Languages of India

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. English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education. Each state and union territory has one or more official languages, and the constitution recognises in particular 21 "scheduled languages". The Constitution of India recognises 212 scheduled tribal groups which together constitute about 7.5% of the country's population. The 2001 census reported that Hinduism, with over 800 million adherents (80.5% of the population), was the largest religion in India; it is followed by Islam (13.4%), Christianity (2.3%), Sikhism (1.9%), Buddhism (0.8%), Jainism (0.4%), Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and the Bahá'í…

Located on the continent of Asia, India is a place you might want to expand your knowledge on. For starters, the countries bordering India consist of Bangladesh, Nepal, China and Pakistan. To the south of India is the Indian Ocean. India covers 1,269,000 square miles making it about one-third the size of the United States. (MapFight) After World War I, a nationalist movement supporting civil disobedience was led by Mahatma Ghandi. Mahatma Ghandi fought injustice and defended his rights as an…

Transportation One of the crucial factors that contribute to the difficulty to spread technology and business to much of India is the lack of easy transportation. Of the over 1.34 billion people who populate India, 72.2 percent live in 638,000 villages while the remaining 27.8 percent live in only 5,480 towns and urban agglomerations (Population of India 2016, 2016). While urban cities have some paved roads and public transportation means such as trains and subways, much of the country is…

But nowadays more of modernised version of Indian culture and adoption of western lifestyle is seen in the society. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY • The paper will discuss briefly about Indian culture and tradition. • Emergence of western culture in India. • Wide acceptance of pop culture in Indians in terms of lifestyle, food and dressing. INDIA – A COUNTRY KNOWN FOR ITS VAST CULTURE AND TRADITIONS As the famous Sadhguru says, India as a culture, with all its apparent disorganisation, used to…

Pushkar is always good for its most esteemed temples and it’s a place for the temple of Brahma, the only temple dedicated to him in India. Epics say that Pushkar floated to the surface when Brahma dropped a lotus flower on earth later this pond size town is largely associated with the few renowned sacred places of India. The rarity of the Brahma temple under this city domain renders huge significance to it. It is also considered that the famed waters of the Pushkar wash away the sins of whole…

Although the British helped to modernized India, the British should apologize for the actions they took against the Indians during the Raj because the British killed and injured thousands of people, who were not fighting back, promote tensions between Hindu and Muslim that promoted violence, and did not care about what was best for the Indian population. A group of Indians were in an enclosed courtyard practicing peaceful protest, when a British military officer was told to shut the protest…

India is a country with huge population. However, some people have achieved great sucess through their hard work and abilities. Let’s learn about some of these famous personalities. Homonyms are words that sound like one another but have different meanings. Synonyms are words with similar meanings while antonyms are words with opposite meaning. India is a huge country with different climates and geographic regions. Let’s explore some interesting facts about our country. Religion in India is…

For the next 1,500 years, different parts of India were ruled by Middle kingdoms, among which the famous Gupta Empire stood out. This period witnessed an intellectual resurgence of the Hindu religion. It can be called the "Golden Age of India". During this time, aspects of culture and religion spread to a lot of Asia, while kingdoms in southern India had sea trade with the Roman Empire. During this time, the Indian cultural influence spread over large areas of Southeast Asia. This would lead…

nation why had Islamic Empires risen and fallen time and time again only to splinter into the many Arab nations? If the Arabs who shared a language and similar cultures couldn’t unite how could it be expected of East and West Pakistan, more than a dozen languages and cultures between them and physically thousands of miles between them. The over exaggerated rift between Hindus and Muslims recognized by Nasir Islam disregarded differences in order to provide a front against the equally diverse…

The Aryan Migration to India Aryan people, who speak the Aryan language, are presently found in the India subcontinent that hosts India, Nepal and the Pakistan nations. The Aryan languages existence in this region has a long history of over 3000 years with records of these languages having been spoken in the subcontinent around 1000 BCE (Bryant and Laurie, 6). However, according to the Aryan migration theory, which was introduced in the 18th century, the people of Aryan languages had migrated…