India
is the second country with
more
population in the world, after China, and it has a democracy as far as
the
government in concerned.
India is formed by a sum of
different
states with a federal system; this is the Republic of India. The most
important
cities are Calcuta, capital of Mumbai, the capital Nueva Delhi, Chennai
etc.
India is the 10th Economy world-wide. It is one of the countries whit
an
irregular economy, it has a very rich index of children's deaths and it
is one
of the countries with poor people.
Its currency is the rubia.
Indias limits are with Pakistan, Nepal,
Chinese
Bhutón, Myaman and Bangladesh on earth with Sri Lanka and
Maldivas in the Indic
Ocean.
The
history of India is shrouded in antiquity. The country has
been thought
of as a nation of philosophers with a well-developed and even idyllic
society.
Excavations of sites belonging to the Harappan era show that the people
lived
in brick houses in towns with excellent drainage. One of the oldest
scriptures
in the world is the four volume Vedas that many regard as the
repository of
national thoughts that anticipated some of the modern scientific
discoveries.
Despite formidable barriers in the form of the mighty Himalayas and
oceans,
India also received a succession of foreigners, many of them carrying
swords
and guns. But nearly all of them stayed on. Out of these waves of
immigration
has emerged the composite culture of India and made it a land of unity
in
diversity. India became a land of assimilation and learning, a land of
change and
continuity. According to the one school of thoughts, the Aryans were
among the
first to arrive in India, which was inhabited by the Dravidians. Others
who
came here included Greeks, Persians, Mughals and even British,
Portuguese and
French. Over the years there have been many major ruling dynasties like
the
Shakas, the Kushans, the Maurayas and Guptas. Nearly every major
religion in
the world is represented in India. It is also the land of Lord Buddha,
Lord
Mahavira and Guru Nanak Dev, the founders of Buddhism, Jainism and
Sikhism.
