India

India
India
Republic of India
Bhrat Gaarjya
Motto:
"Satyameva Jayate"(Sanskrit)
[1]
"Truth Alone Triumphs"
Anthem:
Jana Gana Mana
[2]
"Thou Art the Ruler of the Minds of All People"
National song:
[3][1]
Vande Mataram"I Bow to Thee, Mother"
Area controlled by India is in dark green.

Claimed but uncontrolled regions are in light green.
Capital
New Delhi
2836.8N 7712.5E
Largest city
Mumbai
Official languages
Recognised regionallanguages
National language(s)
Demonym
Government
[4]
none
Indian
Federal parliamentary
[1]
constitutional republic
India
2
-
President
Pranab Mukherjee
Vice President
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh (INC)
Speaker of the House Meira Kumar (INC)
Chief Justice
[5]
Altamas Kabir
Legislature
Parliament of India
Upper house
Rajya Sabha
Lower house
Lok Sabha
Independence
from the United Kingdom
Dominion
15 August 1947
Republic
26 January 1950
Area
2 [6]
Total
3,287,263km (7th)
1,269,219sqmi
Water(%)
9.56
Population
[7]
2011census
1,210,193,422
Density
371.2/km (31st)
961.4/sqmi
GDP(PPP)
2011estimate
[8]
Total
$4.457 trillion
Per capita
$3,693
GDP (nominal)
(3rd)
[8]
(129th)
2011estimate
[9]
Total
$1.848 trillion
Per capita
$1,388
(10th)
[8]
(140th)
[10]
Gini(2004)
36.8
(79th)
[11]
HDI(2011)
(2nd)
0.547
(medium)(134th)
Currency
Indian rupee ( ) (INR)
Time zone
IST (UTC+05:30)
Summer(DST)
not observed(UTC+05:30)
Date formats
dd-mm-yyyy (AD)
Drives on the
left
ISO 3166 code
IN
Internet TLD
.in
Calling code
91
India ( i/ndi/), officially the Republic of India (Bhrat Gaarjya),[12] is a country in South Asia. It is the
seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most
populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west,
India
and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west;[13] China, Nepal, and
Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri
Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand
and Indonesia.
Home to the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian
subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history.[14] Four world
religionsHinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhismoriginated here, whereas Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and
Islam arrived in the 1st millennium CE and also helped shape the region's diverse culture. Gradually annexed by and
brought under the administration of the British East India Company from the early 18th century and administered
directly by the United Kingdom from the mid-19th century, India became an independent nation in 1947 after a
struggle for independence that was marked by non-violent resistance led by Mahatma Gandhi.
The Indian economy is the world's tenth-largest by nominal GDP and third-largest by purchasing power parity
(PPP).[9] Following market-based economic reforms in 1991, India became one of the fastest-growing major
economies; it is considered a newly industrialised country. However, it continues to face the challenges of poverty,
illiteracy, corruption, malnutrition, and inadequate public healthcare. A nuclear weapons state and a regional power,
it has the third-largest standing army in the world and ranks ninth in military expenditure among nations. India is a
federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 7 union territories.
India is a pluralistic, multilingual, and multiethnic society. It is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of
protected habitats.
Etymology
The name India is derived from Indus, which originates from the Old Persian word Hindu. The latter term stems
from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, which was the historical local appellation for the Indus River.[15] The ancient Greeks
referred to the Indians as Indoi (), which translates as "the people of the Indus".[16] The geographical term
Bharat (pronounced[bart](
listen)), which is recognised by the Constitution of India as an official name for the
country, is used by many Indian languages in various subtle guises.[17] The eponym of Bharat is Bharata, a
mythological figure that Hindu scriptures describe as a legendary emperor of ancient India. Hindustan (Hindustani
pronunciation:[ndstan](
listen)) was originally a Persian word that meant "Land of the Hindus"; prior to 1947, it
referred to a region that encompassed northern India and Pakistan. It is occasionally used to solely denote India in its
entirety.[18][19]
History
Ancient India
The earliest anatomically modern human remains found in South Asia date from approximately 30,000 years ago.[20]
Nearly contemporaneous Mesolithic rock art sites have been found in many parts of the Indian subcontinent,
including at the Bhimbetka rock shelters in Madhya Pradesh.[21] Around 7000 BCE, the first known Neolithic
settlements appeared on the subcontinent in Mehrgarh and other sites in western Pakistan.[22] These gradually
developed into the Indus Valley Civilisation,[23] the first urban culture in South Asia;[24] it flourished during
25001900BCE in Pakistan and western India.[25] Centred around cities such as Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Dholavira,
and Kalibangan, and relying on varied forms of subsistence, the civilisation engaged robustly in crafts production
and wide-ranging trade.[24]
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Paintings at the Ajanta Caves in

Aurangabad, Maharashtra, 6th
century
During the period 2000500 BCE, in terms of culture, many regions of the
subcontinent transitioned from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age.[26] The Vedas,
the oldest scriptures of Hinduism,[27] were composed during this period,[28] and
historians have analysed these to posit a Vedic culture in the Punjab region and
the upper Gangetic Plain.[26] Most historians also consider this period to have
encompassed several waves of Indo-Aryan migration into the subcontinent from
the north-west.[29][27][30] The caste system, which created a hierarchy of priests,
warriors, and free peasants, but which excluded indigenous peoples by labeling
their occupations impure, arose during this period.[31] On the Deccan Plateau,
archaeological evidence from this period suggests the existence of a chiefdom
stage of political organisation.[26] In southern India, a progression to sedentary
life is indicated by the large number of megalithic monuments dating from this
period,[32] as well as by nearby traces of agriculture, irrigation tanks, and craft
traditions.[32]
In the late Vedic period, around the 5th century BCE, the small chiefdoms of the Ganges Plain and the north-western
regions had consolidated into 16 major oligarchies and monarchies that were known as the mahajanapadas.[33][34]
The emerging urbanisation and the orthodoxies of this age also created the religious reform movements of Buddhism
and Jainism,[35] both of which became independent religions.[36] Buddhism, based on the teachings of Gautama
Buddha attracted followers from all social classes excepting the middle class; chronicling the life of the Buddha was
central to the beginnings of recorded history in India.[35][37][38] Jainism came into prominence around the same time
during the life of its exemplar, Mahavira.[39] In an age of increasing urban wealth, both religions held up
renunciation as an ideal,[40] and both established long-lasting monasteries.[33] Politically, by the 3rd century BCE,
the kingdom of Magadha had annexed or reduced other states to emerge as the Mauryan Empire.[33] The empire was
once thought to have controlled most of the subcontinent excepting the far south, but its core regions are now
thought to have been separated by large autonomous areas.[41][42] The Mauryan kings are known as much for their
empire-building and determined management of public life as for Ashoka's renunciation of militarism and far-flung
advocacy of the Buddhist dhamma.[43][44]
The Sangam literature of the Tamil language reveals that, between 200 BCE and 200 CE, the southern peninsula was
being ruled by the Cheras, the Cholas, and the Pandyas, dynasties that traded extensively with the Roman Empire
and with West and South-East Asia.[45][46] In North India, Hinduism asserted patriarchal control within the family,
leading to increased subordination of women.[47][33] By the 4th and 5th centuries, the Gupta Empire had created in
the greater Ganges Plain a complex system of administration and taxation that became a model for later Indian
kingdoms.[48][49] Under the Guptas, a renewed Hinduism based on devotion rather than the management of ritual
began to assert itself.[50] The renewal was reflected in a flowering of sculpture and architecture, which found patrons
among an urban elite.[49] Classical Sanskrit literature flowered as well, and Indian science, astronomy, medicine, and
mathematics made significant advances.[49]
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Medieval India
The Indian early medieval age, 600 CE to 1200 CE, is defined by regional
kingdoms and cultural diversity.[51] When Harsha of Kannauj, who ruled much
of the Indo-Gangetic Plain from 606 to 647 CE, attempted to expand southwards,
he was defeated by the Chalukya ruler of the Deccan.[52] When his successor
attempted to expand eastwards, he was defeated by the Pala king of Bengal.[52]
When the Chalukyas attempted to expand southwards, they were defeated by the
Pallavas from farther south, who in turn were opposed by the Pandyas and the
Cholas from still farther south.[52] No ruler of this period was able to create an
empire and consistently control lands much beyond his core region.[51] During
this time, pastoral peoples whose land had been cleared to make way for the
growing agricultural economy were accommodated within caste society, as were
new non-traditional ruling classes.[53] The caste system consequently began to
show regional differences.[53]
The granite tower of Brihadeeswarar

