Kashi Vishwanath Temple (Benares)
Kashmir
Kashmiriyat
Kashmir Valley
Katesar
Katkari people
Kautilya (Chanakya, Vishnugupta)
Kaveri River
Kayasth caste
Keats, John
Kenyatta, Jomo
Kerala; see also Travancore
kesh (long hair; one of the “five Ks”)
Khajuraho
Khalistan
Khalsa
Khan, Yahya
Khandalavala, Karl
Khanna, Krishen
Khatri caste
Kher, Bharti
Khilafat movement
“Khol Do” (“Open It!”) (Manto)
Khrushchev, Nikita
Khusrau, Amir
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kiparsky, Paul
Kipling, Rudyard
kirat karni (working with your hands; Sikh tenet)
kirpan (curved dagger; one of the “five Ks”)
Kissinger, Henry
Kolhapur
Kolkata, see Calcutta
Kols
Komalatammal
Konarak
Korean War
Kottayam district
Krishna
Krishna, T. M.
Krishnadevaraya
Krishnamurti, Jiddu
Krishnaraja Sagar Dam
Krishna River
Kshatriya caste
Kudalasangama
Kulin caste
Kumbakonam
Kumhar (Potters) (Husain)
Kunbi caste
Kundagrama
Kurosawa, Akira
Kush (Kushan)
Kusumapura
Lahore
Laine, James
Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi
Lane, Allen
langar (Sikh communal kitchen)
language
Larkin, Philip
Laski, Harold
Latin language
Laughton, Charles
Laval, Pierre
Laws of Manu
Lenin, V. I.
Letters to Uncle Sam (Manto)
“Licence Raj”
lingams
Lingayats
lions
List, Friedrich
Lodhi dynasty
London
London School of Economics
Loney, S. L.
Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce)
Louis Philippe, King of the French
Lucknow
Lucknow Pact (1916)
Luftwaffe
Lukács, György
Luther, Martin
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
Macdonald, Dwight
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Mackay, James Lyle
Madras; see also Chennai
Madras University
Madurai
Magadha region
Magahar
Mahabharata
Maharaja of Travancore
maharajas
Maharashtra
Mahavira (Vardhaman)
Mahdi (Islamic redeemer)
“Maid of Delhi,’
Majma‘al-bahrayn (The Meeting-place of the Two Oceans) (Dara)
Malabar
Mali caste
Malik Ambar
Malik Jiwan
Malle, Louis
Man (Husain)
Manchester Guardian (newspaper)
Mandalay
Mandana Misra
Mandela, Nelson
Mandodari
Manto, Saadat Hasan
mantras
Manu
Manucaritramu (Peddana)
Manusmriti, see Laws of Manu
Mao Zedong
Maratha Confederacy
Maratha Nayak kings
Martyrs’ Day (July 13, 1931)
Marxism
Masjid Bunder neighborhood (Bombay)
Masnavi (Rumi)
Mathai, M. O.
mathematics
Mathura
Matisse, Henri
Mattancherry Palace (Cochin)
Maupassant, Guy de
Mauryan Empire
Mauryan Royal Highway
maya (illusory reality)
Mayo, Katherine
McDonald, Hamish
McLuhan, Marshall
McTaggart, J.M.E.
Mecca
medicine
Medina
meditation
Meenakshi (temple, Madurai)
Meera (film)
Meerut
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna
Mehta, Pratap Bhanu
Meiji Restoration
Menon, Shivshankar
Menon, V. K. Krishna
Mexico
Michell, George
“middle way”
Midnight’s Children (Rushdie)
Mill, John Stuart
Miłosz, Czesław
Milton, John
miniature paintings
Minkowski, Christopher
Minto, Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Earl of
Mirabai (Mira)
missionaries
Mitra, Subrata
Modern Review (journal)
Modi, Narendra
monarchy
Mongols
monism
monks
monotheism
Monserrate, Antonio
Mookerjee, Shyama Prasad
Moore, G. E.
mosques
Mother India (Mayo)
Mother Teresa
Mountbatten, Lady Edwina
Mountbatten, Lord Louis
Mozambique
Muddenahalli
Mudrarakshasa (“The Ring of Power”) (Vishakhadatta)
Muggeridge, Malcolm
Mughal Empire
Muharram processions
Mukta, Parita
mullahs
Mul Mantra
Multan
Mumbai, see Bombay
Mumbai terrorist attacks (2008)
“Munda Raj”
Muslim Conference
Muslim League
Mussolini, Benito
mutth (Hindu monastery)
Myanmar
Mysore
Mysore Government Oriental Library
naam japna (meditation on the names of the Supreme Being; Sikh tenet)
Nadars
Nagapattinam
Nagpur
Naidu, Sarojini
Nainsukh
Naipaul, V. S.
