NAMASTE !!

1. NAMASTE !! Welcome to INDIA !!

2. 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 • -29states • 7 Union Territories • Size: • NorthSouth: 3214 Km • East  West: 2933 Km • Metropolitan Cities: • New Delhi (Capital) • Mumbai • Kolkata • Banglore • Chennai • -around 5000 year old civilisation • -Currency: Indian Rupee • -One euro= 76 rupees

3. NATIONAL FLAG OF INDIA – SYMBOL OF FREEDOM Saffron – Courage & Sacrifice Courage et sacrifice White – Purity & Truth Pureté et vérité Green – Faith & Fertility Conviction et fertilité Center Symbol – “CHAKRA” is a Buddhist Symbol. Has 24 Spokes which intends to show that ; “THERE IS A LIFE IN MOVEMENT AND DEATH IN STAGNATION”

4. India & Neighboring Countries National Symbols (Symbol National) National Emblem China Pakistan Flower – Lotus Fruit – Mango Nepal Animal – Tiger Bangladesh Tree – Banyan Bird – Peacock Sports – Hockey Srilanka

5. Brief History of India INDIA‘S history goes back almost 6000 years and has passed through many different stages and societies and invasions from outside. The earliest civilization was in the Indus Valley (now in Pakistan), with itswell-planned city-states of HARAPPA AND MOHENJODARO, which lasted from 3250 to 1500 B.C.

6. Brief History of India INDO-ARYANS from North formed the world’s most oldest religions HINDU RELIGION. (around 2000 BC). In 567 B.C.  Gautama Buddha was born, who was the founder of the BUDDHIST RELIGION.   Same time Mahavira lived, who formed the JAIN RELIGION. ４００ Two hundred years later, in the 4th century B.C., King ASHOKA, one of the greatest leaders of all of India's history, led the Mauryan Empire to take over almost all of what is now modern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Some part of Afghanistan 273-232 BC ASOKA spread Buddhist Religion to Sri Lanka & other South Asian Countries

7. Brief History of India CHRISTIANITY entered India at about the same time as it came to Europe. through St.  Thomas the Apostle in 52 A.D. Even earlier than that people of the JEWISH RELIGION arrived on India's shores. In approximately the 700 A.D., a group of Zoroastrians, or PARSEES, landed in Gujarat and became part of the large mix of religions in India today. In the 1500 AD the SIKH RELIGION was born in the Punjab, in northern India. In 1192, Mohammed Gori, Afghan ruler, came into India & ISLAM, the Muslim religion, was introduced into India.

8. Religions

9. The time period of the mughal rule (From Iran) in North India is from 1556-1707. British ruled from 1858- 1947. Brief History of India India got its INDEPENDANCEfrom Britain in 1947, Aug 15th after a long struggle led mostly by MAHATMA GANDHI. In the process of becoming independent India became, through PARTITION, two countries instead of one.

10. India Today • 7th Largest country of the world according to area • 2nd most populated country of the world • World’s largest democracy • Parliamentary form of Government • Secular democratic constitution • Worlds largest democracy since 55 years • 4th largest economy • Fastest growing IT super power • Indian Railways ,the biggest employer in the world. • Yoga, chess, zero, pajamas come from Indian civilisation.

11. India Today IN LANGUAGES: • - • 22 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES • 1600 MINOR LANGUAGES (Dialects) • Official Languages for communication in Government: Hindi & English • HINDI is spoken mainly in North India (only 41% speak) • -Sanskrit is still an official language. • Taught in schools and universities. • Number of Sanskrit speakers rising because the only human language that is also a computer programming language.

12. Hinduism-THE TRINITY Creator-Brahma Observer-Vishnu Destroyer-Shiva

13. Indian Caste System • Division of Hindu society on the basis of castes. • Abolished by law in 1949, but still persists throughout India. • Not many inter-caste marriages till today. Hindu Varna System • Brahmins (Priest) • Kshatriya (Warriors) • Vaishya (Merchants, landowners) • Sudra (Labourers)

14. The Great Indian Epics Mahabharata Ramayana Longest Epic in world literature with 100,000 two-line stanzas The first Indian epic

15. India Today Marriages in India: • More than 95 % marriages are Arranged Marriages. • Marriages are arranged based on factors like • (Age, height, personal values and tastes, Family Background, • (wealth, social standing) and their castes and the astrological • compatibility of the couples' horoscopes). • - Divorce Rate is 1.1% as compared to 50% in USA.

