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Kala pani (taboo), the Glossary

The kala pani (lit. black water) represents the proscription of the over reaching seas in Hinduism.^[1]

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Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapping with the Age of Sail.

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India.

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The Tulu Ashta Mathas of Udupi (ಉಡುಪಿಯ ತುಳು ಅಷ್ಟ ಮಠಗಳು) are a group of eight mathas or Hindu monasteries established by Madhvacharya, the preceptor of the Dvaita school of Hindu thought with his direct disciples to be the first Swami, head of the matha.

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Attock

Attock (Punjabi, اٹک), formerly known as Campbellpur (Punjabi, کیمبل پور|), is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, not far from the country's capital Islamabad.

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Bania (caste)

Bania (also spelled Baniya, Banija, Banya, Vaniya, Vani, Vania and Vanya) is a mercantile caste mainly from the Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan, with strong diasporic communities in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra (mainly Mumbai) and other northern states.

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Barrackpore mutiny of 1824

The Barrackpore mutiny was a rising of native Indian sepoys against their British officers in Barrackpore in November 1824.

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Bengal Army

The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.

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Bullock cart

A bullock cart or ox cart (sometimes called a bullock carriage when carrying people in particular) is a two-wheeled or four-wheeled vehicle pulled by oxen.

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Cellular Jail

The Cellular Jail, also known as Kālā Pānī (ۘकाला पानी), was a British colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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Chittagong

Chittagong, officially Chattogram (Côṭṭôgrām, Chittagonian: চাটগাঁও Sāṭgão), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh.

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Chola Empire

The Chola Empire, which is often referred to as the Imperial Cholas, was a medieval Indian, thalassocratic empire that was established by the Chola dynasty that rose to prominence during the middle of the ninth century and united southern India under their rule.

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Coolie

Coolie (also spelled koelie, kuli, khuli, khulie, cooli, cooly, or quli) is a pejorative term used for low-wage labourers, typically those of Indian or Chinese descent.

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Daily News and Analysis

The Daily News and Analysis, abbreviated as DNA, is a Hindi-language news program on Zee news that was earlier a newspaper with multiple local city editions across India.

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Donna Gabaccia

Donna Rae Gabaccia (born 1949) is an American historian who studies international migration, with an emphasis on cultural exchange, such as food and from a gendered perspective.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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Fasting

Fasting is abstention from eating and sometimes drinking.

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First Anglo-Burmese War

The First Anglo-Burmese War (ပထမ အင်္ဂလိပ်-မြန်မာ စစ်;; 5 March 1824 – 24 February 1826), also known as the First Burma War in English language accounts and First English Invasion War (ပထမ အင်္ဂလိပ် ကျူးကျော် စစ်) in Burmese language accounts, was the first of three wars fought between the British and Burmese empires in the 19th century.

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Forced labour

Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.

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Ganges

The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Garbhagriha

A garbhagriha is the innermost sanctuary of Hindu and Jain temples, what may be called the "holy of holies" or "sanctum sanctorum".

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Gayatri Mantra

The Gāyatrī Mantra, also known as the Sāvitrī Mantra, is a sacred mantra from the Ṛig Veda (Mandala 3.62.10), dedicated to the Vedic deity Gayatri.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Hinduism Today

Hinduism Today is a quarterly magazine published by the Himalayan Academy, a nonprofit educational institution, in Kapaʻa, Hawaiʻi, USA.

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History of Indian influence on Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia was in the Indian sphere of cultural influence from 290 BCE to the 15th century CE, when Hindu-Buddhist influences were incorporated into local political systems.

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Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterize a person or a group.

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.

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Indo-Caribbeans

Indo-Caribbeans or Indian-Caribbeans are people in the Caribbean who trace their ancestry to the Indian subcontinent.

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Indo-Guyanese

Indo-Guyanese or Indian-Guyanese, are Guyanese nationals of Indian origin who trace their ancestry to India and the wider subcontinent.

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Indus River

The Indus is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.

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Khal Torabully

Khal Torabully is a Mauritian poet.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Malabar Coast

The Malabar Coast is the southwestern region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Marco Polo

Marco Polo (8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.