Nalanda
Namagiri
Nambudiri
Naoroji, Dadabhai
Nara, Japan
Nargis
Nasik
Nataraja
Natarajan, Vidya
Navsari
Nazism
negus (ruler of Abyssinia)
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Nehru, Kamala
Nehru, Motilal
Nepal
New Age movement
New Delhi; see also Delhi
New Testament
Newton, Isaac
New York Times
Nicholson, R. A.
Niebuhr, Reinhold
nirankar (“without form”)
nirguna Brahman (“a god without qualities”) (Shankara)
Nixon, Richard M.
Nizam al-Din Auliya
Nizam of Hyderabad
Nobel Prize
noncooperation (civil disobedience)
nonviolence (satyagraha, or passive resistance)
Northbrook, Thomas Baring, Lord
North-West Frontier Province
nuclear weapons
nuns; Buddhist; Jain; spies masquerading as
Obama, Michelle
Official Secrets Act (1923)
Olcott, Henry Steel
Old Testament
Olivelle, Patrick
Omvedt, Gail
> “On Certain Arithmetical Functions” (Ramanujan)
Ono, Ken
opium
Orientalism
Oriental Research Institute
Orissa (Odisha)
Orwell, George
“Other Backward Classes”
Ottoman Empire
Oxford University
padas (metrical beats)
Pahari School of painting
Paine, Thomas
painting
Pakistan; see also West Pakistan
Pal, Bipin Chandra
Pali language
Pandharpur
pandits (Brahmin scholars)
Paneli
Panguraria
Panini
Pant, Gobind Ballabh
Paramahamsa, Ramakrishna
Parkes, Fanny
Parliament House (New Delhi)
Parliament of the World’s Religions (1893)
Parsis; see also Zoroastrians
Pashtuns
Pataliputra (Palibothra)
Patanjali
Patel, Aakar
Pathans
Pather Panchali (film)
Patna
Pawar, Sita
Peddana, Allasani
Peer, Basharat
Penguin Books
Periya Kovil (Big Temple)
Periyar, Thanthai
Persia
Persian language
Peshawar
peshwa (chief minister)
photography
Phule, Jyotirao
pi (π)
Picasso, Pablo
Pickwick Papers, The (Dickens)
Pijaji
Pillai, V. O. Chidambaram
pitta (bile)
“pizza-effect”
Plato
Plofker, Kim
poetry
Pollock, Sheldon
polytheism
Pope, Alexander
portrait painting
Portugal
Pound, Ezra
prajaa (subjects or children)
prakriti (constitutional type)
Prakrit language
Prasad, Rajendra
Presidency College (Calcutta)
Presidency Jail (Calcutta)
priests
Prince, The (Machiavelli)
Prinsep, James
Progressive Artists’ Group
Progressive Writers’ Association
prostitution
Protestants
Ptolemy
Public Works Division, British
puja (worship of images)
Pune (Poona)
Punjab
Puranic tradition
Puri
Pushkin, Alexander
Pythagoras
Qawwal, Fareed Ayaz
qawwalis (popular songs)
Qin dynasty
quam (Sikh “nation”)
Qubbat al-Islam (Dome of Islam)
Quit India movement
Qur’an
Ragamala paintings
Raghavan, Srinath
Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur
Rai, Lala Lajpat
Raigad Fort
Rajagopalachari, C.
Rajaraja Chola
Rajarajeshwara
Raja Ravi Varma School of painting
Rajasthan
Raja Yoga (Vivekananda)
Rajkumar
Rajputs
Rama
Ramakrishna Mission
Ramanathapuram
Ramanujan, A. K.
Ramanujan, Janaki
Ramanujan, Srinivasa
Ramaswamy Naicker, E. V.
Ramayana
Ramlila performances
Ramlochan
Ram Teri Ganga Maili (film)
Ranade, Mahadev Govind
Ranchi
“Rang Barse (song)”
Rangoon
Rani of Jhansi Regiment
Rao, Damodar
Rao, Gangadhar
Rao, U. R.
Ratanpurwa
Ravana
Ravidas (Raidas)
Ray, Satyajit
Raza, S. H.
Red Fort (Delhi)
Reliance Group
Rembrandt
Renaissance
Renoir, Jean
Republican Party
Richards, Viv
Rights of Man (Paine)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
Risley, Herbert
River, The (film)
R.K. Films
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Andrew
Robinson, James Harvey
Rock Edict IV
Rock Edict XII
Rockefeller, John D.
Roman Empire
Rose, Hugh
Rothschild, Emma
Roy, Arundhati
Roy, Ramakanta
Roy, Rammohun
Roy, Tarini Devi
Royal Society
Roychand, Premchand
Rumi, Jalal al-Din
Rushdie, Salman
Russell, Bertrand
Russia/USSR
Russian Revolution (1917)
Sabarmati River
Sadasivam, Kalki
sadhus
“Sahai” (Manto)
Said, Edward
saints
Salatura
Salt Satyagraha (1930)
Samrajya Sena
Sanatan Dharma
sangha (Buddhist monks)
Sannati
sannyas (renunciation of the world)
Sanskrit language
Santal tribes
sants (saints)
Sarabhai, Ambalal
Saraswati
Saraya, United Provinces
Sardhana
saris
Sarna, Navtej
sati (widow immolation)
satya (truth)
satyagraha (passive resistance)
Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth-Seeking Society)
Saussure, Ferdinand de
Savarkar, V. D.
