Danapur Nizamat, city, northern Bihar state, northeastern India. It is situated on the Ganges (Ganga) River, about 15 miles (25 km) west of Patna. The city is a major road and rail junction and an agricultural trade center. Industries include printing, oilseed milling, and metalworks. There is a

Danapur Nizamat, city, northern Bihar state, northeastern India. It is situated on the Ganges (Ganga) River, about 15 miles (25 km) west of Patna. The city is a major road and rail junction and an agricultural trade center. Industries include printing, oilseed milling, and metalworks. There is a

Wissel Lakes, chain of three highland lakes located in the Sudirman Range of the Indonesian province of Papua (in western New Guinea). They comprise Paniai, the largest and northernmost; Tage, to its south; and Tigi, the southernmost. Situated at an elevation of about 5,750 feet (1,750 metres),

Danaus, in Greek legend, son of Belus, king of Egypt, and twin brother of Aegyptus. Driven out of Egypt by his brother, he fled with his 50 daughters (the Danaïds) to Argos, where he became king. Soon thereafter the 50 sons of Aegyptus arrived in Argos, and Danaus was forced to consent to their

reproductive behaviour: Insects: …of butterflies, such as the queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus), the males possess “hair pencils” that project from the end of the abdomen and emit a scent when swept over the female’s antennae during courtship behaviour. Copulation does not occur in the absence of this chemical display.

monarch butterfly, (Danaus plexippus), familiar member of the milkweed butterfly group (subfamily Danainae, order Lepidoptera) known for its large size, its orange and black wings, and its long annual migrations. Monarchs are concentrated in North, Central, and South America but can also be found

monarch butterfly: The subspecies D. plexippus megalippe is a nonmigratory form that occurs on the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.

monarch butterfly: The endangered subspecies Danaus plexippus plexippus is a migratory monarch found primarily in North America and occasionally on islands in the Caribbean region. The subspecies D. plexippus megalippe is a nonmigratory form that occurs on the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean.

bangu, Chinese frame drum that, when struck by one or two small bamboo sticks, creates a sharp dry sound essential to the aesthetics of Chinese opera. It is also used in many Chinese chamber music ensembles. The drum, which is about 25 cm (10 inches) in diameter and 10 cm (4 inches) deep, consists

Danbury, city, coextensive with the town (township) of Danbury, Fairfield county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S. It lies along the Still River in the foothills of the Berkshire Hills. Settled in 1685, it was named in 1687 for Danbury, England, and was incorporated as a town in 1702. The

Danbury Hatters’ Case, U.S. Supreme Court case in which unions were held to be subject to the antitrust laws. In 1902 the United Hatters of North America, having failed to organize the firm of D.E. Loewe in Danbury, Conn., called for a nationwide boycott of the firm’s products. The firm brought

Glen Ellyn, village, DuPage county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It is a suburb of Chicago, lying 23 miles (37 km) west of downtown. Glen Ellyn’s phases of development were marked by seven name changes: Babcock’s Grove (1833), for the first settlers, Ralph and Morgan Babcock; DuPage Center (1834);

Thomas Osborne, 1st duke of Leeds was an English statesman who, while chief minister to King Charles II, organized the Tories in Parliament. In addition, he played a key role in bringing William and Mary to the English throne in 1689. The son of a Royalist Yorkshire landowner, Osborne did not

honeybee: …honeybee is remarkable for the dancing movements it performs in the hive to communicate information to its fellow bees about the location, distance, size, and quality of a particular food source in the surrounding area.

ecstasy: Other methods are: dancing (as used by the Mawlawiyyah, or whirling dervishes, a Muslim Sufi sect); the use of sedatives and stimulants (as utilized in some Hellenistic mystery religions); and the use of certain drugs, such as peyote, mescaline, hashish, LSD, and similar products (in certain Islamic sects…

dance, is the movement of the body in a rhythmic way, usually to music and within a given space, for the purpose of expressing an idea or emotion, releasing energy, or simply taking delight in the movement itself. Dance is a powerful impulse, but the art of dance is that impulse channeled by

Dance (I), huge oil painting created in 1909 by French Fauvist artist Henri Matisse as the full-size study for a work commissioned by the Russian textile baron Sergei Shchukin. Shchukin was Matisse’s greatest patron long before the striking colours and radically simplified forms of Matisse’s work

