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  Anglo-Persian War

  Ansari caste

  Antilia (Ambani house, Mumbai)

  Antiochus I

  Anuradhapura

  Aparajito (film)

  Apollonius of Tyana

  Apu Trilogy, The (film trilogy)

  Arabian Nights

  Arabic language

  Arabs

  archaeology

  Aristotle

  Arnos Vale Cemetery (Bristol)

  Arthashastra (Treatise on Success) (Kautilya)

  Article 370 (Indian Constitution)

  Art of War (Sun Tzu)

  Aryabhata

  Aryans

  asceticism

  Ashoka

  ashrams

  Ashtadhyayi (Eight Chapters) (Panini)

  Ashvamedha ritual

  Asia

  Asiatic Society of Bengal

  astronomy

  atman (self)

  atma-shakti (self-empowerment)

  Aurangzeb

  Awara (film)

  Ayodhya

  ayurveda (medical system)

  Azad Hind

  Babur

  Badrinath

  Baghdad

  Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-

  Bahubali (Gommata)

  bai (term of respect)

  bait (couplet)

  bakhars (chronicles)

  Bal, Hartosh Singh

  Balasaraswati

  Balasubramaniam, G. N.

  balbaja points (thorns)

  Balthus

  Baluch tribes

  Balwant Singh

  Banaras Hindu University

  Bandra Kurla Complex (Mumbai)

  Bandung Conference (1955)

  Bangalore

  Bangarada Manushya (The Golden Man) (film)

  Bangladesh; see also East Pakistan

  Bania caste

  Bank of Mysore

  banyan trees

  Barani, Ziya al-Din

  Baroda, Maharaja of

  Basava

  Basholi

  Bauls

  Bayly, Christopher

  Bay of Bengal

  Bazardiha (Benares)

  Benares (Varanasi)

  Benegal, Shyam

  Bengal

  Bengal Partition

  Bengal Presidency

  Bengal Renaissance

  Bengal School

  Bengal Supreme Court

  Bentham, Jeremy

  Bergman, Ingmar

  Bergson, Henri

  Beria, Lavrentiy

  Berlin

  Berlin, Isaiah

  Bernier, François

  Besant, Annie

  Between the Spider and the Lamp (Husain)

  Bevan, Aneurin

  Bhadravati Iron and Steel Works

  Bhagavad Gita

  Bhaja Govindam (Shankara)

  bhajans (songs)

  bhakti

  Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

  Bharatanatyam music

  Bharati, Agehananda

  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

  Bharat Mata (Mother India)

  Bhatt, Vishnu

  Bhil tribes

  Bhuleshwar (Mumbai)

  Bible

  Bicycle Thieves (film)

  Bihar

  Bijak

  Bindusara

  Birla, G. D.

  Birla family

  Birsa Munda

  Blake, William

  Blavatsky, Madame Helena

  Bloomfield, Leonard

  Bly, Robert

  Bobby (film)

  bodhi tree

  Boer War

  Bohras

  Bollywood

  Bombay (Mumbai)

  Bombay Art Society

  Bombay Presidency

  Bombay Talkies film studio

  Boot Polish (film)

  Bose, Nandalal

  Bose, Subhas Chandra

  Bose Brigade

  Brahman (universal spirit)

  Brahmins

  Brahmi script

  Brahmo Samaj

  Brancusi, Constantin

  Brando, Marlon

  Braque, Georges

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  Bride’s Toilet (Sher-Gil)

  Brindavan Gardens

  Bristol

  British Commonwealth

  British East India Company

  British India Steam Navigation Co. (BI)

  British Steel

  “Broken Nest, The” (Tagore)

  Bronkhorst, Johannes

  Brueghel, Pieter, the Elder

  “Bu” (“Smell”) (Manto)

  Buddha

  Buddhism

  Buland Darwaza (Gate of Magnificence)

  Burke, Edmund

  Busch, Allison

  Byculla neighborhood (Mumbai)

  Byres, Terence

  cakka (cakra) (great wheel)

  Calcutta

  Calcutta Film Society

  Cambridge University

  Cannanore jail

  capitalism

  Capra, Frank

  Carlyle, Thomas

  Carnatic music

  Carnegie, Andrew

  Carr, G. S.

