History of Indian culture

HISTORY OF INDIAN CULTURE
CONTENTS
Introduction
Philosophy
Diversity
Festivals
Flag
Architecture
Clothing
Conclusion

INTRODUCTION
India’s history and culture is dynamic spanning back to the beginning of human civilization.
This all started with the Indus valley Civilization.
India’s culture is among the world’s oldest that began about 4,500 years ago.
Today India is very diverse country with more than 1.2 billion people.
India’s language, religions, dance, music, architecture, food customs differ from place to place within the country.

PHILOSOPHY
There are six schools of orthodox of Hindu philosophy :- Nyaya ,Vaisheshika , Samkhya, yoga ,Mimamsa , and Vedanta and four heterodox schools :- Jain ,Buddhist , Ajivika and Carvaka
Samkhya is one of the oldest orthodox that believe in purusha and prakriti.
Another philosophy is Indian political philosophy attributed to Chanakya. He wrote a classic treatise on polity, Arthashastra (The science of material gain)

DIVERSITY
India is identified as the birthplace of Hinduism and Buddhism.
About 84 % of the population identifies as Hindu.
Diversity of India mainly contain Hindu, Muslim, Christians and Sikhs.
the reason behind this much diversity is the different religion followed in ancient time they overlap at a time and they get result in diversity.
Indian culture has been heavily influenced by dharmic religions.

FESTIVALS
India being a multi-cultural and multi- religions country celebrates various festivals.
The national holidays in India are the Independence day, the Republic day and Gandhi Jayanti.
In addition many Indian states and regions have local festivals depending on prevalent religious.
Popular religious festivals include Diwali , Holi, Navratri, Jamashtami , Ganesh Chaturthi, etc

FESTIVALS
Diwali is the largest and most important festival to India.
It is a five day festival and known as festival of lights because of the light lit during celebration to symbolize the inner light that protects them from spiritual darkness.
During this houses are lighten up with Diya.
Holi, the festival of color , also called the festival of love is another popular celebration.
In this people plays with color and gulal.

INDIAN FLAG
The national flag of India is a horizontal rect- angular tricolour of saffron, white and green with the Ashoka chakra, a 24 spoke wheel in navy blue in centre.
Flag was adopted during the constituent assembly held on 22 July 1947 and become official flag on 15 Aug. 1947.
The saffron colour indicates the strength, the white band indicates the peace and truth with chakra, the last green shows the fertility, growth and auspiciousness of land.

INDIAN ARCHITECTURE
Indian architecture encompasses a multitude of expressions over time.
Some of the earliest production are found in Indus valley Civilization(2600-1900 BC) which is characterized by well planned cities.
Several Buddhist complexes such as Ajanta and Ellora caves were built.
Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri, Fort of Delhi are some of the monuments based on Islamic tradition.

INDIAN CLOTHING
Traditional clothing in India greatly varies across different part of country.
Popular styles of dress includes sari and mekhela sador for women and dhoti or lungi for men.
In ancient time, mainly the clothes were stitched at home.
Indian women perfect their sense of charm and fashion with makeup and ornaments such as bindi , bangles, etc.
Cotton clothes was made by the wooden spindles and bone needles.