Charka (other)
Charka may refer to: * Charka, Jangipur, town in India * An obsolete unit of liquid measure in Russia * Satya Narayana Charka, Indian Kathak dancer See also * * Charkha (other) * Charkas Charkas ( fa, چركس) is a village in Gavrud Rural District, in the Central District of Sonqor County, Kermanshah Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in W ...

Charka, Jangipur
Charka is a census town in the Raghunathganj I CD block in the Jangipur subdivision of the Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Charka is located at . Area overview Jangipur subdivision is crowded with 52 census towns and as such it had to be presented in two location maps. One of the maps can be seen alongside. The subdivision is located in the Rarh region that is spread over from adjoining Santhal Pargana division of Jharkhand. The land is slightly higher in altitude than the surrounding plains and is gently undulating. The river Ganges, along with its distributaries, is prominent in both the maps. At the head of the subdivision is the 2,245 m long Farakka Barrage, one of the largest projects of its kind in the country. Murshidabad district shares with Bangladesh a porous international border which is notoriously crime prone (partly shown in this map). The subdivision has two large power plants - the 2,100 MW Farakka Super Thermal ...
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Obsolete Russian Units Of Measurement
A native system of weights and measures was used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution, but it was abandoned after 21 July 1925, when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system, per the order of the Council of People's Commissars. The Tatar system is very similar to the Russian one, but some names are different. The Polish system is also very close to the Russian. The system existed since ancient Rus', but under Peter the Great, the Russian units were redefined relative to the English system.Шостьин Н. А. Очерки истории русской метрологии XI – начала XX века. М.: 1975. Until Peter the Great the system also used Cyrillic numerals, and only in the 18th century did Peter the Great replace it with the Hindu–Arabic numeral system. Length The basic unit was the Russian ell, called the ''arshin'', which came into use in the 16th century. It was standardized by Peter the Great in the 18th century to measure exactly ...
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Satya Narayana Charka
Satya Narayana Charka is a Kathak dancer, teacher, and choreographer. He was taught by Pundit R.K. Shukla, Pundit Shambhu Maharaj, Shrimati Maya Rao and Birju Maharaj. Among his many awards is the first prize in the All-India Dance Competition. In 1981, he became the director of the East-West School of Dance in Monroe, New York. He teaches around New York, and performs dance and dance dramas such as Shakuntala and Ramayana The ''Rāmāyana'' (; sa, रामायणम्, ) is a Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epic composed over a period of nearly a millennium, with scholars' estimates for the earliest stage of the text ranging from the 8th ... internationally. Productions by Satya Narayan Chakra * Ramayana * Krishna Leela *Shakuntala *Who is who? *Gangavataran References Living people Kathak exponents American male artists of Indian descent 20th-century American male artists 21st-century American male artists American male dancer ...
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Charkha (other)
Charkha may refer to: * Charkha (spinning wheel), a type of Indian spinning wheel referenced in the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi ** " The Cult of the Charkha", a 1925 essay by Rabindranath Tagore * Charkha (Dhari, Gujarat), a village and former princely state in Gujarat, western India * Charkha Audiobooks, an imprint of the publisher Karadi Tales See also * Charka (other) * Chakra (other) Chakra is a focal point in ancient meditation practices. Chakra may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Chakra'' (1981 film), a 1981 Hindi film * ''Chakra'' (2021 film), an Indian Tamil-language action thriller film * '' Chakra: The Inv ... * Chakram (other) * Chakri (other) {{Disambiguation ...
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