Word: indo-aryan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even then, the territory was an exotic ethnic mix that included Indo-Aryan Assamese, Assamese-speaking Hindus in the Brahmaputra valley, dozens of hill tribes of Mongoloid stock, and indigenous plains tribes. Then came successive waves of Bengalis, both Hindus and Muslims, who were first brought in by the British to run the tea plantations and the civil service of the British raj. Bengali immigration intensified during partition in 1947 and again after the creation of Bangladesh. Although its population is one of the fastest growing on the subcontinent, Assam has only 254 people per sq. km. West Bengal...
...slight, dark Bengalis are more closely related to the Dravidian people they subjugated. The Westerners, who eat wheat and meat, speak Urdu, which is written in Arabic but is a synthesis of Persian and Hindi. The Easterners eat rice and fish, and speak Bengali, a singsong language of Indo-Aryan origin...
...boiling bustees of Bombay and Calcutta, to the humid tip of the subcontinent at Cape Comorin, India is a kaleidoscope of contrast (see color pages). Within its embattled boundaries it embraces six distinct ethnic groups, seven major religions, 845 languages and dialects, and two ancient and antagonistic cultures: the Indo-Aryan (primarily Hindi-speaking) in the north, the Dravidian (speaking mainly Telugu and Tamil) in the south. Its peoples range from sultry Sikhs in silken turbans to naked Nagas armed with crossbows; from country dwellers who are seared black by a cruel sun to pale and perfumed maharanees who ride...
...race that dwells in Western China is either aborigine or native. To trace the source of Lolo one must study the history of the Indo-Aryan race who moved from Central Asia into Indo-Gangetic plain and then spread abroad. From the famous Indian Epic Mahabharata we know definitely that a large group of people did flee from Hird to the surrounding mountain countries. Further discovery of history is urgently necessary for scholars of atomic...
Language barriers are not as insurmountable as claims that India has "222 separate languages" indicate. Three-fourths of the people are able to understand Indo-Aryan languages based on Sanskrit...