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If you search the history of India, you will find that India is fulfill of various facts and specific. Indian people are very imaginative, and God gifted intellectual from the beginning. It is said to be one of the oldest countries in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n

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India is an ideal land where different types of people who belong to different cultures and religious background reside together as a nation. The people of India become very friendly nature and loving. They prefer spending maximum time with their families. Various types of languages are spoken all over India but even then, anybody can be in touch with people by speaking national language called Hindi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. The well-known board game named chess, India invented it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. India has never overrun any country in its 100,000 years of glorious history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. India is the biggest democracy and the oldest civilization of the world and at the 7th stage with an eye to largest country in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. India is said to be one of the richest countries in the world before assaulting the British in 17th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. India gave the world the value of \u2018\u2019pi\u2019\u2019 used in mathematics that was first of all Indian mathematician Budhayana deliberated in 6th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. India is one of the most leading exporters of computer software products. More than 90 countries are exported software product by India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. India is the land of prime pilgrimage destination of the world such as the Vishnu Temple. The location of this temple is in the city of Tirupati. Almost 300,000 people come to visit the temple and donate around $6 million dollars daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Yoga is also originated by India almost 5,000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. There are large number of mosques in India. About 300,000 mosques in India which is much more in any Muslim country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Christian and Jews are here in India since 52 A.D and 200 B.C respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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