India is a fascinating country where people of many different communities and religions live together in unity. Indian Population is polygenetic and is an amazing amalgamation of various races and cultures. It is impossible to find out the exact origin of Indian People. The species known as Ramapithecus was found in the Siwalik foothills of north western Himalayas. The species believed to be the first in the line of hominids (Human Family) lived some 14 million years ago. Researchers have found
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NEW DELHI: Not many in India today would remember Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) certainly wouldn’t want to remember the group of stone pelting farmers who forced the fast food chain to temporarily down its shutters in India in mid 1990s. In fact‚ the company now doesn’t want the consumers to remember it as Kentucky Fried Chicken. Just KFC would do nicely. Thank you very much. More than a decade after they set foot in India‚ all the major MNC fast food chains such
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Indian Tribes India is the home to large number of indigenous people‚ who are still untouched by the lifestyle of the modern world. With more than 84.4 million‚ India has the largest population of the tribal people in the world. These tribal people also known as the adivasi’s are the poorest in the country‚ who are still dependent on haunting ‚ agriculture and fishing. Some of the major tribal groups in India include Gonds‚ Santhals‚ Khasis‚ Angamis‚ Bhils‚ Bhutias and Great Andamanese. All these
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POVERTY ALLEVIATION It is only in the twentieth century that poverty and the poor have come to be matters of our concern and obligation. After a long neglect of the poor during the British Rule‚ the measures adopted after Independence signify the recognition of poverty and the social responsibility for alleviating and reducing it. How did this happen? What have we done? How far have we succeeded? Before attempting to answer these question‚ let us first take up the question of the concept of
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India is and will always be an enchanting land. This is because like every other country‚ India also has a special and unique aspect for its greatness. Home to the Indus Valley Civilization‚ this magnificent country has rightly showed that minds of the people living here were scientifically a lot developed from the very beginning. To begin with‚ the land of India‚ words are less to describe the marvel of nature’s blessing in this country India has virtually every kind of landscape possible. Naming
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The Walum Olum and Navajo Origin Analysis The Walum Olum and the Navajo Origin are two stories about the creation of the earth in Native American culture. Both myths are similar in nature‚ they could almost be two versions of the same story. The Walum Olum starts out with hust the Earth with no water‚ no life‚ absolutly nothing. Then‚ this god named Manito comes along‚ and he made the land‚ sky‚ water‚ sun‚ moon‚ stars‚ and just about everything else‚ including the first man and woman.
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The Native American Origin Legends Native American myths all come from different tribes and many different religions‚ they have made up over the years. Their stories are mostly about how the world came to be and why creatures don’t all look the same. “When Grizzlies Walked Upright”‚ “The Earth on Turtle’s Back”‚ and “The Navajo Origin Legend”‚ are all Native American stories have different perspectives on how the world came to be. The stories told by the Natives were based on what their beliefs
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Origin of Eukaryotes * The origin of eukaryotes is important to understand the origin of modern complex cells. There are three main separate theories that hypothesize the origins: the three-domain system‚ eocyte theory‚ and endosymbiosis. Each one have there own merits and evidence supporting. These theories suggest the evolution of cells from the most primitive prokaryotes‚ unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei‚ to the most complex eukaryotes‚ single or multicellular
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Over the past few centuries scientists have been trying to answer the question: what was the origin of life? There have been a number of scientists who have produces a number of plausible theories. The currently most excepted theory is Oparin’s theory‚ which states that the "origin of life on Earth was in nonliving chemical substances which spontaneously formed in Earth’s early atmosphere and combined to make more complex chemicals until living cells were formed. " This maybe a possibility because
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One-pager assignment: Origin stories of “maize” After reading the Cherokee origin story of how corn or “maize” came to be‚ you will see that you see a much more interesting perspective on its creation rather than the claims that archeologists have came up with to determine maize’s origin. According to archaeologists‚ maize was developed and cultivated in what would be present day Mexico around 6000 BC. Scientists do not know exactly how maize was first developed‚ but they know that maize gradually
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