The
Republic of India (Hindi:
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a sovereign country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest
country by geographical area, the second most populous country,
and the most populous liberal democracy in the world. India
has a coastline of over seven thousand kilometres, bounded by
the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west,
and the Bay of Bengal on the east.
India borders Pakistan to the west; the People's Republic of
China, Nepal and Bhutan to the north-east; and Bangladesh and
Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity
of Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia.Home
to the Indus Valley Civilization and a region of historic trade
routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified
with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long
history.
Four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and
Sikhism originated here, while Islam, Christianity, Judaism
and Zoroastrianism arrived in the first millennium CE and shaped
India's variegated culture. Gradually annexed by the British
East India Company from the early eighteenth century and colonised
by Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century, India became
a modern nation-state in 1947 after a struggle for independence
marked by widespread use of nonviolent resistance as a means
of social protest.With the world's third largest economy in
purchasing power and the second fastest growing large economy,
India has made rapid progress in the last decade, especially
in information technology. Although India's standard of living
is projected to rise sharply in the next half-century, it currently
battles high levels of poverty, illiteracy, persistent malnutrition,
and environmental degradation. A pluralistic, multi-lingual,
multi-ethnic country, India is also home to a diversity of wildlife
in a variety of protected habitats.
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