facts about India that will proud you that you are a indian
1. Different branches of mathematics like algebra, trigonometry, and calculus were born in India.
2. Surgery started in India 2600 years ago. In many ancient texts, there are mentions by Guru Sushruta and his team to free the eyes from cataracts, deliveries, add bones, remove stones, beautify organs and perform surgery in brain therapy.
3. The art of sailing was first invented 6,000 years ago in the Indus Valley of India.
4. The Bailey Bridge, built by the Indian Army in 1982 between the Suru and Dras rivers in the Ladakh Valley, is the highest in the world.
5. Indian mathematician Brahmagupta (598-668) was the head of the space laboratory of the famous city of Ujjain in the then Gurjar region.
6. The price of 'pie' was first discovered in the world, in the sixth century, by the Indian mathematician Budhayana.
7. In Takshashila University (modern Pakistan), established 800 years before Christ, more than 20,500 students were educated in more than 60 subjects.
8. More than 26,000 computer engineers work in over 2,500 software companies in Bangalore city of India.
9. Lotus flower has the distinction of being the national flower of India as well as Vietnam.
10. The count of monkeys in India is 5 crores.
11. India is the world's largest tea producer and consumer. 30% of the world's tea is produced here, of which 25% is used.
12. Jantar Mantar, built-in 1724 by Sawai Raja Jai Singh in Jaipur, is the world's largest stone-built observatory.
13. Indians living in other countries earn 1 lakh crores USD every year, out of which they save 30 thousand crores and send them to India.
14. Indian Railways is the largest organization in the world based on the number of employees in which more than 16 lakh employees work.
15. Out of more than 1,000 orchid species found in India, more than 600 are found only in Arunachal Pradesh.
16. India is the country with the largest number of post offices in the world. There are no such post offices in any country in the world.
17. Varanasi, also known as Benaras, is an ancient city when Lord Buddha arrived here in 500 BC and is today the oldest and continuously growing city in the world.
18. The father of Kung Fu was an Indian Buddhist monk named Tathmoh or Bodhidharma who migrated from India to China around 500 AD.
19. Jaisalmer Fort is the only unique fort in the world in which about 25 percent of the city's population has made its home.
20. The world produces 22 thousand tons of mint oil, out of which 19 thousand tons of oil is extracted in India alone.
21. Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds and in modern times, India ranks third among the largest consumer countries of diamonds. The US and Japan are in first and second places respectively.
22. In Sri Lanka and some parts of South India, the festival of Deepawali is celebrated one day before North India.
23. India has not attacked any country in its last 10,000 years of history.
24. The name 'Hindustan' is a combination of Indus and Hindu, used to refer to the land of Hindus.
25. Chess was discovered in India.
26. The world's first granite temple is the Brihadeeswarar Temple in Tanjore, Tamil Nadu. The shikhara of this temple is made of 80-ton pieces of granite. This magnificent temple was built during the reign of Rajaraja Chola during a period of only 5 years from 1004 to 1009 AD.
27. India is the largest democracy in the world and the seventh-largest country in the world and one of the ancient civilizations.
28. The game of snake ladder, was created by the poet-saint Gyan Dev in the thirteenth century. It was originally called Mokshapat. Stairs in this game represented boons while snakes represented demerits. The game was played with caudals and dices. Later, many changes were made in this game, but its meaning remained the same, that is, good works lead people to heaven, while bad works put them back into the cycle of birth.
29. The world's highest cricket ground is at a place called Chail in Himachal Pradesh. It was prepared in 1993 by leveling the land at an altitude of 2,444 meters above sea level.
30. Ayurveda is the earliest known branch of medicine for mankind. Charaka considered the father of this science of science, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
31. India was the richest country till the early 17th century before the arrival of the British state. Christopher Columbus, attracted by the wealth of India, went searching for a sea route to India and he accidentally discovered America.
32. Bhaskaracharya calculated the exact time taken by the Earth to revolve around the Sun several hundred years before astronomy. According to their calculations, the Earth takes 365.258756484 days to orbit the Sun.
33. The Pentium chip was invented by Vinod Dham. (Today 90% of the world's computers run on it)
34. Sabir Bhatia created Hotmail. (Hotmail is the world's no.1 email program)
35. 38% of doctors in the US are Indians.
36. 12% of scientists in the US are Indians and 36% of scientists in NASA are Indians.
37. 34% of Microsoft employees, 28% of IBM, and 17% of Intel employees are Indians.
38. The largest number used by the Greeks and Romans was 10 ^ 6 (ie 6 to the power of 10) while the Hindus started using numbers as large as 10 ^ 53.
39. India sells software to 90 countries.
40. 4 religions were born in India Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, and are followed by 25 percent of the world's population.
41. Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 BC and 500 BC respectively.
42. Islam is India's and the world's second-largest religion. There are 300,000 mosques in India which are more than any other country even more than Muslim countries.
43. Vishnu temple built in the city of Tirupati was built during the 10th century, it is the largest religious place in the world. On average 30,000 devotees visit this place, bigger than the religious places of Rome or Mecca, and offer about 30 million 60 million per day.
44. Yoga art originated in India and has been present for more than 5,000 years.
45. Modern number system has been discovered by India. Aryabhata invented the number zero. The modern number system used in the world is called the international form of Indian digits.
46. The Jagannath temple in Puri distributes so much prasad daily that 500 cooks and 300 associates work daily.
47. 5000 years ago, when most of the civilizations in the world were leading nomadic lives, the Indus Valley in India was at the peak of progress.