Once a very great historian Eric Hobsbawn said “"What makes a nation, is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past",.and here are some facts which will bring light on its brilliant past..
India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization
India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
India is one of the few countries in the world, which gain independence without violence.
India invented the number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
The birth of Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus happened in India.
The Decimal and Place Value system originated and developed in India
In 700 BC, the world's first university was established in India, in Takshila. It was one of the biggest achievements in the field of education, as more than 10,500 students came from all over the world to receive education in over 60 different subjects. The University of Nalanda was another milestone that was achieved in the field of education in 4th century BC.
The first and greatest civilization in ancient India developed around the valley of the Indus River (now Pakistan) around 3000 B.C. Called the Indus Valley civilization, this early empire was larger than any other empire, including Egypt and
Mesopotamia.
The correct time taken by the earth to revolve around the sun was calculated by the famous astronomer Bhaskaracharya. His calculation showed that the earth takes around 365.258756484 days to go around the sun once.
In the 11th century, Quadratic Equations were introduced by Sridharacharya. Indians used numbers that were way too big than European numbers. While the Europeans limited themselves to 106, the Indians went a step ahead and used numbers as big as 1053.
Surgery existed in India even 2600 years ago, when Sushruta, known as the Father of Surgery, conducted many complex surgeries. The valuable ancient scriptures have detailed information on Cataract, Artificial Limbs, Cesareans, Fractures, Urinary Stone Surgery, Plastic Surgery and Brain Surgeries.
The art of Yoga that is now popular worldwide originated in India only and was performed by highly revered sages, in the ancient times.
The oldest city in the world that is inhabited even today is Varanasi or Benaras.
Sanskrit is the mother of all the European Languages . Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magzine July 1987.
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
India was one of the richest countries till the time of British rule in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus, attracted by India's wealth, had come looking for a sea route to India when he discovered America by mistake.
The Vishnu Temple in the city of Tirupathi built in the 10th century, is the world's largest religious pilgrimage destination. Larger than either Rome or Mecca, an average of 30,000 visitors donate $6 million (US) to the temple everyday.
Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
Before 1986, India was the only place in the world where Diamonds could be found.
The value of "pi" used in mathematics was first calculated by the Indian mathematician Budhayana in 6th century.
India has the most number of mosques. It has 300,000 mosques which is much more than any Muslim nation in the world.
Every major world religion is represented in India. Additionally, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism all originated in India.
Alexander the Great invaded India partly because he wanted to solve the mystery of the “ocean,” which he had been told was a huge, continuous sea that flowed in a circle around the land. When he reached the Indian Ocean, he sacrificed some bulls to Poseidon for leading him to his goal.
Now some facts about present:-
The biggest and the largest employer in the world is Indian Railways which employs over a million people.
India has the most number of post offices in the world.
India’s pastoral communities are largely dependent on dairy and have made India the largest milk-producing country in the world.
India has the world’s third largest road network at 1.9 million miles. It also has the world’s second largest rail network, which is the world’s largest civilian employer with 16 million workers.
All of India is under a single time zone.
India's tech capital, Bangalore, has increased its office supply by six times since 2006, and now has more Grade-A offices than Singapore
Half the world’s outsourced IT services come from India, amounting to a $47 billion dollar industry
Walmart alone outsources $1 billion in IT contracts to India
A bigger movie market than America and Canada combined, India sold 3.2 billion
tickets last year
India has 568 million more registered voters than the US -- and a better turnout rate too
It is illegal to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India.
Indians hold prominent places both internationally and in the United States. For example, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems (Vinod Khosla), the creator of the Pentium chip (Vinod Dahm), the founder/creator of Hotmail (Sabeer Bhatia), and the GM of Hewlett-Packard (Rajiv Gupta) are all Indian.
Around 25 per cent of the world's new workers will be Indian in the next three years.
The average Indian is nearly 20 years younger than the average Japanese.
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