język: Culture of India

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Indian culture is the heritage of social norms and technologies that originated in or are associated with the ethno-linguistically diverse nation of India, pertaining to the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and the Republic of India post-1947. The term also applies beyond India to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to India by immigration, colonisation, or influence, particularly in South Asia and Southeast Asia. India's languages, religions, dance, music, architecture, food, and customs differ from place to place within the country. Indian culture, often labelled as a combination of several cultures like Indian Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Muslims, Sikhs and others, h…

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India has one of the oldest continuous Christian traditions in the world dating back to AD 52. Christianity is India's third-largest religion with 28 million adherents, who make up 2.3 percent of the population, according to the 2011 census. Kerala has the largest Christian population in India. Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of India's Christians are found in South India, Goa and Mumbai (Bombay). Christianity is the major religion in parts of Northeast India, specifically in Nagaland, Mizoram and Meghalaya. Christians are also a significant plurality in Manipur. The written records of St Thomas Christians mention that Christianity was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by Thomas the Apos…

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The Intellectual Tradition of Mathematics in Ancient India. The mathematical heritage of ancient Bharat represents one of the most enduring and sophisticated intellectual traditions in human history, tracing its origins to the earliest civilizations of the Indian subcontinent. Archaeological and textual evidence demonstrates a continuous development of mathematical thought extending approximately five millennia, with numerous conceptual innovations that demonstrate remarkable parallels to modern mathematical principles and methodologies. The intrinsic relationship between mathematical inquiry and the cultural fabric of ancient Indian civilization is reflected through an extensive corpus of…

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The culture of Asia encompasses the collective and diverse customs and traditions of art, architecture, music, literature, lifestyle, philosophy, food, politics and religion that have been practiced and maintained by the numerous ethnic groups of the continent of Asia since prehistory. Identification of a specific culture of Asia or universal elements among the colossal diversity that has emanated from multiple cultural spheres and three of the four ancient River valley civilizations is complicated. However, the continent is commonly divided into six geographic sub-regions, that are characterized by perceivable commonalities, like culture, religion, language and relative ethnic homogeneity.…

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Archaeoceramic Traditions of India: Markers of Cultural Change and Continuity. This article explores the evolution and significance of pottery and terracotta figurines in India, from the Neolithic period to the rise of early historic civilizations. It traces the craft's development from the rudimentary, handmade wares of sites like Mehrgarh (c. 7000 BCE) to the sophisticated, wheel-thrown pottery of the Indus Valley Civilization. The paper then examines three key ceramic cultures: Ochre Coloured Pottery (OCP), Painted Grey Ware (PGW), and Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW), highlighting their role as chronological markers for the transition from the Bronze to the Iron Age and the Second Ur…

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designates World Heritage Sites of outstanding universal value to cultural or natural heritage which have been nominated by countries which are signatories to the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Cultural heritage consists of monuments (such as architectural works, monumental sculptures, or inscriptions), groups of buildings, and sites (including archaeological sites). Natural features (consisting of physical and biological formations), geological and physiographical formations (including habitats of threatened species of animals and plants), and natural sites which are important from the poi…

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India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's seventh-largest country by area and its most populous. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa by 55,000 years ago. Settled life emerged in the western margins of the Indus river basin 9,000 years ago, evolving into the Indus Valley Civilisation of the third millennium BCE. By 1200…