The Ballet Class, oil painting created between 1873 and 1876 by French artist Edgar Degas. This painting, one of two of the same scene, shows dancers waiting to be assessed by ballet master Jules Perrot. The first part of the 1870s saw Degas defining his style, and the dance pictures he painted at

dance criticism, the descriptive analysis of a dance performance that is printed, broadcast, or transmitted electronically. Dance is among the most ephemeral of all forms of art, and until the use of photography and the development of useful dance notation in the late 19th century, most of the very

Haruki Murakami: Works: …with Dansu Dansu Dansu (1988; Dance Dance Dance).

Indonesia: Theatre and dance: …they are typically termed “dance-dramas.” Of these traditions, the wayang wong and wayang topeng (masked theatre) of Java and Bali, as well as the Balinese plays recounting the tale of the witch Calonarang, are among the most widely known. Since independence, Indonesian choreographers trained at the country’s performing arts…

dance fly, (family Empididae), any member of a family of insects in the fly order, Diptera, that are named for their erratic movements while in flight. Dance flies are small with a disproportionately large thorax and a long tapering abdomen. In males, the abdomen usually bears conspicuous genitalia

PJ Harvey: On Dance Hall at Louse Point (1996), a collaboration with John Parish, who had been her bandmate in Automatic Dlamini when they were teenagers, she gave up control of the music, which, far more than her lyrics, turned out to be her main strength.

Tony Hillerman: …Allan Poe Award (1974, for Dance Hall of the Dead [1973]) and the Grandmaster Award (1991).

Henri Matisse: Riviera years of Henri Matisse: …version of his large mural The Dance II, which was commissioned by Albert C. Barnes for the Barnes Foundation.

Dan Jacobson: >A Dance in the Sun (1956), and The Price of Diamonds (1957)—form a complex mosaic that provides a peculiarly incisive view of racially divided South African society. Much of his best work was in his short stories, especially in the collections The Zulu and the…

Lincoln Kirstein: …1942 to 1948 he edited Dance Index, a magazine that published scholarly, illustrated, and annotated monographs on the entire spectrum of dance topics. In bound form (seven volumes), Dance Index became a major reference work for dance scholars. Kirstein also published poetry, plays, novels, memoirs, and critical studies on the…

John Mellencamp: …most notable of these included Dance Naked (1994), which went gold on the strength of its cover version of Van Morrison’s “Wild Night”; Mr. Happy Go Lucky (1996), featuring the hit single “Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)”; the self-titled John Mellencamp (1998); and Trouble No More (2003), an…

dance notation, the recording of dance movement through the use of written symbols. Dance notation is to dance what musical notation is to music and what the written word is to drama. In dance, notation is the translation of four-dimensional movement (time being the fourth dimension) into signs

Hans Holbein the Younger: …allegorical concept of the “Dance of Death,” was designed by him and cut by another artist as early as about 1523 to 1526 but was not published until 1538. Its scenes display an immaculate sense of order, packing much information about the lifestyles and habits of Death’s victims into…

W. H. Auden: Life: …in London, he wrote first The Dance of Death (a musical propaganda play) and then three plays in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, Auden’s friend since preparatory school: The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935), The Ascent of F 6 (1936), and On the Frontier (1938). Auden also wrote commentaries for documentary…

comedy: 20th-century tragicomedy: Strindberg’s Dance of Death (1901), with its cruelty and pain dispensed with robust pleasure by a fiercely battling husband and wife, is a significant model of the grotesque in the modern theatre; it is reflected in such mid-20th-century examples of what came to be called black…

Doris Humphrey: Dance of the Chosen (1931; later and better known as The Shakers) added drums, accordions, and incoherent speech to portray the ecstatic nature of the Shakers’ religious fervour. Her trilogy known as New Dance, after the title of the third section, was completed in 1936…

Wole Soyinka: Background and early career: …wrote his first important play, A Dance of the Forests (produced 1960; published 1963), for the Nigerian independence celebrations. The play satirizes the fledgling nation by stripping it of romantic legend and by showing that the present is no more a golden age than was the past.