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Maritime transport

Maritime transport (or ocean transport) or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) via waterways.

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Mauritians of Indian origin

Indo-Mauritians are Mauritians who trace their ethnic ancestry to the Republic of India or other parts of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia.

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Mauritius

Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.

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Mleccha

Mleccha (from) is a Sanskrit term, referring to those of an incomprehensible speech, foreign or barbarous invaders as distinguished from the Vedic tribes.

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Muscat

Muscat (مَسْقَط) is the capital and most populated city in Oman.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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North India

North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.

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Puttige Matha

Puthige Matha (Kannada: ಪುತ್ತಿಗೆ ಮಠ) or Puttige Mutt in some records and literature is a Madhwa Vaishnava monastery.

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Rajendra I

Rajendra I (/rɑːdʒeɪndrə/; Middle Tamil: Rājēntira Cōḻaṉ; Classical Sanskrit: Rājēndradēva Śōla; Old Malay: Raja Chulan; – 1044 CE), often referred to as Rajendra the Great, Gangaikonda Cholan (Middle Tamil: Kaṅkaikoṇṭa Cōḻaṉ), and Kadaram Kondan (Middle Tamil: Kaṭāram Koṇṭāṉ), was a Chola Emperor who reigned from 1014 and 1044 CE.

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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist volunteer paramilitary organisation.

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Rediff.com

Rediff.com, stylized as rediff.com, is an Indian news, information, entertainment, and shopping website.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.

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Sepoy

Sepoy, related to sipahi, is a term denoting professional Indian infantryman, traditionally armed with a musket, in the armies of the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Army.

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Shana Yardan

Shana Yardan (10 April 1943 – 2 November 1989) was a Guyanese poet and broadcaster, whose work contributed to wider understanding of experiences of Guyanese women, the impact of British colonialism and the natural world.

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Spencer Walpole

Sir Spencer Walpole KCB, FBA (6 February 1839 – 7 July 1907) was an English historian and civil servant.

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Sreevallabha Temple

The Sreevallabha Temple is a highly orthodoxHistory of Sreevallabha Mahakshethram, Sreekumar.V (2010).

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Thantri

Thantri or Tantri is the Vedic head who stands in a top room in religion of Hindu.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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Theertham

Theertham (Theertha or Tirtha) literally refers to water.

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Travancore Devaswom Board

Travancore Devaswom Board is statutory and autonomous body managing around 1252 temples in southern part of India.

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Udupi Sri Krishna Matha

Udupi Shri Krishna Temple is a well-known historic Hindu temple dedicated to Krishna and Dvaita Matha located in the city of Udupi in Karnataka, India.

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V. S. Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) was a Trinidadian-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English.

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Varna (Hinduism)

Varṇa (वर्ण), in the context of Hinduism, refers to a social class within a hierarchical traditional Hindu society.

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Venkateswara Temple, Tirumala

The Sri Venkateswara Swami Temple is a Hindu temple situated in the hills of Tirumala at Tirupati in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri

Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri (2 June 1939 – 25 February 2021) was an Indian writer and scholar of Malayalam literature.

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Vishwesha Tirtha

Sri Vishwesha Tirtharu, officially known as ಶ್ರೀ ಶ್ರೀ ೧೦೦೮ ಶ್ರೀ ವಿಶ್ವೇಶತೀರ್ಥ ಶ್ರೀಪಾದಂಗಳವರು (27 April 1931 – 29 December 2019), was an Indian Hindu guru, saint and presiding swamiji of the Sri Pejavara Adokshaja Matha, one of the Ashta Mathas belonging to the Dvaita school of philosophy founded by Sri Madhvacharya.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_pani_(taboo)

Also known as Kaala paani.

, The Hindu, Theertham, Travancore Devaswom Board, Udupi Sri Krishna Matha, V. S. Naipaul, Varna (Hinduism), Venkateswara Temple, Tirumala, Vishnunarayanan Namboothiri, Vishwesha Tirtha.

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Culture of Mauritius

Hindu culture

Indian diaspora

Taboo

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