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Background:

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest infiltrated onto Indian lands about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab incursions starting in the 8th century and Turkish in the 12th were followed by those of European traders, beginning in the late 15th century. By the 19th century, Britain had assumed political control of virtually all Indian lands. Indian armed forces in the British army played a vital role in both World Wars. Nonviolent resistance to British colonialism led by Mohandas GANDHI and Jawaharlal NEHRU brought independence in 1947. The subcontinent was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan. A third war between the two countries in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan becoming the separate nation of Bangladesh. Despite impressive gains in economic investment and output, India faces pressing problems such as the ongoing dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir, significant overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife.

Borders:

Bangladesh 4,053 km, Bhutan 605 km, Burma 1,463 km, China 3,380 km, Nepal 1,690 km, Pakistan 2,912 km

Population:

1,094,583,000

GDP per capita:

$736.11 per capita

Capital with population:

New Delhi - 294,149

Largest city with population:

Mumbai - 11,914,398

Alternative names:

India, Republic of India

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India-Pakistan Border: Kashmir Area
India-Pakistan Border: Kashmir Area
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
India in the 19th Century British Expansion 1805-1910
India in the 19th Century British Expansion 1805-1910
India 1760
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COMMENTARY     

Raaj
28th December 2004
Why is Jammu & Kashmir shown in indian map? Due to United Nation Resulations Kashmir is disputed region and unfinished chapter of divide of india. india is a biggest democracy of world and indians respect resullations of UNO on Jammu and Kashmir. Jammu and kashmir is a disputed region and india will wait of use of right of self determination of kashmiries when they will decide to join either india or pakistan.
Raaj
3rd January 2005
No doubt the site is great but one thing i want rais as be a proud to be indian about jammu & kashmir, we indians and india are biggest democratics in the world and we respect the charter of United Nation, Jammu Kashmir is the disputed region between Pakistan and India, and this is the unfinished chapter of independence of British India. the region of Jammu and Kashmir isnt the part of India this is disputed area. we welcome united nation's any step to give self determation right to kashmiries where they can decide to join india or pakistan. Jay Hind.
sharad
12th January 2005
kashmir is, but a small problem . ofcourse i am proud to be an indian but the level of corruption we see today is very shameful .it is more important problem we have to deal with.
Raaj
19th January 2005
Of course! We respect UN and UNO resulation on Jammu & Kashmir, where JK is a disputed region and the respected citizens of Jammu and Kashmir, will decide and will use their right of self determination and Gandhji also accepted and promised for Kashmiries right of self determination :) we dont need to win land of kashmir, we should win heart of respected citizens of jammu and kashmir. And we should make good relations with Pakistan, after all we were together for 1000 years, why can't webe together again?
satishkumar s pawar
4th February 2005
I want to have some statistics on the contribution of Indian auto industry in the total GDP of India. I request you to please kindly mail me if u have the stats.
watertrainer
6th March 2005
Aryan invasion is a myth/theory. Hindu texts date back over 5000 years.
Bharath
23rd March 2005
India, despite its rich resources, is a country struggling and striving to develop in all ways. In healthcare, it spend very little and is one of the most undernourished countries in the world. Among children under three, 30 percent had fever during the two weeks preceding the National Family Health Survey, 19 percent had diarrhea and another 19 percent had symptoms of Acute Respiratory Infections. This has to be considered as a poor indicator of development.
indian
9th April 2005
India is the perfect example for one of the greatest secular countries in world. Even though 82% of its population is Hindu, the prime minister of India is Sikh, the ruling party leader is a Christian and the President of India is a Muslim.
danish
12th April 2005
India is the world's 4th largest economy and one of the fastest growing economies. Still, the roads look bad and the railway station dirty. This is because we lack civic sense.
Srinivas
22nd April 2005
Tolerance is lacking in India. Every one wants to be famous by his religion, this should change, people should try to earn fame and name and believe that every one could make a living without having to depend upon the religion(caste) or the inevitable/uncontrolled legacy
Binyamin Christy
14th May 2005
The biggest problem of India is not Poverty but the Caste System. All the problems of Poverty, Illiteracy, Unemployment, Under-development and Population Explosion are based in the Caste System and the Caste System is one of the foundations of Hinduism.
Indian
30th May 2005
Kashmir is not shown because of us indians only. We did not handled it properly since 1947 and we cannot take it back despite beating the drum since then. Its a slap on our face and the so called elected representatives.

