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Indian Idol (Hindi TV series)
Indian Idol (इंडियन आइडल) is the Hindi adaptation of the Idols singing competition, launched in 2004 on Sony TV and produced by Fremantle; it votes on singers via SMS, centers Hindi film music and playback singing, and has run over 20 seasons-spanning years.
Indian Idol (Hindi TV series) season 15
Indian Idol Season 15 (2024–2025), Sony Entertainment Television's Hindi singing reality show, judged by Shreya Ghoshal, Vishal Dadlani, and Badshah, hosted by Aditya Narayan; won by Manasi Ghosh with ₹25 lakh prize money.
Indian Idol (Hindi TV series) season 16
Indian Idol Season 16 (इंडियन आइडल सीजन 16), Sony TV's Hindi singing reality show, theme "Yaadon Ki Playlist," judges Shreya Ghoshal, Vishal Dadlani, Badshah; ran about 10 months; won by Odisha's Jyotirmayee Nayak on 26 July 2026.
Indian Idol (इंडियन आइडल)
Indian Idol (इंडियन आइडल), Sony TV's Hindi singing reality competition adapted from Pop Idol, running since 2004; winners from Abhijeet Sawant to Jyotirmayee Nayak (Season 16), with Season 17 Legends Return premiering October 2026.
Indian indenture in Trinidad
Indian indenture in Trinidad was a contract labor system that brought about 143,000 workers from British India between 1845 and 1917 to work the island's plantations.
Indian indenture system
Indian indenture system: state-regulated contract labor scheme moving about 1.3–1.6 million Indians to plantation colonies (Mauritius, Caribbean, Fiji, Natal, Assam) from 1834 to 1917 after British slavery abolition, enforced by penal sanctions and debated as a 'new system of slavery.'
Indian indenture system in Fiji
The Indian indenture system in Fiji was a British colonial labor scheme, in force from 1879 to 1916, that brought roughly 61,000 Indians to work on sugarcane plantations.
Indian Independence Act 1947
The Indian Independence Act 1947 is a British act (Royal Assent 18 July 1947) creating the independent Dominions of India and Pakistan on 15 August 1947, providing partition machinery, ending the Emperor of India title and princely-state suzerainty; repealed by India's Article 395 and Pakistan's Article 221.
Indian Independence League
The Indian Independence League (IIL) was a WWII political organization of Indian expatriates in Southeast Asia and Japan, reconstituted in Tokyo in March 1942 under Rash Behari Bose and later led by Subhas Chandra Bose; it mobilized the diaspora, recruited and raised funds for the Indian National Army, and underpinned the 1943 Azad Hind proclamation.
Indian independence movement
The Indian independence movement, also known as the Indian freedom struggle, was the campaign of protests and negotiations that ended British rule, creating India and Pakistan in 1947.
Indian Institute of Architects
The Indian Institute of Architects (IIA) is the national professional body of architects in India, founded in 1917, headquartered in Mumbai, with more than 20,000 members.
Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (भारतीय विदेश व्यापार संस्थान)
The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, or IIFT, is a Deemed to be University founded in 1963 to teach international trade, with campuses in Delhi and Kolkata.
Indian Institute of Forest Management (भारतीय वन प्रबंधन संस्थान)
Indian Institute of Forest Management (भारतीय वन प्रबंधन संस्थान), IIFM Bhopal: autonomous MoEF&CC sectoral management institute founded 1982 with SIDA and IIM Ahmedabad help; MBA forestry and sustainability programs, NIRF Management rank 8 in 2016.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (भारतीय प्रबंधन संस्थान अहमदाबाद)
The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, or IIM Ahmedabad, is a business school in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, founded in 1961 with Harvard's help, ranked India's top management program and known for its Louis Kahn campus.
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) is a management institute in Bangalore, India, established in 1973 as the third IIM and ranked second among Indian management institutes in 2025.
Indian Institute of Mass Communication
Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC, भारतीय जन संचार संस्थान), New Delhi-based government journalism and mass communication institute founded 1965, with five regional campuses, deemed university since January 2024, and training academy of the Indian Information Service.
Indian Institute of Planning and Management
Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM): Delhi-based private autonomous society offering its own certificate and diploma programmes; not affiliated to any university; central subject of the 2014 Delhi High Court MBA/BBA nomenclature judgment.
Indian Institute of Science (ಭಾರತೀಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ)
Indian Institute of Science (ಭಾರತೀಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆ, IISc), Bengaluru research university founded 27 May 1909 by Jamsetji Tata with Mysore State support; first Indian director CV Raman; NIRF #1 university.
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) is a deemed university in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, founded by ISRO and inaugurated in 2007 as Asia's first space-dedicated university.
Indian Institutes of Information Technology (भारतीय सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान)
Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs, भारतीय सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान) are IT-focused Indian technical institutes, mostly Institutes of National Importance under the 2014 and 2017 PPP acts, admitting via JEE Main through JoSAA.
Indian Institutes of Management
The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are India's publicly chartered graduate business schools, begun in 1961 and now 21 institutions of national importance admitting students through the CAT.
Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research
The Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) are seven autonomous Indian research universities at Berhampur, Bhopal, Kolkata, Mohali, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram, and Tirupati, integrating BS-MS teaching with basic-science research under the NITSER Act, 2007.
Indian Institutes of Technology (भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान)
Indian Institutes of Technology (भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान), or IITs: 23 autonomous public engineering institutes of national importance under the 1961 Act, starting with IIT Kharagpur in 1950, admitting undergraduates via JEE Advanced.
Indian Intelligence Community
Indian Intelligence Community: the network of agencies including the Intelligence Bureau (IB, 1887, domestic), R&AW (1968, external), DIA, NTRO, and NIA, coordinated via the MAC, operating without statutory charters or parliamentary oversight.
Indian labour law
Indian labour law, governed by four Labour Codes effective 21 November 2025 (Code on Wages 2019, Industrial Relations, Social Security, and OSH Codes), consolidating 29 central acts covering wages, social security, safety, and industrial relations.
Indian Legion
Indian Legion (Legion Freies Indien, 950th Indian Regiment): unit raised in 1941 by Subhas Chandra Bose with the Wehrmacht from Indian POWs, later transferred to the Waffen-SS; distinct from the Japanese-sponsored INA; garrisoned the Atlantic Wall and dissolved in 1945.
Indian leopard
Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca), leopard subspecies of the Indian subcontinent including Nepal, Bhutan, and parts of Pakistan; 2022 national estimate 13,874, 67% outside protected areas, Schedule I protected, Vulnerable species.
Indian literature
Indian literature: the multilingual literary tradition of the subcontinent, from Vedic, Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and Prakrit works through Bhakti poetry to modern Hindi, Bengali and English writing, sustained by translation and the Sahitya Akademi.
Indian literature in English translation
Indian literature in English translation is the body of English renderings of works in India's languages, shaped by A. K. Ramanujan and celebrated with International Booker wins in 2022 and 2025.
Indian locomotive class WAG D-9
The Indian locomotive class WAG D-9 is a 9,000 HP electric freight locomotive built by Siemens Mobility for Indian Railways, with a maximum speed of 120 km/h.