Indias Culture

Food, Language and Clothes

Indias Map

National and Official Languages

Hindi: Is the National Language of

India. Its the most widely spoken
language among Indians.

English: Is the Official Working

Language of India.

State Languages

Each state in India has a main

Language that can be used for
official purpose within the state, in
addition to Hindi and English.
There are 29 states in India

Northern States Official Languages

States where Hindi is the official

language: Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Uttrakhand, Madhya Pradesh,
Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi
and Harayana. These states are
known as the Northern belt states.
Punjab Punjabi
Jammu and Kashmir - Urdu

Eastern States Official Languages

Assam Assamese
West Bengal and Tripura Bengali
Orissa Oriya
Mizoram Mizo
Sikkim Nepali
Manipur Meitei
Arunachal Pradesh English
Nagaland - English

Western states official Languages

Gujarat Gujarati
Goa Konkani
Maharashtra Marathi

Southern States Official Languages

Karnataka Kannada
Andhra Pradesh Telegu
Tamil Nadu Tamil
Kerala Malayalam

Food of India

Punjabi Food

Foods from North India: Mostly wheat flat

breads Chappatis or Rootis, lentils or dals,
vegetables and pickles. Northern foods contain
Muglai flavor or Ghee (butter) flavor.

Bengali Food

Food from Eastern India consist mainly

of rice, fish, dals, vegetables and
sweets.
Bengali sweets like Rasogolla and
Sandesh are famous all over and
favourite among all Indians.

Western India Food

Foods from Western India consist of

coconut flavor in Goanese cuisine with
lot of fish items which is eaten with
rice. In Maharashtra and Gujarat
people mostly eat rice, vegetables and
dal.

South Indian Food

In the Southern states people eat mostly

rice or items made from rice, such as
Dosas and Idlis in Tamil Nadu. Due to hot
climate the foods are mixed with hot
peppers and tamarind. In Kerala a lot of
fish items are prepared using both spices
and coconuts.

Traditional Costumes
Sherwani

Churidar Kurta

Sari

Salwar
Kameez

Traditional Costumes
Punjab
Salwar
Kameez
Kurta
Pajama

Jammu and Kashmir

Pheran and Poots

Traditional Costumes
Rajasthan
Achakan
& Dhoti

Ghaghra Choli

Traditional Costumes
West Bengal
Sari

Dhoti
Panjabi

Maharashtra
Orissa

Traditional Costumes
Karnataka

Tamil
Nadu

Andhra Pradesh

Kerala

There is a great diversity among

different regions of India in terms of
language, culture and dress. But
though we are different we all
Indians.
Unity in diversity is our distinct
feature as Indians.