INDIA

GEOGRAPHY

India , officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia

India is a federal union comprising
28 states and 9 union territories
• India is Very Complex and Diverse

• Seventh Largest Country

• Second Most Populous Country (1.35 Billion)

• Largest Democracy in the World

GDP
$11.326 trillion (3rd)
(PPP)
GDP
$2.936 trillion (5th)
(Nominal)
INDIAN CITIES
• New Delhi is the Capital of India
• Mumbai is the largest City in India in terms of Area

City Population
New Delhi 26 Million
Mumbai 21 Million
Kolkata 14 Million
Chennai 13 Million
Bangalore 11 Million
Hyderabad 10 Million
RELIGION
The Indian subcontinent is the birthplace of four of the world's
major religions; namely Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism

Hinduism 79.8%
Islam 14.2%
Christianity 2.3%
Sikhism 1.7%
Buddhism 0.7%
Jainism 0.4%
others 0.88%
LANGUAGES
122 major languages and 1599 other
languages
No National Language

22 Official Languages

Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English,

Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,
Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi,
Meitei, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit,
Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu
 CULTURE

• India has 28 states with different

culture and civilizations

• The Indian culture, often labeled as

an amalgamation of several various
cultures, spans across the Indian
subcontinent and has been
influenced and shaped by a history
that is several thousand years old
 CLOTHING

Clothing in India changes depending on the

different ethnicity, geography, climate, and cultural
traditions of the people of each region of India.
 MUSIC AND DANCE

• Music and Dance is an integral part of India's culture

Hindustani classical music Carnatic Music
Hindustani classical Carnatic music, Karnāṭaka
music is the art music of saṃgīta, or Karnāṭaka
northern regions of saṅgītam, is a system of
the Indian subcontinent. Its music commonly associated
origins date from the 12th with southern India
century CE

Dancing Girl sculpture from

the Indus Valley Civilization (c.
4,500 years ago)
 Different forms of dances originated in different parts of India, developed according
to the local traditions and also imbibed elements from other parts of the country

Kathak Dance

Sattriya Natyam
Mohiniyattam Kuchipudi

Bharata Natyam

Kathakali Odissi Manipuri

SPORTS

• Hockey is the National Sport of

India
• Cricket is the Most Popular Sport in
India with almost a Billion
Followers
• Other Sports includes Football,
Tennis, Badminton, Wrestling etc.
 CINEMA
• India ranked first in terms of annual film
output,followed by Nollywood, Hollywood and
China with annual revenue of 2.4 Billion $
(2017).
Lot of Film Industries in India. Some of them are
Bollywood : Hindi Language Film Industry
Kollywood: Tamil Language Film Industry
Tollywood: Telugu Language Film Industry
Mollywood: Malayalam Language Film Industry
FESTIVALS

Navaratri

Ganesh Chaturti

Diwali

Shivaratri Onam
Holi
 ARMED FORCES

Indian Army, Indian Navy,

and Indian Air Force

• Indian Army is the third largest army in the

world
• India controls the highest battlefield in the
world, the Siachen glacier, at 5000 metres
above Mean Sea Level (MSL)
 ISRO
One of the Most Successive Space Agency primarily focused on Cost Effective

India is among the topmost countries in the

world in the field of scientific research,
positioned as one of the top five nations in
the field of space exploration
Some Achievements of Indian Space Research
Organization
• MARS Orbiter Mission – Mangalyan
(2013) : Out of 51 only 21 mars missions
have been successful in which India is the
first country in the world who has
achieved it, in its very first attempt
• Launching of 104 satellites (2017): ISRO
Created History by launching 104 satellites
in a single rocket (Previous Record was
made by Russia which had launched 37
satellites
• Chandrayan 1 & 2: ISROs moon missions
 INTERESTING FACTS
• India never invaded any country in her last 100000 years of history.

• Chess was invented in India.

• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.

• The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India
in 100 B.C.

• The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More
than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.
The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest
achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind. The Father

of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.

• The most expensive home (Antilla) in the world is in India.

• Water in Moon was first discovered by ISRO

INTERESTING FACTS
• India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus,
attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.

• The Art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is
derived from the Sanskrit word 'NAVGATIH’.

• The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is
known as the Pythagorean Theorem.

• Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India. Quadratic Equations were used by Sridharacharya in the
11th century.
• India exports software to 90 countries.

• The oldest European church and synagogue in India are in the city of Cochin. They were built in 1503 and 1568
respectively.

• The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage
destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple
everyday.

• Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.

• Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.
 Ladakh Mysore Palace
Golden Temple, Amritsar

Coorg, Karnataka Taj Mahal, Agra

Lotus Temple, Delhi
 Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai
Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh

Rann of Kutch, Gujarat Ajanta and Ellora Caves, Maharastra

 Sikkim
Manali

Padmanabasamy Temple, Kerala Alleppy HouseBoat, Kerala

 NOTABLE INDIANS

Sundar Pichai – CEO of Google and Alphabet Satya Nadella – CEO of Microsoft
 NOTABLE INDIANS

Indra Nooyi– former CEO of PEPSIco Kalpana Chawla

INDIA POLAND RELATIONS
During World War II, thousands of Poles fled their country
and sought refuge around the world. One of the first
countries to help was India, starting with the so-called ‘Good
Maharaja’ Jam Saheb, who took in many Polish orphans.

In 2012, the Sejm of the Republic of Poland, honoured the

50th anniversary of his death, posthumously awarding the
Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of
Poland, and the Warsaw City Council named one of its
city park squares in Ochota district after him - the 'Square of
the Good Maharaja'
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