Canadian literature: Fiction: …short stories—in collections ranging from Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) to The View from Castle Rock (2006)—depict the domestic lives and relationships of women in Toronto, small-town Ontario, and British Columbia in an increasingly enigmatic style. Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers (1966) probes the relationship between sainthood, violence, eroticism, and…

Dance of the Hours, musical episode from Act III, scene 2, of Amilcare Ponchielli’s opera La gioconda that is often performed as a stand-alone orchestral work. In its original context—as a balletic interlude to entertain a party—it (and the entire opera) premiered in Milan on April 8, 1876. The

Lucas van Leyden: …1519, when he engraved the Dance of the Magdalene. This work also has a large number of figures, but they are tranquil and are lucidly composed in small groupings.

mask: Theatrical uses: …for exorcising demons called the Dance of the Red Tiger Devil is performed at fixed seasons of the year exclusively by the priests or lamas wearing awe-inspiring masks of deities and demons. Masks employed in this mystery play are made of papier-mâché, cloth, and occasionally gilt copper. In the Indian…

Oceanic art and architecture: The Massim area: …stern of seagoing canoes; and dance paddles (two semicircular panels connected by a handhold bar). Dance paddles were sometimes painted, but, in general, painting of wooden objects was minimal. Painting was mainly used to decorate the gables of yam storehouses and on convex oval war shields.

Helen Tamiris: She also organized the Dance Repertory Theatre (1930–32), which produced concerts jointly with such modern dance choreographers as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman. She encouraged the inclusion of dance in the WPA Federal Theatre Project and served as principal choreographer from 1937 to 1939.

suite, in music, a group of self-contained instrumental movements of varying character, usually in the same key. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the period of its greatest importance, the suite consisted principally of dance movements. In the 19th and 20th centuries the term also referred more

Arthur Mitchell: …he and Karel Shook founded Dance Theatre of Harlem, an integrated school, whose associated company made its debut in 1971 in New York City. Mitchell choreographed a number of ballets for the company before it disbanded in 2004; the troupe was revived in 2012. In 2009 Mitchell stepped down as…

Sly and the Family Stone: Success: Stand!, playing Woodstock, and Family Affair: …single with the raucous “Dance to the Music” in 1968. That smash hit led to a national tour and television appearances. In 1969 Sly captured the moods of the nation with the Stand! album, which showcased an unprecedented combination of joy, optimism, and rage and established Sly Stone as…

A Dance to the Music of Time, series of 12 novels by Anthony Powell, published from 1951 to 1975. The series—which includes A Question of Upbringing (1951), A Buyer’s Market (1952), The Acceptance World (1955), At Lady Molly’s (1957), Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant (1960), The Kindly Ones (1962),

Luther Vandross: …be his last studio album, Dance with My Father, which earned four Grammy Awards, including best R&B album, while the title track took the award for song of the year.

African dance, performing art deeply woven into the social fabric of Africa and generally involving aspects of music and theatre as well as rhythmic bodily movement. See also African music and mask. In African societies, dance serves a complex diversity of social purposes. Within an indigenous

George Dance, the Younger was a British architect who was responsible for extensive urban redevelopment in London. He was a founding member of Great Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts. The youngest son of George Dance the Elder, who was clerk of works to the City of London from 1735 to 1768, the

Dorothy Arzner: Films of the 1930s and ’40s: Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), which paired Lucille Ball (in perhaps her finest dramatic role) as a stripper with Maureen O’Hara as an aspiring ballerina, is an unapologetic look at the world of burlesque. Arzner’s last film, First Comes Courage (1943), starred Merle Oberon as a…

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: His most famous work, The Dance (completed 1869), a sculptural group for the facade of the Paris Opéra, created a sensation and was attacked as immoral. His works were the subject of some of the most significant debates about sculpture during the mid-19th century. In order to allay the…

Fleetwood Mac: …core members gathered again for The Dance, a live album that debuted a smattering of new material and fueled a U.S. tour. In 1998, Fleetwood Mac was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Western dance, history of Western dance from ancient times to the present and including the development of ballet, the waltz, and various types of modern dance. The peoples of the West—of Europe and of the countries founded through permanent European settlement elsewhere—have a history of dance

dancehall music, style of Jamaican popular music that had its genesis in the political turbulence of the late 1970s and became Jamaica’s dominant music in the 1980s and ’90s. Central to dancehall is the deejay, who raps, or “toasts,” over a prerecorded rhythm track (bass guitar and drums), or

Paul Manship: …large decorative works—mostly in bronze—are Dancer and Gazelles (1916), of which there are versions in several museums, and Prometheus (1934), a fountain sculpture at Rockefeller Center in New York. He executed many portraits in marble; most striking are Pauline Frances—Three Weeks Old (1914) and John D. Rockefeller (1918). Manship’s depictions…

Björk: …score for Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000), a tragic musical in which she also starred. The film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, and Björk was named best actress.

