Acronym or Abbreviation | Organization or Term |
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ABSU | All Bodo Students' Union |
AGP | Asom Gana Parishad (Assam People's Assembly) |
AIADMK | All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (All-India Anna Dravidian Progressive Federation) |
AIDS | acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations (see Glossary) |
ASLV | Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle |
Arabsat | Arab Satellite Communication Organization |
BAMCEF | All-India Backward, Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Classes, and Minority Communities Employees Federation |
BJP | Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party) |
BKD | Bharatiya Kranti Dal |
BLD | Bharatiya Lok Dal (Indian People Party) |
BPAC | Bodo People's Action Committee |
BSP | Bahujan Samaj Party (Party of Society's Majority) |
ca. | circa |
CCN | Cable News Network |
CFD | Congress for Democracy |
Congress | Indian National Congress |
Congress (I) | Congress (Indira) |
Congress (O) | Congress (Organisation) |
Congreess (R) | Congress (Requisition) |
Congress (S) | Congress (Socialist and Secular) |
Congress (U) | Congress (Urs) |
CPI | Communist Party of India |
CPI (M) | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
CPI (M-L) | Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) |
CSIR | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
DK | Dravida Kazhagam (Dravidian Federation) |
DMK | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Dravidian Progressive Federation) |
DMKP | Dalit Mazdoor Kisan Party (Oppressed Workers' and Peasants' Party) |
DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid |
DRDO | Defence Research and Development Organisation |
ESCAP | Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific of the UN (q.v. ) |
FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization (see Glossary) of the UN (q.v. ) |
FY | fiscal year (see Glossary) |
GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
GDP | gross domestic product (see Glossary) |
GNP | gross national product (see Glossary) |
GSLV | Geostationary Launch Vehicle |
HIV | human immunodeficiency virus |
IIT | Indian Institute of Technology |
IMF | International Monetary Fund (see Glossary) |
INA | Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) |
INS | Indian Naval Ship |
Insat | Indian National Satellite System |
Intelsat | International Telecommunications Satellite Organization |
IPF | Indian People's Front |
IPKF | Indian Peace Keeping Force |
ISRO | Indian Space Research Organisation |
Jana Sangh | People's Union |
Janata | Janata Party |
Janata Dal | People's Party |
Lok Dal | People Party |
LTTE | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam |
NISTADS | National Institute of Science, Technology, and Development Studies |
OPEC | Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (see Glossary) |
PSLV | polar satellite launch vehicle |
PSP | Praja Socialist Party |
r. | reigned |
RSS | Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteer Organisation) |
SAARC | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (see Glossary) |
Samajwadi | Samajwadi Party (Socialist Party) |
Samajwadi Janata | Socialist People's Party |
SSP | Samyukta Socialist Party |
Swatantra | Swatantra Party |
Telugu Desam | Telugu National Party |
ULFA | United Liberation Front of Assam |
UN | United Nations |
UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |
UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
VHP | Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) |
VSTOL | vertical and short takeoff and landing |
WHO | World Health Organization |
Data as of September 1995