16. India Today Condition of girls in India • Patriarchal society • Girls left uneducated and burden in villages • Dowry system • Early marriage against law • Early pregnancies • 940 females per 1000 males • 65.46% literacy rate as compared to men 82.14% • Only Manipur and Kerala- 100% literacy rate and more number of girl child than boy child

17. India Today IN PEOPLE: THE LOOKS, THEIR CLOTHES, RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES, EATING HABITS, ART, CULTURE AND THE KIND OF LIFE VARIES AND IT DEPENDS ON LOCATION.. Society Gap (1999 data) 4 out of 10 richest people the world as in 2007 are Indians 20.6%

18. India Today India is a very diverse country, some people are very rich some are very poor and some belong to the rising middle class..

19. India Today IN TRANSPORT : AGAIN, IT VARIES FROM PLACE TO PLACE, YOU CAN SEE MARUTI SUZUKI, BMW, TOYOTA, HYUNDAI, PORSCHE, AUDI, LANCER … … BULLOCK CARTS, HORSE CARTS, CAMEL CARTS, ELEPHANTS, 3-WHEELER AUTO RIKSHAWS, CYCLE RIKSHAW

20. India Today IN DANCES: Bharatnatayam Odissi Bhangra Kuchipudi Manipuri Kathakali Dandiya Indian classical Dances Indian Folk Dances

21. India Today National Hoildays&　Ｆｅｓｔｉｖａｌｓ: 26th Jan. (Republic Day); 15th Aug. (Independence day); 2ndOct (Gandhi Jayanti). Festivals of India: Diwali: Festival of Lights Holi: Festival of Colors Christmas

22. India Today Snake Boat Race in Onam Festival (Kerala) Festivals of India: Ganesh Chaturthi in Mumbai Festival of Id in Jama Masjid, Delhi

23. India Today IN FOOD:

24. Great Indian Personalities

25. Aryabhatta Invented the Zero

26. Mahatma Gandhi Father of the nation Embodiment of Non- Violence

27. Swami Vivekananda Champion of humanitarianism

28. Ramanujam Great Indian Mathematician Postulated and proved 3,542 theorems

29. Rabindranath Tagore 1913 – Nobel Prize in Literature

30. C.V Raman 1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics Work on scattering of light and Raman effect

31. Mother Teresa 1979 – Nobel Prize in Peace

32. India is,the cradle of the human race,the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history,the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition.Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. -Mark Twain We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. -Albert Einstein

33. 15 Days Trip to India Day 1/2 : Arrive Delhi Lotus Temple Akshardam Temple India Gate Qutub Minar Red Fort Humayun Tomb

34. 15 Days Trip to India Day 3 : Agra Hotel Obroi Taj Mahal in the Day Hotel Taj Taj Mahal in the Night

35. 15 Days Trip to India Day 4/5 : Jaipur Jaipur Palace “In and Out” Hawa Mahal Birla Mandir Jantra Mantra Jaipur Amber Fort “In and Out”

36. 15 Days Trip to India Day 6/7 : Udaipur (City of Lakes) Fateh Sagar Lake People At Udaipur Lake Palace Hotel Sight Seeing at Udaipur

37. 15 Days Trip to India Day 8/9 : Chennai (Fly from Udaipur) Kapaaleeshwar Temple Marina Beach Snake Park Bar at Snake Park

38. 15 Days Trip to India Day 10/11 : Mysore / Bangalore Mysore Palace Mysore Flower Market Chamundi Hills - Temple

39. 15 Days Trip to India Day 12/13 : Goa (Heaven on Earth) Goa Beaches Goa Churches

40. 15 Days Trip to India Day 14/15 : Ｍｕｍｂａｉ Dhobhi Ghat 20,000+ People Wash Clothes Together Elephanta Caves Gateway of India Marine Drive Price of Wales Museum

41. Day 15/15 : Uttarakhand

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