Republic of India Bharat Ganarajya CAPITAL: New Delhi FLAG: The national flag, adopted in 1947, is a tricolor of deep saffron, white, and green horizontal stripes. In the center of the white stripe is a blue wheel representing the wheel (chakra) that...

India POPULATION 1,045,845,226HINDU 80 percentMUSLIM 14 percentCHRISTIAN 2.4 percentSIKH 2 percentBUDDHIST 0.7 percentJAIN 0.5 percentOTHER 0.4 percent Country Overview Introduction The Republic of India is situated in the Indian subcontinent in South...

India One of the largest countries on the globe, India embodies an ancient and highly distinctive civilization. It is home to Hinduism, one of the major world religions. The military, political, and economic leader in its area, by 2004 India was rapidly...

India (along with China and Egypt) is home to one of the oldest and perhaps the most continuous cultural tradition on the earth. Although it occupies only 2.4 percent of the global land area, it is home to fifteen percent of the population, and by 2050...

(2001 pop. 1 billion). The spatial dimension of what came to be known as the Republic of India (in Sanskrit, Bharata), kept changing until it became independent on 15 August 1947. Although the concept of India as a nation-state emerged after British...

Archaeological finds four millennia old mark the beginning of information on Indian dress, though sufficient information to develop a costume history is only available from the Mauryan dynasty, beginning 324 BCE. Study of Indian dress is further...

country that occupies the greater part of South Asia. It is a constitutional republic consisting of 28 states, each with a substantial degree of control over its own affairs; 6 less fully empowered union territories; and the Delhi national capital...

During the latter part of the Middle Ages, India, China, and the European countries embracing Christianity were the prominent centers of the known world. For a brief period, exploration brought new geographic understanding and an exchange of ideas...

Country, South Asia. It fronts the Bay of Bengal on the southeast and the Arabian Sea on the southwest. Area: 1,222,559 sq mi (3,166,414 sq km). Population (2005 est.): 1,103,371,000. Capital: New Delhi. The peoples of India comprise widely varying...

Bsm. founded in India by Gautama Buddha, sixth century B.C. Adopted by Asoka as state religion of his empire, c. 250 B.C. (see Asoka). Flourished under the kings Milinda (c. 100 B.C.), Kanishka (c. A.D. 80) and Harsha (A.D. 606–648). the two...

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