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- subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. [7 Related Articles]
- Indo-Brazil
- (from the article "Brahman") ...in India and crossbred in the United States with improved beef breeds, producing the hardy beef animal known as the American Brahman. Similar blending in Latin America resulted in the breed known as Indo-Brazil.
- Indo-Chinese tiger
- (from the article "tiger") The Bengal, Indo-Chinese (P. tigris corbetti), and Sumatran (P. tigris sumatrae) tigers are bright reddish tan, beautifully marked with dark, almost black, vertical stripes. The underparts, the inner sides of the limbs, the cheeks, and a large spot over each ...
- Indo-Esfahan carpet
- type of floor covering ranging from small to extremely large, handmade in India, primarily in the 17th century, as free imitations of Herat designs. They appear to have been exported in quantity to Europe, especially to Portugal and the Low ...
- Indo-European
- (from the article "Himalayas") Of the three principal ethnic groups in the Indian subcontinent-Indo-Europeans, Tibeto-Burmans, and Dravidians-the first two are well represented in the Himalayas, although they are mixed in varying proportions in different areas. Their distribution is the result of a long history ...
- Indo-European languages
- family of languages spoken in most of Europe and areas of European settlement and in much of Southwest and South Asia. The term Indo-Hittite is used by scholars who believe that Hittite and the other Anatolian languages are not just ... [15 Related Articles]
- Indo-Gangetic Plain
- extensive north-central section of the Indian subcontinent, stretching westward from (and including) the Brahmaputra River valley and the Ganges Delta to the Indus River valley. The region contains the subcontinent's richest and most densely populated areas. The greater part of ... [16 Related Articles]
- Indo-Greek kingdom
- (from the article "Bactria") ...defeated their successor, the usurper Euthydemus, but continued to recognize his independence. Euthydemus's successors advanced into the Hindu Kush and northwestern India, where they established the Indo-Greek branch of the kingdom. At the height of their power they ruled almost ...
- Indo-Hittite languages
- hypothetical family of languages composed of the Indo-European and Anatolian languages. The term Indo-Hittite was proposed by scholars who believed that Hittite and the other closely related Anatolian languages represent a language branch at the same level as all the ... [2 Related Articles]
- Indo-Iranian languages
- group of languages constituting the easternmost major branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Indo-Aryan (Indic) languages are spoken by some 800 million persons in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and other areas of the Himalayan region. In addition, ... [4 Related Articles]
- Indo-Pakistani War
- (from the article "international relations") ...his quarrel with Pakistan, but the negotiations failed to overcome Hindu-Muslim antipathy and the fact that the conflict was a unifying element in the domestic politics of both countries. Pakistani troops crossed the cease-fire line in Kashmir in August 1965, ...
- Indoafrican subkingdom
- (from the article "biogeographic region") In the Indoafrican subkingdom (Figure 1), curiously little distinction is to be made between the flora of Africa (south of the Sahara) and the Indian subcontinent, Myanmar (Burma), and southern China. These areas are narrowly connected by a corridor running ...
- Indochina
- the three states of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia formerly associated with France, first within its empire and later within the French Union. The term Indochina refers to the intermingling of Indian and Chinese influences in the culture of the region. [11 Related Articles]
- Indochina wars
- 20th-century conflicts in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, with the principal involvement of France (1946-54) and later the United States (beginning in the 1950s). The wars are often called the French Indochina War and the Vietnam War (q.v.), or the First ...
- Indochinese Communist Party
- (from the article "Truong Chinh") ...expelled from the local high school, he continued his education in Hanoi, where he received his degree and supported himself as a teacher while pursuing a political career within the recently formed Indochinese Communist Party (PCI). While editing a Communist ...
- Indochinese Union
- (from the article "Vietnam") ...by the French) and central Vietnam (named Annam, based on an early Chinese name for the region) into French protectorates. Ten years later the French annexed Laos and added it to the so-called Indochinese Union, which the French created in ...
- indoctrination
- (from the article "education, philosophy of") A much-debated question is whether and how education differs from indoctrination. Many theorists have assumed that the two are distinct and that indoctrination is undesirable, but others have argued that there is no difference in principle and that indoctrination is ...
