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After the death of Harsha the Rajputs came into prominence on the political horizons of North India. Indus valley civilization, which flourished between 2800 BC and 1800 BC, had an advanced and flourishing economic system. It was followed by India’s struggle for independence, which we got in the year 1947. It resulted into the formation of the Delhi Sultanate, which was finally succeeded by the Mughal Empire, under which India once again achieved a large measure of political unity. Indian history begins with the birth of the Indus Valley Civilization and the coming of the Aryans.

Its original form said that India would be a “sovereign, democratic republic”. India is ruled under the Constitution of India. The Congress is known as centre in Indian political culture, while the BJP is known as right-wing.

It is designed, developed, and maintained by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India. India Portal is developed under the Digital India Programme to provide citizens with open and easy access to information. Once India also ratifies the agreement, it can enter into force. Signing of the agreement between the EU and India

Hindi became the official language (and a number Bet 365 of other local languages achieved official status), while a vibrant English-language intelligentsia thrived. Many British institutions stayed in place (such as the parliamentary system of government); English continued to be a widely used lingua franca; and India remained within the Commonwealth. Direct administration by the British, which began in 1858, effected a political and economic unification of the subcontinent. Eventually, some of those raiders stayed; by the 13th century much of the subcontinent was under Muslim rule, and the number of Muslims steadily increased.

India hosts more than five hundred wildlife sanctuaries and eighteen biosphere reserves, four of which are part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves; its eighty-nine wetlands are registered under the Ramsar Convention. In 1972, India enacted the Wildlife Protection Act and Project Tiger to safeguard crucial wilderness; the Forest Conservation Act was enacted in 1980 and amendments added in 1988. In response, the system of national parks and protected areas, first established in 1935, was expanded substantially. The pervasive and ecologically devastating human encroachment of recent decades has critically endangered Indian wildlife.

What are the oldest known civilizations of India?

In 1914, British India and Tibet agreed on the McMahon Line, as part of the Simla Accord. Similarly, the Republic of India does not recognise the Pakistani and Chinese parts of Kashmir. However, Pakistan and China do not recognise this area as part of India.

Government clears procurement of 114 Rafale jets

India’s landmass, which forms the northwestern portion of the Indian-Australian Plate, began to drift slowly northward toward the much larger Eurasian Plate several hundred million years ago (after the former broke away from the ancient southern-hemispheric supercontinent known as Gondwana, or Gondwanaland). Much of India’s territory lies within a large peninsula, surrounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Bay of Bengal to the east; Cape Comorin (Kanniyakumari), the southernmost point of the Indian mainland, marks the dividing line between those two bodies of water. The land of India—together with Bangladesh and most of Pakistan—forms a well-defined subcontinent, set off from the rest of Asia by the imposing northern mountain rampart of the Himalayas and by adjoining mountain ranges to the west and east. Though the country’s population remains largely rural, India has three of the most populous and cosmopolitan cities in the world—Mumbai (Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta), and Delhi.

• In 1991, soon after the first round of polling in the general election, Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a member of a Sri Lankan Tamil separatist organisation who was seeking to avenge Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war.
• The agreement is expected to double EU exports to India, which already support 800,000 European jobs.
• The diversity of Indian food served worldwide has been partially concealed by the dominance of Punjabi cuisine.
• The Indian biotech industry grew by 15.1% in 2012–2013, increasing its revenues from ₹204.4 billion (Indian rupees) to ₹235.24 billion (US$3.94 billion at June 2013 exchange rates).

Chess, which originated in India, is also becoming popular. Tennis has become popular due to the victories of the India Davis Cup team. There is also the Indian cricket league and Indian premier league Twenty20 competitions.

Alongside the free trade agreement, the EU and India are also negotiating agreements on geographical indications and investment protection. The EU and India started negotiating a free trade agreement in 2007. Legal revision and translation into all official EU languages The EU and India already trade over €180 billion worth of goods and services per year, supporting close to 800,000 jobs in the EU. It will strengthen trade, investment and political ties between the world’s two largest democracies.

Cricket in India is controlled by the Board of Control for Cricket in India or BCCI. The Indian cricket team won the 1983 and 2011 Cricket World Cup and the 2007 ICC World Twenty20. India became the first nation in the world to have launched over a hundred satellites in one mission. That made it the fourth country and first Asian country to do so, successfully. India sent a spacecraft to Mars for the first time in 2014.

Disaffection with the company also grew during this time and set off the Indian Rebellion of 1857. India was no longer exporting manufactured goods as it long had, but instead supplying the British Empire with raw materials. Its further access to the riches of Bengal and the subsequent increased strength and size of its army enabled it to annexe or subdue most of India by the 1820s. As the empire disintegrated, many among these elites were able to seek and control their own affairs. Newly coherent social groups in northern and western India, such as the Marathas, the Rajputs, and the Sikhs, gained military and governing ambitions during Mughal rule, which, through collaboration or adversity, gave them both recognition and military experience. The Mughal state’s economic policies, deriving most revenues from agriculture and mandating that taxes be paid in the well-regulated silver currency, caused peasants and artisans to enter larger markets.

Over one quarter of the population (27.5%) was living in poverty in 2004–2005. In terms of PPP, the economy is 3rd largest (worth US$8.720 trillion). It is the 7th largest in the world with a nominal GDP of $2,250 billion (USD). India’s economy is among the world’s fastest growing. Neither mainland China nor Taiwan recognize that Arunachal Pradesh belongs to India. Indians and Tibetans see this line as the official border.

The preferred endonym (the name given to the country by its own people) is “Bhārat” in Hindi and other Indian languages. India has the fourth largest number of spoken languages per country in the world, only behind Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Nigeria. It is made up of 28 states and eight union territories, and its national capital is New Delhi, built in the 20th century just south of the historic hub of Old Delhi to serve as India’s administrative center. The Dravidian languages of India were supplanted in the north, creating a broad language familiy-divide, with the Indo-Aryan languages being spoken mainly in the north and west, and the Dravidian in some parts of east India and most of the south. The constitution also recognises 21 other languages – either because many people speak them, or because they are very important for Indian culture.

British Colonial exploitation resulted in the deaths of millions of Indians due to starvation and famine. In the 1600s, India came under European colonization, and by 1856 the British controlled most of India. As Mughal rule weakened other empires like the Maratha empire and Sikh empire replaced it. The influence of Cholas are still noticeable in Southeast Asia. Southern India at that time was famous for its science, art, and writing. Hindustān (ɦɪndʊˈstaːn (listenⓘ)) is a Middle Persian name for India.

Chandigarh, a union territory with its own administration, serves as the capital for two Indian states – Punjab and Haryana! 1990s – Government initiates a programme of economic liberalisation and reform, opening up the economy to global trade and investment. 1600s – The British arrive and establish trading posts under The British East India Company – by the 1850s they control most of the subcontinent. 2500 BC – India is home to several ancient civilisations and empires. Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi with Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten and his wife in 1947 India has the second largest number of internet users in the world, after China.