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India is mentioned in 9,595 articles and has appeared on 31 TIME covers
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Indian Muslim devotees offer prayers at The Taj Mahal in Agra.
Human settlement in South Asia began about 9,000 years ago, when people started farming in the Indus valley along the modern-day India-Pakistan border. Since then, the story of what we now call India has been one of successive waves of arrivals and invaders, many of whom ended up assimilating into the existing society: Aryans from ... Read More

India Articles

Found: 9595 Articles
  • Aug. 13, 1965
    (See Cover) The ashes of Jawaharlal Nehru have long since disappeared into the silt of the Ganges, carrying with them the faint shadow of the rose he always wore in his lapel. Gone with the Pandit is the image of India as a moral bulwark of the "nonaligned" world, a pious mediator between the great ...
  • Nov. 30, 1962
    INDIA (See Cover) Red China behaved in so inscrutably Oriental a manner last week that even Asians were baffled. After a series of smashing victories in the border war with India. Chinese troops swept down from the towering Himalayas and were poised at the edge of the fertile plains of Assam, whose jute and tea ...
  • Mar. 16, 1942
    (See Cover) The whole Far East was atremble. From Burma, waves of refugees were already breaking over India's borders. Calcutta, Madras and other seaboard cities were being partly evacuated. If the Japanese struck at India and the Indian Ocean, 200 years of British-Indian argument might go up like tissue paper in a bonfire. Yet in ...
  • Jul. 30, 1956
    (See Cover) In a Paris hotel one sunny morning in 1926, a serious-minded young Hindu aristocrat took upon himself a delicate task. Resolutely he squared his slim shoulders and summoned out onto the balcony his younger sister, a lively 19-year-old who, under his watchful eye, was getting her first taste of life in Europe. "Darling," ...
  • Dec. 14, 1959
    (See Cover) Astride shaggy ponies, a file of 24 Indian border police moved carefully along a mountain valley high in the Himalayas. Late in the afternoon, at a spot 45 miles from the Tibetan frontier, one of the policemen pointed out several wood and dirt bunkers built into the hillside 500 ft. above them. Suddenly, ...
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