India - Some facts which may be of interest to you.
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On erepublik, many know just about everything about eindia, but how much do you really know about the real India? I have put together these interesting facts and information about this great country in which you will find fascinating. Some you will probably already know, but I'm sure there are some that will make you think 'wow I never knew that!' Enjoy.......
Fascinating facts:
India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
India is the world's largest democracy.
Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called "the ancient city" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
The World's first university was established in Takshashila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth.
The art of Navigation was bornin the river Sindhu 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12).
IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake called Sudarshana was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya's time.
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.
When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).
The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.
India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.
India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.
India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.
Famous Quotes on India (by non-Indians)
Albert Einstein sai😛
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Mark Twain sai😛
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
French scholar Romain Rolland sai😛
If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA sai😛
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Facts to make every Indian prou😛
Q. Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems?
A. Vinod Khosla
Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the
today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Aziz Premji,
who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th
position now.
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web
based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator
of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli
Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?
A. Rajiv Gupta
Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000,
responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even
faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). ,
Comments
Great Info dude. I almost know them all 😛
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Sweet! Amazing facts!
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
B FREAKEN S! The only reason this is true is because the sense of India being a whole really did not come true until about the British invasion and independence. Before that India was very much split and not really considered a whole India. Infact if you want to say that India was a whole before the independence, then I say South India or the Chola Dynasty invaded the Sri Vijaya kingdom.
I am sorry to ask this but you have to taken that one down as it is a straight out lie.
V+S. 🙂
@Mister right above me - Get your facts straight and learn some history please. 😛
@Mister right above me - google it... You will be surprised. The statment India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history is false. I am being very nice about not counting Afghanistan because that one is very much debatable.
I dare Indians to google this.
The Chola Dynasty was very much part of India and infact invaded parts of asia.
I'm proud as hell right now.
Lol. I posted exacty same article few moths ago... Some people may still know. But I deleted it because of spamming.
And yes one correction, India never invaded any country in last 1000 years. I had made same mistake in my article too.
India is as great as eIndia 😉
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
Modern Chess was invented on Salamanca, Spain 😛
Modern chess was developed in Salamanca, Spain 😛
India is as great as eIndia 😉
@tarros - Heh... you need to get your facts rght...
India was united way before British Invasion , Just a Example is under Akbar, And way before thn whn Many invading emperors got burried over here...
Oh well why we are even listning to a MAFIA guy...bug off...
@chuchi 🙂 - Yeah well, Modern Chess, Is Just another form of (Ashtpada) -
And well -I guess u Know - Current World Chess Chapmion is a Indian 😉 -
V.Anand -
Anand held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, at a time when the world title was split. He became the undisputed World Champion in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008. With this win, he became the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: Knockout, Tournament, and Match 😉
@the Mafia guy-- There is a difference between invaded and settled.
India has been home to many different races of people over a long period of time. Looking at the current political map does not exactly give you the extend of influence Our civilisation had.
"Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web
based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia"
Don't want to spoil, but ehm.. Hot Male 😮
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Hehe, voted nice facts 🙂
Voted .......... 🙂 Great facts
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actually, damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world
Who is the mafia guy everyone is on about?