India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software reported in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century.
The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The Very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart.; Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India; Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 (10 to the power of 6) whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 1053(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 1012(10 to the power of 12).
According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of Wireless communication was Prof. Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
N. According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake called 'Sudarshana' was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya's time.
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.
When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley(Indus Valley Civilization)
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
QUOTES ABOUT INDIA
Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Mark Twain said: India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most constructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.
Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said: India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. All the above is just the TIP of the iceberg, the list could be endless.
About Kerala: My State
God's Own Country
The basic culture of Kerala may be Dravidian in orgin , but the reality is a delightful mosaic of differing cultural streams.This process is a evident in the native language, Malayalam.Though of Dravidian orgin , it gradually began to change under the influence of Sanskrit , the court language of Aryans.A kind of cross fertilisation led to a fusion of traits of the two streams of culture -Aryan and Dravidian .later on the religous influence of Hinduism ,Buddhism , Islam and Christianity contributed to embellish the cultural riches of Kerala .St. Thomas the apostle of Christ landed in Kerala in 52 A.D. Islam's initial influences can be seen in India's earliest mosque near Cranganore (Kodungallur). This place was once home to the Jews who went on to establish a colony and a synagogue at Cochin.
Much of this variety of cultural influences can be traced to Kerala's long -standing contacts with the rest of the world.These precede the Christian era ,according to historians.Major trading centres along the kerala coast -like Cranganore , Quilon (Kollam) ,Cochin (Kochi) ,Calicut ( kozhikode ) -have been written about by travellers and traders of yore .Kerala was known to Egypt ,Asian minor, the Assyrian and Babylonian empires ,the Greeks, the Romans and the Chinese .Ships from the Malaya Peninsula ,the Philippines , Java , and Sumatra as well as Arabia used to call on the ports of Kerala.
These old and once strong links have made Malayalees worldywise, if not truely cosmopolitan and tolerant ,says Kerala lovers.The malyalee's love affair with the world continues -go to any country and you 're certain to find a Malayalee.Parts of the 'Gulf ' or the Middle East look, sound and smell like Kerala.All this has led to cultural concoction that expresses itself in various forms in various areas of the state..
Modern Kerala is a state of the Democratic Republic of India. Kerala as a united state was consolidated from the princely states of Travancore , Cochin , and Malabar with Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram ) as captial on Nov 1st 1954 after the independence of India from British on Aug 15th 1947.
Kerala is presently ruled by Leftist Government with Mr. E.K.Narayan as Chief Minister. Fresh Assembly elections (total 140 seats) are due in May 2001.Kerala contributes 20 LokSabha seats to the Union Parliament of India.
