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Damodar

(Encyclopedia)Damodar däˈmōdär [key], river, 370 mi (595 km) long, rising in Jharkhand state, E India, and flowing SE through West Bengal state to join the Hugli River below Kolkata (Calcutta). Its dams supply ...

Durgapur

(Encyclopedia)Durgapur do͝orˈgäpo͝or [key], city, West Bengal state, E central India, on the Damodar River. One ...

Indian Mutiny

(Encyclopedia)Indian Mutiny, 1857–58, revolt that began with Indian soldiers in the Bengal army of the British East India Company but developed into a widespread uprising against British rule in India. It is also...

Serampur

(Encyclopedia)Serampur or Serampore both: sĕˌrəmpôrˈ [key], town (1991 pop. 177,087), West Bengal state, E central India, on the Hugli River, just N of Kolkata (Calcutta). Founded in 1799, Serampur was the cen...

Dhanbad

(Encyclopedia)Dhanbad dänˈbäd [key], city, Jharkand state, E central India. On the Damodar River and adj...

Karli

(Encyclopedia)Karli kärˈlē [key], village, Maharashtra state, W India. Nearby are Buddhist caves that may have been excavated as early as the 2d cent. b.c. The most famous of them measures 124 ft by 45 ft (38 m ...

White Huns

(Encyclopedia)White Huns or Hephthalites hĕfˈthəlītsˌ [key], people of obscure origins, possibly of Tibetan or Turkish stock. They were called Ephthalites by the Greeks, and Hunas by the Indians. There is no d...

Northeast Passage

(Encyclopedia)Northeast Passage, water route along the northern coast of Europe and Asia, between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Beginning in the 15th cent., efforts were made to find a new all-water route to Ind...

Tabriz

(Encyclopedia)Tabriz täbrēzˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 1,088,985), capital of East Azerbaijan prov., NW Iran, on the Aji Chai (Talkheh) River, in the foothills of Mt. Sahand, at an elevation of c.4,600 ft (1,400 m)...

Antsiranana

(Encyclopedia)Antsiranana dē-āˈgō-swärˈĕs [key], town, N Madagascar, on Antsiranana Bay. The bay, an arm of the Indian Ocean, is one of the world's finest natural harbors; its lo...