Indian Culture
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Indian Culture
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The India is a large
country with many cultural, social, geographical and religious diversities
people of many different religious live here with full independence and practice
their religious beliefs freely. From north to south and east to west. We can
notice many differences in cultural practices and living styles.
India
is basically a country of villages. 80% of our population lives in villages.
Although in the big cities there is lot of shining glitter but the base of our
economy, which is agriculture, is in the villages only.
We
may be different in our religious beliefs or our dressings or language, but by
heart we are all Indians.
In
ancient Indian society, a very high status was given to a woman. During the
early Vedic period, she enjoyed perfect freedom and equality. Women played a
key role in the Indian struggle.
Some
of the important points of indian culture is:-
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The Festivals in
India
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Indian Festivals |
India
is a land of festivals. Here many festivals is celebrated through out the year.
Dussehra is 2nd most important festival before Diwali.
It is celebrated 20 days before Diwali. On
this day, Lord Rama killed Ravana, the king of demons in Lanka.The people
celebrate the victory of trust and justice over unjustice. The ceremony of
celebration still persists.
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Sciences behind
Temples
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Indians Temples |
There
are many historical reasons and sciences behind the temples in India. Architecture
behind the oldest temples have their secret beliefs. Every state have many
temples and each one have the history and people use to visit these temples to
understand the logic behind the sciences of Temples in Indian Culture. Like Mahabalipuram
Temple in tamilnadu and Kailash Nath temple in Ellora.
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Different Religions
with same beliefs
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Religions |
In India there are different
major religions like Hindu, Muslim, Sikhs, Christian. They all have their
different beliefs but they live in brotherhood and helps each other at
difficult situations without any discrimination. About 80 % of population is
Hindu in India ,7% Islamic, 3% Christian,
10% Sikhs religions but they celebrated all religion festival all across India
together.
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Indian Ethnic
wear
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Indian Wear |
There are many different traditional clothing
in India. India is famous for their ethnic wear in different states and
different dresses. Kashmiri Dress is one of the famous or favourite ethic dresses
all over the India.
Rajasthan is also famous of their Marwari
dresses and Gujarat is famous for their sarees and Lehnga-Choli.
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Indian Food
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Indian-Foods |
India is known as Land of spices. There are
many varieties of species and tastes in all over India. In every state, they
have different taste for example, Rajasthan is Land of spicy food where as Gujarat
is known for their gujrati taste like Dhokla and Khandvi.
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Holy cow
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Holy Cow |
Cow
is one of the holy animal in India. Indian people do worship of cows in
different states in different ways. Million of hindus worship cows and gives
her the status of their Mother.
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Joint Families
system
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Indian Joint Families |
Indian Joint family is a joint system which is followed by
many years. In joint family, all relatives live together in same family and
people believes that joint family system will improve the relationship amongst
people. Joint family system is one of the most famous culture of India.
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Different Tourist
places in India
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Tourist Places |
There
are many historical tourist places in India. Tajmahal, Red fort, Qutub Minar,
Jantar Mantar is one the most popular tourist places in all over India. By visiting
these places, we know about important historical facts about Indian culture. We
learn many things about art, literature, life history and sciences of past
ages.