Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India. Informally, the territory's name is often abbreviated to A & N Islands, or ANI. It is located in the Indian Ocean, in the southern reaches of the Bay of Bengal. It is comprised of two island groups -the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands - which separate the Andaman Sea to the east from the Indian Ocean. These two groups are separated by the 10° N parallel, the Andamans lying to the north of this latitude, and the Nicobars to the south. T ...

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• Andaman and Nicobar Islands - History
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Name origins
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands - First inhabitants
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands - pre-Colonial era
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands - British colonial period
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Indian control
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Recent history
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Geography
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Administration

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Name origins. The name Andaman presumably comes from Handuman, which is Malay for the Hindu god Hanuman. The name Nicobar is Malay for land of the naked (people). Andaman and Nicobar Islands - First inhabitants. The Andaman and Nicobar islands have been inhabited for several thousand years, at the very least. The earliest archaeological evidence yet documented goes back some 2,200 years; however, the indications from genetic, cultural and linguistic isolation studies point to habitation going back 30 ...

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands - History, Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Name origins, Andaman and Nicobar Islands - First inhabitants, Andaman and Nicobar Islands - pre-Colonial era, Andaman and Nicobar Islands - British colonial period, Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Indian control, Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Recent history, Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Geography, Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Administration

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The Andaman Sea is a body of water to the southeast of the Bay of Bengal, south of Myanmar and west of Thailand; it is part of the Indian Ocean. It is roughly 1200 kilometers long (north-south) and 650 kilometers wide (east-west), with an area of 797,700 km². Its average depth is 870 meters, and the maximum depth is 3,777 meters. At its southeastern reaches, the Andaman Sea narrows to form the Straits of Malacca, which separa ...

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• Andaman Sea - Ocean floor tectonics
• Andaman Sea - Volcanic activity

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Running in a rough north-south line on the seabed of the Andaman Sea is the boundary between two tectonic plates, the Burma plate and the Sunda Plate. These plates (or microplates) are believed to have formerly been part of the larger Eurasian Plate, but were formed when transform fault activity intensified as the Indian Plate began its substantive collision with the Eurasian continent. As a result, a seafloor spreading centre was created, which began to form the marginal basin which would become the Andaman Sea, the current stages of whic ...

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Andaman Sea, Andaman Sea - Ocean floor tectonics, Andaman Sea - Volcanic activity

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The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India. It was established on July 2, 1862 under the High Courts Act, 1861. It has jurisdiction over the state of West Bengal and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The court is headquartered in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), capital of West Bengal. It also has a circuit bench in Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The court has a sanctioned judge strength of 63. Despite the name of the city having officially changed from Calcutta to Kolkata in 2001, the ...

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The British Raj (also simply known as the Raj) was a historical period during which most of the Indian subcontinent, or present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Bhutan, were under the colonial authority of the British (Undivided India). Since the independence of these countries their pre-independent existence has been loosely termed British India, although prior to Independence that term referred only to those portions of the subcontinent under direct rule by the British administration in New Delhi and previou ...

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• British Raj - History
• British Raj - The Indian Mutiny or Great Uprising
• British Raj - Post-rebellion developments
• British Raj - Beginnings of self-government
• British Raj - After World War I
• British Raj - Further reform
• British Raj - World War II and the End of the Raj
• British Raj - Provinces

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The Bay of Bengal is a bay that forms the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. It resembles a triangle in shape, and is bordered on the east by the Malay Peninsula, and on the west by the India. On the northern tip of the "bay" lie the Indian state of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh, thus the name. The southern extremes reach the island country of Sri Lanka, and the Indian Union Territory Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Many major rivers of India flow west to east into the Bay of Bengal: in the north, the Ganges River ...

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The climate of India is difficult to generalize due to the country's large geographic size and varied topography. Many regions have their own microclimates (e.g. in mountain tops), and the mean climatic conditions in Kashmir (extreme north) are very different from those in the extreme south. India's climate is strongly influenced by The Himalaya and the Thar Desert. The Himalaya ensure, by acting as a barrier to the cold north winds from Central Asia, that northern India is warm or mildly cool during winter and hot during summe ...

