mountain Wall 2. Near-level Indo-Gangetic Plain 3. Dessert Region 4. Southern Peninsula Large Plateaus & Valleys 1. Kashmir 2. Kulu Himalayas - comprises three almost parallel ranges interspersed with large plateaus & valleys. Aryan Race - fair-skinned, Sanskrit-speaking
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Lecture 6 DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR Verbal Parts Outline: I. Indo-European verb-system II.. OE Verb: 1) grammatical categories: a) Person & Number; b) Mood; c) Tense; d) Aspect; e) Voice; 2) morphological classification of OE Verbs: a) strong verbs; b) weak verbs; c) preterite-present; d) irregular; III. Verb in Middle and Early New English: 1) strong verbs 2) weak verbs 3) other classes 4) development of analytical
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According to the United Nations, the phrase genocide refers to “a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups, aiming at complete extermination of such groups.” This is the perfect expression to describe what happened to the Romani during WWII. Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s was not the place to be if you didn’t have blue eyes and blonde hair. Everyone knows what the Holocaust is, why it happened and who was victimized, but many people are unaware of the other groups that
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Tamadun India dianggap sebagai tamadun tertua di dunia. Manakah penyataan yang tidak benar mengenai tamadun ini? | A. | Orang Dravida mendiami bahagian Utara dan berbahasa Sanskrit. | | B. | Orang Indo Arya mengamalkan Sistem Jati dan Trivarna | | C. | Terbahagi kepada India Utara dan India Selatan | | D. | Terbahagi kepada dua kumpulan iaitu Indo Arya dan Dravida. | "Mengutamakan pemikiran sosio politik dan kekuasaan pihak pemerintah terhadap rakyatnya". Penyataan di atasa merujuk kepada salah satu falsafah dalam Tamadun China
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official language. Indo-European language and people English is classified genetically as a Low West Germanic language of the Indo-European family of languages. The early history of the Germanic languages is based on reconstruction of a Proto-Germanic language that evolved into German, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, and the Scandinavian languages. In 1786, Sir William Jones discovered that Sanskrit contained many cognates to Greek and Latin. He conjectured a Proto-Indo-European language had
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Orientalism and India Introduction ”Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” (Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West) In his much quoted verse above Rudyard Kipling revealed something of the nucleus of the long-lived tradition of Orientalist thought. According to J. J. Clarke, the ambivalence of the West [1] towards the East is age-old. The ”rich cultures,” ”superior civilizations” and ”ancient wisdom” of the Orient have inspired many Westerners, but on
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According to the statistical data, 68% of the Mauritians are Indian origins called as ‘Indo – Mauritians’. The another interesting fact which still more strengthens the Indian origin prevalence in the country is by noticing the chronological tenure of presidents and prime ministers of Mauritius which reveals that all presidents except Karl Offmann and all prime ministers except Paul Berenger are from the community Indo – Mauritians. Indian influence is felt still in Mauritius. The diplomatic relations
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Maker of The Rig-Vedic Society uklrks fo|rs Hkkoks ukHkkoks fo|rs lr%A mHk;ksjfi n`"Vks•UrLRou;ksLrŸonf’kZfHk%AA Jhen~Hkxon~xhrk@ v0&2@16 The Rig-Vedic society is a wonderful gift of Nature to the human race in the land of the five rivers. The earth is the motherland of human society but the surface of the mother earth astro-geographically is not the same everywhere. A part of it is astro-geographically blessed with six eco-friendly seasons in a year; its other parts
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Table of Contents Section A – Ancient India Timeline of History The Importance of the Gupta Dynasty The Importance of the Mughal Dynasty The Taj Mahal and its Importance The Importance of the Ganges River The Caste System Section B – Contributions from India to Trinidad and Tobago Why did the Indians come to Trinidad How did they come to Trinidad The Legacies they left behind Timeline of History 400 BC Gautama 'Buddha' founds Buddhism 333 BC Persian rule in the northwest
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