India trivia
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- The earliest written source brought in during the Aryan invasion of the India sub continent
- The Vedas
- the cultural center of the pre-aryan civilization
- harappa
- the river along whixh the pre-aryan culture is built
- indus
- the god inherited from the pre-aryan culture
- shiva
- the aryan god who often takes human incarnations such as krisna
- vishnu
- the goddess who meditates and transforms her dull, lusterless skin into radiant gold
- parvati
- the god who is said by the aryan culture to have created the world and the universe
- brahma
- the name of the dynasty brought to its height by asoka
- maurya
- the center of asoka's empire
- magadha
- the name of the dynasty said to be the golden age of india
- gupta
- the eastern portion of pakistan that became independant in 1971
- bangladesh
- the name of gandhi's strategy of non-violent protest
- satyagraha
- the designer of the miracle seeds which made the green revoution possible. he recieved the nobel peace prize in 1971
- norman bourlaug
- one portion of the mahabharata said to contain the essence of hindu philosophy
- bhagavadgita
- the first prime minister of india, who began the SSD project in 1957
- Nehru