Temple in Thanjavur was completed
in 1010 CE by Raja Raja Chola I.
In the 6th and 7th centuries, the first devotional hymns were created in the Tamil
language.[54] They were imitated all over India and led to both the resurgence of
Hinduism and the development of all modern languages of the subcontinent.[54] Indian royalty, big and small, and
the temples they patronised, drew citizens in great numbers to the capital cities, which became economic hubs as
well.[55] Temple towns of various sizes began to appear everywhere as India underwent another urbanisation.[55] By
the 8th and 9th centuries, the effects were felt in South-East Asia, as South Indian culture and political systems were
exported to lands that became part of modern-day Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Java.[56]
Indian merchants, scholars, and sometimes armies were involved in this transmission; South-East Asians took the
initiative as well, with many sojourning in Indian seminaries and translating Buddhist and Hindu texts into their
languages.[56]
After the 10th century, Muslim Central Asian nomadic clans, using swift-horse cavalry and raising vast armies
united by ethnicity and religion, repeatedly overran South Asia's north-western plains, leading eventually to the
establishment of the Islamic Delhi Sultanate in 1206.[57] The sultanate was to control much of North India, and to
make many forays into South India. Although at first disruptive for the Indian elites, the sultanate largely left its vast
non-Muslim subject population to its own laws and customs.[58][59] By repeatedly repulsing Mongol raiders in the
13th century, the sultanate saved India from the devastation visited on West and Central Asia, setting the scene for
centuries of migration of fleeing soldiers, learned men, mystics, traders, artists, and artisans from that region into the
subcontinent, thereby creating a syncretic Indo-Islamic culture in the north.[60][61] The sultanate's raiding and
weakening of the regional kingdoms of South India paved the way for the indigenous Vijayanagara Empire.[62]
Embracing a strong Shaivite tradition and building upon the military technology of the sultanate, the empire came to
control much of peninsular India,[63] and was to influence South Indian society for long afterwards.[62]
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Early modern India

