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Indian Air Force (भारतीय वायु सेना)
Indian Air Force (भारतीय वायु सेना, IAF), India's air arm, established 8 October 1932; first flew 1 April 1933 with four Westland Wapitis at Karachi; Royal prefix 1945, dropped 1950; 29 fighter squadrons today against 42 sanctioned.
Indian Airlines (इंडियन एयरलाइंस)
Indian Airlines (इंडियन एयरलाइंस), also called Indian Airlines Corporation, was India's state-owned domestic airline, created by the Air Corporations Act of 1953 and merged into Air India in 2007.
Indian Airlines Flight 814
Indian Airlines Flight 814, also known as the Kandahar Hijacking, was an Indian airliner hijacked in December 1999 and held at Kandahar, Afghanistan, for a week.
Indian Americans
Indian Americans (Asian Indians) are U.S. residents of Indian ancestry, about 5.2 million people, the second-largest Asian origin group; two-thirds immigrants, high income and education, mostly Democratic-leaning, with a history from Punjabi Sikh migration through the 1965 Immigration Act.
Indian annexation of Hyderabad
Indian annexation of Hyderabad, or Operation Polo, the September 1948 police action by which India absorbed the Nizam's princely Hyderabad State after a year of failed negotiations, razakar violence, and a standstill agreement.
Indian Appropriations Act
Indian Appropriations Act (March 3, 1871, ch. 120, 16 Stat. 544), the U.S. law ending treaty making with Indian tribes; preserved prior treaties, codified as 25 U.S.C. 71, later amended 1988.
Indian Armed Forces (भारतीय सशस्त्र सेनाएँ)
The Indian Armed Forces, or Military of India, are the unified military of the Republic of India, comprising the Army, Navy, and Air Force, with a $86.1 billion budget in 2024.
Indian Army
The Indian Army is the land branch of India's armed forces, tracing its roots to the East India Company's armies of 1600. Around 1.45 million active soldiers, partition from the British Indian Army in 1947, and Agnipath recruitment define it.
Indian Army Aviation Brigade
An Indian Army Aviation Brigade is a brigade-level formation combining the Army's helicopters, reconnaissance, and drones, with three raised, two along the Line of Actual Control.
Indian Army during World War I
The British Indian Army of World War I (1914-1918) fought in France, East Africa, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Palestine, providing over 1.2 million men, 64,449 killed, and eight Western Front Victoria Crosses.
Indian Army during World War II
The British Indian Army of World War II grew from about 194,000 men in 1939 to over 2 million volunteers by 1945, fighting Japan, Italy, and Germany from Hong Kong to Italy, with its greatest victories in East Africa and Burma.
Indian art
Indian art is the visual art of the Indian subcontinent, produced since prehistoric times. Its creation was shaped by diverse patronage, from royal courts to colonial institutions.
Indian art and colonialism
Indian art and colonialism is the study of painting, art schools, and collecting under British rule, from Company painting of the 1770s to the Bengal School's nationalist revival led by Abanindranath Tagore.
Indian art and modernity
Indian art and modernity is how Indian artists engaged with modernity from the late 1800s onward, from Raja Ravi Varma through the Bengal School to post-independence groups.
Indian art and nationalism
Indian art and nationalism is the use of painting, art education, and museums to define a national culture, most visibly in the Bengal School after 1905.
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata: research institute and deemed university founded by Mahendralal Sircar on 29 July 1876, where C.V. Raman discovered the Raman Effect, winning India's first science Nobel in 1930.
Indian astronomy
Indian astronomy, also called Jyotisha, is the tradition of observing and mathematically modeling the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars that developed on the Indian subcontinent from Vedic times onward.
Indian Australians
Indian Australians: people in Australia born in India or of Indian-related ancestry. 673,352 India-born at the 2021 Census, 971,020 by mid-2025, when India became the largest overseas country of birth.
Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme
The Indian Ballistic Missile Defence Programme, also known as the Indian BMD Program, is a DRDO-led two-tier system to detect and destroy incoming ballistic missiles, started in 1999.
Indian Bank
Indian Bank is a public sector bank majority owned by the Government of India, founded in 1907 in Madras and now India's seventh-largest public sector bank after absorbing Allahabad Bank in 2020.
Indian barrier state
Indian barrier state: buffer states and zones around India, chiefly Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, and Afghanistan, plus Awadh and the Northeast tribal belt, separating India from China and Russia.
Indian black money
Indian black money (also unaccounted or parallel-economy income) is income and wealth on which Indian taxes or public dues went unpaid, defined in the 2012 White Paper; addressed by the Black Money Act 2015, disclosure schemes, and demonetizations of 1946, 1978, and 2016.
Indian Boyhood
Indian Boyhood is the 1902 first book of Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), recounting his Dakota childhood until he was taken into white society at age fifteen.
Indian buffet process
The Indian buffet process (IBP) is a stochastic process in Bayesian nonparametrics defining a distribution over sparse binary matrices with infinitely many columns, introduced by Griffiths and Ghahramani in 2005.
Indian campaign of Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great's Indian campaign (327–325 BC): Hindu Kush crossing, Battle of the Hydaspes against Porus, Hyphasis refusal, Indus descent, Gedrosian march, and its Indo-Greek legacy.
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE), Class 10 school examination by India's Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE); English-medium general education, six subjects plus SUPW, 20% internal assessment, distinct from CBSE and from ICSE India.
Indian Child Welfare Act
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), US federal law enacted November 8, 1978 (Public Law 95-608) setting minimum standards for removing and placing Indian children and confirming tribal jurisdiction; upheld 7-2 in Haaland v. Brackeen (2023).
Indian Chinese cuisine
Indian Chinese (Indo-Chinese, Desi-Chinese) cuisine: an Indianized Chinese cuisine born in Kolkata from late-1700s Hakka immigrants, defined by Schezwan sauce, Hakka noodles, and Nelson Wang's Chicken Manchurian, now India's most popular foreign food.
Indian Civil Service
The Indian Civil Service, also called the Covenanted Civil Service, was the elite corps of about a thousand mostly British officers who administered British India until 1947.
Indian classical dance
Indian classical dance: the eight Sangeet Natak Akademi-recognized forms (Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Manipuri, Mohiniyattam, Sattriya), their Natyashastra foundations, and their modern codification.