Javier Bardem: First English roles and rising acclaim: …starred in both the thriller The Dancer Upstairs, the directorial debut of actor John Malkovich, and the drama Los lunes al sol (Mondays in the Sun); his portrayal of a laid-off shipyard worker in the latter earned him another Goya. For his moving performance as quadriplegic Ramón Sampedro in Mar…

Edgar Degas: A versatile technician: …pastel or gouache, as in Dancer with a Bouquet Bowing Onstage (1878). The results can be exhilarating, notably when the effects of light and texture are subtly expressive of the chosen subject, but he soon tired of the technique. The late 1870s marked the height of Degas’s graphic experimentation, after…

Stephen Dobyns: Such later works include Dancer with One Leg (1983); Cold Dog Soup (1985), in which a man undertakes a nighttime tour of New York City as he attempts to bury a date’s dead dog; The Two Deaths of Señora Puccini (1988), about sexual obsession during an uprising in an…

Edgar Degas: Final years of Edgar Degas: …oil painting of about 1900, Dancers at the Barre, for example, Degas created a vital equilibrium between the energy of the two women in a tense composition of verticals and diagonals and of green skirts and orange walls.

folk dance: Dancing for enlightenment: The Dances of Universal Peace were developed by Samuel Lewis from California, who was a Sufi and Zen master. He had been a student of modern dance pioneer Ruth St. Denis, who inspired him with her understanding of dance as a means to attain wisdom. In…

Dances With Wolves, American epic western film, released in 1990, that was directed by and starred Kevin Costner and won widespread admiration as well as seven Academy Awards, including that for best picture. It also received the Golden Globe Award for best drama. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica

English literature: Drama: Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa [1990]), Tom Murphy (Conversations on a Homecoming [1985]), Billy Roche (Poor Beast in the Rain [1990]), Martin McDonagh (The Beauty Queen of Leenane [1996]), and Conor McPherson (The Weir [1997]) all wrote effectively on this theme.

the New York Dolls: …by Rundgren, while the well-received Dancing Backward in High Heels (2011) harkened back to 1960s pop. However, after 2011 Johansen and Sylvain went their separate ways again, and the New York Dolls gave no further performances nor recorded.

Susan Musgrave: Fiction and essays: …Charcoal Burners (1980); her second, The Dancing Chicken (1987), is a darkly satiric novel with highly eccentric characters. The Dancing Chicken was followed by Cargo of Orchids (2000) and Given (2012). She also wrote several children’s books: Gullband (1974), a series of poems; Hag’s Head (1980), a Halloween story; Kestrel…

collective behavior: Expressive crowds: Not all crowds act. In some crowds the participants are largely preoccupied with themselves or with one another, and with participation in a common experience. Beginning as early as the 7th century in Europe, and continuing throughout the Middle Ages, there were reported…

Mawlawīyah, fraternity of Sufis (Muslim mystics) founded in Konya (Qonya), Anatolia, by the Persian Sufi poet Rūmī (d. 1273), whose popular title mawlānā (Arabic: “our master”) gave the order its name. The order, propagated throughout Anatolia, controlled Konya and environs by the 15th century and

whirlwind: Dust devils: …secondary vortices are sometimes called dancing devils. Such clusters of vortices are probably tied to a large thermal plume passing by.

