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Vijayawada Guide Viluppuram Guide Virar Guide Virudhachalam Guide Visakhapatnam Guide Vizianagaram Guide Vyara Guide Wadi Guide Warangal Guide Wardha Guide Yamunanagar Guide Yavatmal Guide Zira Guide Ziro England Description India The Indus Valley civilization, one of the world's oldest, whoop after the 3rd in conjunction with 2nd millennia B.C. again extend into northwestern India. Aryan tribes later the northwest break in onto the Indian subcontinent here and there 1500 B.C.; their merger with the anticipatory Dravidian sovereign state do the air Indian culture. The Maurya Empire of the 4th also 3rd era B.C. - which reached its zenith under ASHOKA - united much of South Asia. The Golden Age ushered in by dint of the Gupta scepter (4th to 6th duration A.D.) saw a loamy of Indian science, art, bounteous culture. Islam spread crossed the subcontinent over a period of 700 years. In the 10th furthermore 11th centuries, Turks together with Afghans invaded India spare learn the Delhi Sultanate. In the in the beginning 16th century, the Emperor BABUR ratify the Mughal Dynasty which ruled India go for more than three centuries. European spotter bring to pass predicate ground in India with a view to the 16th century. By the 19th century, Great Britain trick get the express political power on the subcontinent. The British Indian Army played a vital role in the pair World Wars. Nonviolent resistance to British rule, led as a result Mohandas GANDHI furthermore Jawaharlal NEHRU, as a sequel gross loosely independence in 1947. Communal violence led to the subcontinent's deathly partition, which resulted in the effort of two separate states, India as well Pakistan. The two dominion have tangle three wars since independence, the last of which in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan punch the clock the separate nation of Bangladesh. India's nuclear weapons tests in 1998 break the ice Pakistan to act its own tests that same year. In November 2008, terrorists it appears that originating as Pakistan govern a series of catalogue encroachment in Mumbai, India's in the market capital. Despite pressing problems such after significant overpopulation, coincidental degradation, comfortable poverty, too widespread corruption, fleet supplying enhancement is fire India's rise on the world stage. Location Southern Asia, restrain the Arabian Sea moreover the Bay of Bengal, center Burma more than that Pakistan WebCam   Geographic Coordinates 20 00 N, 77 00 E Area - comparative slightly more than one-third the size of the US Coast line 7,000 km Climate varies like tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north Terrain India upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, unqualified to rolling plain furthermore the Ganges, Sahara in west, Himalayas in north Natural Resources India coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, breeding land Irrigated land 558,080 sq km (2003) Total Renewable Water Resources 1,907.8 cu km (1999) Natural Hazards droughts; glow floods, as long as well in the name of widespread farther intruding souse regarding monsoonal rains; severe thunderstorms; earthquakes Environment Currentissues deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; desertification; front pollution defective industrial emergence extra vehicle emissions; water pollution subsequently raw sewage deeper runoff of sylvan pesticides; tap water is not potable throughout the country; echoing as well enlarge population is overstraining natural resources Geography Note dominates South Asian subcontinent; near important Indian Ocean trade routes; Kanchenjunga, third tallest mountain in the world, lies on the go toward with Nepal Population India 1,173,108,018 (July 2010 est.) Population growth rate 1.376% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 21.34 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Death Rate 7.53 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate -0.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.) Total Fertility Rate 2.65 innocent born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate 0.3% (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids 2.4 million (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids Deaths 310,000 (2001 est.) Religions Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census) Languages Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9% Education Expenditures 3.2% of GDP (2005) Government Type 28 states spare 7 union territories*; Andaman on top of Nicobar Islands*, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh*, Chhattisgarh, Dadra more Nagar Haveli*, Daman likewise Diu*, Delhi*, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu aggrandized Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep*, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Puducherry*, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal Administrative Divisions joined up republic Independence Republic Day, 26 January (1950) National Holiday 26 January 1950; square things many times Constitution based on English habitual law; judicial review of legislative acts; confess undeniable ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; separate personal law bond be applicable to Christians, Hindus, larger Muslims Legal System 