In the early 16th century, northern India, being then under mainly Muslim
rulers,[64] fell again to the superior mobility and firepower of a new generation of
Central Asian warriors.[65] The resulting Mughal Empire did not stamp out the
local societies it came to rule, but rather balanced and pacified them through new
administrative practices[66][67] and diverse and inclusive ruling elites,[68] leading
to more systematic, centralised, and uniform rule.[69] Eschewing tribal bonds and
Islamic identity, especially under Akbar, the Mughals united their far-flung
realms through loyalty, expressed through a Persianised culture, to an emperor
who had near-divine status.[68] The Mughal state's economic policies, deriving
most revenues from agriculture[70] and mandating that taxes be paid in the
well-regulated silver currency,[71] caused peasants and artisans to enter larger
markets.[69] The relative peace maintained by the empire during much of the
17th century was a factor in India's economic expansion,[69] resulting in greater
patronage of painting, literary forms, textiles, and architecture.[72] Newly
coherent social groups in northern and western India, such as the Marathas, the
Rajputs, and the Sikhs, gained military and governing ambitions during Mughal
Scribes and artists in the Mughal
court, 15901595
rule, which, through collaboration or adversity, gave them both recognition and
military experience.[73] Expanding commerce during Mughal rule gave rise to
new Indian commercial and political elites along the coasts of southern and eastern India.[73] As the empire
disintegrated, many among these elites were able to seek and control their own affairs.[74]
By the early 18th century, with the lines between commercial and political dominance being increasingly blurred, a
number of European trading companies, including the English East India Company, had established coastal
outposts.[75][76] The East India Company's control of the seas, greater resources, and more advanced military training
and technology led it to increasingly flex its military muscle and caused it to become attractive to a portion of the
Indian elite; both these factors were crucial in allowing the Company to gain control over the Bengal region by 1765
and sideline the other European companies.[77][75][78][79] Its further access to the riches of Bengal and the subsequent
increased strength and size of its army enabled it to annex or subdue most of India by the 1820s.[80] India was now
no longer exporting manufactured goods as it long had, but was instead supplying the British empire with raw
materials, and many historians consider this to be the onset of India's colonial period.[75] By this time, with its
economic power severely curtailed by the British parliament and itself effectively made an arm of British
administration, the Company began to more consciously enter non-economic arenas such as education, social reform,
and culture.[81]
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Modern India
Historians consider India's modern age to have begun sometime
between 1848 and 1885. The appointment in 1848 of Lord Dalhousie
as Governor General of the East India Company rule in India set the
stage for changes essential to a modern state. These included the
consolidation and demarcation of sovereignty, the surveillance of the
population, and the education of citizens. Technological
changesamong them, railways, canals, and the telegraphwere
introduced not long after their introduction in Europe.[82][83][84][85]
However, disaffection with the Company also grew during this time,
and set off the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Fed by diverse resentments
The British Indian Empire, from the 1909 edition
and perceptions, including invasive British-style social reforms, harsh
of The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Areas directly
governed by the British are shaded pink; the
land taxes, and summary treatment of some rich landowners and
princely
states under British suzerainty are in
princes, the rebellion rocked many regions of northern and central
yellow.
[86][87]
India and shook the foundations of Company rule.
Although the
rebellion was suppressed by 1858, it led to the dissolution of the East
India Company and to the direct administration of India by the British government. Proclaiming a unitary state and a
gradual but limited British-style parliamentary system, the new rulers also protected princes and landed gentry as a
feudal safeguard against future unrest.[88][89] In the decades following, public life gradually emerged all over India,
leading eventually to the founding of the Indian National Congress in 1885.[90][91][92][93]
The rush of technology and the commercialisation of agriculture in the
second half of the 19th century was marked by economic
setbacksmany small farmers became dependent on the whims of
far-away markets.[94] There was an increase in the number of
large-scale famines,[95] and, despite the risks of infrastructure
development borne by Indian taxpayers, little industrial employment
was generated for Indians.[96] There were also salutary effects:
commercial cropping, especially in the newly canalled Punjab, led to
increased food production for internal consumption.[97] The railway
Jawaharlal Nehru (left) became India's first prime
network provided critical famine relief,[98] notably reduced the cost of
minister in 1947. Mahatma Gandhi (right) led the
moving goods,[98] and helped nascent Indian-owned industry.[97] After
independence movement.
World War I, in which some one million Indians served,[99] a new
period began. It was marked by British reforms but also repressive legislation, by more strident Indian calls for
self-rule, and by the beginnings of a non-violent movement of non-cooperation, of which Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi would become the leader and enduring symbol.[100] During the 1930s, slow legislative reform was enacted
by the British; the Indian National Congress won victories in the resulting elections.[101] The next decade was beset
with crises: Indian participation in World War II, the Congress's final push for non-cooperation, and an upsurge of
Muslim nationalism. All were capped by the advent of independence in 1947, but tempered by the bloody partition
of the subcontinent into two states: India and Pakistan.[102]
Vital to India's self-image as an independent nation was its constitution, completed in 1950, which put in place a
secular and democratic republic.[103] In the 60 years since, India has had a mixed record of successes and
failures.[104] It has remained a democracy with civil liberties, an activist Supreme Court, and a largely independent
press.[104] Economic liberalisation, which was begun in the 1990s, has created a large urban middle class,
transformed India into one of the world's fastest-growing economies,[105] and increased its geopolitical clout. Indian
movies, music, and spiritual teachings play an increasing role in global culture.[104] Yet, India has also been weighed
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down by seemingly unyielding poverty, both rural and urban;[104] by religious and caste-related violence;[106] by
Maoist-inspired Naxalite insurgencies;[107] and by separatism in Jammu and Kashmir and in Northeast India .[108] It
has unresolved territorial disputes with China, which escalated into the Sino-Indian War of 1962;[109] and with
Pakistan, which flared into wars fought in 1947, 1965, 1971, and 1999.[109] The IndiaPakistan nuclear rivalry came
to a head in 1998.[110] India's sustained democratic freedoms are unique among the world's new nations; however, in
spite of its recent economic successes, freedom from want for its disadvantaged population remains a goal yet to be
achieved.[111]
Geography
India comprises the bulk of the Indian subcontinent and lies atop the
minor Indian tectonic plate, which in turn belongs to the
Indo-Australian Plate.[112] India's defining geological processes
commenced 75 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent, then
part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana, began a north-eastward
drift across the then-unformed Indian Ocean that lasted fifty million
years.[112] The subcontinent's subsequent collision with, and
subduction under, the Eurasian Plate bore aloft the planet's highest
mountains, the Himalayas. They abut India in the north and the
north-east.[112] In the former seabed immediately south of the
emerging Himalayas, plate movement created a vast trough that has
gradually filled with river-borne sediment;[113] it now forms the
Indo-Gangetic Plain.[114] To the west lies the Thar Desert, which is cut
off by the Aravalli Range.[115]
A topographic map of India
The original Indian plate survives as peninsular India, which is the oldest and geologically most stable part of India;
it extends as far north as the Satpura and Vindhya ranges in central India. These parallel chains run from the Arabian
Sea coast in Gujarat in the west to the coal-rich Chota Nagpur Plateau in Jharkhand in the east.[116] To the south, the
remaining peninsular landmass, the Deccan Plateau, is flanked on the west and east by coastal ranges known as the
Western and Eastern Ghats;[117] the plateau contains the nation's oldest rock formations, some of them over one
billion years old. Constituted in such fashion, India lies to the north of the equator between 6 44' and 35 30' north
latitude[118] and 68 7' and 97 25' east longitude.[119]
India's coastline measures 7,517 kilometres (4,700mi) in length; of this distance,
5,423 kilometres (3,400mi) belong to peninsular India and 2,094 kilometres
(1,300mi) to the Andaman, Nicobar, and Lakshadweep island chains.[120]
According to the Indian naval hydrographic charts, the mainland coastline
consists of the following: 43% sandy beaches; 11% rocky shores, including
cliffs; and 46% mudflats or marshy shores.[120]
The Kedar Range of the Greater
Himalayas rises behind Kedarnath
Temple, which is one of the twelve
jyotirlinga shrines.
Major Himalayan-origin rivers that substantially flow through India include the
Ganges and the Brahmaputra, both of which drain into the Bay of Bengal.[121]
Important tributaries of the Ganges include the Yamuna and the Kosi; the latter's
extremely low gradient often leads to severe floods and course changes.[122]
Major peninsular rivers, whose steeper gradients prevent their waters from flooding, include the Godavari, the
Mahanadi, the Kaveri, and the Krishna, which also drain into the Bay of Bengal;[123] and the Narmada and the Tapti,
which drain into the Arabian Sea.[124] Coastal features include the marshy Rann of Kutch of western India and the
alluvial Sundarbans delta of eastern India; the latter is shared with Bangladesh.[125] India has two archipelagos: the
Lakshadweep, coral atolls off India's south-western coast; and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a volcanic chain in
India
the Andaman Sea.[126]
The Indian climate is strongly influenced by the Himalayas and the Thar Desert, both of which drive the
economically and culturally pivotal summer and winter monsoons.[127] The Himalayas prevent cold Central Asian
katabatic winds from blowing in, keeping the bulk of the Indian subcontinent warmer than most locations at similar
latitudes.[128][129] The Thar Desert plays a crucial role in attracting the moisture-laden south-west summer monsoon
winds that, between June and October, provide the majority of India's rainfall.[127] Four major climatic groupings
predominate in India: tropical wet, tropical dry, subtropical humid, and montane.[130]
Biodiversity
India lies within the Indomalaya ecozone and contains three biodiversity hotspots.[131] One of 17 megadiverse
countries, it hosts 8.6% of all mammalian, 13.7% of all avian, 7.9% of all reptilian, 6% of all amphibian, 12.2% of
all piscine, and 6.0% of all flowering plant species.[132][133] Endemism is high among plants, 33%, and among
ecoregions such as the shola forests.[134] Habitat ranges from the tropical rainforest of the Andaman Islands, Western
Ghats, and North-East India to the coniferous forest of the Himalaya. Between these extremes lie the moist
deciduous sal forest of eastern India; the dry deciduous teak forest of central and southern India; and the
babul-dominated thorn forest of the central Deccan and western Gangetic plain.[135] Under 12% of India's landmass
bears thick jungle.[136] The medicinal neem, widely used in rural Indian herbal remedies, is a key Indian tree. The
luxuriant pipal fig tree, shown on the seals of Mohenjo-daro, shaded Gautama Buddha as he sought enlightenment.
Many Indian species descend from taxa originating in Gondwana, from which
the Indian plate separated more than 105 million years before present.[137]
Peninsular India's subsequent movement towards and collision with the
Laurasian landmass set off a mass exchange of species. Epochal volcanism and
climatic changes 20 million years ago forced a mass extinction.[138] Mammals
then entered India from Asia through two zoogeographical passes flanking the
rising Himalaya.[135] Thus, while 45.8% of reptiles and 55.8% of amphibians are
Shola highlands are found in
endemic, only 12.6% of mammals and 4.5% of birds are.[133] Among them are
Kudremukh National Park, which is
the Nilgiri leaf monkey and Beddome's toad of the Western Ghats. India contains
part of the Western Ghats.
172 IUCN-designated threatened species, or 2.9% of endangered forms.[139]
These include the Asiatic lion, the Bengal tiger, and the Indian white-rumped vulture, which, by ingesting the carrion
of diclofenac-laced cattle, nearly went extinct.
The pervasive and ecologically devastating human encroachment of recent decades has critically endangered Indian
wildlife. In response the system of national parks and protected areas, first established in 1935, was substantially
expanded. In 1972, India enacted the Wildlife Protection Act[140] and Project Tiger to safeguard crucial wilderness;
the Forest Conservation Act was enacted in 1980 and amendments added in 1988.[141] India hosts more than five
hundred wildlife sanctuaries and thirteen biosphere reserves,[142] four of which are part of the World Network of
Biosphere Reserves; twenty-five wetlands are registered under the Ramsar Convention.[143]
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Politics
India is the world's most populous democracy.[144] A parliamentary
republic with a multi-party system,[145] it has six recognised national
parties, including the Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP), and more than 40 regional parties.[146] The
Congress is considered centre-left or "liberal" in Indian political
culture, and the BJP centre-right or "conservative". For most of the
period between 1950when India first became a republicand the
late 1980s, the Congress held a majority in the parliament. Since then,
however, it has increasingly shared the political stage with the
BJP,[147] as well as with powerful regional parties which have often
forced the creation of multi-party coalitions at the centre.[148]
A parliamentary joint session is held in the

