25 Interesting facts about India

Some interesting and unknown facts about India,you hardly know 

so,let's get started;-

1.The name 'India' originated from the river Indus which used to flow into the valleys of Indus Valley and India never invaded(enter a country so as to occupy it) any country in her last 100000 years in history. 

2.There are crores of millionaires in India, but there is a lot of difference between rich and poor in India, due to which there is more poverty here.

3.Shatranj, known as Chess, was invented in India itself. In ancient times it was known as 'Chaturanga Sanskrit' which means 'four members of an army'.

4.Diamond: Until 1986, India was the only country in the world where diamonds were officially found.

5.The civilization of India is one of the oldest in the world, even many of the oldest places and buildings in the world are in India. The ancient kingdoms of India are even earlier than Egypt and Mesopotamia.

6.The largest film industry in the world is in India. More films are made in Bollywood, films are also produced in many other studios of the country.


7.Perhaps few people in the world would know that the first tomb in the world was built in India. Here the tomb was built by Shah Jahan for Humayun, though his wife and other Mughal family members were also buried here after that.

8."City Montessori School", located in Lucknow, is the largest school in the world, which has about 52,000 students and 1050 class rooms.

9.The largest democracy in the world is in India and 7th largest country in the world.India has the highest number of voters and India is also in the forefront of election expenses.

10.India is the only country where people of different religions live together.

11.India is at the forefront of buying gold in the world. Gold is considered to be the most important part of India's culture, whether it is as a gift or to be used in a wedding ceremony.

12.India has the largest number of post offices around the world.

13.According to the International Institute of strategic studies, India has the largest army after China. America at number three.

14.India is the second largest English speaking country in the world after America.

15.India has won all the Kabbadi World Cups so far.

16.India's Indira Gandhi Airport is the second largest and best airport in the world.

17.After America and Britain, India is the only country with the highest world record of guiness.

18.Do you know Ravindranath Tagore has written the national anthem of India as well as the national anthem "Amar Sonar Bangla".

19.India is the second largest country in the world to produce Engineers and Scientists.

20.The railway department of India is the highest ranking department in the world.

21.In India, more than 4700 daily news papers are printed in more than 300 languages.

22.Algebra,Trigonometry and calculus are studies invented by India."Place value system" and "Decimal system" also.

23.Bhaskaracharya(Indian Mathematician) rightly calculated the time taken by Earth to orbit the Sun in the 7th century.According to his calculation,the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun was 365.258756484 days.

24.The value of "pi" was first determined by Indian mathematician scientist whose name was "Budhayana" and he also explained the concept and theory of "Pythagorean Theorem" in 6th century,long before the European mathematicians.

And last but not not the least.

25.India exports software to 90 countries.