INDIA

Mera Bharath
Mahaan

The subcontinent of India lies in south Asia, between Pakistan,

China and Nepal. To the north it is bordered by the world's highest
mountain chain, where foothill valleys cover the northernmost of
the country's 26 states. Further south, plateaus, tropical rain forests
and sandy deserts are bordered by palm fringed beaches .

 5,000 year old civilization

325 languages spoken 1,652
dialects
18 official languages
29 states, 5 union territories
3.28 million sq. kilometers Area
7,516 kilometers - Coastline

 Parliamentary form of Government

Secular democratic constitution

Worlds largest democracy since 55

years

4th largest economy

Fastest growing IT super power

Indian Railways ,the biggest employer

in the world.

HISTORY

 India's history goes back to

3,200 BC when Hinduism was
first founded. Buddhism,
Jainism, Sikhism. Judaism.
Zoroashtrianism, Christianity
and Islam all exist within the
country today.

THE TRINITY

GeneratesBrahma
Observes-Vishnu
Destroys-Shiva

The Great Indian Epics

Ramaya
na first
The

Indian epic

Mahabharat
Longest
a Epic in
world literature
with 100,000

Indus Valley Civilization- one

of the worlds first great
urban civilizations.

Harappa Civilization- 2700B

Worlds first university in

Takshila 700 B.C
Ayurveda- earliest school of
medicine known to humans
Sanskrit Language most suitable
for computer software

Yoga- Made in India

Origin 5000 BC
Documented by
200 BC 300 AD

Origin of Martial arts 200 BC

Kalarippaya

 1700s BRITISH INVASION

15th August , 1947

Indian Independence

26th January , 1950

Republic- India

National Emblem

Truth alone
triumphs

NATIONAL ANIMAL

National Bird Peacock

National Flower - Lotus

Great Indian
Personalities

Aryabhatta

Invented the Zero

Mahatma Gandhi

Father of the nation

Embodiment of Non- Violence

Swami Vivekananda

Champion of humanitarianism

Ramanujam

Great Indian Mathematician

Postulated and proved 3,542
theorems

Rabindranath Tagore

1913 Nobel Prize in Literature

C.V Raman

1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics

Work on scattering of light and
Raman effect

Mother Teresa

1979 Nobel Prize in Peace

Har Gobind Khorana

1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine

Work on interpretation of the genetic

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar

1983 - Nobel Laureate in Physics

Work on structure and evolution of

DANCE FORMS

45 folk dances

7 Classical Dance forms

7 Classical Dance forms

Bharata Natyam

Kathak

Kathakali

Kuchipudi

Manipuri

Mohini Attam

Odissi

More than 15 vocal forms

More than 60 music

instruments

India - Gods own country

Celebrates more than 65
festivals

Places of historic importance

Tirumala - Tirupati
Worlds richest temple

Saint Thomas Cathedral

Statue of Virgin Mary brought from
Portugal in 1543

The Golden Temple

Jamma Masjid
The biggest mosque in India

Thousand pillar temple

Gateway of India

Jantar Mantar 1716

Modernistic structures to observe the
movement of stars

Mysore Palace
Illuminated by 97,000 light bulbs

Buddha Statue
Largest monolithic statue in Asia

Dal Lake
Jewel in the crown of Kashmir

The Taj Mahal

Calcutta City of joy

Cherrapunji
Wettest place on earth

India is,the cradle of the human race,the

birthplace of human speech, the mother of
history,the grandmother of legend, and the
great grand mother of tradition.Our most
valuable and most instructive materials in
the history of man are treasured up in India
only.
-Mark Twain
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us
how to count, without which no worthwhile
scientific discovery could have been made.
-Albert Einstein

Jai Hind
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