Sansad Bhavan.
In the Republic of India's first three general elections, in 1951, 1957, and 1962, the Jawaharlal Nehru-led Congress
won easy victories. On Nehru's death in 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri briefly became prime minister; he was succeeded,
after his own unexpected death in 1966, by Indira Gandhi, who went on to lead the Congress to election victories in
1967 and 1971. Following public discontent with the state of emergency she declared in 1975, the Congress was
voted out of power in 1977; the then-new Janata Party, which had opposed the emergency, was voted in. Its
government lasted just over three years. Voted back into power in 1980, the Congress saw a change in leadership in
1984, when Indira Gandhi was assassinated; she was succeeded by her son Rajiv Gandhi, who won an easy victory
in the general elections later that year. The Congress was voted out again in 1989 when a National Front coalition,
led by the newly formed Janata Dal in alliance with the Left Front, won the elections; that government too proved
relatively short-lived: it lasted just under two years.[149] Elections were held again in 1991; no party won an absolute
majority. But the Congress, as the largest single party, was able to form a minority government led by P. V.
Narasimha Rao.[150]
A two-year period of political turmoil followed the general election of 1996. Several short-lived alliances shared
power at the centre. The BJP formed a government briefly in 1996; it was followed by two comparatively
long-lasting United Front coalitions, which depended on external support. In 1998, the BJP was able to form a
successful coalition, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the NDA became the
first non-Congress, coalition government to complete a five-year term.[151] In the 2004 Indian general elections,
again no party won an absolute majority, but the Congress emerged as the largest single party, forming another
successful coalition: the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). It had the support of left-leaning parties and MPs who
opposed the BJP. The UPA returned to power in the 2009 general election with increased numbers, and it no longer
required external support from India's communist parties.[152] That year, Manmohan Singh became the first prime
minister since Jawaharlal Nehru in 1957 and 1962 to be re-elected to a consecutive five-year term.[153]
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Government
India is a federation with a parliamentary system governed under the
Constitution of India, which serves as the country's supreme legal
document. It is a constitutional republic and representative democracy,
in which "majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by
law". Federalism in India defines the power distribution between the
federal government and the states. The government abides by
constitutional checks and balances. The Constitution of India, which
came into effect on 26 January 1950,[154] states in its preamble that
The Rashtrapati Bhavan is the official residence
India is a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic.[155] India's
of the president of India.
form of government, traditionally described as "quasi-federal" with a
strong centre and weak states,[156] has grown increasingly federal since
the late 1990s as a result of political, economic, and social changes.[157][158]
National symbols[1]
Flag
Tricolour
Emblem
Sarnath Lion Capital
Anthem
Jana Gana Mana
Song
Vande Mataram
Calendar
Saka
Game
Not declared
Flower
Lotus
Fruit
Mango
Tree
Banyan
Bird
Indian Peafowl
Land animal
Royal Bengal Tiger
[159]
Aquatic animal River Dolphin

River
Ganga (Ganges)
The federal government comprises three branches:

