Republic of India

Capital – New Delhi Largest City- Mumbai Recognized regional languages- Eight Schedule National Language- none Government- Federal parliamentary, constitutional

republic

President Pratibha Patil Manmohan Singh

Area- 3,287,263 km2

Population – 1,210,193,422 (2011)Gross domestic product – $4.457 trillion (2011)

2 principal short names: India Bharat 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

Bharat Ganarajya

The eponym of Bharat is Bharata, a mythological figure that Hindu scriptures describe as a legendary emperor of ancient India. Hindustan was originally a Persian word that meant "Land of the Hindus

• Location: South Asia

• Rank 7th Largest country by geographical area

• Rank 2nd Populous country

• Rank 1st Populous in democracy

Republic of India

Natural resources: coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land

Area: total: 3,287,590 sq km

land: 2,973,190 sq kmwater: 314,400 sq km

Area - comparative: slightly more than one-third

the size of the US Land boundaries: total: 14,103 km

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

1500 BC 8th century 12th century 15 century 19th century 1947

H i s t o r y

Environment - current issues: deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing;

desertification; air pollution from industrial effluents and vehicle emissions; water pollution from raw sewage and runoff of agricultural pesticides; tap water is not potable throughout the country; huge and growing population is overstraining natural resources

December to March ~~~~ Cold

April to May ~~~~ Very hot (Often over 100 degrees)

June to September ~~~~ Monsoon season

October to November ~~~ less rain

C l i m a t e

Ta j M a h a l

At about the same time the pilgrims were landing at Plymouth Rock, the Taj Mahal was built. That was almost 400 years ago.

It took over ten years to build. More than twenty thousand people and one thousand elephants helped build it.

. . .but why was it built? Any ideas?

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New Year

The Hindu New Year falls in October or November of each year.

It is called Diwali, the Festival of Lights.

For Diwali, people get dressed up in new clothes, send cards to friends and family, and give out presents.

Since it is the Festival of Lights, fireworks light up the sky.

CricketIn India, the popular sport is cricket.

The game of cricket is played with a batsman, a wicket keeper, a bowler, and fielders.

The bowler rolls the ball toward the batsman. The wicket keeper stands behind the batsman. The batsman hits the ball with a bat and runs back and forth between the bowler and the wicket keeper to score runs. The fielders try to catch the ball to get the batsman out.

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We love to watch movies in America. Hollywood is the biggest producer of films in the world, right?

WRONG! India produces about eight hundred movies a year. That’s even more than Hollywood. Indian families love to go to the movies just as much as we do.

G o i n g t o t h e M o v i e s

Many women in India wear beautiful saris. Their clothing is brightly colored. For special events, women wear saris with gold embroidery and sequins.

Children wear jeans, T-shirts, and skirts at home. They usually have uniforms for school.

Indian women love to wear jewelry. They wear earrings, nose rings, bangles (bracelets), anklets, rings, necklaces, and even jewelry in their hair!

Men usually wear dhotis. They are loose pants, similar to pajamas. In big cities, men wear American style clothing.

Jungle

Thug

Bungalow

Veranda

Guru

Nirvana

Karma

Bazaar

With 1,210,193,422 residents reported in the 2011 provisional census, India is the world's second-most populous country. Its population grew at 1.76% per annum during 2001–2011, down from 2.13% per annum in the previous decade (1991–2001).).

0-14 years: 31.2% (male 173,634,432/female 163,932,475)

15-64 years: 63.9% (male 356,932,082/female 333,283,590)

65 years and over: 4.9% (male 26,542,025/female 25,939,784)

Population growth rate: 1.4% (2005 est.)

Human sex ratio (2011 census)

Medical advances made in the last 50 years as well as increased agricultural productivity brought about by the "Green Revolution"

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. Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government.

It is the only society in the world which has never known slavery. India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history

India was the richest country on Earth when the British invaded India in the 17th Century

Robert Clive’s personal wealth amassed from the plunder of Bengal during 1750’s was estimated at around £401,102

It is estimated that the total treasure that the British took from India had already reached £1,000,000,000 (£1Billion) by 1901.

Taking into account interest rates and inflation this would be worth about $1,000,000,000,000 ($1Trillion) in real-terms today.

DURING COLONIAL RULE

Respect for Women: “Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not

realize what tremendous advantage she has over man.”

Non Violence is a political tool: “Indians will stagger humanity without shedding

a drop of blood

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

The Indian economy is the world's eleventh-largest by nominal GDP and third-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). 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, and inadequate public healthcare. A nuclear weapons state and a regional power, it has the third-largest standing army in the world and ranks eighth 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.

Bharat Forge has the world's largest single-location forging facility, its clients include Honda, Toyota and Volvo amongst others.

Hero Honda with 1.7M motorcycles a year is now the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world.

India is the 2nd largest tractor manufacturer in the world.

India is the 5th largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in the world.

Ford has just presented its Gold World Excellence Award to India's Cooper Tyres.

InDUSTRY

Poverty (incidence) 1980s 1990s 2000 44% 36% 26%

Education (literacy rate) 1980s 1990s 2000 44% 52% 65%

Health (life expectancy) 1980s 1990s 2000 56 60 69

Progress during the last 20 years

Goldman Sachs Report of 1 October, 2003 – "Dreaming with BRICs: The path to 2050"

India's GDP will reach $ 1 trillion by 2011, $ 2 trillion by 2020, $ 3 trillion by 2025, $ 6 trillion by 2032,

$ 10 trillion by 2038, and $ 27 trillion by 2050,

becoming the 3rd largest economy after USA and China.

In terms of GDP, India will overtake Italy by the year 2016, France by 2019, UK by 2022,

Germany by 2023, and Japan by 2032.

Economics

Progress during the last 20 years

Dr Abdul Kalam, President of India, father of India’s space, missile and satellite programme and author

of “India 2020 Vision”.

“I have three visions for India.” 1.

“ In 3000 years of our history people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds. From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the

Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours.

Yet we have not done this to any other nation. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why?

Because we respect the freedom of others. That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM.

2. My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT. For fifty years we have

been a developing nation. It is time we see ourselves as a developed nation. We are among top 5 nations of the world in terms of GDP. We have 10% growth rate in most areas. Our poverty levels are falling. Our achievements are being globally recognized today.

3. I have a third vision. India must stand up to the world. Only

STRENGTH respects strength. We must be strong not only as a military power but also as an economic power. Both must go hand-

in-hand.”

India 2020 vision

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