INDIA AND INDIAN CULTURE
Over 2000years before Christ, the vast expanse from the Himalayas to Kanyakumari has been known as “Baratha Varsha” {Baratha Bhoomi}.The river Sindhu {Indus} with its several tributaries, which water the Punjab, the land of five rivers. This fertile plain was centre of a great civilization. Over several thousands of years before other religions spread into India. The land between Ganga and the Jamuna River’s known as “Aryavarta”. The River Ganga turns east and flows to the sea in Bengal. There it forms a large delta and is joined with Brahmaputra another great river.

The Vindhya Mountain together with two rivers Tapi and Narmada and a thick forest formed a formidable region which perhaps delayed the spread of the Vedic culture of North India into the south for a long time. The land from river Krishna to the ocean in the extreme south of kanyakumari is known as the South India in which peoples are living with several languages as mother tongue.

India was a cheerful land, whose people are having a higher level of kindliness in their mutual relationship than any other nation.Eventhough the people are having different languages, India grow prosperous and its wealth attracted foreigners from many lands. The invasion of foreigners and the rivalries of local kingdoms resulted in a series of wars. Because of those reasons India was torn by internal wars, which were destructive, slavery and inequality of social status were the results.

Political thinkers, sages and poets in India have only preached the sense of unity. India has been a cultural unit on account of all-embracing religions. People of India have developed a peculiar type of culture and civilization, totally from any other type in the world. That civilization is called Hinduism.

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