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• Climate of India - Summer
• Climate of India - Monsoons
• Climate of India - Southwest Monsoons
• Climate of India - Northeast Monsoons
• Climate of India - Winter
• Climate of India - Withdrawal of Monsoons
• Climate of India - Autumn and Spring
• Climate of India - Records
• Climate of India - Reference

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Arzi Hukumate Azad Hind (Urdu: عرضِ حکومتِ آزاد ھند, meant the Provisional Government of Free India), a state set up by Indian nationalists in areas of British India occupied by Imperial Japan during the Second World War. It was established by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on October 21, 1943 in Singapore, having all the requisites of a Government. It had the backing of the Indian National Army. The ...

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• Arzi Hukumate Azad Hind - Recognition
• Arzi Hukumate Azad Hind - Ministers
• Arzi Hukumate Azad Hind - Indian areas under its administration
• Arzi Hukumate Azad Hind - External link

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Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, "Land of the Tamils") is a state at the southern tip of India. The bordering states/territories are Pondicherry, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The island nation of Sri Lanka, which has a significant Tamil minority, lies off the southeast coast. Tamil Nadu is the second most industrialized state in India. Unlike most other parts of the country, Tamil Nadu gets its rainfall largely from the "North-East monsoon" in the months of October-December. There is a long standing dispute wi ...

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• Tamil Nadu - History
• Tamil Nadu - 1st to 9th centuries
• Tamil Nadu - 9th to 13th centuries
• Tamil Nadu - 14th century
• Tamil Nadu - 17th century
• Tamil Nadu - 20th century
• Tamil Nadu - Politics
• Tamil Nadu - Population
• Tamil Nadu - Culture
• Tamil Nadu - Economy
• Tamil Nadu - Textiles
• Tamil Nadu - Industry & Manufacturing
• Tamil Nadu - Agriculture
• Tamil Nadu - Biotechnology
• Tamil Nadu - Software
• Tamil Nadu - E-Governance
• Tamil Nadu - Social development
• Tamil Nadu - Districts
• Tamil Nadu - Tourism
• Tamil Nadu - Famous Tamilians of Modern era

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A Union Territory is an administrative division of India. Unlike states, which have their own local governments, union territories are ruled directly by the national government. As of 2005, there are six union territories. Previously a union territory, Delhi was made the National Capital Territory in 1991 and is on the verge of being granted statehood. Andaman and Nicobar Islands Chandigarh Dadra and Nagar Haveli Daman and Diu Lakshadweep Pondicherry

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The geography of India is extremely diverse, with landscape ranging from snow-capped mountain ranges to deserts, plains, hills and plateaus. Climate ranges from equatorial in the far south, to tundra in the Himalayan altitudes. India comprises most of the Indian subcontinent and has a long coastline of over 7,000 km (4,300 miles), most of which lies on a peninsula that protrudes into the Indian Ocean. India is bounded in the west ...

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• Geography of India - Location and extent
• Geography of India - Political geography
• Geography of India - Geographical regions
• Geography of India - Mountains
• Geography of India - Indo-Gangetic plain
• Geography of India - Thar Desert
• Geography of India - Highlands
• Geography of India - East coast
• Geography of India - West coast
• Geography of India - Islands
• Geography of India - Rivers
• Geography of India - Bodies of water
• Geography of India - Wetlands
• Geography of India - The Sundarbans
• Geography of India - Rann of Kutch
• Geography of India - Climate
• Geography of India - Geology
• Geography of India - Natural disasters
• Geography of India - Natural resources
• Geography of India - International agreements
• Geography of India - Notes

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Overview of the Chola Empire (9th-13th Centuries) The Chola Empire rose to power in the 9th century in the Tamil speaking districts of Southern India. Although the Chola Dynasty existed since at least 100 B.C., it was during the 9th Century that it began its rise into a major world power. Under Rajaraja Chola (Rajaraja The Great) and his son Rajendra Chola, the Cholas rose as a notable military, economic and cultural power in Asia. The Chola Empire stretched from southern Maldives as ...

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The Republic of India, commonly known as India, is a country in South Asia which comprises the majority of the Indian subcontinent. India has a coastline which stretches over seven thousand kilometres, and shares a border with Pakistan to the west, the People's Republic of China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. On the Indian Ocean, it is adjacent to three island nations -- the Maldives (to the southwest), Sri Lanka (to the south), and Indonesia (to the southeast). India also claims a ...