- indole
- a heterocyclic organic compound occurring in some flower oils, such as jasmine and orange blossom, in coal tar, and in fecal matter. It is used in perfumery and in making tryptophan, an essential amino acid, and indoleacetic acid (heteroauxin), a ... [2 Related Articles]
- indole alkaloid
- (from the article "heterocyclic compound") Probably the best-known indole-containing compounds are the indole alkaloids, which have been isolated from plants representing more than 30 families. The mushroom hallucinogens psilocin and psilocybin, the ergot fungus alkaloids, the drugs reserpine and yohimbine, and the poison strychnine all ...
- indoleacetic acid
- (from the article "heterocyclic compound") ...(see below Six-membered rings with one heteroatom). Skatole, a degradation product of tryptophan that retains the indole unit, contributes much of the strong odour of mammalian feces. Indole-3-acetic acid (heteroauxin or beta-indolylacetic acid) is a plant-growth regulator and the most important ...
- Indomitable Lions
- (from the article "football (soccer)") ...African players fall out of favour with European clubs. Even so, the integration of Africa and Africans into world football accelerated in the 1980s and '90s. Cameroon's national team, known as the Indomitable Lions, was a driving force in this ...
- Indonesia
- country located off the coast of mainland Southeast Asia in the Indian and Pacific oceans. It is an archipelago that lies across the Equator and spans a distance equivalent to one-eighth of Earth's circumference. Its islands can be grouped into ... [76 Related Articles]
- Indonesia Botanical Gardens
- tropical garden in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. It is renowned for its research on regional flora.
- Indonesia, flag of
- horizontally divided red-white national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3.
- Indonesia, history of
- (from the article "Indonesia") Historyinternational relationsAustraliaAustraliaInternational affairs...affairs between 1951 and 1960 was Richard Gardiner Casey.
- Indonesian
- (from the article "Chamorro") the native people of Guam. Numbering about 50,600 in the late 20th century, they are of Indonesian stock with a considerable admixture of Spanish, Filipino (based on Tagalog), and other strains. Their vernacular, called the Chamorro language, is not a ...
- Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency
- (from the article "Indonesia") In 1998 the government established the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) to extricate the financial sector from its monumental debt. IBRA accomplished this task largely through the closure and consolidation of financially precarious banks. The remaining banks then prioritized households ...
- Indonesian Communist Party
- (from the article "Indonesia") ...Insulinde, a poetic name for the East Indies. In 1914 the Dutchman Hendricus Sneevliet founded the Indies Social Democratic Association, which became a communist party in 1920 and adopted the name Indonesian Communist Party (Partai Komunis Indonesia; PKI) in 1924.
- Indonesian Democratic Party
- (from the article "Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle") ...to limit the power of opposition groups and the number of recognized political entities to three: Golkar, a pro-government group that controlled state institutions, and two opposition parties, the Indonesian Democratic Party (later the PDIP) and the United Development Party. ...
- Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle
- Indonesian political party formed in 1973 through the forced merger of five non-Islamic political parties. In the final three decades of the 20th century, it was one of two opposition parties officially recognized by the government, and though it often ... [4 Related Articles]
- Indonesian language
- (from the article "Malay language") Of the various dialects of Malay, the most important is that of the southern Malay Peninsula, the basis of standard Malay and of the official language of the Republic of Indonesia, Bahasa Indonesia, or Indonesian. A Malay pidgin called Bazaar ...
- Indonesian languages
- broadly, the Austronesian languages of island Southeast Asia as a whole, including the languages of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Taiwan, and the outlying areas of Madagascar and of Palau and the Mariana Islands of western Micronesia. A more ... [3 Related Articles]
- Indonesian literatures
- the poetry and prose writings in Javanese, Malay, Sundanese, and other languages of the peoples of Indonesia. They include works orally transmitted and then preserved in written form by the Indonesian peoples; oral literature; and the modern literatures that began ... [1 Related Articles]
- Indonesian music
- (from the article "microtonal music") ...South Asian music theory posits a scale of 22 unequal intervals to the octave; although, in practice, a chromatic scale of 100-cent intervals is used, ornaments use intervals of smaller size. In Indonesian music, intervals of many sizes appear, including ...
- Indonesian National Museum
- (from the article "Indonesia") Although the arts of Indonesia are not-and likely cannot be-documented and preserved exhaustively, a number of museums house notable collections. The Indonesian National Museum in Jakarta not only possesses collections of prehistoric and contemporary arts and artifacts from Indonesia, including ...