2nd June 2005
India's main religion is Hindusism. Islam is the second largest religion in India.
Adi
7th June 2005
India is shining in every terms but i feel it is lagging behind in moral terms. we want to be like western people but doesn want to work over it . civic sense is rapidly going down,we need to take care of this otherwise we will lost the battle.
protontree
9th June 2005
I think we should change the Indian capital after 10 years or so, so that we can achieve a balanced growth in the region.
Prerna Srigyan
24th June 2005
This site has greatly helped to complete my holiday homework on time an I am grateful to this very site. I am in standard 7, still I got a great help from this site. Thank You!
Dr S. N. Pandey
29th June 2005
The number of literate and educated population in India outnumbers the population of some of the continents.This is a resource per say. Why does the world community recognize Indian fete?
Monika Ghosh
6th July 2005
The number of female illiterates is oustanding compared to the number of male illiterates. Why is this?
Brajesh
7th August 2005
There is no discipline about the Environment In the people of India.
Rani Sukh
19th August 2005
India is a third world nation because all the smart arses move to Australia and become TAXI DRIVERS!!!
Nithin Verma
7th October 2005
Why does this page carry a wrong Information on Indian Economy, as it is not at the last.

I think the webpages in this wesite has to be updated in all aspects, as there is no updated info on India.
heather
16th November 2005
I need some interesting facts about Ancient India for my history paper and I can't seem to find any. Can anyone help?
Foreigner1
6th April 2006
A BIT OF CRITICISM BY A FOREIGNER...
“India is only country in the world which can be said to have one of the richest traditions in the world.”
Sorry, i’ve heard this sort of message a thousand times...there is a trmendous lack of originality!!
41% of world’s pooor people...guess that you don’t care too much about traditions when you have no food or place where to live with dignity. Do you think that a tradition is good only just because of the fact that it is a tradition??? In Spain it is traditional for people to gather to see how a bull is killed?? In Canada thousands of seals are killed every year because one of its traditions is to do so...

“Indian is the biggest democracy in the world”...sorry but i don’t see any credit to that,...or do you think you are a better country for having a democracy of 1000 million people instead of 5 miilion people. Is indian democracy better that norwegian or dutch? What’s more, do you really think you’re living in a real democracy?? A country in which politicians change the party they belong to every week?? A country where the votes of the poor people are bought?

“INDIA IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD SIMPLY COZ ITS A LAND WHERE THERE IS NO CULUTURE DIVIDES HINDUS AND MUSLIMS LIVE IN PEACE”...guess that the thousands of killings during the partition just because of religious differences is a tale by some boring authors..and guess the gujarat conflicts did not take place...it was another creation of the press...and i could give many other examples...but you all know them...

...corruption of officials at all levels, unefficient judicial system, growth that leads to increasing inequality, humilliating attitute towards poor people by the rest of indians (i’ve lived in several parts of India and this is one of the things that impressed me most), child labour, brain drain, discrimination against women...

India has many fantastic things (you’ve mentioned many of them and i agree with you), but the problems are not going to dissapear only if you hide them or if you only speak the positive things.

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.” (Abraham Lincoln)
Akash (Bangalore India)
11th May 2006
Why do websites persist with the Aryan invasion theory when the latest genetic evidence shows that the whole of India is practically the same genetically and there is no evidence of Aryan or Dravidian? The entire Dravidian thing was postulated by Max Mueller, a christian evangelist who used the Aryan invasion theory as a bandwagon to "sell" the idea that all religions came to India from external sources and hence the newer the better (Evangelical christianity vs primitive hinduism).
As regards Pakistan- it is a citadel of terrorism and violence. The sooner it is dealt with, the better.
hcpathik (baroda)
1st July 2006
India has the highest rate of murders in the world. All of us know that the statistics are actually more than mentioned. Think about it. What do you think India is great?
Mukund
14th February 2007
India has not invaded any other country in over 1000 years and many people including albert einstein says that india is one of the most important countries in the world.
Casasandra (Canada)
9th March 2007
Is it possible for any one to tell me these facts about india?
1. Woman Suffrage
2. Type of Government
3. Compulsory Education
4. Anti Child-Labour Law
5. Minimum Wage Law
6. Oil or Coal Resource
7. Number of Universities
8. Number of Prisoners/ 1000 people
9. Foreign Trade Balance
10. Wars in last 20 years
11. GDP
12. Medical Doctors/1000 people
Rajeev kartha (Bangalore)
11th April 2007
YES, We all know india is great country. The only thing which we lack is, we do not look at future India. India was called golden sparrow by british, which is not same as of now. I strongly believe that the future of India lies in controlling population. Population can increase / decrease employment, GDP, litteracy etc.

Democratic India to be 1 INDIA should work together to remove caste based reservation or any other reservation present. Being an Indian i find myself unanswerable to myself why do people differentiate between themselves, while GOD ALL MIGHTY did create us all in flesh & blood.
John (New Hampshire)
6th November 2007
There is so much truth to this article. It is nice to know that someone is willing to voice it out. I would like to know a place where I can get real statistics about India.

valeria (mexico)
19th February 2008
I would like to know were is it better to find information about India. I want to know which page is better for indian sculptures and indian paintings.
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