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75 relations: Afghanistan, Alderley, Gloucestershire, Allan Octavian Hume, Beilby Porteus, Bhimsen Thapa, Bihar, British Museum, Buddhism, Canterbury, Charles Darwin, Cotswolds, Cucurbitaceae, Darjeeling, Dewclaw, Dhole, Doctor of Civil Law, East India Company, Edward Blyth, Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, Ethnology, Eugène Burnouf, Haileybury and Imperial Service College, Henry Montgomery Lawrence, Hinayana, Hodgson's frogmouth, Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo, Hodgson's redstart, Hodgson's treecreeper, Hodgsonia, India, Indian Rebellion of 1857, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Jung Bahadur Rana, Kangyur, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Kathmandu, Kolkata, Kumaon division, Lotus Sutra, Magadha, Magnolia hodgsonii, Mountain hawk-eagle, Natural history, Nepal, Nepali language, Netherlands, Newar language, Pali, Persian language, Prestbury, Cheshire, ..., Pygmy hog, Raj Man Singh Chitrakar, Rajendra of Nepal, Rana Jang Pande, Ranga Nath Poudyal, Resident (title), Rhododendron, Richard Lydekker, Richmond, London, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Tickell, Sanskrit, Shimla, Société Asiatique, Tengyur, The Asiatic Society, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Robert Malthus, Tibet, Tibetan antelope, Tibetan Mastiff, Varanasi, White-throated bush chat, Zoologische Mededelingen. Expand index (25 more) »
Afghanistan
Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.
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Alderley, Gloucestershire
Alderley (also previously known as Alderleigh) is a village and civil parish in the Stroud district of Gloucestershire, England, about fourteen miles southwest of Stroud and two miles south of Wotton-under-Edge.
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Allan Octavian Hume
Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (6 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a member of the Imperial Civil Service (later the Indian Civil Service), a political reformer, ornithologist and botanist who worked in British India.
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Beilby Porteus
Beilby Porteus (or Porteous; 8 May 1731 – 13 May 1809), successively Bishop of Chester and of London, was a Church of England reformer and a leading abolitionist in England.
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Bhimsen Thapa
Bhimsen Thapa (भीमसेन थापा; August 1775 – 5 August 1839) was the Mukhtiyar (equivalent to prime minister) and de facto ruler of Nepal from 1806 to 1837.
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Bihar
Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India.
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British Museum
The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Canterbury
Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Cotswolds
The Cotswolds is an area in south central England containing the Cotswold Hills, a range of rolling hills which rise from the meadows of the upper Thames to an escarpment, known as the Cotswold Edge, above the Severn Valley and Evesham Vale.
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Cucurbitaceae
The Cucurbitaceae, also called cucurbits and the gourd family, are a plant family consisting of about 965 species in around 95 genera, the most important of which are.
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Darjeeling
Darjeeling is a town and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Dewclaw
A dewclaw is a digit – vestigial in some animals – on the foot of many mammals, birds, and reptiles (including some extinct orders, like certain theropods).
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Dhole
The dhole (Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to Central, South and Southeast Asia.
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Doctor of Civil Law
Doctor of Civil Law (DCL; Doctor Civilis Legis) is a degree offered by some universities, such as the University of Oxford, instead of the more common Doctor of Laws (LLD) degrees.
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East India Company
The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.
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Edward Blyth
Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta.
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Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, (8 September 1790 – 22 December 1871) was a British Tory politician.
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Ethnology
Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning "nation") is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationship between them (cf. cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).
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Eugène Burnouf
Eugène Burnouf (April 8, 1801 – May 28, 1852) was an eminent French scholar and orientalist who made significant contributions to the deciphering of Old Persian cuneiform.
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Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Haileybury is an independent school near Hertford in England.
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Henry Montgomery Lawrence
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence KCB (28 June 18064 July 1857) was a British military officer, surveyor, administrator and statesman in British India.
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Hinayana
"Hīnayāna" is a Sanskrit term literally meaning the "inferior vehicle".
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Hodgson's frogmouth
The Hodgson's frogmouth (Batrachostomus hodgsoni) is a species of bird in the family Podargidae.
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Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo
The Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx nisicolor), also known as the whistling hawk-cuckoo is a species of cuckoo found in north-eastern India, Myanmar, southern China and southeast Asia.
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Hodgson's redstart
The Hodgson's redstart (Phoenicurus hodgsoni) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
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Hodgson's treecreeper
Hodgson's treecreeper (Certhia hodgsoni), is a small passerine bird from the southern rim of the Himalayas.
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Hodgsonia
Hodgsonia is a small genus of fruit-bearing vines in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India between 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.
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Joseph Dalton Hooker
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century.
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Jung Bahadur Rana
Shree Teen Maharaja Sir Jung Bahadur Kunwar Ranaji, (born as Bir Narsingh Kunwar (वीर नरसिंह कुँवर.), 18 June 1817, Borlang, Gorkha – 25 February 1877, Patharghat, Rautahat; popularly known as Jung Bahadur Rana (जङ्ग बहादुर राणा)) was a Khas Rajput (Chhetri) ruler of Nepal and founder of the Rana Dynasty of Nepal.
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Kangyur
The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a loosely defined list of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur or Kanjur ('The Translation of the Word') and the Tengyur or Tanjur (Tengyur) ('Translation of Treatises').
