Facts That World Should Know About India
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1.
India is the world's largest, oldest & continuous civilization.
2.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of
history.
3.
India is the world's largest democracy.
4.
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.
5.
India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by
Aryabhatta.
6.
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.
7.
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.
8. 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.
9.
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.
10.
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'.
11.
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.
12.
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.
13.
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).
14.
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.
15.
The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
16.
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.
17.
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
18.
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.
19.
When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000
years ago, Indians established Harappan
culture in Sindhu
Valley
(Indus Valley Civilization).
20.
The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism,
are followed by 25% of the world's population.
21.
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100
BC.
22.
India is one of the few countries in the
World, which gained independence
without violence.
23.
India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the
World.
24.
India is the largest English speaking nation in
the world.
25.
India is the only country other than US
and Japan,
to have built a super computer endogenously.
- Albert Einstein said: 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 said: 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 said: 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 said: India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
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