…relating to India or to the subcontinent comprising India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh…
…an act of placing both hands on a person’s arm and then twisting it with a wringing motion to produce a burning sensation…
…each of a pair of bottle-shaped clubs swung to exercise the arms in gymnastics…
…a type of maize with large brown and yellow grains, not usually eaten but used to make decorations at festivals such as Thanksgiving…
…deep black ink containing dispersed carbon particles, used especially in drawing and technical graphics…
…a plant with a yellowish stem and a single drooping flower, native to North America and NE Asia. It lacks chlorophyll and obtains nourishment via symbiotic fungi in its roots…
…a red ferric oxide pigment made typically by roasting ferrous salts…
…relating to the whole of India, or to all its ethnic, religious, or linguistic groups…
…a native or inhabitant of any of the islands of the West Indies…
…the ocean to the south of India, extending from the east coast of Africa to the East Indies and Australia…
…a duck of a slender upright breed, typically with white or fawn plumage, kept for egg laying…
…a period of unusually dry, warm weather occurring in late autumn…
…an orange-yellow pigment originally obtained from the urine of cows fed on mango leaves…
…relating to or denoting the earliest human inhabitants of the Americas, to circa 5000 bc. The date of their first arrival in America is debated (possibly up to 30,000 or 40,000 years ago, but artefacts do not become numerous until the Clovis period)…
…a member of any of various North American Indian peoples who formerly inhabited the Great Plains area…
…a North American Indian whose people have signed a treaty with the government…
…a member of any of the groups of indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America, especially those of North America…
…a defence in which Black responds to White’s advance of the queen’s pawn by moving the king’s knight to square f6, usually following with a fianchetto…
…the elephant of southern Asia, which is smaller than the African elephant, with smaller ears and only one lip to the trunk. It is often tamed as a beast of burden in India…
…a large one-horned rhinoceros with prominent skin folds and a prehensile upper lip, found in NE India and Nepal…
…a North American catalpa which is widely planted in urban parks in Europe…
…the feat supposed to have been performed in India in the 19th century of climbing a length of unattached rope hanging vertically in the air…
…the part of Asia south of the Himalayas which forms a peninsula extending into the Indian Ocean, between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. Historically forming the whole territory of greater India, the region is now divided between India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh…
…North American war (1754–63) between France and Great Britain…
…a broad-based political party in India. Founded in 1885, it dominated the independence movement in the 1930s under Mahatma Gandhi, and has been the principal party in government since 1947. Following splits in the party the Indian National Congress (I), formed by Indira Gandhi as a breakaway group (the I standing for Indira), was confirmed in 1981 as the official Congress party…
…a British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising the Chagos Archipelago and (until 1976) parts of the Seychelles. Ceded to Britain by France in 1814, the islands became a dependency in 1965. There are no permanent inhabitants, but British and US naval personnel occupy the island of Diego Garcia…
…a North American plant of the lily family with a poisonous black rhizome and tall sprays of yellow-green flowers…
…a soft-shelled turtle, native to India and Africa, with flaps of skin on the lower shell that fold to protect the hindlimbs and tail, and flexible margins to the upper shell that protect the head and limbs…
…a North American plant which bears brightly coloured brush-like flowering spikes…
…any of a number of plants thought to resemble a snake in shape, in particular Indian snakeroot (see rauwolfia)…
…any of a number of trees which have timber or foliage similar to that of the box tree, in particular:…
…a small moth which infests mills, granaries, and other places where grain is stored. The larvae spin silken webs…
…a soft-shelled turtle, native to India and Africa, with flaps of skin on the lower shell that fold to protect the hindlimbs and tail, and flexible margins to the upper shell that protect the head and limbs…
…a small fish with an almost transparent body, in particular:…
…any of a number of plants thought to resemble a snake in shape, in particular Indian snakeroot (see rauwolfia)…
