INDIANA UNIVERSITY 



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INDIAN OCEAN 



ing, carriage and wagon factories, and printing 

 and publishing houses. 



History. Indianapolis was settled in 1819 

 and was named in 1821. In 1824, when the 

 seat of government was removed from Cory- 

 'don, it became the state capital; at this time 

 Indianapolis had only 600 inhabitants and one 

 street. It was incorporated for the first time 

 in 1832. With the construction of the first 

 railroad in the state in 1847 the growth of the 

 town began, and in the same year a city 

 charter was granted. Further impetus was 

 given the city's development by the introduc- 

 tion of natural gas in 1889. This factor in its 

 commercial growth declined, however, and was 

 replaced by a large yield of coal from the 

 vicinity. The city was one of the first in the 

 United States to use electricity for lighting. 

 Mars Hill is a recently-organized industrial 

 suburb of Indianapolis. j.s.c. 



Consult Hyman's Handbook of Indianapolis. 



INDIANA UNIVERSITY, at Bloomington, 

 is one of the two universities supported by the 

 state. The other is Purdue University (which 

 see). Indiana University was founded as a 

 state seminary in 1820, as the state college in 

 1828, and as the state university in 1838. 

 Numerous land grants and state appropriations 

 have been made for its support, and in 1916 

 the productive funds amounted to $750.000. 

 Its income in 1915-1916 was $639,291. 



Indiana University includes the college of 

 liberal arts, school of education, graduate 

 school, school of law and school of medicine. 

 The institution is co-educational, and tuition 

 is free to residents of the state. In the school 

 of medicine the last three years of work are, 

 done in Indianapolis. The faculty numbers 232, 

 and the student enrolment in 1915-1916 was 

 2,672. The library contains about 110,000 vol- 

 umes. W.S.B. 



INDIAN HEAD, the judicial center for Qu' 

 Appelle district, Saskatchewan, situated in the 

 southeastern part of the province, forty-three 

 miles east of Regina, the capital-. The Cana- 

 dian Pacific Railway serves the town. It is 

 located in a rich grain and lumber district, and 

 the industries of the town are largely depend- 

 ent on these resources. There are ten grain 

 elevators, also flour mills, lumber yards and 

 planing mills. Indian Head has a high school, 

 a public library, a Dominion experimental farm 

 and a forestry farm. The population, chiefly 

 Canadian, was 1,285 in 1911; in 1916, esti- 

 mated, 1,500. 

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INDIAN HEMP. See HASHISH. 



INDIAN MALLOW, mal'o, or VELVET 

 LEAF, or STAMP WEED, is a weed of the 

 Malva family, a native of Asia, and grows to 

 the height of four feet. Farmers of nearly 

 all lands find this weed a source of great 

 trouble, especially in the cornfields. It is a 

 perennial (see PERENNIALS) ; its leaves are 

 heart-shaped and velvety in texture, and its 

 flowers, of bright orange-yellow color, are about 

 half an inch broad. The fiber of the plant is 

 almost as strong as hemp, and in many species 

 of the mallow it is utilized for textile purposes. 



INDIAN MYTHOLOGY, mithol'oji. The 

 Norse myths and the Greek and Roman myths, 

 with all their antiquity, do not date back as 

 far as the myths of India. Some scholars have 

 been led, by occasional resemblances between 

 Indian and Greek mythology, to believe that 

 the latter was an outgrowth of the former; 

 that is, that the Greeks and Hindus were at 

 some prehistoric time in contact, and that the 

 myths continued to show that fact after all 

 memory of the contact had died out. The 

 weight of authority, however, rests with the 

 theory that the resemblances are due to the 

 natural tendency of primitive peoples, con- 

 fronted with similar conditions, to invent simi- 

 lar explanations. Originally the Hindus had 

 many gods, representing all the varying phases 

 of nature, but later most of these gave place to 

 the great trinity of deities, Brahma, Vishnu 

 and Siva. For the character of these three, and 

 their influence on the life of the people, see 

 articles BRAHMA; VISHNU; SIVA. 



INDIAN OCEAN, o' shun, one of the great 

 oceanic divisions of the world, reaching from 

 Africa eastward to the East Indies and Aus- 

 tralia, and from Asia southward to the Ant- 

 arctic Ocean. The peninsula of India divides 

 it into two great basins in the north the 

 Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. The In- 

 dian Ocean is fed by several large rivers, the 

 chief being the Indus, Brahmaputra, Irrawadi, 

 Salwin, Ganges, Chat-el-Arab, Tigris-Euphrates 

 and the Zambezi.' The principal islands in its 

 waters are Madagascar, Mauritius, Ceylon, 

 Reunion, Rodriguez, Socotra, and the archi- 

 pelagoes of the Andamans, Nicobars, Mergui, 

 Maldives and Laccadives. While the winds on 

 this ocean are usually gentle, hurricanes some- 

 times sweep over it. The northeastern part is 

 the deepest, where soundings of 20,340 feet have 

 been made. It averages about 10,970 feet in 

 depth. For comparative sizes and fuller de- 

 scription of the seas of the world, see OCEAN. 



