of the Indian subcontinent‚ consisting mainly of what is now Pakistan‚ and parts of India‚ Afghanistan and Iran. Flourishing around the Indus River basin‚ the civilization extended east into the Ghaggar-Hakra River valley and the upper reaches of Ganges-Yamuna Doab; it extended west to the Makran coast of Balochistan‚ north to northeastern Afghanistan and south to Daimabad in Maharashtra. The civilization was spread over some 1‚260‚000 km²‚ making it the largest known ancient civilization.The Indus
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When Alexander III tried to invade the Indian subcontinent‚ he faced tough opponents who eventually discouraged rest of the Macedonian army to abandon the campaign into the India subcontinent. By the time Alexander III reached the Indian subcontinent‚ he had conquered‚ rest of East Asia and north Egypt. Before straight out war‚ Alexander the Great formed alliances with King Ambhi Kumar who was the ruler of Taxila. Taxila provided Alexander with army and resources to subdue the rest of the tribes
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House of Snow in Sanskrit. They go east to west for 1‚500 miles making three mountain ranges between India and Tibet. They are the highest and youngest mountains in the world. The Indo-Gangetic Plain is a flat area of land. The Plain is where the Ganges River runs through. It covers 300‚000 square miles of northern India. It has some of the most fertile soil in the country of India. The Thar Desert is a sandy region that covers 100‚394 square miles of land. It only receives ten inches of rain
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Panipat textile exporters cheer cotton price slump Asit Manohar‚ ET Bureau Jan 25‚ 2013‚ 03.31PM IST PANIPAT: The slump in cotton price from Rs 4‚800 per quintal last season to around Rs 4‚000 this season has become a blessing in disguise for Panipat-based home textile exporters. It is helping them to contain their input cost by around 5 to 6 per cent. Home-grown textile companies have increased their trade volumes and are passing this margin to consumers in Latin America‚ Middle East and African
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List of Indian Prime Ministers (1947-2009) 1 | Jawahar Lal Nehru | 15-Aug-1947 | 27-May-1964 | 14-Nov-1889 | 27-May-1964 | Indian NationalCongress | 2 | Gulzarilal Nanda | 27-May-1964 | 9 June 1964 * | 4 July 1898 | 15-Jan-1998 | Indian NationalCongress | 3 | Lal Bahadur Shastri | 09-Jun-1964 | 11-Jan-1966 | 02-Oct-1904 | 11-Jan-1966 | Indian NationalCongress | 4 | Gulzarilal Nanda | 11-Jan-1966 | 24 January 1966 * | 4-July-1898 | 15-Jan-1998 | Indian NationalCongress | 5 | Indira Gandhi
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your post-MBA professional goals‚ beginning with the MBA specialization you plan to pursue. How did you decide on this career path‚ and why do you feel these goals are realistic for you? ------------------------ A lonely child stands in the Ganges River washing his clothes pondering his life. An elderly fisherman floats on a tiny handmade boat in the Amazon wondering if he will catch food for his family to eat that night. An underdog football player‚ who after trying for years‚ finally gets
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ziggurat (temple). | By 3200 BCE Sumerians invented cuneiform‚ a true writing system. They marked clay tablets with a stylus (sharp pointed tool). | India | India is so large that is often called a subcontinent. India’s main rivers are the Hindus and Ganges. In the southern India is the Deccan plateau. It is extremely hot and dry. | India’s religion is monotheistic they believe in one god‚ Brahman. Other gods are just different forms of the one god. | The Government of India is a federal parliamentary
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International Indexed & Refferred Research Journal‚ August 2012‚ ISSN 0975-3486‚ RNI-RAJBAL 2009/30097:VoL III*ISSUE-35 Research Paper-English ’India Re-located’ in Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger * Prakash Bhadury August‚ 2012 * 232‚ Panchwati Enclave‚ Meerut. A B S T R A C T The White Tiger (2008) explores the protagonist Munna’s journey between an ’India of Light’ and an ’India of Darkness’ while the country is rising as a modern global economy. Narrated through epistolary form
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ring while they were together‚ but as she looked down to give it to him she realized it had slipped off her finger‚ probably while she was in the Ganges River. Shakuntala was then taken away by an invisible nymph up into the sky. Later on‚ a fisherman (who was taken prisoner for thievery) returned to the king the ring he had found and stolen from the Ganges. The king suddenly remembered
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| | 1. | | | | | Flood Action Plan (FAP) an initiative to study the causes and nature of flood in Bangladesh and to prepare guidelines for controlling it. FAP was based on several earlier studies by UNDP‚ a French Engineering consortium‚ USAID and JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). The FAP included 29 different components of which 11 were regional‚ with some pilot projects‚ and the rest were supporting studies on issues like Environment‚ Fisheries‚ Geographic Information
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