No matter how much you learn about India, you can’t know enough. The country’s diversity has tons of incredible but true facts waiting to be revealed. Here are 12 surprising facts about India that will make you fall in love with the country..
1. Oldest morden civilisation
The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.
When the whole world had lived like nomads, Indus Valley Civilization reached its highest point
2. Zero
Brahmagupta a scholar and mathematician in AD 628 first time defined zero and its operation and developed a symbol for it which is a dot underneath the numbers. ... Then, Aryabhatta a great mathematician and an astronomer used zero in the decimal system.
Have you ever thought that if not twelve zero. I can not run our phone laptop and computers today
3. First university in the world
The world’s first University was established in Takshila or Taxila (now in Pakistan) in 700BC. Taxila is a town and an important archaeological site in Rawalpindi district of the Punjab province in Pakistan. This centre of learning was situated about 50 km west of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. Ancient Taxila (Takṣaśilā, literally meaning “City of Cut Stone” or “Rock of Taksha”) was situated at the pivotal junction of India, western Asia, and Central Asia. It was an important Vedic/Hindu and Buddhist center of learning
4. Human calculator in the world
Shakuntala Devi was an Indian writer and mental calculator, popularly known as the "human computer". Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records.
5. Oldest language in the world
World's oldest language is Sanskrit. The Sanskrit language is called Devbhasha. All European languages seem inspired by Sanskrit.
And Tamil also a oldest language .
6. Indian military second largest
The Indian Armed Forces are under the management of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Government of India. With strength of over 1.4 million active personnel, it is the world's second-largest military force and has the world's largest volunteer army.
7. Second largest internet user
With over 560 million internet users, India is the second largest online market in the world, ranked only behind China. It was estimated that by 2023, there would be over 650 million internet users the country.
8. India is the world's second-largest English speaking country
India is second only to the USA when it comes to speaking English with around 125 million people speaking the language, which is only 10% of our population. This is expected to grow by quite a margin in the coming years.
9. 17% of The world population
India population is equivalent to 17.7% of the total world population. India ranks number 2 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.
10. Indian Railways largest in the world
The number of people travelling in the Indian Railways everyday is equal to the population of Australia (more than 23 million).
11. Indian women
Indian women holds 11% of the world 's gold
Because of Indian rich culture
Consequently, Indian women collectively wear over 21,000 tons of gold on their bodies. To put this figure into perspective, the Indians’ obsession with gold has pushed them to accumulate more gold than all the reserves of the IMF, USA, Germany, and Switzerland put together.
12. India introduced shampoo to the world
Among many facts about India, The first ever shampoo was used by locals in India. Dried Indian gooseberry mixed with many other herbs was used to wash hair, a recipe that is still used in the country today. The word ‘shampoo’ is derived from the Hindi word, champo
The word shampoo comes from an ancient Hindu language called Sanskrit
These 12 such things about India that you like, hope you have a good day.
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