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LA [ 9 ] Website. ladakh .nic .in. Ladakh ( / ləˈdɑːk /) [ 10 ] is a region administered by India as a union territory [ 1 ] and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India and China since 1959. [ 2 ]
Muslim rule in India saw a major shift in the cultural, linguistic, and religious makeup of the subcontinent. [8] Persian and Arabic vocabulary began to enter local languages, giving way to modern Punjabi, Bengali, and Gujarati, while creating new languages including Hindustani and its dialect, Deccani , used as official languages under Muslim ...
Manipur ( / ˌmʌnɪˈpʊər /, [ 8] US also / ˌmænɪˈpʊər /; [ 9] Meitei: Kangleipak[ a][ 10][ 11][ 12]) is a state in northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. [ 13] It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west.
Mizoram (English: / m ɪ ˈ z ɔːr ə m / ⓘ) is a state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its seat of government and largest city. Within India's northeast region, it is the southernmost state, sharing borders with three of the Seven Sister States, namely Tripura, Assam and Manipur, and also shares a 722-kilometre (449 mi) border with the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh and Myanmar ...
Islam is India's second-largest religion, [7] with 14.2% of the country's population, or approximately 172.2 million people, identifying as adherents of Islam in a 2011 census. [8] India also has the third-largest number of Muslims in the world. [9] [10] The majority of India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shia making up around 15% of the Muslim ...
Expansion of trade brought India into contact with Islam. Arab traders settled in Indian ports. In the seventh century, they converted to Islam, giving rise to small Muslim communities. These communities grew due to Indian conversions and because Hindu kings of south India (such as the Cholas) hired Muslim mercenaries. [161]
According to the 2011 Census of India, Uttarakhand has a population of 10,086,292 comprising 5,137,773 males and 4,948,519 females, with 69.77% of the population living in rural areas. The state is the 20th most populous state of the country having 0.83% of the population on 1.63% of the land.
Kuki people. Approximate extent of the area traditionally inhabited by the Kuki people. The Kuki people are an ethnic group in the Northeastern Indian states of Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram, [ 2] as well as the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh and Myanmar. [ 3] The Kukis form one of the largest hill tribe ...