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India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi ???? ??????? Bharat Ga?arajya; see also other Indian languages), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east, India has a coastline of 7,517&_160;kilometers (4,671&_160;mi).[13] It borders Pakistan to the west;[14] People's Republic of China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Indonesia in the Indian Ocean. Home to the Indus Valley Civilisation and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history.[15] Four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated there, while Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam arrived in the first millennium CE and shaped the region's diverse culture. Gradually annexed by the British East India Company from the early eighteenth century and colonised by the United Kingdom from the mid-nineteenth century, India became an independent nation in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by widespread nonviolent resistance. India is a republic consisting of 28 states and seven union territories with a parliamentary system of democracy. It has the world's twelfth largest economy at market exchange rates and the fourth largest in purchasing power. Economic reforms have transformed it into the second fastest growing large economy;[16] however, it still suffers from high levels of poverty,[17] illiteracy, and malnutrition. A pluralistic, multilingual, and multiethnic society, India is also home to a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats. The name India (pronounced /'?ndi?/) is derived from Indus, which is derived from the Old Persian word Hindu, from Sanskrit Sindhu, the historic local appellation for the Indus River.[18] The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi (??d??), the people of the Indus.[19] The Constitution of India and common usage in various Indian languages also recognise Bharat (pronunciation&_160;(help·info), /b???r?t?/) as an official name of equal status.[20] Hindustan (/hin?d?ust???n/ (info)), which is the Persian word for “Land of the Hindus” and historically referred to northern India, is also occasionally used as a synonym for all of India.[21]
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Planning a Foreign Holiday with a Difference by Isla Campbell
Nov 19, 2008
If you are planning a trip to Sri Lanka in the near future, make sure you factor in a stay in Colombo while you are there.
While Colombo isn’t set up to appeal purely to the traveller and holidaymaker, that is one of its charms. It m...
Understanding The Value Of Link-Building, Directory Submissions And SEO by Seo Furnish
Mar 24, 2008
Your business needs exposure to the right people at the right time. Each day, prospective customers are looking for the products or services that you can provide. They visit Google, Yahoo and MSN and use specific keywords to search for someone who ca...
Outsourcing SEO: spells success for your business by Allies Harbor
Dec 19, 2007
One of the most sorted after marketing trends is online marketing. To be more specific, these days, each business has made it a point to have an online presence and this has been done, keeping in mind the reach of internet. Internet is one such thing...
Articles Directory India by sachin aggarwal
Nov 04, 2007
Articles Directory www.articlesdirectory.in
Articles Directory is an online directory to post blogs, latest news headlines, submit new articles and earn money. Submit free articles, create blogs, share opinions, questions an...
Only the lonely? What's that? by sunil pritmani
Oct 29, 2007
With a number of Indian friendship and Indian dating sites, it's almost impossible to be friendless!
You know there is a corny saying, “Count your age not by numbers but friends”? If that were true, we'd all be hundreds of years old already! ...
What is Social Networking? by Mastiff Tech
Aug 06, 2007
What is Social Networking? www.techmastiff.com
Mastiff Tech partners with organizations around the world to build some of the most scalable and powerful platforms meant to create social communities. To get more information on this, please ...
Article syndication gives your website the attention it deserves by Allies Harbor
Jul 08, 2007
The internet has become a huge storehouse of information and the best resort for any person who is looking for information on a product, service or any category for that matter. The various search engines list out the relevant websites that might hav...
Article Syndication: the sky is the limit so explore and aim for the sky by Allies Harbor
Jun 25, 2007
"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." This famous quote by James Agee seems very true and very realistic and the most interesting point is that this quote seems to fit into any facet of the world. We humans have a...
Article Syndication ensures recognition from search engines by Allies Harbor
Apr 11, 2007
Article syndication is nothing but the process through which an online site shares articles with other sites on the web. Due to the huge improvements in the field of science and technology the web has become the hub where all activities take place. S...
Internet Marketing India by Mohit Puri
Jun 16, 2006
Art Of Website Marketing
Link Popularity is an ongoing "Off-Page" Optimization of your website. The basic idea behind link popularity is that high quality web sites tend to have more links pointing to them then low quality sites do. T...
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