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Padhaaro Maare Desh! It is the flavor, culture and true spirit of Rajasthan. Rajasthani culture can be tagged as on of the most warm and loving cultures of India. If you are the connoisseurs of the Rajasthani palate and are looking forward to some scrumdiddlyumptious 'daal baati churma' served by gracious people with hearty smiles, do not miss on our following list of top 5 Rajasthani restaurants in Delhi/ NCR.

CHESS - Cultural Heritage Experiences through Socio-personal interactions and Storytelling. CHESS is a STREP within the 7th Framework Programme, ICT-2009.4.1: Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation, 'Adaptive cultural experiences'.

The Sino-Tibetan frontier is typically portrayed as a large, complex, and diverse transitional region between Tibetan and Chinese cultural realms. The concept of Tibetanization is often deployed to classify the ethnically ambiguous 'interstitial' populations of this area. This article critically examines the concept of Tibetanization through a study of the Mongols of Henan County, Qinghai Province, a population repeatedly described as Tibetanized. A survey of local folkways reveals that Henan Mongols do, indeed, share many cultural practices with neighboring Tibetans. However, an examination of the historical processes underlying these similarities fails to identify anything that could be described as Tibetanization. Based on this finding, I problematize some of Tibetanization's unexamined theoretical assumptions relating to concepts of ethnicity and assimilation. I conclude by asking what a critical reading of Tibetanization and the Sino-Tibetan frontier tells us about contemporary ethnopolitics in China...

Expanding the community of tradition bearers and those who want to learn more about the music, stories, dance, foodways, art, and cultural heritage of Michigan and beyond

Indian food consists of a large variety of traditional and regional cuisines native to the Indian sub-regions. Given the range of broad diversity in climate, soil type, culture, occupations, and ethnic groups, these cuisines vary substantially from each other and what adds to their uniqueness are the locally available spices and herbs. It comes as a no brainer that Indian cuisine is one of the most popular cuisines across the world. , but people in North America, Europe, Australia, and Africa can not have enough of it.

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