British India

• Adam's Bridge is a 30-mile-long chain of natural limestone shoals off the southeastern coast of India, believed to have once connected Sri Lanka to the main Indian subcontinent.
• Adam's Bridge: In Islam, Adam is believed to have crossed over Adam's Bridge after being expelled from the Garden of Eden.
• Zoroastrianism was central to the political and religious culture of ancient Persia.
• Zoroastrianism is one of the first monotheistic religions, particularly one with a wide following.
• Bhola Cyclone, a tropical depression from tropical storm remnants, made landfall in East Pakistan in 1970, affecting millions of people as no evacuation order was issued.
• Adi Granth is the sacred scripture of Sikhism, a religion in India.
• Bihar is a state of northeastern India where Jainism was only found for most of its history.
• Adivasis are Scheduled Tribes, any of various ethnic groups considered to be the original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent.
• Black July is the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War between the Tamil militants and the government of Sri Lanka, marked by an anti-Tamil pogrom that occurred in Sri Lanka during July 1983.
• Adwaita is a male Aldabra giant tortoise that lived in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India, living from c. 1750-2006.
• Siliguri Corridor - Also called the chicken's neck, connects 7 states of northeast India to the rest of the country
• Sikhism - Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of northwest India
• Sinhalese people were also known historically as Hela people.
• Simla (Shimla) Agreement (1972) - a peace treaty signed between India and Pakistan on 2 July 1972 in Shimla, the capital city of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh
• Sinhalese people - Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group native to the island of Sri Lanka
• Sikkim - a geographical area and former kingdom in northeastern India in the Himalaya Mountains between Nepal and Bhutan
• Sindh - Region at mouth of Indus river, area first conquered by Arab Muslims, 711
• Sikh Massacre(1984) - a series of organised pogroms against Sikhs in India following the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards
• Bollywood is the Indian version of Hollywood (film industry), centered in Mumbai (formerly Bombay).
• ahimsa is the Hindu belief in nonviolence and reverence for all life, often translated as "do no harm".
• Brahmaputra River is a river that begins in Tibet, flows through northeast India and Bangladesh, joining with the Ganges to empty into the Bay of Bengal.
• Amritsar Massacre, also known as Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, occurred on April 13, 1919, when over 10,000 Indians were killed or wounded by British troops in Amritsar, Punjab State of India.
• Muhajirs are Muslim refugees from India.
• Malé is the capital of Maldives.
• The Mizo National Front uprising was a revolt against the government of India aimed at establishing a sovereign nation state for the Mizo people, which started on 28 February 1966.
• Minute on Indian Education(1835) - written by Thomas Macaulay and this work had a significant impact on more than half a century in the formation of British educational policy in India.
• Mumbai/Mumba i Attacks (2008) were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant Islamist organization from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
• A nawab is a Muslim prince allied to British India; technically, a semi-autonomous deputy of the Mughal emperor.
• Natal Indian Congress was founded by Gandhi to expose to the world the rampant discrimination against Indians in South Africa.
• Mysore/Kingdom of Mysore was a Southern Indian Empire.
• The Muslim League is an organization formed in 1906 to protect the interests of India's Muslims, which later proposed that India be divided into separate Muslim and Hindu nations.
• Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain, located in the Himalayas.
• Naxalite Insurgency is an ongoing conflict between Maoist groups known as Naxalites or Naxals and the Indian government.
• Monsoons are a seasonal wind pattern that causes wet and dry seasons.
• The Minute on Indian Education was written by Thomas Macaulay for Lord William Bentinck, the governor general of British India, in 1835.
• British Raj is the name for the British government's military rule of India between 1858 and 1947.
• Andaman and Nicobar Islands are an elongated chain of islands in Bay of Bengal, bigger and more numerous than Lakshadweep Islands.
• Buddhism teaches that human life is one of suffering, and that meditation, spiritual and physical labor, and good behavior are the ways to achieve enlightenment, or nirvana, originating in northern India.
• Indian National Army is a military force that formed in 1942, it comprised about 10,000 Indian nationalists along with 70,000 Japanese, and in 1944 attempted to attack India from Burma.
• National Congress is a political association formed in 1885 by educated Indians to work for Indian self-gov't, they wanted to be treated as equally as the British treated their own white settlers, they wanted complete independence.