Korean art: Painting: In the Tomb of the Dancing Figures in the Tonggou region around Ji’an, the master is shown on the northern wall of the main chamber feasting with visiting Buddhist monks. A troupe of dancers is painted on the eastern wall and a hunting scene on the western…

Margaret Atwood: Other fiction and nonfiction works: …collected in such volumes as Dancing Girls (1977), Bluebeard’s Egg (1983), Wilderness Tips (1991), Moral Disorder (2006), Stone Mattress (2014), and Old Babes in the Wood: Stories (2023).

lek, in animal behaviour, communal area in which two or more males of a species perform courtship displays. Lek behaviour, also called arena behaviour, is found in a number of insects, birds, and mammals. Varying degrees of interaction occur between the males, from virtually none to closely

Amitav Ghosh: His nonfiction books include Dancing in Cambodia, at Large in Burma (1998), The Imam and the Indian (2002), Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times (2005), The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016), and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2021).

Asghar Farhadi: …film, Raghṣ dar ghobār (Dancing in the Dust), about a young man who flees to the desert after being forced to divorce his wife over rumours that her mother is a prostitute; Farhardi also penned the screenplay, as he would for most of his films. He next made Shahr-e…

Berry Gordy: …Martha and the Vandellas’ “Dancing in the Street” and the Temptations’ “My Girl.” Also about this time Gordy developed the Supremes, Motown’s first superstar act. Powered by Diana Ross’s sweet voice and quiet grace, the group went on to become one of the most successful female singing trios of…

Fred Astaire: Early career: …dancer in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production Dancing Lady (1933), which starred Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and the Three Stooges.

choreography: During the Renaissance, dance masters in Italy, such as Domenico da Piacenza, taught social dances at court and probably began to invent new ones or arrange variants of known dances, thus combining a creative function with their educational ones. Staged ballet employed the same steps and movements as…

Clara Bow: (1926), Kid Boots (1926), and Dancing Mothers (1926).

Robert M. Yerkes: …mammals, and his first book, The Dancing Mouse (1907), helped establish the use of mice and rats as standard laboratory subjects in psychological testing. He became interested in the psychological testing of humans, and he contributed much to the development of multiple-choice testing and a widely used point scale (1915)…

Lionel Richie: Solo career success, We Are the World, and musical collaborations: …Can’t Slow Down (1983) and Dancing on the Ceiling (1986). Can’t Slow Down not only won a Grammy Award for album of the year but became and long remained one of Motown’s best-selling albums.

dancing plague of 1518, event in which hundreds of citizens of Strasbourg (then a free city within the Holy Roman Empire, now in France) danced uncontrollably and apparently unwillingly for days on end; the mania lasted for about two months before ending as mysteriously as it began. In July 1518, a

ABBA: Origin and Eurovision success: …catchy and undeniably club-friendly “Dancing Queen.” The Album (1978) marked a departure of sorts: although its standout single, “Take a Chance on Me,” was a brilliant, if straightforward, pop anthem, other tracks hinted at an art rock influence, and the album’s second side was dominated by a “mini-musical” titled…

patas monkey, (Erythrocebus patas), long-limbed and predominantly ground-dwelling primate found in the grass and scrub regions of West and Central Africa and southeast to the Serengeti plains. The adult male patas monkey has shaggy fur set off by a white mustache and white underparts, and its build

Annette Kolodny: “Dancing Through the Minefield: Some Observations on the Theory, Method, and Politics in Feminist Literary Criticism” (1983) combines feminist social history with Kolodny’s personal history—she had won a judgment against the University of New Hampshire, which she accused of anti-Semitism and sex discrimination in denying…

Demi Lovato: 2018–present: Later career: …also released the studio album Dancing with the Devil…The Art of Starting Over the same year. In 2022 she released the album Holy Fvck, which has a heavier rock sound than anything she had released before. The album was a success and reached the top of Billboard’s Top Rock and…

Paula Abdul: American Idol and later activities: More reality series followed, including Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and The Masked Dancer. In addition, Abdul resumed her singing career. In 2016 she embarked on her first tour in some 25 years, as a supporting act for headliner New Kids on the Block. Two…

Brandenburg: …adviser about this time was Eberhard Danckelmann (1643–1722), whose services in continuing the reforming work of the Great Elector were very valuable; but, having made many enemies, he fell from power in 1697 and was imprisoned for several years. The most important work of Frederick III was to crown the…

Florent Carton Dancourt was an actor and playwright who created the French comedy of manners and was one of the most popular of French dramatists before the Revolution. Born into an established bourgeois family, Dancourt was educated in Paris by Jesuits and studied law. In 1680 he married an

Claire Danes: Personal life: In 2006 Danes met actor Hugh Dancy while filming Evening (2007), and the couple married in 2009. They have two sons and a daughter.