Savitribai (wife of Jyotirao Phule)
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Schmidt, Eric
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Scorsese, Martin
sculpture
Sellers, Peter
Sen, Amartya
Sen, Mrinal
sepoys
Seth, Vikram
Seventh Pillar Edict
Shah, Alpa
Shahaji Bhonsle
shahi majlis (“royal gatherings”)
Shah Jahan
Shailendra
Shaiva Sabhas (Shaivites)
Shakespeare, William
Shakuntala (Kalidasa)
Shamashastry, Rudrapatnam
Shankaracharya, see Adi Shankara
Shankara-Vijayas (Conquests of Shankara)
Shantiniketan
sharia (Islamic law)
Sharma, Ashok Deendayal
Sharma, Mihir
Shastri, Lal Bahadur
Shaw, George Bernard
Sher-Gil, Amrita
Sheth, D. L.
Shetkaryacha Asud (The Cultivator’s Whipcord) (Phule)
Shia Muslims
shipping industry
Shiva
Shivaji
Shivaji’s Army
Shiv Sena
Shotwell, James T.
Shourie, Arun
Shramanas (early religious philosophers)
Shree 420 (film)
Shudra caste
Shulman, David
Sialkot
siddha (medical tradition)
siddhas (sages)
Sikandar Bagh, Battle of
Sikhism (Sikhs)
Sikkim
Simla
Simon, Lucien
Sinclair, Upton
Sindh desert
Sing Bonga
Singh, Baldev
Singh, Charan
Singh, Harleen
/> Singh, Manmohan
Singh, Umrao
Sirr-i Akhbar (The Greatest Mystery) (Dara)
Sisodia clan
Sivam, Subramania
Siyah Hashiye (Black Margins) (Manto)
slavery
Snow, Dash
Socrates
South Africa
Southerner, The (film)
Southern India Railway
South Indian Villagers Going to Market (Sher-Gil)
South India Trilogy (Sher-Gil)
Souza, Francis Newton
Soviet Union, see Russia/USSR
Spain
Speaking of Siva (tr. A. K. Ramanujan)
Spielberg, Steven
Sri Lanka
Srinagar
Sringeri
Srivijaya
sruti (“what is heard”: texts received through priest or pandit)
Staal, Frits
Stalin, Joseph
Stay Woke
steel industry
Stepun, Fedor
Stevens, Wallace
Stevenson, Adlai
stupas
Subbulakshmi, M. S. (“MS”)
Subbulakshmi, Shanmugavadivu
Suez Canal
Sufism (Sufi Islam)
Suitable Boy, A (Seth)
Suleimanis
sultans
Sumeru Mountain
Sunni Muslims
Sun Tzu
Supreme Court, U.S.
Surat
Sur dynasty
Survey of India
Susima
sutras
svami-dharma (service to the overlord)
Swadeshi movement
Swadeshi Steam Navigation Co.
swaraj (self-rule)
Swift, Jonathan
Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, A (Carr)
Tagore, Abanindranath
Tagore, Dwarkanath
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tagore, Sharmila
Taj Mahal
Taledanda (Karnad)
“Tamasha” (Manto)
Tamil language
Tamil Nadu
Tamils
Tamnath
Tanjore (Thanjavur)
Ta’rikh-i-alfi (Millennial History)
tariqa (Sufi paths toward unity with God)
Taseer, Aatish
Tata, Dorabji
Tata, Jamsetji Nusserwanji
Tata, J.R.D.
Tata, Nusserwanji
taxation
Taxila
Telugu language
temples
“Ten Rupees” (Manto)
terrorism
Tertullian
Tetrabiblos (Ptolemy)
Thackeray, Bal
Thatcher, Margaret
Theosophy
Thomas à Kempis
Through a Glass Darkly (film)
tigers
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar
Time magazine
Times (London)
Times of India
Timur (Tamerlane)
tirthankaras (“ford makers”)
Tirunelveli district (Tamil Nadu)
Tlaxcalans
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Togo, Shigenori
Tokyo
Tolstoy, Leo
torture
Travancore; see also Kerala
Tree of Enlightenment, see bodhi tree
Trotsky, Leon
Truffaut, François
Tsushima, Battle of
Tughlaqabad
Tulsidas
Turkey
Tuticorin
Ujjain
Ulgulan (Great Tumult) (1899)
unani (medical tradition)
Unitarianism
United Nations
United Nations Human Development Index (2014)
United Nations Security Council
United States of America