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Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
Cyclopedia
The circle or compass of the arts and sciences originally of the seven so called liberal arts and sciences circle of human knowledge Hence a work containing in alphabetical order information in all departments of knowledge or on a particular department or branch as a cyclopedia of the physical sciences or of mechanics See Encyclopedia...
Encyclopedia
The circle of arts and sciences a comprehensive summary of knowledge or of a branch of knowledge esp a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately and usually in alphabetical order a cyclopedia...
Encyclopedic
Pertaining to or of the nature of an encyclopedia broad in scope or content embracing a wide range of subjects as a person having encyclopedic knowledge of a subject...
Encyclopedism
The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias also possession of the whole range of knowledge encyclopedic learning...
Encyclopedist
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Cast iron
Cast iron, 'Cast iron' is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as 'a hard alloy of iron, carbon and silicon cast in a mould'. According to New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of English Language, the word 'cast iron' means 'an iron-carbon alloy produced in a blast furnace. It contains up to 4% carbon, and is more brittle, but more easily fused, than steel'. According to Van Nostrand's scientific Encyclopedia, 'cast iron' is 'primarily the product of remelting and casting pig iron'. (Interestingly, the expression 'cast-iron' - with a hyphen between 'cast' and 'iron' - has been defined separately as meaning 'made of cast iron', Bengal Iron Corpn. v. CTO, 1994 Supp (1) SCC 310: AIR 1993 SC 2414 (2417). [A.P. General Sales Tax Act, (6 of 1957)]Cast iron casting in its basic or rough form just be held to be 'cast iron'. But, if thereafter any machining or polishing or any other process is done to the rough cast iron casting to produce things like pipes, manhole covers or bends, these canno...
Hydrogenation
Hydrogenation, Hydrogenation a specialised pro-cess and is described in Encyclopedia Britannica (1951 Edn., Vol. 11, p. 978) as 'the treatment of a substance with hydrogen so that this combines directly with the substance treatment of a substance with hydrogen so that this combines directly with the substance treated. The term has, however, developed a more technical and restricted sense. It is now generally used to mean the treatment of an 'unsaturated' organic compound with hydrogen, so as to convert it by direct addition to a 'saturated' compound, State of Maharashtra v. Hansraj Depar Parle Oil Centre, (1977) 2 SCC 216 (220): 1977 SCR 78....
Oil seeds
Oil seeds, the conclusion that jeera, dhania, panmohuri, methi and postak are 'oilseeds' is correct. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary (7th Edition) edited by Arthur and Elizabeth Rose, from which the following informations regarding the seeds in question were available: Dhania (coriander seed); botanical name coriandrum sativum: Coriander oil is distilled from the coriander sativum a colourless or slightly yellowish liquid having aromatic odour. Jeera (cumin seed); Cumin oil is distilled from the cumin seed and is used for medicine, flavouring and perfumery. It is a colourless or yellowish, limpid liquid having characteristic odour of cumin. Postak (poppy seed); botanical name papover somni-ferum: Poppy oil is a very pale, golden yellow liquid with pleasant taste and odour extracted from the seeds and it is used as food oil, artist's colours, varnishes and lubrication. Methi (Fenugreek); botanical name trigonella Foenum-graecum (vide p. 164, Vol. 9 of the Encyclopedia Britannica). It ...
Paper
Paper, includes vellum parchment or any other material or which an instrument may be written, Rajasthan Stamp Act, 1999, s. 2(xxvi).Paper. As to the paper on which proceedings in the Supreme Court must be printed, see PRINTING.It includes vellum, parchment or any other material on which an instrument may be written. [Indian Stamp Act, 1899, s. 2 (18)]The word 'paper' admittedly not having been defined either in the U.P. Sales Tax Act, 1948 or the rules made thereunder, it has to be understood according to the aforesaid well-established canon of construction in the sense in which persons dealing in and using the article understand it. It is, therefore, necessary to know what is paper as commonly or generally understood. The said word which is derived from the name of reedy plant papyrus and grows abundantly along the Nile river in Egypt is explained in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (volume 2) (Third Edition) as: A substance composed of fibers interlaced into a compact web, made ...
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