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel (10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829), usually cited as Friedrich Schlegel, was a German poet, literary critic, philosopher, philologist and Indologist.
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Kathmandu
Kathmandu (काठमाडौं, ये:. Yei, Nepali pronunciation) is the capital city of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.
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Kolkata
Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Kumaon division
For Kumaoni people see Kumaoni people Kumaon or Kumaun is one of the two regions and administrative divisions of Uttarakhand, a mountainous state of northern India, the other being Garhwal.
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Lotus Sutra
The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: सद्धर्मपुण्डरीक सूत्र, literally "Sūtra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma") is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras, and the basis on which the Tiantai, Tendai, Cheontae, and Nichiren schools of Buddhism were established.
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Magadha
Magadha was an ancient Indian kingdom in southern Bihar, and was counted as one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas (Sanskrit: "Great Countries") of ancient India.
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Magnolia hodgsonii
Magnolia hodgsonii (syn. Talauma hodgsonii), known in Chinese as Gai lie mu is a species of Magnolia native to the forests of the Himalaya and southeastern Asia, occurring in Bhutan, southwestern China (Xizang), northeastern India, northern Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand.
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Mountain hawk-eagle
The mountain hawk-eagle or Hodgson's hawk-eagle (Nisaetus nipalensis, earlier treated under Spizaetus) is a bird of prey.
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Natural history
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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Nepal
Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
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Nepali language
Nepali known by endonym Khas-kura (खस कुरा) is an Indo-Aryan language of the sub-branch of Eastern Pahari.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Newar language
Newar or Newari, also known as Nepal Bhasa (नेपाल भाषा), is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Newar people, the indigenous inhabitants of Nepal Mandala, which consists of the Kathmandu Valley and surrounding regions in Nepal.
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Pali
Pali, or Magadhan, is a Middle Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian subcontinent.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی), is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Prestbury, Cheshire
Prestbury is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England.
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Pygmy hog
The pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is a critically endangered suid, previously spread across Bhutan, India and Nepal, but now only found in India (Assam).
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Raj Man Singh Chitrakar
Raj Man Singh Chitrakar (IAST rāja māna siṃha citrakāra) (1797-1865) was a Nepalese artist in the mid-19th century who worked for the British and Nepalese courts producing a large number of pictures.
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Rajendra of Nepal
Rajendra Bikram Shah (राजेन्द्र विक्रम शाह) (1813–1881) was King of Nepal from 1816 to 1847.
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Rana Jang Pande
Rana Jang Pande (रणजङ्ग पाँडे) was the 3rd Prime Minister of the government of Nepal and the most powerful person in political scenario in three decades from the aristocratic Pande clan.
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Ranga Nath Poudyal
Ranga Nath Poudyal (रङ्गनाथ पौड्याल) popularly known as Ranganath Pandit was the Mukhtiyar of Nepal from 1837 December to 1838 August and in 1840 November for about 2–3 weeks.
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Resident (title)
A Resident, or in full Resident Minister, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country.
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Rhododendron
Rhododendron (from Ancient Greek ῥόδον rhódon "rose" and δένδρον déndron "tree") is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.
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Richard Lydekker
Richard Lydekker (25 July 1849 – 16 April 1915) was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.
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Richmond, London
Richmond is a suburban town in south-west London, The London Government Act 1963 (c.33) (as amended) categorises the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames as an Outer London borough.
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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), was established, according to its Royal Charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia." From its incorporation the Society has been a forum, through lectures, its journal, and other publications, for scholarship relating to Asian culture and society of the highest level.
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Samuel Tickell
Colonel Samuel Richard Tickell (19 August 1811 – 20 April 1875) was a British army officer, artist, linguist and ornithologist in India and Burma.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.
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Shimla
Shimla, also known as Simla, is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
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Société Asiatique
The Société Asiatique is a French learned society dedicated to the study of Asia.
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Tengyur
The Tengyur or Tanjur or Bstan-’gyur (Tibetan: "Translation of Teachings") is the Tibetan collection of commentaries to the Buddhist teachings, or "Translated Treatises".
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The Asiatic Society
The Asiatic Society was founded by civil servant Sir William Jones on 15 January 1784 in a meeting presided over by Sir William Jones, Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William at the Fort William in Calcutta, then capital of the British Raj, to enhance and further the cause of Oriental research.
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The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication is a book by Charles Darwin that was first published in January 1868.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician.
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Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus (13 February 1766 – 23 December 1834) was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography.
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Tibet
Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.
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Tibetan antelope
The Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) (pronounced) is a medium-sized bovid native to the Tibetan plateau.
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Tibetan Mastiff
The Tibetan Mastiff is a large Tibetan dog breed (Canis lupus familiaris) (Tibetan: དོ་ཁྱི, Chinese: 藏獒; Pinyin: Zàng áo).
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Varanasi
Varanasi, also known as Benares, Banaras (Banāras), or Kashi (Kāśī), is a city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of North India, south-east of the state capital, Lucknow, and east of Allahabad.
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White-throated bush chat
The white-throated bush chat (Saxicola insignis), also known as Hodgson's bushchat, is an Old World flycatcher in the genus Saxicola.
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Zoologische Mededelingen
Zoologische Mededelingen is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that publishes papers and monographs on animal systematics.
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References
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