  Carthage

  “caste pollution”

  Castro, Fidel

  Catholics

  Central Hindu College

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  Cézanne, Paul

  Chalkad

  Chalo Delhi (“Onward to Delhi”)

  Chamberlain, Joseph

  Champakalakshmi, R.

  Chandni Chowk (Delhi)

  Chandpal Ghat (Calcutta)

  Chandra, Vikram

  Chandragupta (Sandracottos)

  Chanyaka, see Kautilya

  Chaplin, Charlie

  Charaka

  Charaka Samhita (Compendium of Charaka)

  Charlemagne

  Charulata (film)

  Chaudhuri, Nirad

  Chaudhuri, Supriya

  Chauhan, Partap

  Chekhov, Anton

  Chengiz Khan

  Chennai; see also Madras

  Chess Players, The (film)

  Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport

  chhatri (memorials)

  Chiang Kai-shek

  child marriage

  China

  Chishti, Sheikh Salim

  Chishti sect

  Chitpavan caste

  Chittorgarh Fort

  Chola dynasty

  Chomsky, Noam

  Chotanagpur

  Chowpatty (Mumbai)

  Christianity

  Civil War, American

  Clarke, Arthur C.

  Clibbens, Patrick

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

  Cochin

  Coimbatore

  Cold War

  Columbia University

  Communism

  Confucius

  Congress party

  Constituent Assembly (1947)

  Contractor, Carla

  Cooperage Football Ground

  Copernicus

  Coromandel Coast

  Côte d’Ivoire

  cotton

  Cripps, Stafford

  Crocodile (frigate)

  Culavamsa

  Cunningham, Alexander

  Curzon, George Nathaniel

  daguerreotypes

  Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, Lord

  Dalits (“untouchables”)

  Dalrymple, William

  Daly, Henry

  Dandi

  Dante

  Dara Shikoh

  dargah (tomb)

  darshan (worship through seeing or being seen by a deity)

  Dass, Ram

  Daulatabad

  Dayal, Deen

  Days and Nights in the Forest (film)

  Deccan Budget (newspaper)

  Deccan region

  de Chirico, Giorgio

  Delhi; see also New Delhi

  Delhi High Court

  De Miche
lis, Elizabeth

  dervishes

  De Sica, Vittorio

  devadasis (temple dancers)

  Devil’s Wind

  Devji, Faisal

  Dewey, John

  dhamma (law)

  dhamma-mahamatas (dhamma superintendents)

  dhammayatas (dhamma tours)

  dharma

  dhulikarman (dust work)

  Dhulipala, Venkat

  Dickens, Charles

  “Didi Tera Devar Diwana” (song)

  Dien Bien Phu, Battle of

  Digambar

  Dikpalakas (Guardians of the Directions)

  Dikus

  Din-i Ilahi (Divine Faith)

  Discovery of India, The (Nehru)

  Disraeli, Benjamin

  Divine Comedy (Dante)

  Dixit, Madhuri

  Doctrine of Lapse

  Dogra community

  Doniger, Wendy

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Progressive Dravidian Federation)

  Dravidians

  Dum Dum Arsenal

  Dundas, Paul

  Dungan, Ellis R.

  Durban

  Durga

  Dutch East India Company

  Dwarka

  Dwyer, Rachel

  Dyer, Reginald

  Easter Uprising (1916)

  East Pakistan; see also Bangladesh

  Eaton, Richard

  Egypt

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  elections, Indian: of 1937; of 1971; of 1977; of 2014

  electricity

  Elephant Promenade (Sher-Gil)

  elephants

  Eliot, T. S.

  Ellora caves

  Elphinstone College

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Empress Mills

  Enfield rifles

  English language

  Enlightenment

  enlightenment, spiritual

  entrepreneurship

  Erode

  Erragudi

  Escher, M. C.

