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An act of deference or obeisance, a low bow with one hand pressed to one's forehead.

George Watt, a Scottish doctor and botanist, spent nearly 30 years in India beginning in 1873 working as a physician and economic botanist, studying food production in an attempt to prevent further famines. He organized a 1700 page catalogue for the Calcutta Exhibition of 1883, which he then expanded for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition of 1886.

A Hindi-Urdu word meaning a ruler's court.

The Hunterian Museum is the oldest museum in Scotland, opened in 1807 after William Hunter willed his personal collections of medical specimens, paintings, books, insects, and an eclectic variety of objects. Today, the Hunterian Museum contains the Hunterian Art Gallery, the Zoology Museum, the Anatomy Museum, and the Mackintosh House, which are all located on the campus of the University of Glasgow.

A crore was used to denote 10 million rupees. The exchange rate between rupees and pounds in the late 19th century was roughly 15 rupees to 1 pound; therefore 5 million rupees would be £333,333. The Bank of England inflation calculator assumes a 3.8% inflation rate between 1889 and 2017, therefore half a crore of rupees would be almost £41million pounds today.

William Wallace (b. 1270s, d. 1305) was a Scottish knight who became an important military leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence. Wallace led the Scots to a shocking victory against the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297). He then became the Guardian of Scotland, the de facto head of state, until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298. In 1305, Wallace was turned over to King Edward I of England by a Scottish knight loyal to England, and was hanged, drawn, and quartered for treason.

The Massacre of Glencoe occurred on February 13, 1692, during which 38 men from Clan MacDonald were killed by soldiers under the order of Archibald Campbell, the 10th Earl of Argyll, and another 40 women and children died of exposure after their homes were burnt. After the replacement of King James II with William III in 1689, and the subsequent failed Jacobite uprising, many of the Highland clans remained loyal to James. The government ordered that all chiefs swear their allegiance to William by January 1st, 1692, or face violent reprisal; the chief of the MacDonald clan delayed signing until December 31st and was then unable to take the oath because there was no magistrate to receive it. The King's secretary of state ordered military punishment, and the Campbell soldiers who had until then been peacefully quartered with the MacDonalds sheltering from a storm, ruthlessly attacked them.

A fakir, from the Arabic word 'faqīr,' meaning poor man, is a religious ascetic who has taken a vow of poverty and subsists solely on alms. Originally used to refer to Sufi Muslims, the term later came to be applied to Hindus as well. Fakirs are generally considered to be holy men who can perform miracles like the ability to walk on fire.