The Subcontinent of India
Unlike America, India is full of wildlife, rich forests, towering mountains, different religions, hundreds of festivals, plenty of languages, and various attires. Each part of this prodigious country is different, this way or that. Every state had contradistinctive vestments, speaks different languages, and has contrasting cultures. India has great architectural beauties, such as the Taj Mahal, a humongous marble building built in the 1600’s. The second most populated country with a whopping number of
1,220,800,359 people, India will surpass China around 2027. As Albert Einstein once said, “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count,without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made”, Indians were the first to invent anduse numbers. Let us explore the wonders of India and its culture.
The history of India’s culture is over 5,000 years old.
Hinduism includes a pantheon of deities. This often appears strange to people raised in Western countries, where monotheism is often a religious given, but in many ways, it is not so different at all from
Western faiths and traditions (Asian shades of spirituality: Implications for Multicultural School Counseling). In India, there are lots of varying cultures in every state. Indian cultures that are based on religions such as Islam, Sikh, Christian, Parsi Communities, and Hinduism have a variety of different religious beliefs and Festivals. Out of all of them, there are three national holidays which are Independent Day, Republic Day, Mahatma Ghandi Jayanti. The Indian culture refers to the
Indian people being the life of India. India’s republic gained independence from British rule on the 15th of August, 1947. Eve...
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...ls and live an independent life, which not many people have the privilege to do. No matter what culture you are from, the religion you practice, what language you speak, the people never forget they are part of one whole: the Indian country.
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Abstract: This paper gives an insight into the Mathematics used by the American Indians. The history of American Indians and how they incorporated mathematics into their lives is scarce. However from the information retrieved by Archeologists, we have an idea of the type of mathematics that was used by American Indians.
This investigation seeks to discover whether or not the Sepoy revolution in 1857 had a sufficient impact on India’s rise to independence and separation from the British Empire. The Sepoy revolution was a revolution of the Sepoy soldiers in 1857, and complete independence from the British Empire was not achieved by Indians until 1947. Therefore, did the Sepoy revolution catalyze their rise to independence, or was independence inevitable? The impact of the Sepoy Revolution will be found by looking at the effects of the Sepoy revolution and determining whether or not they were key factors in the rise to independence. A variety of sources will be used. Two important sources that will be used during this investigation are Indian Summer by Alex Von Tunzelmann and Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World by Niall Ferguson.
C.A.Bayly, Indian Society: and the making of the British Empire,(Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1998
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In the end, though the era of British Imperialism in India played a significant role in India’s development into the modern world, it also came at a price. Regardless what was lost, a great deal was gained because India was able to not only increase its population, but also make the people smarter and healthier in the process. The way some of India’s residents were living before the age of Imperialism was not good, so if it didn’t do anything else positive – it helped them live better!
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One of the most important factors in the British loss of control over India was the establishment of English as a unifying language. Prior to British colonisation, India was fragmented and multi-lingual, with 15 major languages and around 720 dialects. English served as a common ground for Indians, and allowed separate cultural and ethnic groups to identify with each other, something which had rarely if ever occurred before on a grand scale. Although it was mainly educated Indians of a privileged caste who spoke English, these were the most influential people in terms of acting as facilitators for nationalist ideas to be communicated throughout the populace. The publication of magazines and journals in English was also a great influence on the rise of Indian nationalism. Although most Indians received nationalist ideas orally, these journals allowed Indians who were literate in English to come into contact with the ideas of social and political reformers.
4 # Stein, Burton (2001), a History of India, New Delhi and Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xiv, 432, p.222
There is a distinct difference between popular Indian nationalism, that is the nation believing in a state independent of Britain, and Indian nationalist movements, for example the Muslim League or the Hindu revivalist movement. These movements fought for independence but were far more religiously orientated and were fighting in their own interests. Although Indian nationalism initially found expression in the Mutiny of 1857, its deve...
India has not been a free independent country for a long time. It had been under British rule from 1858-1947. India finally became independent on August 15, 1947 (Trueman). Many people credit India’s independence to Mahatma Gandhi because of the great role he played in helping India in its freedom struggle. Along with Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammed Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru assisted in making India an independent country. Gandhi’s main principle in India’s freedom struggle was based on non violence, which he called satyagraha, which means holding onto the truth, truth force, or soul force (Bondurant). Along with nonviolence Gandhi believe in passive resistance and swaraj or self rule. Gandhi thought that being violent would only get a bad response from the British, however passive resistance pushed the British to do something which would make them look bad To accomplish swaraj or self rule (Bondurant), Gandhi believed India needed 3 vital ingredients. The first thing India needed was to unify Indians with different religions, especially Hindus and Muslims. Second, India needed to remove its...
The British administered India for a period of about two centuries and brought about revolutionary changes in
Indian population has a mixture of culture, variety of languages and difference in resources. The difference in occupational structure, literacy level, health status and other socio-economic factors among the states leads to the
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