Executive: The President of India is the head of state[160] and is elected indirectly by a national electoral
college[161] for a five-year term.[162] The Prime Minister of India is the head of government and exercises most
executive power.[163] Appointed by the president,[164] the prime minister is by convention supported by the party
or political alliance holding the majority of seats in the lower house of parliament.[163] The executive branch of
the Indian government consists of the president, the vice-president, and the Council of Ministersthe cabinet
being its executive committeeheaded by the prime minister. Any minister holding a portfolio must be a member
of one of the houses of parliament.[160] In the Indian parliamentary system, the executive is subordinate to the
legislature; the prime minister and his council directly responsible to the lower house of the parliament.[165]
Legislative: The legislature of India is the bicameral parliament. It operates under a Westminster-style
parliamentary system and comprises the upper house called the Rajya Sabha ("Council of States") and the lower
called the Lok Sabha ("House of the People").[166] The Rajya Sabha is a permanent body that has 245 members
who serve in staggered six-year terms.[167] Most are elected indirectly by the state and territorial legislatures in
numbers proportional to their state's share of the national population.[164] All but two of the Lok Sabha's 545
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members are directly elected by popular vote; they represent individual constituencies via five-year terms.[168]
The remaining two members are nominated by the president from among the Anglo-Indian community, in case
the president decides that they are not adequately represented.[169]
Judicial: India has a unitary three-tier independent judiciary[170] that comprises the Supreme Court, headed by the
Chief Justice of India, 21 High Courts, and a large number of trial courts.[170] The Supreme Court has original
jurisdiction over cases involving fundamental rights and over disputes between states and the centre; it has
appellate jurisdiction over the High Courts.[171] It has the power both to declare the law and to strike down union
or state laws which contravene the constitution.[172] The Supreme Court is also the ultimate interpreter of the
constitution.[173]
Subdivisions
India is a federation composed of 28
states and 7 union territories.[174] All
states, as well as the union territories of
Pondicherry and the National Capital
Territory of Delhi, have elected
legislatures and governments, both
patterned on the Westminster model. The
remaining five union territories are
directly ruled by the centre through
appointed administrators. In 1956, under
the States Reorganisation Act, states
were reorganised on a linguistic
basis.[175] Since then, their structure has
remained largely unchanged. Each state
or union territory is further divided into
administrative districts. The districts in
turn are further divided into tehsils and
ultimately into villages.
States
A clickable map of the 28 states and 7 union territories of India
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Andhra Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Nagaland
Arunachal Pradesh
Jharkhand
Orissa
Assam
Karnataka
Punjab
Bihar
Kerala
Rajasthan
Chhattisgarh
Madhya Pradesh
Sikkim
Goa
Maharashtra
Tamil Nadu
Gujarat
Manipur
Tripura
Haryana
Meghalaya
Uttar Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Mizoram
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
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National Capital Territory of Delhi
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Pondicherry
Foreign relations and military

Since its independence in 1947, India has maintained cordial relations
with most nations. In the 1950s, it strongly supported decolonisation in
Africa and Asia and played a lead role in the Non-Aligned
Movement.[176] In the late 1980s, the Indian military twice intervened
abroad at the invitation of neighbouring countries: a peace-keeping
operation in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 1990; and an armed
intervention to prevent a coup d'tat attempt in Maldives. India has
tense relations with neighbouring Pakistan; the two nations have gone
Manmohan Singh meets Dmitry Medvedev at the
to war four times: in 1947, 1965, 1971, and 1999. Three of these wars
34th G8 summit. India and Russia share extensive
were fought over the disputed territory of Kashmir, while the fourth,
economic, defence, and technological ties.
the 1971 war, followed from India's support for the independence of
Bangladesh.[177] After waging the 1962 Sino-Indian War and the 1965
war with Pakistan, India pursued close military and economic ties with the Soviet Union; by the late 1960s, the
Soviet Union was its largest arms supplier.[178]
Aside from ongoing strategic relations with Russia, India has wide-ranging defence relations with Israel and France.
In recent years, it has played key roles in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and the World
Trade Organisation. The nation has provided 100,000 military and police personnel to serve in 35 UN peacekeeping
operations across four continents. It participates in the East Asia Summit, the G8+5, and other multilateral
forums.[179] India has close economic ties with South America, Asia, and Africa; it pursues a "Look East" policy that
seeks to strengthen partnerships with the ASEAN nations, Japan, and South Korea that revolve around many issues,
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but especially those involving economic investment and regional security.[180][181]
The HAL Tejas is a light supersonic