  E.T. (film)

  Euclid

  Euler, Leonhard

  Europe

  Fabianism

  Faizi, Atiya

  Famous Monuments of Central India (monograph)

  Faridabad

  Faruqui, Munis

  fasting

  Fatehpur Sikri

  Fermat’s Last Theorem

  Feroz Shah Kotla

  “First Discourse” (Jones)

  “five Ks” (Sikh religion)

  Flora Fountain

  Flynn, Errol

  folk songs

  Foot, Michael

  Ford, John

  Forest Acts

  France

  Frank, Katherine

  Franklin, Michael

  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke

  Free Indian Legion

  Gaddafi, Muammar

  Gaga Bhatt

  Galbraith, John Kenneth

  Galileo

  Gandharva, Kumar

  Gandhi, Indira

  Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma)

  Gandhi, Rajmohan

  Gandhi, Sanjay

  Gandhi, Sonia

  Gandhinagar

  Gandhy, Feroze

  Ganeri, Jonardon

  Ganesh

  Ganges (Ganga) River

  Gangetic Plains

  Garibaldi, Giuseppe

  Gauguin, Paul

  Gautama, Siddhartha, see Buddha

  Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty (Chandra)

  Geneva Conference (1954)

  George, T.J.S.

  George V, King of England

  Germany

  Ghatak, Ritwik

  ghazals (lyric songs)

  Ghiyaspur

  Ghose, Sri Aurobindo

  Ghulamgiri (Slavery) (Phule)

  Gladstone, William E.

  Glimpses of World History (Nehru)

  Gobind Singh

  God

  gods and goddesses

  Godse, Nathuram

  Goebbels, Joseph

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Gokhale, Gopal Krishna

  Golden Temple

  Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha) (film)

  gopis (female Krishna devotees)

  Goswamy, B. N.

  Gottesmann-Erdobaktay, Marie Antoinette

  Gowda, Chandan

  Grammar of the Persian Language, A (Jones)

  Gramsci, Antonio

  Grand Trunk Road (GTR)

  Grantha script

  Great Kol Rising (1831)

  Greece

  Green, Nile

  Griffin, Lepel

  Guernica (Picasso)

  Guide to Health, A (Gandhi)

  Gujarat

  Guler

  Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)

  Gupta, Shilpa

  Gupta dynasty

  Guru Granth Sahib, (Sikh holy scriptures)

  Guru Nanak (Baba Nanak)

  gurus

  Guruswamy, Menaka

  Gwalior

  habshis (African slaves)

  hagiographies

  hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)

  Haldi Grinders (Sher-Gil)

  Halle, Morris

  Hallisey, Charles

  Hampi; see also Vijayanagara

  Hanif, Mohammed

  Hanuman

  Hardy, G. H.

  Harris, Zellig

  Haryana

  Hasan, Abu’l

  Hasan, Khalid

  Hastings, Barbara Rawdon-Hastings, Marchioness of

  Hastings, Warren

  Hegel, G.W.F.

  Herodotus

  Hess, Linda

  Hesse, Hermann

  Himalayan Mountains

  Hindavi language

  Hindi language

  Hind Swaraj, or Home Rule (Gandhi)

  Hindu, The (newspaper)

  Hinduism; see also specific sects

  Hindu revivalism

  Hindustan

  Hindutva

  Hitler, Adolf

  Ho Chi Minh

  Hodgkin, Howard

  Hoffmann, Father

  Holi festival

  Hollywood

  Homer

  homosexuality

  Hong Kong

  Hooghly River

  hookahs

  Hughes, Ted

  Humayun

  Hungary

  Husain, Maqbool Fida

  Hussein, Saddam

  Huxley, Aldous

  Hyderabad

  Hypatia

  Ibadat Khana (House of Worship)

  iham (“poetic device”)

  ijtihad, Islamic concept of

  Illustrated Weekly of India

  Imitation of Christ (Thomas à Kempis)

