"Sare jahan se acha
Hindustan Hamara...hamara"
India (
Hindi: भारत
Bhārat; see also
other names), officially the
Republic of India, is a sovereign country in
South Asia. It is the
seventh-largest country by geographical area, the
second most populous country, and the most populous
liberal democracy in the world. Bounded by the
Indian Ocean on the south, the
Arabian Sea on the west, and the
Bay of Bengal on the east, India has a coastline of over 7000 kilometres. It borders
Pakistan to the west;
China,
Nepal, and
Bhutan to the north-east; and
Bangladesh and
Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of
Sri Lanka,
Maldives, and
Indonesia.
Home to the Indus Valley civilization and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its cultural wealth, and was always famous as the richest region of the globe for much of its long history.Four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated here, while Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism arrived in the first millennium CE and shaped the region's variegated culture. Gradually annexed by the British East India Company from the early eighteenth century and colonised by the United Kingdom from the mid-nineteenth century, India became a modern nation-state in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by widespread use of nonviolent resistance as a means of social protest.
Jai Hind!
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