fighter developed by the
Aeronautical Development Agency
and manufactured by Hindustan
[182]
Aeronautics in Bangalore.
China's nuclear test of 1964, as well as its repeated threats to intervene in support
of Pakistan in the 1965 war, convinced India to develop nuclear weapons.[183]
India conducted its first nuclear weapons test in 1974 and carried out further
underground testing in 1998. Despite criticism and military sanctions, India has
signed neither the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty nor the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty, considering both to be flawed and discriminatory.[184]
India maintains a "no first use" nuclear policy and is developing a nuclear triad
capability as a part of its "minimum credible deterrence" doctrine.[185][186] It is
developing a ballistic missile defence shield and, in collaboration with Russia, a
fifth-generation fighter jet.[187] Other indigenous military projects involve the
design and implementation of Vikrant-class aircraft carriers and Arihant-class
nuclear submarines.[187]
Since the end of the Cold War, India has increased its economic, strategic, and military cooperation with the United
States and the European Union.[188] In 2008, a civilian nuclear agreement was signed between India and the United
States. Although India possessed nuclear weapons at the time and was not party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty, it received waivers from the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Suppliers Group, ending
earlier restrictions on India's nuclear technology and commerce. As a consequence, India became the sixth de facto
nuclear weapons state.[189] India subsequently signed cooperation agreements involving civilian nuclear energy with
Russia,[190] France,[191] the United Kingdom,[192] and Canada.[193]
The President of India is the supreme commander of the nation's armed forces; with 1.6 million active troops, they
compose the world's third-largest military.[194] It comprises the Indian Army, the Indian Navy, and the Indian Air
Force; auxiliary organisations include the Strategic Forces Command and three paramilitary groups: the Assam
Rifles, the Special Frontier Force, and the Indian Coast Guard.[10] The official Indian defence budget for 2011 was
US$36.03 billion, or 1.83% of GDP.[195] For the fiscal year spanning 20122013, US$40.44 billion was
budgeted.[196] According to a 2008 SIPRI report, India's annual military expenditure in terms of purchasing power
stood at US$72.7 billion,[197] In 2011, the annual defence budget increased by 11.6%,[198] although this does not
include funds that reach the military through other branches of government.[199] As of 2012, India is the world's
largest arms importer; between 2007 and 2011, it accounted for 10% of funds spent on international arms
purchases.[200] Much of the military expenditure was focused on defence against Pakistan and countering growing
Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean.[198]
Economy
According to the World Bank, as of 2011, the Indian economy is nominally worth US$1.848 trillion;[9] it is the
tenth-largest economy by market exchange rates, and is, at US$4.457 trillion, the third-largest by purchasing power
parity, or PPP.[201] With its average annual GDP growth rate of 5.8% over the past two decades, and reaching 6.1%
during 201112,[202] India is one of the world's fastest-growing economies.[203] However, the country ranks 140th in
the world in nominal GDP per capita and 129th in GDP per capita at PPP.[201] Until 1991, all Indian governments
followed protectionist policies that were influenced by socialist economics. Widespread state intervention and
regulation largely walled the economy off from the outside world. An acute balance of payments crisis in 1991
forced the nation to liberalise its economy;[204] since then it has slowly moved towards a free-market system[205][206]
by emphasizing both foreign trade and direct investment inflows.[207] India's recent economic model is largely
capitalist.[206] India has been a member of WTO since 1 January 1995.[208]
The 487.6-million worker Indian labour force is the world's second-largest, as of 2011.[10] The service sector makes
up 55.6% of GDP, the industrial sector 26.3% and the agricultural sector 18.1%. Major agricultural products include
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rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, and potatoes.[174] Major industries include textiles,
telecommunications, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, food processing, steel, transport equipment,
cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, and software.[174] In 2006, the share of external trade in India's GDP stood at
24%, up from 6% in 1985.[205] In 2008, India's share of world trade was 1.68%;[209] In 2011, India was the world's
tenth-largest importer and the nineteenth-largest exporter.[210] Major exports include petroleum products, textile
goods, jewelry, software, engineering goods, chemicals, and leather manufactures.[174] Major imports include crude
oil, machinery, gems, fertiliser, and chemicals.[174] Between 2001 and 2011, the contribution of petrochemical and
engineering goods to total exports grew from 14% to 42%.[211]
Averaging an economic growth rate of 7.5% for several years prior to 2007,[205] India has more than doubled its
hourly wage rates during the first decade of the 21st century.[212] Some 431 million Indians have left poverty since
1985; India's middle classes are projected to number around 580 million by 2030.[213] Though ranking 51st in global
competitiveness, India ranks 17th in financial market sophistication, 24th in the banking sector, 44th in business
sophistication, and 39th in innovation, ahead of several advanced economies, as of 2010.[214] With 7 of the world's
top 15 information technology outsourcing companies based in India, the country is viewed as the second-most
favourable outsourcing destination after the United States, as of 2009.[215] India's consumer market, currently the
world's eleventh-largest, is expected to become fifth-largest by 2030.[213]
India's telecommunication industry, the world's fastest-growing, added 227 million subscribers during the period
201011.[216] Its automotive industry, the world's second fastest growing, increased domestic sales by 26% during
200910,[217] and exports by 36% during 200809.[218] Power capacity is 250 gigawatts, of which 8% is renewable.
The Pharmaceutical industry in India is among the significant emerging markets for global pharma industry. The
Indian pharmaceutical market is expected to reach $ 48.5 billion by 2020. India's R & D spending constitutes 60% of
Biopharmaceutical industry. [219][220] India is among the top 12 Biotech destinations of the world. [221] [222] At the
end of 2011, Indian IT Industry employed 2.8 million professionals, generated revenues close to US$100 billion
equaling 7.5% of Indian GDP and contributed 26% of India's merchandize exports.[223]
Despite impressive economic growth during recent decades, India continues to face socio-economic challenges.
India contains the largest concentration of people living below the World Bank's international poverty line of
US$1.25 per day,[224] the proportion having decreased from 60% in 1981 to 42% in 2005.[225] Half of the children in
India are underweight,[226] and 46% of children under the age of three suffer from malnutrition.[224] The Mid-Day
Meal Scheme attempts to lower these rates.[227] Since 1991, economic inequality between India's states has
consistently grown: the per-capita net state domestic product of the richest states in 2007 was 3.2 times that of the
poorest.[228] Corruption in India is perceived to have increased significantly,[229] with one report estimating the
illegal capital flows since independence to be US$462 billion.[230] Driven by growth, India's nominal GDP per capita
has steadily increased from US$329 in 1991, when economic liberalisation began, to US$1,265 in 2010, and is
estimated to increase to US$2,110 by 2016; however, it has always remained lower than those of other Asian
developing countries such as Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, and is expected to
remain so in the near future.[231]
According to a 2011 PricewaterhouseCoopers report, India's GDP at purchasing power parity could overtake that of
the United States by 2045.[232] During the next four decades, Indian GDP is expected to grow at an annualised
average of 8%, making it potentially the world's fastest-growing major economy until 2050.[232] The report
highlights key growth factors: a young and rapidly growing working-age population; growth in the manufacturing
sector due to rising education and engineering skill levels; and sustained growth of the consumer market driven by a
rapidly growing middle class.[232] The World Bank cautions that, for India to achieve its economic potential, it must
continue to focus on public sector reform, transport infrastructure, agricultural and rural development, removal of
labour regulations, education, energy security, and public health and nutrition.[233]
Citing persistent inflation pressures, weak public finances, limited progress on fiscal consolidation and
ineffectiveness of the government, rating agency Fitch revised India's Outlook to Negative from Stable on 18 June
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2012.[234] Another credit rating agency S&P had warned previously that a slowing GDP growth and political
roadblocks to economic policy-making could put India at the risk of losing its investment grade rating.[235] However,
Moody didn't revise its outlook on India keeping it stable,[236] but termed the national government as the "single
biggest drag" on the business activity.[237]
Demographics
With 1,210,193,422 residents reported in the 2011 provisional
census,[7] India is the world's second-most populous country. Its
population grew at 1.76% per annum during 20012011,[7] down from
2.13% per annum in the previous decade (19912001).[238] The human
sex ratio, according to the 2011 census, is 940 females per 1,000
males.[7] The median age was 24.9 in the 2001 census.[10] Medical
advances made in the last 50 years as well as increased agricultural
productivity brought about by the "Green Revolution" have caused
India's population to grow rapidly.[239] India continues to face several
public health-related challenges.[240][241] According to the World
Health Organisation, 900,000 Indians die each year from drinking
contaminated water or breathing polluted air.[242] There are around 50
A population density and Indian Railways
physicians per 100,000 Indians.[243] The number of Indians living in
connectivity
map. The already densely settled
urban areas has grown by 31.2% between 1991 and 2001.[244] Yet, in
Indo-Gangetic Plain is the main driver of Indian
2001, over 70% lived in rural areas.[245][246] According to the 2001
population growth.
[244]
census, there are 27 million-plus cities in India;
among them Delhi,
Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad are the most populous metropolitan areas. The
literacy rate in 2011 was 74.04%: 65.46% among females and 82.14% among males.[7] Kerala is the most literate
state;[247] Bihar the least.[248]
India is home to two major language families: Indo-Aryan (spoken by about 74% of the population) and Dravidian
(24%). Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman language families. India
has no national language.[249] Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the
government.[250][251] English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary
official language";[252] it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education. Each state and union
territory has one or more official languages, and the constitution recognises in particular 21 "scheduled languages".
The Constitution of India recognises 212 scheduled tribal groups which together constitute about 7.5% of the
country's population.[253] The 2001 census reported that Hinduism, with over 800 million adherents (80.5% of the
population), was the largest religion in India; it is followed by Islam (13.4%), Christianity (2.3%), Sikhism (1.9%),
Buddhism (0.8%), Jainism (0.4%), Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and the Bah' Faith.[254] India has the world's largest
Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Zoroastrian, and Bah' populations, and has the third-largest Muslim population and the largest
Muslim population for a non-Muslim majority country.[255][256]
Culture
Indian cultural history spans more than 4,500 years.[257] During the Vedic period (c. 1700500 BCE), the
foundations of Hindu philosophy, mythology, and literature were laid, and many beliefs and practices which still
exist today, such as dhrma, krma, yga, and moka, were established.[16] India is notable for its religious diversity,
with Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam, Christianity, and Jainism among the nation's major religions.[258] The predominant
religion, Hinduism, has been shaped by various historical schools of thought, including those of the Upanishads,[259]
the Yoga Sutras, the Bhakti movement,[258] and by Buddhist philosophy.[260]
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Art and architecture

