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  2. Great Depression in India - Wikipedia

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    The Great Depression in India was a period of economic depression in the Indian subcontinent, then under British colonial rule. Beginning in 1929 in the United States, the Great Depression soon began to spread to countries around the globe. A global financial crisis, combined with protectionist policies adopted by the colonial government ...

  3. Great Famine of 1876–1878 - Wikipedia

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    Succeeded by. Indian famine of 1896–1897. The Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau. [ 1] It affected south and Southwestern India —the British-administered presidencies of Madras and Bombay, and the princely states ...

  4. List of Amazon India originals - Wikipedia

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    List of Amazon India originals. Beginning in 2013, Amazon started distributing original content (series, films, etc.) through its Prime Video service, some of which are developed by in-house Amazon Studios. This article gives a list of Amazon's originals for India .

  5. History of Amazon - Wikipedia

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    History of Amazon. Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon in his Bellevue, Washington garage in 1994. Amazon is an American multinational technology company which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and digital streaming. It has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", [ 1] and is one of the world ...

  6. Indian independence movement - Wikipedia

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    e. The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule. It lasted until 1947, when the Indian Independence Act 1947 was passed. The first nationalistic movement for Indian independence emerged in the Province of Bengal. It later took root in the newly formed Indian ...

  7. List of Indian philosophers - Wikipedia

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    List of Indian philosophers. Indian philosophy, the systems of thought and reflection that were developed by the civilizations of the Indian subcontinent. They include both orthodox ( astika) systems, namely, the Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Purva-Mimamsa (or Mimamsa ), and Vedanta ( Advaita, Dwaita, Bhedbheda, Vishistadvaita ), and ...

  8. Amazon (company) - Wikipedia

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    Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [48] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [49] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 14th most visited website in the ...

  9. History of India - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of Indian history. Chandragupta Maurya overthrew the Nanda Empire and established the first great empire in ancient India, the Maurya Empire. India's Mauryan king Ashoka is widely recognised for his historical acceptance of Buddhism and his attempts to spread nonviolence and peace across his empire.