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* * Bhārat Gaṇarājya, that is, the Republic of India in Hindi, written in the Devanagari script.

India (Listeni /ˈɪndiə/), officially the Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also official names of India), is a country located in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.

India (Hindi: भारत) is the largest country in the Indian Subcontinent and shares borders with Pakistan to the west, China and Nepal to the north, Bhutan to the north-east, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east.

Indians date their history from the Vedic Period which scholars place in the second and first millennia BC continuing up to the 6th century BC, based on literary evidence. This is the period when the Vedas, the oldest and holiest books of Hinduism, were compiled.

The Vedic civilization influences India to this day. The roots of present-day Hinduism lie in them. Some rituals of Hinduism took shape during that period.

Ministry of Tourism, Government of India advises use of only authorized and approved tour guides and tour operators for a pleasurable and trouble free holiday in India.

La India también limita con Pakistán al oeste; al norte con China, Nepal y Bután y al este con Bangladesh y Birmania. Además, India se encuentra cerca de las islas de Sri Lanka, Maldivas e Indonesia.

la India y varios idiomas hablados en el país también reconocen Bharat (pronunciado ) como nombre oficial del estado. Bharat deriva del nombre del legendario rey de la mitología hindú, Bharata.

de independencia India" o el "Motín cipayo", desafiaron seriamente el control de la empresa, aunque finalmente fueron derrotados. Como resultado de la inestabilidad, la India fue llevada bajo el control directo de la Corona Británica. Mahatma Gandhi (derecha) con Jawaharlal Nehru en 1937.

India's median age is 25, one of the youngest among large economies. About 70% live in more than 550,000 villages, and the remainder in more than 200 towns and cities.

social mobility, India has begun a quiet social transformation in this area. The government has recognized 18 official languages; Hindi, the national language, is the most widely spoken, although English is a national lingua franca.

In reality, Indian society is divided into thousands of jatis-local, endogamous groups based on occupation-and organized hierarchically according to complex ideas of purity and pollution. Discrimination based on caste is officially illegal, but remains prevalent, especially in rural areas.

spiritual sustenance, India has oodles of sacrosanct sites and stirring philosophical epics, while history buffs will encounter gems from the past almost everywhere – from grand vestiges of the British Raj serenely peering over swarming spice bazaars, to crumbling fortresses looming high

that cricket – India’s sporting obsession – is one of the most spirited topics of conversation, along with the latest shenanigans in the razzle-dazzle world of Bollywood.

With one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, India has certainly made giant strides over the past decade. However, despite averaging an annual growth rate of around 9% in recent years, vast sections of the country’s billion-plus population have seen little benefit from the economic boom.

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Most of India was unified by the emperor Asoka in the 3rd century BC. It experienced a golden age in the 4th and 5th centuries AD before being invaded c.

India in 1857. In the 20th century, India gained its independence from Great Britain (1947) following a campaign of civil disobedience led by the pacifist Mohandas Gandhi.

migration of Muslims to Pakistan and Hindus and Sikhs to India in which approximately one million people died. New Delhi is the capital and Mumbai (Bombay) the largest city. Population: 1,130,000,000.

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supports the NSG clean waiver for India and hoped that the civil nuclear deal between the two countries will continue to move in a positive direction.

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invaded India and established the Delhi Sultanate. In the early 16th century, the Emperor BABUR established the Mughal Dynasty which ruled India for more than three centuries. European explorers began establishing footholds in India during the 16th century.

The British Indian Army played a vital role in both World Wars. Nonviolent resistance to British rule, led by Mohandas GANDHI and Jawaharlal NEHRU, eventually brought about independence in 1947.

India's nuclear weapons tests in 1998 caused Pakistan to conduct its own tests that same year. In November 2008, terrorists allegedly originating from Pakistan conducted a series of coordinated attacks in Mumbai, India's financial capital.

INDIA…a land for all seasons Mahabalipuram India Flag Taj Mahal - The subcontinent of India lies in south Asia, between Pakistan, China and Nepal.

Yet another facet of Indian culture is observed in the colorful tribal lifestyles of the north eastern states of Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and Manipur with their folk culture.

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.

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Before it was a nation, India was a land of fiefs and city states vulnerable to raiding, invasion and migration. Around 2500 B.C., the Indo-Aryan people settled in the northwest region and over the next 2,000 years developed the Brahman culture from which Hinduism evolved.

The British East India Company, with trading posts in Surat, Bombay and Calcutta, soon dominated the region, ousting Portuguese and Dutch traders. The British Raj was born and India's vast raw wealth was shipped to the West. During World War I Mohandas K.

British India split into India and Pakistan, with repercussions that continue to plague the sub-continent to this day. These two enemies now have nuclear weapons.

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While India prepares itself to fight corruption, which has become a "big issue", it should guard against radical steps that could turn it into a police state or bring back inspector raj, Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday.

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The southern half of India is a largely upland area that thrusts a triangular peninsula (c.1,300 mi/2,090 km wide at the north) into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west and has a coastline c.

above peninsular India, is the Himalayan mountain wall, where rise the three great rivers of the Indian subcontinent—the Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra.

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The Police in the East Indian state of Orissa have laid siege to a group of dalit and adivasi (tribal) villages around Kashipur that have successfully kept the Utkal Alumina Industries Ltd (UAIL) from mining Baphlimali – a mountain held sacred by local adivasis - for 12 years

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Map of IndiaMap of India President: Pratibha Patil (2007) Prime Minister: Manmohan Singh (2004) Land area: 1,147,949 sq mi (2,973,190 sq km); total area: 1,269,338 sq mi (3,287,590 sq km) Population (2010 est.

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occupies most of the subcontinent of India in southern Asia. It borders on China in the northeast. Other neighbors are Pakistan on the west, Nepal and Bhutan on the north, and Burma and Bangladesh on the east.

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