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• India - History
• India - Government
• India - Politics
• India - States and union territories
• India - Geography
• India - Economy
• India - Demographics
• India - Culture
• India - Sports and games
• India - Holidays
• India - Notes

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The Chola Empire rose to power in the 9th century in the Tamil speaking districts of Southern India. Although the Chola Dynasty existed since at least 100 BCE., it was during the 9th Century CE that it began its rise into a major world power. Under Rajaraja Chola (Rajaraja The Great) and his son Rajendra Chola, the Cholas rose as a notable military, economic and cultural power in Asia. The Chola Empire stretched from southern Maldives as far north as the Himalaya Mountains and West Bengal in North India. Rajaraja Chola conquered penin ...

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• Cholas - The Capital cities of the Cholas
• Cholas - Legacy of the Medieval Cholas
• Cholas - Early Cholas or Sangam Cholas
• Cholas - Medieval Cholas
• Cholas - Chola Navy
• Cholas - List of Chola Kings
• Cholas - Early Sangam Cholas
• Cholas - Medeival Cholas
• Cholas - Reference

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Kalapani (means "black water" or dark sea in Hindi), is a multi language Indian film. The name Kalapani is derived from the mode of imprisonment in British India. Kalapani film - Story. Story is about the sufferings of a young man who is wrongly accused of being a freedom fighter and is then jailed in a Cellular Jail at Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands by the British. The film also show the cruelties inflicted by British officials on British India. Kalapani film - Special ...

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• Kalapani film - Story
• Kalapani film - Specialities
• Kalapani film - Cast

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The Andaman Islands are a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative center of the Union Territory. The Andaman Islands form a single administrative district within the Union Territory, the Andaman district (the Nicobar district was separated and established as a new district in 1974). The population of the Andamans was 314,084 in 2001. Andaman Islands - Physical Geography. Including:

• Andaman Islands - Physical Geography
• Andaman Islands - Topography
• Andaman Islands - Harbours
• Andaman Islands - Geology
• Andaman Islands - Climate
• Andaman Islands - Flora
• Andaman Islands - Fauna
• Andaman Islands - History
• Andaman Islands - Demographics
• Andaman Islands - The Andamanese
• Andaman Islands - Penal Settlement
• Andaman Islands - Reference

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The Andamanese is a collective term to describe the peoples who are the aboriginal inhabitants of the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands, located in the Bay of Bengal. Anthropologically they are often classified as Negritos, represented also by the Semang of Malaysia and the Pygmies of the Philippines. They have lived on the Andaman Islands for at least 14 000 years and had very little contact with external societies for nearly all this period. This comparatively long-lasting isolation and separatio ...

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The Himalaya is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. By extension, it is also the name of the massive mountain system which includes the Himalaya proper, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and a host of minor ranges extending from the Pamir Knot. The word Himalaya comes from the ancient Indian language Sanskrit & means "abode of snow". (from hima "snow", and alaya "abode"). Together, the Himalayan mountain system is the planet's highest and home to all fourteen of the wor ...

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• Himalayas - Geography
• Himalayas - Ecology
• Himalayas - Lowland forests
• Himalayas - The Terai belt
• Himalayas - The Bhabhar belt
• Himalayas - Montane forests
• Himalayas - Alpine shrub and grasslands
• Himalayas - Origins and growth
• Himalayas - Glaciers and river systems
• Himalayas - Lakes
• Himalayas - Impact on climate
• Himalayas - Mountain passes
• Himalayas - Impact on politics and culture
• Himalayas - Himal
• Himalayas - Notable peaks
• Himalayas - Religion and mythology
• Himalayas - Himalaya in fiction

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The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric time period during which humans widely used stone for toolmaking. Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone. For example, flint and chert were shaped (or chipped) for use as cutting tools and weapons, while basalt and sandstone were used for ground stone tools, such as quern-stones. Wood, bone, shell, antler and other materials were widely used, too. During the most recent part of the period, sediments (like clay) were used to make pottery. A series of metal technology innovations characterize the later Cha ...

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• Stone Age - The Stone Age in archaeology
• Stone Age - Modern use of the term
• Stone Age - Human development during the Stone Age
• Stone Age - Palaeolithic
• Stone Age - Epipalaeolithic/Mesolithic
• Stone Age - Neolithic
• Stone Age - Stone Age material culture
• Stone Age - Food and drink
• Stone Age - Shelters and habitats
• Stone Age - Art
• Stone Age - Stone Age rituals and beliefs
• Stone Age - Remnants of Stone Age living in modern times
• Stone Age - The Stone Age in popular culture
• Stone Age - Notes

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