India's culture is marked by a high degree of syncretism and cultural pluralism. He managed to preserve the traditions established while absorbing new customs, traditions and ideas invaders and immigrants. Multicultural concerns have informed India of the long history and traditions of the constitution and the political arrangements. Indian Architecture, including the remarkable monuments such as the Taj Mahal and other examples of Mughal architecture and the architecture of South India, is the result of traditions that combined elements from several regions of the country and abroad. The vernacular architecture also displays significant regional variations. Indian music covers a wide range of traditions and regional styles. Classical music is divided primarily between the North and South Indian Carnatic Indian Hindustani tradition. Strongly regionalized forms of popular music filmi include popular music and syncretic tradition of bauls is a well known form of the latter.

Indian dance is too diverse folk and classical forms. Among the famous folk dances are bhangra Punjab, bihu of Assam, chhau of Bihar and Orissa and the ghoomar of Rajasthan. Eight dance forms, many forms of storytelling and mythological elements, have been granted by classical dance status of the India National Academy of music, dance and drama. They are: bharatanatyam of the state of Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, kathak, kathakali and mohiniattam of Kerala, kuchipudi of Andhra Pradesh, Manipur Manipuri, odissi of the state of Orissa and the sattriya of Assam.Theatre in India often incorporates music, dance, or written and improvised dialogue. Often based on Hindu mythology, but also borrowing medieval novels, and the current social and political events, theater Indian includes bhavai of Gujarat, the jatra of West Bengal, the nautanki and ramlila Areas 'North India, the tamasha of Maharashtra, terukkuttu of Tamil Nadu and yakshagana of Karnataka.

The Lotus Temple, the house of worship in Delhi. The Indian film industry is the largest in the world. The Mumbai-based commercial Bollywood Hindi film is the most prolific film industry in the world. There are also traditions established in Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu.The first works of literature were transmitted orally and in writing later. They include works of literature in Sanskrit as the beginning of Vedas, the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics, the drama Abhijñanasakuntalam (Recognition of Sakuntala), and poetry as Mahakavya and language Tamil Sangam literature. Among the Indian writers of the modern era active in Indian languages and English, Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in 1913.