Much of Indian architecture, including the Taj Mahal, other works of Mughal architecture, and South Indian
architecture, blends ancient local traditions with imported styles.[261] Vernacular architecture is also highly regional
in it flavours. Vastu shastra, literally "science of construction" or "architecture" and ascribed to Mamuni Mayan,[262]
explores how the laws of nature affect human dwellings;[263] it employs precise geometry and directional alignments
to reflect perceived cosmic constructs.[264] As applied in Hindu temple architecture, it is influenced by the Shilpa
Shastras, a series of foundational texts whose basic mythological form is the Vastu-Purusha mandala, a square that
embodied the "absolute".[265] The Taj Mahal, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by orders of Emperor Shah Jahan
in memory of his wife, has been described in the UNESCO World Heritage List as "the jewel of Muslim art in India
and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage."[266] Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture,
developed by the British in the late 19th century, drew on Indo-Islamic architecture.[267]
Literature
The earliest literary writings in India, composed between 1400 BCE and 1200 CE, were in the Sanskrit
language.[268][269] Prominent works of this Sanskrit literature include epics such as the Mahbhrata and the
Ramayana, the dramas of Klidsa such as the Abhijnakuntalam (The Recognition of akuntal), and poetry
such as the Mahkvya.[270][271][272] Developed between 600 BCE and 300 CE in South India, the Sangam
literature, consisting of 2,381 poems, is regarded as a predecessor of Tamil literature.[273][274][275][276] From the 14th
to the 18th centuries, India's literary traditions went through a period of drastic change because of the emergence of
devotional poets such as Kabr, Tulsds, and Guru Nnak. This period was characterised by a varied and wide
spectrum of thought and expression; as a consequence, medieval Indian literary works differed significantly from
classical traditions.[277] In the 19th century, Indian writers took a new interest in social questions and psychological
descriptions. In the 20th century, Indian literature was influenced by the works of Bengali poet and novelist
Rabindranath Tagore.[278]
Performing Arts
Indian music ranges over various traditions and regional styles. Classical music encompasses two genres and their
various folk offshoots: the northern Hindustani and southern Carnatic schools.[279] Regionalised popular forms
include filmi and folk music; the syncretic tradition of the bauls is a well-known form of the latter. Indian dance also
features diverse folk and classical forms. Among the better-known folk dances are the bhangra of the Punjab, the
bihu of Assam, the chhau of West Bengal and Jharkhand, sambalpuri of Orissa, ghoomar of Rajasthan, and the
lavani of Maharashtra. Eight dance forms, many with narrative forms and mythological elements, have been
accorded classical dance status by India's National Academy of Music, Dance, and Drama. These are:
bharatanatyam of the state of Tamil Nadu, kathak of Uttar Pradesh, kathakali and mohiniyattam of Kerala, kuchipudi
of Andhra Pradesh, manipuri of Manipur, odissi of Orissa, and the sattriya of Assam.[280] Theatre in India melds
music, dance, and improvised or written dialogue.[281] Often based on Hindu mythology, but also borrowing from
medieval romances or social and political events, Indian theatre includes the bhavai of Gujarat, the jatra of West
Bengal, the nautanki and ramlila of North India, tamasha of Maharashtra, burrakatha of Andhra Pradesh, terukkuttu
of Tamil Nadu, and the yakshagana of Karnataka.[282]
Motion Pictures
The Indian film industry produces the world's most-watched cinema.[283] Established regional cinematic traditions
exist in the Assamese, Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu languages.[284]
South Indian cinema attracts more than 75% of national film revenue.[285] Television broadcasting began in India in
1959 as a state-run medium of communication, and had slow expansion for more than two decades.[286] The state
monopoly on television broadcast ended in 1990s and, since then, satellite channels have increasingly shaped
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popular culture of Indian society.[287] Today, television is the most penetrative media in India; industry estimates
indicate that as of 2012 there are over 554 million TV consumers, 462 million with satellite and/or cable
connections, compared to other forms of mass media such as press (350 million), radio (156 million) or internet (37
million).[288]
Society
Traditional Indian society is defined by a relatively strict social hierarchy. The Indian caste system embodies much
of the social stratification and many of the social restrictions found in the Indian subcontinent. Social classes are
defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups, often termed as jtis, or "castes".[289] India declared
untouchability illegal in 1947 and has since enacted other anti-discriminatory laws and social welfare initiatives,
albeit numerous reports suggest that many Dalits ("exUntouchables") and other low castes in rural areas continue to
live in segregation and face persecution and discrimination.[290][291][292] Family values are important in the Indian
tradition, and multi-generational patriarchal joint families have been the norm in India, though nuclear families are
becoming common in urban areas.[293] An overwhelming majority of Indians, with their consent, have their
marriages arranged by their parents or other family members.[294] Marriage is thought to be for life,[294] and the
divorce rate is extremely low.[295] Child marriages are common, especially in rural areas; more than half of Indian
females wed before reaching 18, which is their legal marriageable age.[296]
Many Indian festivals are religious in origin; among them are Diwali, Ganesh Chaturthi, Thai Pongal, Navaratri,
Holi, Durga Puja, Eid ul-Fitr, Bakr-Id, Christmas, and Vaisakhi. India has three national holidays which are observed
in all states and union territories: Republic Day, Independence Day, and Gandhi Jayanti. Other sets of holidays,
varying between nine and twelve, are officially observed in individual states. Traditional Indian dress varies in
colour and style across regions and depends on various factors, including climate and faith. Popular styles of dress
include draped garments such as the sari for women and the dhoti or lungi for men. Stitched clothes, such as the
shalwar kameez for women and kurtapyjama combinations or European-style trousers and shirts for men, are also
popular.[297] Use of delicate jewellery, modelled on real flowers worn in ancient India, is part of a tradition dating
back some 5,000 years; gemstones are also worn in India as talismans.[298]
Indian cuisine features an unsurpassed reliance on herbs and spices, with dishes often calling for the nuanced usage
of a dozen or more condiments;[299] it is also known for its tandoori preparations. The tandoor, a clay oven used in
India for almost 5,000 years, grills meats to an "uncommon succulence" and produces the puffy flatbread known as
