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HISTORY OF INDIA
Ancient India Timeline
RELIGION
CULTURE
ECONOMY
POLITICS
POPULATION
REFERENCE

History of India
India is a land of ancient civilization. India's social,
economic, and cultural configurations are the products of
a long process of regional expansion. Indian history
begins with the birth of the Indus Valley Civilization and
the coming of the Aryans. These two phases are usually
described as the pre-Vedic and Vedic age. Hinduism arose
in the Vedic period.
The history of this astonishing sub continent dates back
to almost 75000 years ago with the evidence of human
activity of Homo sapiens. Amazingly, almost five
thousand years ago, the inhabitants of the Indus Valley
Civilization had developed an urban culture based on
commerce and sustained by agricultural trade.

Ancient India Timeline

Prehistoric Period: ( 400000 BC - 1000 BC

RELIGION
HINDUISM
ISLAM
SIKHISM
JAINISM
BUDHISM
CHRISTIANITY
THE PARSIS
THE JEWS OF INDIA
CASTE SYSTEMS IN INDIA

CULTURE
Indian cultural history spans more than 4,500 years.
During theVedic period.(c. 1700 500 BCE), the
foundations ofHindu philosophy mythology
theologyandliterature were laid, and many beliefs and
practices which still exist today,
suchasdharma,karma,yoga, andmoka, were
established. India is notable for itsreligious diversity
withHinduism,Buddhism,Sikhism,Islam,Christianity,
and Jainismamong the nation's major religions. The
predominant religion, Hinduism, has been shaped by
various historical schools of thought, including those of
theUpanishads,theYoga Sutras, theBhaktimovement
and byBuddhist philosophy.

ECONOMY
According to theInternational Monetary Fund(IMF), the Indian
economy in 2015 was nominally worth US$2.183 trillion; it is the
7th-largest economy by market exchange rates, and is, at
US$8.027 trillion, the third-largest bypurchasing power parity or
PPP.[With its average annual GDP growth rate of 5.8% over the
past two decades, and reaching 6.1% during 201112,India is
one of theworld's fastest-growing economies .However, the
country ranks 140th in the world innominal GDP per capitaland
129th inGDP per capita at PPP.Until 1991, all Indian governments
followedprotectionistpolicies that were influenced by socialist
economics. Widespreadstate intervention and regulationlargely
walled the economy off from the outside world. An acutebalance
of payments crisis in 1991forced the nation toliberalize its
economy.since then it has slowly moved towards a free-market
system by emphasizing both foreign trade and direct investment
inflows. India's recent economic model is largely capitalist. [India
has been a member ofWTO since 1 January 1995.

POLITICS
India is the world's most populous democracy. [A
parliamentary republic with amulti-party system it has
sixrecognizednational parties including theIndian National
Congressand theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and more than
40regional parties.
In the Republic of India's first three general elections, in
1951, 1957, and 1962, theJawaharlal Nehru -led Congress
won easy victories. On Nehru's death in 1964,Lal Bahadur
Shastribriefly became prime minister.
In the2014 general election, the BJP became the first
political party since 1984 to win a majority and govern
without the support of other parties. [ThePrime Ministerof
India isNarendra Modi, who was formerlyChief Minister
ofGujarat.

POPULATION
At the census 2001, out of1028 millionpopulation, little
over 827 million (80.5%) have returned themselves as
followers of Hindu religion, 138 million (13.4%) as
Muslims or the followers of Islam.
24 million (2.3%) as Christians
19 million (1.9%) as Sikh.
8 million (0.80%) as Buddhists
4 million (0.4%) are Jain.
Ifcurrentgrowth rates continue,Indiawill have 1.63
billion people by 2050 and will surpass China, said a
report.Indiaon Saturday recorded apopulationof
127,42,39,769 which is growing at a rate of 1.6 per cent a
year, and could make the country the most populous in
the world by 2050.

REFERENCE
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
2. http://indiapopulation2017.in/