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  2. Harvard Indian College - Wikipedia

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    The Indian College was an institution of higher education established in the 1640s with the mission of training Native American students at Harvard College, in the town of Cambridge, in colonial Massachusetts. The Indian College's building, located in Harvard Yard, was completed in 1656. It housed a printing press used to publish the first ...

  3. Indian aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    The theory of rasas still forms the aesthetic underpinning of all Indian classical dance and theatre, such as Bharatanatyam, kathak, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Manipuri, Kudiyattam, Kathakali and others. Expressing Rasa in classical Indian dance form is referred to as Rasa-abhinaya. The Nātyasāstra carefully delineates the bhavas used to create each ...

  4. Indian art - Wikipedia

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    Indian art consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk. Geographically, it spans the entire Indian subcontinent, including what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan , and at times eastern Afghanistan. A strong sense of design is characteristic of Indian ...

  5. Rasa (aesthetics) - Wikipedia

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    Rasa (aesthetics) In Indian aesthetics, a rasa ( Sanskrit: रस) literally means "juice, essence or taste". [1] [2] It is a concept in Indian arts denoting the aesthetic flavour of any visual, literary or musical work that evokes an emotion or feeling in the reader or audience, but cannot be described. [2]

  6. List of college sports team names and mascots derived from ...

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    A SDSU professor of American Indian Studies states that the mascot teaches the mistaken idea that Aztecs were a local tribe rather than living in Mexico 1,000 miles from San Diego. In April 2017, the university's Associated Students council rejected a resolution to retire the mascot introduced by the Native American Student Association.

  7. NCAA Native American mascot decision - Wikipedia

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    Controversies. San Diego State University (SDSU) was not cited by the NCAA in 2005 due to a decision that the Aztecs were not a Native American tribe with any living descendants. [7] A SDSU professor of American Indian Studies states that among other problems the mascot teaches the mistaken idea that the Aztecs were a local tribe rather than ...

  8. Tamil Thai Valthu - Wikipedia

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    Aesthetic tilaka on thy beauteous half-moon forehead! Fragrance of tilaka makes entire world delirious! Oh! Goddess Tamil! Let your fervour spreads in all directions! Many a life! Many a world! Creations of Thine! Decimations too ! Ever pervading Creator! Remain as ever! Ever as Thy have been! Kannada, Joyous Telugu, Dainty Malayalam with Tulu!

  9. Indian painting - Wikipedia

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    Indian painting has a very long tradition and history in Indian art. [1] The earliest Indian paintings were the rock paintings of prehistoric times, such as the petroglyphs found in places like the Bhimbetka rock shelters. Some of the Stone Age rock paintings found among the Bhimbetka rock shelters are approximately 10,000 years old.