India: The concept of the state: …primarily dependent on two factors: danda (authority) and dharma (in its sense of the social order—i.e., the preservation of the caste structure). The Artha-shastra, moreover, refers to the seven limbs (saptanga) of the state as the king, administration, territory, capital, treasury, coercive authority, and allies. However, the importance of the…

Niger: Military coup and return to civilian rule: …junta named former cabinet minister Mahamadou Danda as prime minister, and a 20-member transition government was named on March 1. A new constitution, which curbed the presidential powers that Tandja had introduced in 2009, was approved by voters in October 2010.

Dandakaranya: …derives its name from the Dandak Forest (the abode of the demon Dandak) in the Hindu epic Ramayana. It was successively ruled by the Nalas, Vakatakas, and Chalukyas in ancient times and now is the home of the Gond people. Most of the region is a sanded-over peneplain with a…

Dandakaranya, physiographic region in east-central India. Extending over an area of about 35,600 square miles (92,300 square km), it includes the Abujhmar Hills in the west and borders the Eastern Ghats in the east. The Dandakaranya includes parts of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Telangana, and Andhra

Dandakaranya: The Dandakaranya Development Authority was created by the union (central) government in 1958 to assist refugees from what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). It constructed the Bhaskel and Pakhanjore irrigation projects in southwestern Odisha and southern Chhattisgarh, respectively; woodworking centers at locations such as Jagdalpur…

Indian philosophy: Early theories of kingship and state: …is that of protection, and dandaniti, or the art of punishment, is subordinated to rajadharma, or dharma of the king. Though it recognizes a quasi-divinity of the king, the Mahabharata makes the dharma, the moral law, superior to the king.

Battle of Dandānqān, (1040), decisive clash between the forces of the Ghaznavid sultan Masʿūd I (reigned 1031–41) and the nomad Turkmen Seljuqs in Khorāsān. The battle resulted in Masʿūd’s defeat and the Seljuq takeover of Ghaznavid territory in Iran and Afghanistan. The late 1030s saw a struggle

Dandarah, agricultural town on the west bank of the Nile, in Qinā muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Upper Egypt. The modern town is built on the ancient site of Ta-ynt-netert (She of the Divine Pillar), or Tentyra. It was the capital of the sixth nome (province) of pharaonic Upper Egypt and was dedicated to

dandelion, weedy perennial herb of the genus Taraxacum of the family Asteraceae, native to Eurasia but widespread throughout much of temperate North America. The most familiar species is T. officinale. It has a rosette of leaves at the base of the plant; a deep taproot; a smooth, hollow stem;

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, and scripts: …of Bradbury’s most personal works, Dandelion Wine (1957), is an autobiographical novel about a magical but too brief summer of a 12-year-old boy in Green Town, Illinois (a fictionalized version of his childhood home of Waukegan). His next collection, A Medicine for Melancholy (1959), contained “All Summer in a Day,”…

Dandenong Ranges, mountain ranges, part of the Eastern Highlands, east of Melbourne in southern Victoria, Australia. Several peaks exceed 1,600 feet (500 meters), the highest of which is Mount Dandenong (2,077 feet [633 meters]). With nearly twice as much rainfall as the nearby coastal plain and

Salt March, major nonviolent protest action in India led by Mahatma Gandhi in March–April 1930. The march was the first act in an even-larger campaign of civil disobedience (satyagraha) that Gandhi waged against British rule in India that extended into early 1931 and garnered Gandhi widespread

Dandie Dinmont terrier, breed of terrier developed in the border country of England and Scotland. First noted as a distinct breed about 1700, it was later named after a character created by Sir Walter Scott in his novel Guy Mannering (1815). Unlike other terriers, the Dandie Dinmont has a softly

Dandin was an Indian Sanskrit writer of prose romances and expounder on poetics. Scholars attribute to him with certainty only two works: the Dashakumaracharita, translated in 2005 by Isabelle Onians as What Ten Young Men Did, and the Kavyadarsha (“The Mirror of Poetry”). The Dashakumaracharita is