India Wikipedia. Republic of India. Bhrat Gaarjya. Area controlled by India shown in dark green claimed but uncontrolled regions shown in light green. Capital. New Delhi. N7. 71. 2. 5E 2. N 7. E 2. Largest city. Mumbai. N7. 24. 93. E 1. N 7. 2. 8. 25. E 1. Official languages. Recognised regional languages. National language. None891. 0Religion. Demonym. Indian. Government. Federalparliamentaryconstitutionalsocialist1. Ram Nath Kovind. Venkaiah Naidu. Narendra Modi. Dipak Misra. Sumitra Mahajan. Legislature. Parliament of India. Rajya Sabha. Lok Sabha. Independence from the United Kingdom. August 1. 94. 72. January 1. 95. 0Area Total. Water 9. 6. Population 2. Density. 39. 4. 7km. Canada Grains Council 1999 Statistical Handbook Of Tamil' title='Canada Grains Council 1999 Statistical Handbook Of Tamil' />Pamela Abbott 1947 and Claire Wallace 1956Pamela Abbott Director of the Centre for Equality and Diversity at Glasgow Caledonian University. Get information, facts, and pictures about India at Encyclopedia. Deutsche Zungenbrecher Pdf more. Make research projects and school reports about India easy with credible articles from our FREE. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. GDP PPP2. 01. 7 estimate Total9. Per capita7,1. 531. GDP nominal2. 01. Total2. 4. 54 trillion1. Per capita1,8. 501. Canada Grains Council 1999 Statistical Handbook Of Tamil' title='Canada Grains Council 1999 Statistical Handbook Of Tamil' />Gini 2. HDI 2. 01. 5 0. Currency. Indian rupee INRTime zone. ISTUTC0. 5 3. 0DST is not observed. Date format. DD MM YYYYDrives on theleft. Calling code9. 1ISO 3. INInternet TLD. in. India, officially the Republic of India Bhrat Gaarjya,e is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by area, the second most populous country with over 1. Search metadata Search full text of books Search TV captions Search archived web sites Advanced Search. India, officially the Republic of India Bhrat Gaarjya, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventhlargest country by area, the secondmost populous. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west fChina, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast and Myanmar Burma and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Indias Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia. The Indian subcontinent was home to the urban Indus Valley Civilisation of the 3rd millennium BCE. In the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism began to be composed. Social stratification, based on caste, emerged in the first millennium BCE, and Buddhism and Jainism arose. Early political consolidations took place under the Maurya and Gupta empires the later peninsular Middle Kingdoms influenced cultures as far as Southeast Asia. In the medieval era, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived, and Sikhism emerged, all adding to the regions diverse culture. Much of the north fell to the Delhi sultanate the south was united under the Vijayanagara Empire. The economy expanded in the 1. Mughal Empire. In the mid 1. British East India Company rule, and in the mid 1. British crown rule. A nationalist movement emerged in the late 1. Mahatma Gandhi, was noted for nonviolent resistance and led to Indias independence in 1. In 2. 01. 6, a survey on World Tourism rankings compiled by United Nations. World Tourism Organization, the nation is visited by approximately 1. Asia Pacific. In 2. Indian economy was the worlds sixth largest by nominal GDP and third largest by purchasing power parity. Following market based economic reforms in 1. India became one of the fastest growing major economies and is considered a newly industrialised country. However, it continues to face the challenges of poverty, corruption, malnutrition, and inadequate public healthcare. A nuclear weapons state and regional power, it has the third largest standing army in the world and ranks fifth in military expenditure among nations. India is a federal republic governed under a parliamentary system and consists of 2. It is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi ethnic society and 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. The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi, which translates as The people of the Indus. The geographical term Bharat Bhrat, pronounced bart  listen, which is recognised by the Constitution of India as an official name for the country,2. Indian languages in its variations. It is a modernisation of the historical name Bharatavarsha, which traditionally referred to the Indian subcontinent and gained increasing currency from the mid 1. India. 2. 32. 4 Scholars believe it to be named after the Vedic tribe of Bhratas in the second millennium BCE. It is also traditionally associated with the rule of the legendary emperor Bharata. Gaarjya literally, peoples State is the SanskritHindi term for republic dating back to the ancient times. Hindustan ndstan  listen is a Persian name for India dating back to the 3rd century BCE. It was introduced into India by the Mughals and widely used since then. Its meaning varied, referring to a region that encompassed northern India and Pakistan or India in its entirety. Currently, the name may refer to either the northern part of India or the entire country. History. Ancient India. The earliest authenticated human remains in South Asia date to about 3. 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. Around 7. 00. 0 BCE, one of the first known Neolithic settlements appeared on the subcontinent in Mehrgarh and other sites in the subcontinent. These gradually developed into the Indus Valley Civilisation, the first urban culture in South Asia it flourished during 2. BCE in northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India. 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. During the period 2. BCE, in terms of culture, many regions of the subcontinent transitioned from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age. The Vedas, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism, were composed during this period, and historians have analysed these to posit a Vedic culture in the Punjab region and the upper Gangetic Plain. Most historians also consider this period to have encompassed several waves of Indo Aryan migration into the subcontinent from the north west. 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. On the Deccan Plateau, archaeological evidence from this period suggests the existence of a chiefdom stage of political organisation. In South India, a progression to sedentary life is indicated by the large number of megalithic monuments dating from this period, as well as by nearby traces of agriculture, irrigation tanks, and craft traditions. In the late Vedic period, around the 6th century BCE, the small states and chiefdoms of the Ganges Plain and the north western regions had consolidated into 1. The emerging urbanisation gave rise to non Vedic religious movements, two of which became independent religions. Jainism came into prominence during the life of its exemplar, Mahavira. 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. In an age of increasing urban wealth, both religions held up renunciation as an ideal, and both established long lasting monastic traditions.