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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
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p; Indian Army
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)