THE NAME INDIA IS DERIVED FROM RIVER INDUS.THE VALLEYS AROUND THE RIVER WERE HOME TO EARLY SETTLERS.
INDIA NEVER INVADED ANY COUNTRY IN HER LAST 100,000 YEARS OF HISTORY.
WHEN MANY CULTURES WERE NOMADIC FOREST DWELLERS OVER 5,000 YEARS AGO,INDIANS ESTABLISHED HARAPPAN CULTURE IN SINDHU VALLEY(INDUS VALLEY CIVILISATION )
CHESS WAS INVENTED IN INDIA
ALGEBRA,TRIGONOMETRY,CALCULUS ARE STUDIES THAT ORIGINATED IN INDIA.
THE’ PLACE VALUE SYSTEM’ AND DECIMAL SYSTEM’ WERE DEVELOPED IN INDIA.
THE WORLD’S FIRST GRANITE TEMPLE IS BRIHADESWARA TEMPLE AT TANJAVUR,TAMIL NADU.THE SHIKHARA OF THE TEMPLE IS MADE FROM A SINGLE 80-TONNE PIECE OF GRANITE.THIS TEMPLE WAS BUILT BETWEEN 1004 AD AND 1009 AD DURING THE REIGN OF RAJARAJA CHOLA.
INDIA IS THE LARGEST DEMOCRACY OF THE WORLD,THE SIXTH LARGEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT CIVILIZATION.
THE GAME OF SNAKES AND LADDERS WAS CREATED BY 13TH CENTURY POET SAINT GYANDEV.IT WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED ‘MOKHSHAPAT’. THE LADDERS REPRESENTED VIRTUES WHILE SNAKES INDICATED VICES.
THE WORLD’S HIGHEST CRICKET GROUND IS IN CHAIL,HIMACHAL PRADESH.BUILT IN 1983 AFTER LEVELING A HILLTOP,THIS CRICKET PITCH IS 2,444 METERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL.
INDIA HAS THE LARGEST NUMBER OF POST OFFICES IN THE WORLD.
AYURVEDA IS THE EARLIEST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE KNOWN AS MANKIND.CHARAKA, THE FATHER OF MEDICINE,CONSOLIDATED AYURVEDA 2,500 YEARS AGO.
INDIA WAS ONE OF THE RICHEST COUNTRIES TILL THE TIME OF BRITISH RULE IN THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY.CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS HAD COME LOOKING FOR A SEA ROUTE TO INDIA WHEN HE DISCOVERED AMERICA BY MISTAKE.
BHASKARACHARAYA CALCULATED THE TIME TAKEN BY THE EARTH TO ORBIT THE SUN HUNDEREDS OF YEAR BEFORE ASTRONOMER SMART.ACCORDING TO HIS CALCULATION.THE TIME TAKEN BY THE EARTH TO ORBIT THE SUN WAS 365.258756484 DAYS.
UNTIL 1896,INDIA WAS THE ONLY SOURCE OF DIAMONDS IN THE WORLD.
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