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The seventh-largest country by area, India is located on the Indian subcontinent in South Asia. India was home to the ancient Indus Valley civilisation , and is the birthplace of four world religions: Hinduism , Sikhism , Buddhism , Jainism .
The act dissolved the Indian Empire, the Imperial Legislative Council and the Chamber of Princes and the Union of India was consequently established from 9 former Indian provinces (East Punjab, United Provinces, Central Provinces, Madras, Bombay, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal and Assam) and 562 former Indian states.
India is the world's biggest producer of mica blocks and mica splittings. [75] India ranks second amongst the world's largest producers of barite and chromite. [75] The Pleistocene system is rich in minerals. India is the third-largest coal producer in the world and ranks fourth in the production of iron ore.
The Paralympic Committee of India was formed in 1994, five years after the International Paralympic Committee was established in 1989. [1] [2] The nation made its Paralympics debut in 1968 and have appeared in every edition of the Summer Paralympic Games since 1984.
The historiography of India refers to the studies, sources, critical methods and interpretations used by scholars to develop a history of India.. In recent decades there have been four main schools of historiography in how historians study India: Cambridge, Nationalist, Marxist, and subaltern.
On 26 November 2023, Nongthombam Biren Singh, the then Chief Minister of the Government of Manipur, officially released the diglot edition of the Constitution of India, in the Meetei Mayek (Meitei for 'Meitei writing system') in Manipuri language and English, [130] [131] [132] at the Cabinet hall of the CM Secretariat in Imphal, [133] as part ...
Mahatma Gandhi visiting Madras (now Chennai) in 1933 on an India-wide tour for Dalit (he used Harijan) causes. His writings, and speeches during such tours, discussed the discriminated-against castes of India. The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.
The Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India, as of 1 December 2007, lists 22 languages, [85]: 330 which are given in the table below together with the regions where they are used. [91] Fastest growing languages of India — Hindi (first), Kashmiri (second), Gujarati & Meitei/Manipuri (third), Bengali (fourth) — based on 2011 census of ...