  Imperial Institute (London)

  Imperial Japan

  Imperial Legislative Council

  India: agriculture in; architecture of; art of; assassinations in; borders of; boycotts in; British rule in (Raj); bureaucracy of; caste system of (see also specific castes); Chinese military conflict with; Constitution of; corruption in; cuisine of; dance of; democracy in; economy of; education in; elections in; Emergency period of (1977); families in; famine in; film industry of; foreign policy of; foreign trade of; forests of; government of; gross domestic product (GDP) of; Hindu nationalism in; historical analysis of; independence of; individual rights in; industrialization of; land development in; legal system of; literacy in; literature of; map of, x-xi; marriage in; mass media in; military forces of; moral standards in; music of; national anthem of; national flag of; northern; parliament of; Partition of Bengal (1905); Partition of India (1947); political situation in (see also Congress party); poverty in; public health in; religious riots in; scientific progress in; socialism in; southern; technology in; textile industry of; tribal peoples of; viceroys of; water supplies of; wealth distribution in; Western influence in; women in

  India League

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  Indian Census

  Indian Civil Service

  Indian Express (newspaper)

  Indian Home Rule League

  Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

  Indian Institutes of Technology

  Indian Mathematical Society

  Indian National Army

  Indian Penal Code

  Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA)

  Indian Space Research Organization

  Indian Supreme Court

  Indochina

  Indo-European languages

  Indore

  Indus River

  information technology (IT)

  ingabangas (anglicized Bengalis)

  Innis, Harold

  insaaf (fairness)

  inscriptions

  Institutes of Hindu Law: Or the Ordinances of Manu

  International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  Iqbal, Javid

  Iqbal, Muhammad

  Ireland

  Islam; see also Shia Muslims; Sufism (Sufi Islam); Sunni Muslims

  Islamic fundamentalists

  Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

  “Islam in Danger”

  Ismaili Khojas

  Italy

  Jaddanbai

  Jagte Raho (film)

  Jahangir

  Jainism

  Jaipur Literature Festival

  James, Henry

  James, William

  Jamia Masjid (Srinagar)

  Jammu

  Jamshedpur

  Janam Sakhis

  Japan

  japas (mantras)

  Japji

  Jarmusch, Jim

  Jasrota

  Jatakas (morality tales)

  Jat caste

  Javid Nama (Book of Eternity) (Iqbal)

  Jayalalithaa

  Jesus Christ

  Jews

  Jhansi Fort

  Jharkhand

  jihad (holy war)

  Jijabai

  Jinnah, Fatima

  Jinnah, Muhammad Ali

  jiva (life force)

  Jiva Institute

  jizya (property tax on non-Muslims)

  jnana (knowledge of unity of cosmos)

  Joan of Arc

  Jodha Bai

  Johannesburg

  Johns Hopkins University

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Jones, Anna Maria

  Jones, William

  Journal des débats

  Julaha caste

  Junagadh, Dewan of

  Kabir

  Kabir, Nasreen Munni

  Kabir Chaura

  Kabul

  kacchaa (loose breeches; one of the “five Ks”)

  Kadambari (sister-in-law of Rabindranath Tagore)

  Kafka, Franz

  Kali

  Kalidasa

  Kalingas

  Kalpa Sutra

  Kalra, Sonam

  Kalyana

  Kamashoka

  Kanaganahalli

  Kanchi

  Kandahar

  kangha (wooden comb; one of the “five Ks”)

  Kanigel, Robert

  Kanishka

  Kannada

  Kannada language

  Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin)

  kapha (phlegm)

  Kapoor, Kareena

  Kapoor, Karishma

  Kapoor, Prithviraj

  Kapoor, Raj

  Kapoor, Ranbir

  Kapoor, Rishi

  Kapur, Geeta

  kara (metal bracelet; one of the “five Ks”)

  Karachi

  karamat (extraordinary powers)

  Karjat

  karma

  Karnad, Girish

  Karnataka

  Kartarpur

  Kashi (Benares)

 
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