The Hill States of India were princely states lying in the northern border regions of the British Indian Empire. During the colonial Raj period, two groups...
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Hill stations are high-altitude towns for recreation, enjoyment and used as a place of refuge to escape the blistering heat in India during summertime...
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create new states and union territories in India is solely reserved with the Parliament of India, which can do so by announcing new states/union territories...
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latest available nominal NSDP per capita figures for the States and union territories of India at current prices in Indian rupees. Ranking is based on...
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The hill tribes of Northeast India are hill people, mostly classified as Scheduled Tribes (STs), who live in the Northeast India region. This region has...
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Relations between India and the United States date back to India's independence movement and have continued well after independence from the United Kingdom...
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Rajputs in Himachal Pradesh (category History of Himachal Pradesh)
The kingdoms of the Hill States of India were mostly in the present day state of Himachal Pradesh, and mostly had Rajput rulers. All of the Chief Ministers...
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Hill States, advised by the Deputy Commissioner of Simla district. The agency was created under the direct authority of the Governor General of India...
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Princely state (redirect from Princely states of India)
affairs of the princely states. In the same year, Gandhi played a major role in formation of federation involving a union between British India and the...
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central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories....
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Northeast India. Most of the North Eastern states have more than 60% of their area under forest cover, a minimum suggested coverage for the hill states in the...
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India along with princely states came under the direct rule of the British Crown. The Government of India Act 1858 created the office of Secretary of...
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the Rann of Kutch salt marshes. In the far northeast, the Chin Hills and Kachin Hills, deeply forested mountainous regions, separate India from Burma...
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The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj...
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Gilbert Hill is a 200 ft (61 m) monolith column of black basalt rock at Andheri, in Mumbai, India. The rock has a sheer vertical face and was formed when...
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The Republic of India shares borders with several sovereign countries; it shares land borders with China, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar...
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Kerala (redirect from State of Kerala, India)
Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the...
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The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. The document lays down the framework that demarcates fundamental political code, structure, procedures...
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electoral college comprising both houses of the Parliament of India and the legislative assemblies of each of India's states and territories, who themselves are...
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Odisha (redirect from Orissa, India)
The state also has the third-largest population of Scheduled Tribes in India. It neighbours the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal to the north, Chhattisgarh...
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runs from Rashtrapati Bhavan on Raisina Hill through India Gate. The event is hosted by the President of India with ceremonious parades and cultural events...
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spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian...
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Politics of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution. India is a parliamentary secular democratic republic in which the president of India...
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Bangladesh and India that demarcates the six divisions of Bangladesh and the Indian states. Bangladesh and India share a 4,096-kilometre-long (2,545 mi) international...
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princely states were Cochin (1791), Jaipur (1794), Travancore (1795), Hyderabad (1798), Mysore (1799), Cis-Sutlej Hill States (1815), Central India Agency...
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Meghalaya (redirect from ML (India))
takes care of her parents. The state is the wettest region of India, with the wettest areas in the southern Khasi Hills recording an average of 12,000 mm...
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The economy of India is a developing mixed economy with a notable public sector in strategic sectors. It is the world's fifth-largest economy by nominal...
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Constitution of India provides measures of autonomy and self-governance to the Scheduled Tribes in the hill regions of Northeast India. During the British...
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Rajasthan (redirect from Land of Kings (India))
; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India. It covers 342,239 square kilometres (132,139 sq mi) or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical...
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Manipur (redirect from Jewel of India)
Kangleipak) is a state in northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to...
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