naan.[300] The staple foods are wheat (predominantly in the north),[301] rice (especially in the south and the east),
and lentils.[302] Many spices that have worldwide appeal are native to the Indian subcontinent,[303] while chili
pepper, native to the Americas and introduced by the Portuguese, is widely used by Indians.[304] yurveda, a system
of traditional medicine, used six rasas and three guas to help describe comestibles.[305] Over time, as Vedic animal
sacrifices were supplanted by the notion of sacred-cow inviolability, vegetarianism became associated with high
religious status and grew increasingly popular,[306] a trend aided by the rise of Buddhist, Jain, and bhakti Hindu
norms.[307] India has the world's highest concentration of vegetarians: a 2006 survey found that 31% of Indians were
lacto vegetarian, and another 9% were ovo-lacto vegetarianism.[307] Common traditional eating customs include
meals taken on or near the floor, caste- and gender-segregated dining,[308][309] and a lack of cutlery in favour of the
right hand or a piece of roti.
Sport
In India, several traditional indigenous sports remain fairly popular, among them kabaddi, kho kho, pehlwani and
gilli-danda. Some of the earliest forms of Asian martial arts, such as kalarippayattu, musti yuddha, silambam, and
marma adi, originated in India. The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and the Arjuna Award are the highest forms of
government recognition for athletic achievement; the Dronacharya Award is awarded for excellence in coaching.
Chess, commonly held to have originated in India as chaturaga, is regaining widespread popularity with the rise in
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the number of Indian grandmasters.[310][311] Pachisi, from which parcheesi derives, was played on a giant marble
court by Akbar.[312] The improved results garnered by the Indian Davis Cup team and other Indian tennis players in
the early 2010s have made tennis increasingly popular in the country.[313] India has a comparatively strong presence
in shooting sports, and has won several medals at the Olympics, the World Shooting Championships, and the
Commonwealth Games.[314][315] Other sports in which Indians have succeeded internationally include
badminton,[316] boxing,[317] and wrestling.[318] Football is popular in West Bengal, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and
the north-eastern states.[319]
Field hockey in India is administered by Hockey India. The Indian
national hockey team won the 1975 Hockey World Cup and have, as of
2012, taken eight gold, one silver, and two bronze Olympic medals,
making it the sport's most successful team. India has also played a
major role in popularizing Cricket, thus cricket is by far the most
popular sport of India; the Indian national cricket team won the 1983
and 2011 Cricket World Cup events, the 2007 ICC World Twenty20,
and shared the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy with Sri Lanka. Cricket in
India is administered by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, or
Indian cricket team after winning their second
BCCI; the Ranji Trophy, the Duleep Trophy, the Deodhar Trophy, the
world cup title in 2011
Irani Trophy, and the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy are domestic
competitions. The BCCI conducts a Twenty20 competition known as
the Indian Premier League. India has hosted or co-hosted several international sporting events: the 1951 and 1982
Asian Games; the 1987, 1996, and 2011 Cricket World Cup tournaments; the 2003 Afro-Asian Games; the 2006 ICC
Champions Trophy; the 2010 Hockey World Cup; and the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Major international sporting
events held annually in India include the Chennai Open, the Mumbai Marathon, the Delhi Half Marathon, and the
Indian Masters. The first Indian Grand Prix featured in late 2011.[320] India has traditionally been the dominant
country at the South Asian Games. An example of this dominance is the basketball competition where Team India
won three out of four tournaments to date.[321]
Notes
[1] National Informatics Centre 2005
[2] Wolpert 2003, p.1
[3] "[...] Jana Gana Mana is the National Anthem of India, subject to such alterations in the words as the Government may authorise as occasion
arises; and the song Vande Mataram, which has played a historic part in the struggle for Indian freedom, shall be honoured equally with Jana
Gana Mana and shall have equal status with it." (Constituent Assembly of India 1950).
[4] The Times of India 2007
[5] "Justice Altmas Kabir is new Chief Justice of India" (http:/ / in. news. yahoo. com/ justice-altmas-kabir-chief-justice-india-063614003. html).
yahoo. .
[6] "The country's exact size is subject to debate because some borders are disputed. The Indian government lists the total area as 3,287,260 km2
(1,269,220sqmi) and the total land area as 3,060,500 km2 (1,181,700sqmi); the United Nations lists the total area as 3,287,263 km2
(1,269,219sqmi) and total land area as 2,973,190 km2 (1,147,960sqmi)." (Library of Congress 2004).
[7] Ministry of Home Affairs 2011
[8] "India" (http:/ / www. imf. org/ external/ pubs/ ft/ weo/ 2012/ 01/ weodata/ weorept. aspx?pr. x=51& pr. y=6& sy=2009& ey=2012&
scsm=1& ssd=1& sort=country& ds=. & br=1& c=534& s=NGDPD,NGDPDPC,PPPGDP,PPPPC,LP& grp=0& a=). International Monetary
Fund. . Retrieved 18 April 2012.
[9] "GDP (current US$) Data in 2011" (http:/ / databank. worldbank. org/ databank/ download/ GDP. pdf). World Bank database. . Retrieved 5
September 2012.
[10] Central Intelligence Agency
[11] United Nations 2011
[12] See also: Official names of India.
[13] The Government of India regards Afghanistan as a bordering country, as it considers all of Kashmir to be part of India. However, this is
disputed, and the region bordering Afghanistan is administered by Pakistan. Source: "Ministry of Home Affairs (Department of Border
Management)" (http:/ / mha. nic. in/ docs/ BM_Intro(E). doc) (DOC). . Retrieved 1 September 2008..
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Vande Mataram"I Bow to Thee, Mother"

Area controlled by India is in dark green.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

Manmohan Singh (INC)

Speaker of the House Meira Kumar (INC)

from the United Kingdom

Indian rupee ( ) (INR)

ISO 3166 code

Paintings at the Ajanta Caves in

The granite tower of Brihadeeswarar

Early modern India

A topographic map of India

A parliamentary joint session is held in the

Sarnath Lion Capital

Jana Gana Mana

Royal Bengal Tiger

Aquatic animal River Dolphin

The federal government comprises three branches:

A clickable map of the 28 states and 7 union territories of India

Jammu and Kashmir

Foreign relations and military

but especially those involving economic investment and regional security.[180][181]

The HAL Tejas is a light supersonic

Art and architecture

Stein 1998, pp.1617

Thapar 2003, p.166

[70] Asher & Talbot 2008, p.158

[95] Bose & Jalal 2011, p.117

[152] Kulke & Rothermund 2004, p.384

[210] World Trade Organisation 2010

[239] Rorabacher 2010, pp.3539

Deutsch 1969, pp.3, 78

[293] Makar 2007

[318] Xavier 2010

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