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It was set up in November 1961, a few weeks before IIM Ahmedabad, with the help of the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ford Foundation and the Government of West Bengal, and it was the first management institute of its kind in the country.

IIT Madras was set up in 1959 under an agreement with the Federal Republic of Germany, which supplied equipment, scholarships and visiting faculty in the early years, and the institute's early workshops and laboratories carried that German stamp.

It opened in 1951, the first of the IITs, in the buildings of the Hijli Detention Camp where political prisoners had been held under British rule.

Arjan Singh led the Indian Air Force during the 1965 war and was raised to the five star rank of Marshal of the Indian Air Force in 2002, the only officer of the Air Force ever to hold it.

Army Day marks the day in 1949 when Lieutenant General K. M. Cariappa took over as the first Indian Commander in Chief of the Indian Army from the last British holder of the post.

The Indian Naval Academy stands on the coast at Ezhimala in Kannur district of Kerala and is the basic training establishment for officer cadets of the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard.

The motto is taken from the Bhagavad Gita and is translated as touch the sky with glory.

The Garhwal Rifles has its regimental centre at Lansdowne, a cantonment town in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, and the regiment carries the motto Yudhaya Krit Nishchay.

The Madras Regiment traces its raising to 1758 and is accepted as the senior most and oldest infantry regiment of the Indian Army.

In the common ladder of the three services the Army Brigadier, the Navy Commodore and the Air Force Air Commodore occupy the same step.

The three services keep parallel ladders so that officers of equal standing can work together. At that level the Army has a Colonel, the Navy a Captain and the Air Force a Group Captain.

Article 53 of the Constitution vests the supreme command of the defence forces of the Union in the President, to be exercised in accordance with law.

Field Marshal is the five star rank of the Indian Army and stands above every other rank. It is ceremonial and is conferred only as a rare honour, and the officer who holds it never retires but remains on the active list of the Army for life.

The Pampas is the temperate grassland of Argentina and Uruguay, a flat and fertile region of wheat farming and cattle ranching.

Milpa is the local name for the slash and burn farming of Mexico, Guatemala and the neighbouring countries, in which a forest patch is cleared and burnt, cropped with maize, beans and squash for a few seasons and then left to recover.

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan, and formerly of Sakhalin and the Kuril islands.

The Maori are the Polynesian people who settled New Zealand before European contact. Their ceremonial war dance, the haka, is widely known, their meeting house is the marae, and the Maori language is one of the official languages of New Zealand, which they call Aotearoa.

The Inuit, earlier called Eskimo, live along the Arctic coasts of Greenland, Canada and Alaska. In winter they build the igloo, a dome of cut snow blocks, and in summer they live in the tupik, a tent of animal skin.

The Sami are the indigenous people of the far north of Norway, Sweden and Finland and of the Kola peninsula in Russia, a region often called Lapland.

The Bedouins are Arabic speaking nomads of the Arabian peninsula and the Syrian desert, who move with camels, sheep and goats between wells and seasonal pasture.