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Indian passport
Indian passport: MEA-issued travel document for Indian citizens under the Passports Act 1967; ordinary (blue), diplomatic (maroon), official (white) types; RFID e-passports since May 2025.
Indian Patent Office
Indian Patent Office (IPO), part of the CGPDTM under DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, grants patents in India. Operates under the Patents Act, 1970 and Patents Rules, 2003; granted 33,504 patents in 2024-25.
Indian Peace Keeping Force
Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF): Indian Army expeditionary force deployed to Sri Lanka's north and east, 1987-1990, under the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord to disarm the LTTE; it instead fought the LTTE, lost about 1,200 personnel, and withdrew in March 1990.
Indian peafowl
Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus), blue peafowl, national bird of India; a Phasianidae gamebird whose peacock fans a ~200-feather train rattled at 25.6 Hz. Least Concern, native to the subcontinent, genome 1.05 Gb, PMEL leucism gene.
Indian Penal Code
Indian Penal Code (IPC), Act No. 45 of 1860, India's principal criminal code drafted under Macaulay, 511 sections, in force 1861 to 2024, replaced by Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
Indian people
Indian people: the ~1.45 billion nationals of India, defined by citizenship rather than a single ethnicity; 121 languages in four families, majority Hindu, caste-stratified, with the world's largest diaspora.
Indian People's Theatre Association
The Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) is an all-India cultural organization founded in Bombay in 1943, whose people's theater movement shaped modern Indian theater, film, and music.
Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission
Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC), Ghaziabad: autonomous MoHFW body publishing the Indian Pharmacopoeia, India's official drug standards book under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940; also runs PvPI pharmacovigilance and joined the PDG in 2023.
Indian philosophy
Indian philosophy, also called Indian classical philosophy, is the Sanskrit philosophical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, spanning some two and a half millennia across Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain schools.
Indian Plate
Indian Plate: tectonic plate carrying the Indian subcontinent; broke from Gondwana ~167 Ma, separated from Madagascar 85-90 Ma, drifted north at up to 20 cm/yr, and collided with Eurasia ~50 Ma forming the Himalayas.
Indian Point Energy Center
Indian Point Energy Center, also known as the Indian Point nuclear power plant, was a nuclear plant in Buchanan, New York, that shut down in 2021.
Indian poker
Indian poker, also known as Blind Man's Bluff, is a poker variant where each player holds one card to their forehead unseen, and the highest card wins.
Indian Police Force (TV series)
Indian Police Force (इंडियन पुलिस फोर्स) is a 2024 seven-part Hindi Amazon Original action series by Rohit Shetty, starring Sidharth Malhotra, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, and Vivek Oberoi, extending his Cop Universe to streaming.
Indian Police Service (भारतीय पुलिस सेवा)
Indian Police Service (भारतीय पुलिस सेवा), an All India Service under the All India Services Act 1951, governed by the IPS Cadre Rules 1954; cadre posts, minimum tenure rules, and the 2006 Prakash Singh police reform directives.
Indian Political Service
The Indian Political Service (पॉलिटिकल डिपार्टमेंट) was the elite British corps, mostly Indian Army officers, that controlled India's princely states and frontier administration under the Viceroy until 1947.
Indian postcolonial theory
Indian postcolonial theory is critical scholarship, largely from the late 1970s onward, analyzing how colonial rule and its knowledge categories continue to structure Indian society and culture.
Indian prawn
Indian prawn (Penaeus indicus, Indian white prawn, Fenneropenaeus indicus): an Indo-West Pacific penaeid shrimp farmed and fished from East Africa to Southeast Asia; up to 23 cm, salinity-tolerant, cultured mainly in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Vietnam, and India.
Indian Predator: Beast of Bangalore
Indian Predator: Beast of Bangalore is a 2022 Netflix three-episode Kannada-language true-crime docuseries directed by Ashwin Rai Shetty about serial offender Umesh Reddy's 1996-1998 crimes in Karnataka.
Indian Predator: Murder In A Courtroom
Indian Predator: Murder in a Courtroom is a 2022 Netflix three-episode VICE Studios docuseries, season three of Indian Predator, directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni, about the 2004 lynching of gangster Akku Yadav by women of Nagpur's Kasturba Nagar slum.
Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi
Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi (इंडियन प्रीडेटर: दिल्ली का कसाई) is a 2022 Netflix Hindi true crime docuseries, directed by Ayesha Sood, about serial killer Chandrakant Jha; first of the Indian Predator franchise, three episodes, premiered 20 July 2022.
Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer
Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer (इंडियन प्रीडेटर: एक सीरियल किलर की डायरी) is a 2022 Netflix three-episode Hindi true crime docuseries by India Today Originals, directed by Dheeraj Jindal, about Raja Kolander, convicted of murdering journalist Dhirendra Singh.
Indian Premier League (इंडियन प्रीमियर लीग)
Indian Premier League (इंडियन प्रीमियर लीग, IPL): BCCI-run franchise Twenty20 cricket league launched 2008; 10 teams, $6.2bn media rights, Impact Player rule since 2023, franchises now valued above $1.7 billion.
Indian Premier League player movements
Indian Premier League player movements are the squad changes franchises make between seasons through trades, releases, retentions, and auction signings, governed by the BCCI under a shared salary cap.
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is an Indian public sector company under the Ministry of Railways, incorporated in 1999 to run catering, tourism, and online ticketing.
Indian Railway Finance Corporation
Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFC) is an Indian government-owned finance company, established in 1986, that borrows from markets to fund Indian Railways' rolling stock and projects.
Indian Railways (भारतीय रेल)
Indian Railways (भारतीय रेल), also known as Bhāratīya Rēla, is India's state-owned railway under the Ministry of Railways. Its first train ran from Bombay to Thane in 1853.
Indian Railways freight corridors
The Indian Railways freight corridors, formally the Dedicated Freight Corridors, are 2,843 km of freight-only railway lines built parallel to India's congested trunk routes, completed in 2026.
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Indian Rebellion of 1857, also called the Indian Mutiny or Sepoy Mutiny: uprising of Bengal Army sepoys and civilians against East India Company rule from Meerut, 10 May 1857, centred on Delhi, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Jhansi and Gwalior, ending Company rule.
Indian Rebellion of 1857 in Rajputana
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 in Rajputana saw the sepoy revolt at Neemuch, Nasirabad, and Mhow spark tribal uprisings across Rajputana's princely states, suppressed with a heavy hand.
Indian Red Cross Society
Indian Red Cross Society (भारतीय रेड क्रास सोसाइटी), India's national Red Cross society, founded under Act XV of 1920; IFRC member with 36 state branches, 1,200+ district branches, and about 4.7 million volunteers.