This slide is about India culture.

1. INDIA
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2. India Flag
India officially the Republic of India, is a country in South
Asia. It is the seventh largest country by area the second
population country with over 1,2 billion people and the most
populous democracy in the world.

3. India’s Neighbors
Bounded by the Indian Ocean on south, the Arabian Sea on the west and
Bay of Bengal on the South East, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the
west China, Nepal and Bhutan.

4. Mumbai is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is
the most populous city in India, most populous metropolitan area in
India, and the eighth most populous city in the world, with an estimated
city population of 18.4 million and metropolitan area population of
20.7 million as of 2011.

5. Indian Culture
Indian cultural history spans more than 4,500 years During the Vedic
period the foundations of Hindu philasophy, mythology, theology and
literature were laid and many beliefs and practices which still exist today
such as karma, dkarma, yoga and moksa were established.

6. India is notable for its religions diversity with Hinduism,
Sikhisim, Islam, Christianity and Jainism among the nation
major religions.

7. Art and architecture in India mush of Indian architecture, including the Taj
Mahal. Ohter works of Mughal architecture and South Indian architecture
blends ancient local traditions with imported styles.

8. Indian music ranges over various tradition and regional styles.
Classical music encomposes two genres and their various folk
offshoots the northern Hindustani and Southern Cornotic Schools.

9. Bollywood is sobriquet of the Hindi language film industry based in
Mumbai India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of
Indian Cinema. Bollywood is the one of the largest film producers in India
and one of the largest centers of film production in the world.

10. Cotton was domesticated in India by 4000 B.C.E. Traditional Indian
dress varies in colour and style across regions and depends on various
factors, including climate and faith. Popular styles of dress include draped
garments such as the sarii for women and the dhoti or lungii for men. Stitched
clothes, such as the shalwar kameez for women and kurta–pyjama
combinations or European-style trousers and shirts for men, are also
popular. Use of delicate jewellery, modelled on real flowers worn in ancient
India, is part of a tradition dating back some 5,000 years; gemstones are also
worn in India as talismans.

11. Indian cuisine encompasses a wide variety of regional cuisines native
to India. Given the range of diversity in soil type, climate and occupations,
these cuisines vary significantly from each other and use locally
available spices, herbs, vegetables and fruits. Indian food is also heavily
influenced by religious and cultural choices and traditions.

12. In India, several traditional indigenous sports remain fairly popular, such
as kabaddi, kho kho, pehlwani and gilli-danda. Some of the earliest forms of
Asian martial arts, such as kalarippayattu, musti yuddha, silambam,
and marma adi, originated in India. Chess, commonly held to have originated
in India as chatura gaṅ , is regaining widespread popularity with the rise in the
number of Indiangrandmasters. Pachisi, from which parcheesi derives, was
played on a giant marble court by Akbar.
Mens play
kabaddi

13. India, being a culturally diverse and fervent society, celebrates various holidays
and festivals. There are three national holidays in India: Independence Day on 15
August, Mahatma Gandhi's birthday on 2 October and Republic Day on 26
January. States and regions have local festivals depending on prevalent religious
and linguistic demographics. Popular religious festivals include the Sikh festivals
like Guru Nanak Jayanti, Hindu festivals of Makar Sankranti, Maha
Shivaratri, Diwali, Ganesh Chaturthi, Holi, Dussehra, Islamic festivals of Eid ul-
Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Mawlid an-Nabī and Christian festivals of Christmas and days of
observances such as Good Friday are observed throughout the country.
A Holi Festival

14. Indian Map