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AgendaHistory of India

The Name of India

Independence Day

Republic Day

States

Population

First In India

Leaders

Places

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History of India The fifth century saw the unification of India under Ashoka, who had converted to Buddhism, and it is in his reign that Buddhism spread in many parts of Asia. In the eighth century Islam came to India for the first time and by the eleventh century had firmly established itself in India as a political force. It resulted into the formation of the Delhi Sultanate, which was finally succeeded by the Mughal Empire, under which India once again achieved a large measure of political unity.

It was in the 17th century that the Europeans came to India. This coincided with the disintegration of the Mughal Empire, paving the way for regional states. In the contest for supremacy, the English emerged 'victors'. The Rebellion of 1857-58, which sought to restore Indian supremacy, was crushed; and with the subsequent crowning of Victoria as Empress of India, the incorporation of India into the empire was complete. It was followed by India's struggle for independence, which we got in the year 1947.

The Name of India

The name India is derived from Indus, which originates from the Old Persian word Sindhi.[24] The latter term stems from theSanskrit word Sindhu, which was the historical local appellation for the Indus River.[25] The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi (Ινδοί), which translates as "The people of the Indus"

India•5000 year old civilization•325 languages•18 official languages•29 states•3.28 million sq. Kilometers•7516 kilometers•The great Indian Epics – Ramayana, Mahabharata

Independence Day Movement

The Indian independence movement was a movement from 1857 (in many cases, even pre-dating 1857) until 15 August 1947, when India got independence from the British Raj. The movement involved many political and social organizations and armed and unarmed struggle. Many political ideas also contributed to the movement and the most famous person in it was Mohandas Gandhi.

On 3rd June 1947, the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten announced partition of India into two countries: union of India, and an Islamic Pakistan. In this partition many people died and got separated from their families. On midnight of 14th August 1947, India became an independent country, and still is today. On 26th January 1950, India adopted their constitution. The Indian constitution is the longest constitution in the world.

Republic Day Constitution Day,(Principles governing) also known as Samvidhan Divas, is celebrated in India in honour of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, known as the architect of the Indian constitution. The Government of India declared 26 November as Constitution Day. On this day in 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted the Constitution of India, and it went into effect on 26 January 1950

States India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-nine states (29)

Capital: New Delhi

States are,

Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand & West Bengal

Districts In IndiaAs of 2016 there are a total of 688 districts

Andhra Pradesh(13), Arunachal Pradesh(19), Assam(32), Bihar(38), Chhattisgarh(27), Goa(2), Gujarat(33), Haryana(21), Himachal Pradesh(12), Jammu and Kashmir(22), Jharkhand(24), Karnataka(30), Kerala(14), Madhya Pradesh(51), Maharashtra(36), Manipur(9), Meghalaya(11), Mizoram(8), Nagaland(11), Orissa(30), Punjab(22), Rajasthan(33), Sikkim(4), Tamil Nadu(32), Telangana(10), Tripura(8), Uttar Pradesh(75), Uttarakhand(13) & West Bengal(20)

Population Indian people or Indians are citizens of India, the second most populous nation containing 17.50%[20] of the world's population.

1. China - 1,380,759,032 - 17,190(Daily Increase)

2. India - 1,322,874,602 - 43,154 (Daily Increase)

Death rate: 7.35 deaths/1,000 population (In India)

World WarWorld War 1:

Period: July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 (4 years, 3 months and 2 weeks) – started at Franz Ferdinand

World War 2:

Period: September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 (6 years) – started at Poland

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Born: October 2, 1869, Porbandar

Assassinated: January 30, 1948, New Delhi

Spouse: Kasturba Gandhi (m. 1883–1944)

On January 30, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi fell to his assassin Nathuram Vinayak Godse's bullets during an evening prayer ceremony at Birla House in Delhi.

First In India The first President of Indian Republic - Dr. Rajendra Prasad

The first Prime Minister of free India - Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru

The first Indian to win Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore

The first Muslim President of India - Dr. Zakir Hussain

India’s first man in Space - Rakesh Sharma

The first Vice-President of India - Dr. Radhakrishnan

The first woman Prime Minister - Mrs Indira Gandhi

The first woman Judge - Anna Chandy (She became judge in a district court in 1937)

Leaders Prime Ministers of India – 17

(1. Jawahar Lal Nehru - Now Narendra Modi)

Presidents of India - 13

(1. Rajendra Prasad – Now Pranab Mukherjee)

Home Minister –Rajnath Singh

Finance Minister - Arun Jaitley

Locations

The Supreme Court of India is situated in New Delhi, the capital region of India

The Reserve Bank of India is India's central banking institution, which controls the monetary policy of the Indian rupee. It commenced its operations on 1 April 1935 during the British Rule in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. Location in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Swiss bank branch is located in Kolkata

Courts In India24 High Courts

Supreme court located in New Delhi, Delhi

Important Court Types

Administrative court

Constitutional court

Family court

High Court of Justiciary

Supreme court

Recipient of loans from the World Bank

India is the largest recipient of loans from the World Bank, amounting to $102.1 billion, between 1945 and 2015 (as on July 21, 2015), according to the Bank’s lending report.

Tourist Places In India Taj Mahal

Qutb Minar

Humayun’s Tomb

Amer Fort

The Red Fort

Ganges

Agra Fort

Gateway of India

India Gate

Tanjur Temple

Mysore Palace etc..,

Indian Railway The total distance covered by the 14,300 trains on the Indian Railways everyday, equals three & half times the distance to moon

The first train on Indian soil ran between Bombay and Thane on the 16th of April 1853

IR employs about 1.55 million people

IR has about 7,000 railway stations

Facts Around a 100 million years ago, India was an island.

India’s name is derived from the “Indus” river.

India has the world’s third largest active army, after China and USA.

The Tirupati Balaji temple and the Kashi Vishwanath Temple both, receive more visitors than the Vatican City and Mecca combined.

India has more mosques (300,000 mosques) than any other nation in the world.

And the third largest Muslim population in the world.

Indian Railways employs more than 1.3 million people. That’s more than the population of many nations.

Chess was invented in India.

Buttons were invented in India.

Shampoo, discovered the number zero (Aryapatta), value of pi, trigonometry, algebra, calculus, cataract surgery, plastic surgery, water on the moon.

India is the largest producer of films in the world.

India is the largest milk producer in the world.

India leads the world with the most murders (32,719) per year, with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.

The India-Pakistan World Cup semi-final match in Mohali drew 150 million viewers worldwide.

Around the 17th century, India was one of the richest countries in the world.

Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun in the 5th century, many years before the astronomer Smart (365 days, 5 hr, 48 min 46 sec)

Dances In India 45 Folk Dances

7 Classical Dance Forms

•Bharata Natyam

•Kathak

•Kathakali

•Kuchipudi

•Manipuri

•Mohini Attam

•Odissi

Flag SaysGandhi first proposed a flag to the Indian National Congress in 1921. The flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya.