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Presentation About IndiaBy
Manish AbrahamInternational students Rep
Northumbria students union
26 January 2012
Republic day and a global fair atNorthumbria students Union
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The famous board game, calledChess, was invented in India .
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• In India's 100,000 years of history,
it has never invaded anyother country .
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• India is the 7th largest country in
the world, the largest democracyand one of the oldest civilizations
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• India was one of the richestcountries in the world before 17thcentury.
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• The value of “π“ (pi) used in mathematics wasfirst calculated by the Indian mathematicianBudhayana in 6th century.
• Quadratic equations was propounded byShridharacharya in 11 th century AD
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IT HUB OF NEW WORLD
• India is one of the largest exporterof computer software products. It
exports software to over 90countries.
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• India originated Yoga about 5,000years ago.
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SECULAR INDIA
• Christians and Jews have beenliving in India since 52 A.D. and200 B.C. respectively
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SECULAR INDIA
• India has the most number of mosques. It has 300,000 mosques
which is much more than the anycountry in the world.• INDIA is known as land of religions and
is biggest secular country in world.India is birthplace of many religions
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• The Kumbh Mela (or Grand Pitcher Festival) isa huge Hindu religious festival that takes placein India every 12 years. In 2001, 60 millionpeople attended, breaking the record for theworld’s biggest gathering
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Dances
• India offers a number of classical dance forms,each of which can be traced to a different partof the country. Each form represents theculture and ethos of a particular region or agroup of people. The most popular classicalstyles seen on the Indian stage
are Bharatanatyam of Tamil Nadu, Kathakali of Kerala, Odissi of Orissa, Kathak of UttarPradesh, and Manipuri of Manipur.
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Martial Arts were first created in India, andlater spread to Asia by Buddhist
missionaries.
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• The earliest cotton in the world was spun and
woven in India. Roman emperors would weardelicate cotton from India that they would call“woven winds.” Mogul emperors called the
fabrics “morning dew” and “cloth of runningwater
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• With 150,000 post offices, India has thelargest postal network in the world.
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• The Bengal tiger is India’s national animal. Itwas once ubiquitous throughout the country,
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• India has the world’s largest movie industry,based in the city of Mumbai (known as the“City of Dreams”). The B in “ Bollywood ”comes from Bombay, the former name forMumbai.
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INDIA
• The national bird is the peacock.• The national fruit of India is the mango.
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LANGUAGES
• Hindi and English are the officiallanguages of India. Thegovernment also recognizes 17other languages (Assamese, Bengali,Gujarati, Nepali, Manipuri, Konkani, Kannada,Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit,
Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu). Apart fromthese languages, about 1,652 languages spoken in the country. l
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The Taj Mahal (“crown palace”) was built byMughal Emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666) forhis beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal (1593-1631).This architectural beauty has been called“marbled embroidery” for its intricateworkmanship. It took 22,000 workmen 22
years to complete it.
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FIRST CIVILIZATION
• The first and greatest civilization in ancientIndia developed around the valley of the IndusRiver around 3000 B.C.
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• India established the number system.• The number zero was invented by Aryabhatta
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• India established worlds First University atTakshsila in 700 Bc
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• Upto 1896 India was the only source forDiamonds.
• Kohinoor diamond originated inthe Kollur region of Guntur district in presentday Andhra Pradesh , one of the world's
earliest diamond producing regions, sometime in the 1200s during the Kakatiya rule.
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• Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose 1858 pioneered theinvestigation of radio and microwave optics ,made very significant contributions to plantscience , and laid the foundationsof experimental science . IEEEnamed him one
of the fathers of radio science.
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SURGERY SPECIALISTS
• Sushruta Known as father of surgeonspreformed complex surgeries even 2600 yearsbefore was an INDIAN.
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• Christopher Columbus, attracted byIndia's wealth, had come looking for
a sea route to India when hediscovered America by mistake.
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NAVAL GURUS
• The Art of Navigation & Navigating was bornin the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. Thevery word Navigation is derived from theSanskrit word 'NAVGATIH'. The word navy isalso derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
I di i f d l i f
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India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-
eight states and seven union territories
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• Cellphone call rate are cheaperthan any food in India.
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INDIAN PREAMBLE
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One of the most famousanimals is the Bengal Tiger.You can only find the
Bengal Tiger in India. Allof the wild animals live inthe forest and here aresome of them.
India
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FACTS ABOUT INDIA
• Population: 1,129,866,154 people• Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian
Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and
Pakistan• Area:
– total: 3,287,590 sq kmland: 2,973,190 sq km
water: 314,400 sq km• Climate: Varies from tropical monsoon in south to
temperate in north