Indus River, Indian name, the Old Persian word Hindu Sanskrit Sindhu, the Indus River, derived from the local historical conditions is derived. Ancient Greek ancient Indian Indoi Indus people as named. The Constitution of India and several Indian languages generally recognized as India's official name used in the same situation. Persian word Hindu India and north India once used as a synonym for India are known in the historic land. India, South Asia, a rule of the country. Region, the world's second most populous country by the most populous democracy is the seventh largest country. Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal in the east, south Indian Ocean, surrounded by India's 7517 km coastline. Pakistan, China, Nepal and Bhutan and Bangladesh and Myanmar in the east of Northeast is bordered to the west. Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka, Maldives, India and Indonesia is in the neighborhood.
Home of the Indus valley civilization and the history of a region
of trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was
identified by its rich culture and trade for much of its long
history. Four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism
and Sikhism originated here, as Islam, Christianity, Judaism
and Zoroastrianism arrived in the first millennium CE and the
region a diverse culture. Gradually annexed by the British East
India Company in the early eighteenth century and colonized
by the United Kingdom since the mid-nineteenth century, India
has become a modern state in 1947, after a struggle for independence
was marked by extensive use of nonviolent resistance as a means
of social protest. Although India is the world's fourth largest
economy in purchasing power and the twelfth largest economy
at market exchange rates, it suffers from high levels of poverty
and illiteracy, the persistence of malnutrition , the degradation
of the environment. A pluralistic, multi-lingual, multi-ethnic
and society, India is also home to a diversity of wildlife in
a variety of habitats protected..
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