- Indonesian Nationalist Party
- (from the article "Indonesia") The new nationalism required a new organization for its expression, and in July 1927 the Indonesian Nationalist Association, later the Indonesian Nationalist Party (Partai Nasional Indonesia; PNI), was formed under the chairmanship of Sukarno. The PNI was based on the ...
- Indonesian Peasants' Party
- (from the article "Suriname") ...Volkspartij; PSV) organized the working-class Creoles. The East Indians and Indonesians were eventually grouped within the United Hindu Party (VHP; later called the Progressive Reform Party) and the Indonesian Peasants' Party (Kaum-Tani Persuatan Indonesia; KTPI), respectively. Universal suffrage was instituted ...
- Indonesian Republic Party
- (from the article "Tan Malaka, Ibrahim Datuk") ...He opposed as premature a Communist-backed rebellion in 1926 and was blamed by its proponents for the uprising's failure. The next year, however, he organized a group in Bangkok called the Indonesian Republic Party; its aim was to develop underground ...
- indoor bowls
- (from the article "bowls") ...The game is usually played between two competitors, each having two bowls. Both the bowls and the jack are biased, and play may be in any direction over the green. Another variation on lawn bowls, indoor bowls, is popular chiefly ...
- indoor polo
- (from the article "polo") The indoor game was introduced in the United States and is played predominantly there, thus allowing polo in winter. The field is 100 yards long and 50 yards wide, with wooden boards 4-4 12 feet (1.2-1.4 m) high to keep ...
- Indore
- city, western Madhya Pradesh state, central India. The city is a major trunk road and rail junction and is located on the Saraswati and Khan streams, which are tributaries of the Sipra River. [1 Related Articles]
- indostomid
- (from the article "gasterosteiform") ...the body or ganoid (i.e., thick, bony, enamelled, and diamond-shaped) plates rather than scales. Families within the order are Gasterosteidae (sticklebacks), Aulorhynchidae (tube snout), Indostomidae (indostomid), Aulostomidae (trumpet fishes), Fistulariidae (cornetfishes), Centriscidae (shrimpfishes), Macrorhamphosidae (snipefishes), Solenostomidae (ghost pipefishes), and...
- Indra
- in Hindu mythology, the king of the gods. He is one of the main gods of the archaic Sanskrit collection of hymns, the Rigveda, and is the Indo-European cousin of the German Wotan, Norse Odin, Greek Zeus, ... [8 Related Articles]
- Indra III
- (from the article "Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty") ...the Pratiharas was apparently weakened by dynastic strife. It was further diminished as a result of a great raid from the Deccan, led by the Rastrakuta king Indra III, who in about 916 sacked Kannauj. Under a succession of rather ...
- Indra Jatra
- (from the article "Kathmandu") ...include, in spring, the Shivaratri and the Machendra Jatra with its procession bearing the image of the god Machendra; in late summer, the Gai Jatra (festival of the cow); and, in early autumn, the Indra Jatra, during which the goddess ...
- Indrani
- Indian-born dancer who performed and taught a number of the classical dances of India; she was the first professional to perform the ancient odissi,a dance that began in the temples, and she introduced this and other long-neglected ...
- Indrani
- (from the article "Saptamatrka") ...or female counterpart, of a god. They are Brahmani, Mahesvari, Kaumari, Vaisnavi, Varahi, Indrani, and Camunda, or Yami. (One text, the Varaha-Purana, states that they number eight, including...
- Indraprastha
- (from the article "Delhi") The earliest reference to a settlement at Delhi is found in the epic Mahabharata (a narrative about the descendants of the prince Bharata), which mentions a city called Indraprastha, built about 1400 BC under the direction of ...
- Indrapura
- (from the article "Jayavarman II") ...the Javanese and asserted Khmer independence in 802, when he also was installed under Hindu rites as devaraja (q.v.), or god-king. He established a series of capitals, first at Indrapura, on the lower Mekong River east of Kampong (Kompong) Cham; ...
- Indravarman I
- ruler of the Khmer kingdom of Angkor (Cambodia) from 877 to about 890. [3 Related Articles]
- Indre
- (from the article "Centre") region of France encompassing the central departements of Cher, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret, and Eure-et-Loir. Centre is bounded by the regions of Haute-Normandie and Ile-de-France to the north, Burgundy (Bourgogne) to ...
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