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1 day ago · Hinduism, major world religion originating on the Indian subcontinent and comprising several and varied systems of philosophy, belief, and ritual.Although the name Hinduism is relatively new, having been coined by British writers in the first decades of the 19th century, it refers to a rich cumulative tradition of texts and practices, some of which date to the 2nd millennium bce or possibly ...
- Hinduism
Hinduism - Origins, Beliefs, Practices: The history of...
- Veda
Veda, a collection of poems or hymns composed in archaic...
- Indus Civilization
The Indus civilization apparently evolved from the villages...
- Pilgrimage
Hinduism - Pilgrimage, Rituals, Beliefs: Pilgrimage in...
- Vaishnavism, Shaivism
Hinduism - Vaishnavism, Shaivism: Vaishnavism is the worship...
- Philosophical Texts
Hinduism - Upanishads, Vedas, Bhagavad Gita: Although the...
- Hinduism
2 days ago · Ayurveda originated in India more than 3,000 years ago, and the southern state of Kerala is at the heart of this ancient medicine system's renaissance. On a holiday to Kerala on India's south ...
1 day ago · The name Rāmāyaṇa is composed of two words, Rāma and ayaṇa. Rāma, the name of the main figure of the epic, has two contextual meanings. In the Atharvaveda, it means 'dark, dark-coloured, black' and is related to the word rātri which means 'darkness or stillness of night'. The other meaning, which can be found in the Mahabharata, is ...
- Valmiki
- 8th century BC–3rd century AD
- 1958
- Sanskrit
2 days ago · The following is an incomplete list of women monarchs who are well known from popular writings, although many ancient and poorly documented ruling monarchs (such as those from Africa and Oceania) are omitted. Section 1 lists monarchs who ruled in their own right, such as queens regnant. Section 2 lists legendary monarchs.
4 days ago · The subsequent Slave dynasty of Delhi managed to conquer large areas of northern India, approximately equal in extent to the ancient Gupta Empire, while the Khalji dynasty conquered most of central India but were ultimately unsuccessful in conquering and uniting the subcontinent. The Sultanate ushered in a period of Indian cultural renaissance.
1 day ago · India became the world’s most populous country in 2023, according to estimates by the United Nations. India. It is known from archaeological evidence that a highly sophisticated urbanized culture—the Indus civilization —dominated the northwestern part of the subcontinent from about 2600 to 2000 bce.
1 day ago · Entrepreneurs (MIWE 2021), for participation of women in entrepreneurship, making India’s ratio among the lowest in the world. In India, the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ...