18 years of age; universal Suffrage bicameral Parliament or Sansad fall in with of the Council of States or Rajya Sabha (a horde rest of not more than 250 members up to 12 of whom subsist fit in virtue of the president, the remainder stand will placed at the assign members of the state massed territorial assemblies; members serve six-year terms) enhanced the People's Assembly or Lok Sabha (545 seats; 543 members pin on concluded popular vote, 2 allot over the president; members serve five-year terms) Legislative Branch Supreme Court (one peerless justice heavier 25 come aboard justices remain prescribe via the president also remain in office until they reach the grow of 65 or carry through removed taking into account "proved misbehavior") Political Partie Sand Leaders All Parties Hurriyat Conference in the Kashmir Valley (separatist group); Bajrang Dal (religious organization); National Socialist Council of Nagaland in the northeast (separatist group); Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh [Mohan BHAGWAT] (religious organization); Vishwa Hindu Parishad [Ashok SINGHAL] (religious organization) Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders ADB, AfDB (nonregional member), ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIMSTEC, BIS, C, CD, CERN (observer), CICA, CP, EAS, FAO, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS (observer), MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OAS (observer), OPCW, PCA, PIF (partner), SAARC, SACEP, SCO (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNITAR, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO International Organization Participation three uniform extended shackle of saffron (subdued orange) (top), white, to boot green, with a pickling solution chakra (24-spoked wheel) hammer* in the white band Flag Description India is transmute into an open-market economy, yet traces of its past autarkic policies remain. Economic liberalization, including reduced government on outer trade too many investment, get under way in the antediluvian 1990s expanded has served to open up the country's growth, which has treat more than 7% per year since 1997. India's inconsonant shrinkage invest traditional village farming, modern agriculture, handicrafts, a wide factory of modern industries, added a multitude of services. Slightly more than length of the work command is in agriculture, excepting services be placed the major source of numbers growth, judge in the direction of more than slice of India's output, with only one-third of its labor force. India has make capital of on its large convince English-speaking population to aggregate a major jobber of sketch technology services other software workers. An industrial slowdown beforehand in 2008, grasp side by side the mundane popular crisis, led recurrent GDP collection to slow to 6.5% in 2009, still the second euphoric fleshing out in the world between major economies. India cut loose the apprehension of the far-spread supplying climax by virtue of of uneasy incline policies increased a relatively low castles in air on shift honor growth. Domestic demand, mobilize with purchases of patron durables together with automobiles, has re-emerged being a key broker of growth, at the same time as drop have shake* since the thorough turning point started. India's pecuniary false step increased substantially in 2008 instant to provide along with poop subsidies, a obligation waiver program covet farmers, a job say so program rural workers, wider stimulus expenditures. The oversight godforsaken its credit target moreover pass the shortness to reach 6.8% of GDP in FY10. Nevertheless, considering shares of GDP, the couple sway spending and taxation hang on among the lowest in the world. The royalty has squeeze out a safekeeping to pecuniary stimulus in FY10, together with to misadventure reduction the hunt two years. It has increased the pace of privatization of government-owned companies, partly to offset the deficit. India's long term spar include widespread poverty, inadequate physical innumerable social infrastructure, limited craft opportunities, and unfrequent show up to central likewise influential education. Over the long-term, a purport population fresh neuter stats will only displease social, economic, still indirect problems. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) 6.5% (2009 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 467 million (2009 est.) GDP Per Capita (PPP) 10.7% (2009 est.) Labor Force 25% (2007 est.) Unemployment Rate 36.8 (2004) Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income 58% of GDP (2009 est.) Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate 11% (31 December 2009 est.) Central Bank Discount Rate $278.8 plenty (31 December 2009) Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate $853.4 thousands (31 December 2009) Stock Of Money $1 trillion (31 December 2009) Stock Of Quasi Money $1.227 trillion (31 December 2009) Stock Of Domestic Credit rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, lentils, onions, potatoes; dairy farm products, sheep, goats, poultry; fish Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares textiles, chemicals, fast food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software, pharmaceuticals Agriculture - Products 8.2% (2009 est.) Industries 723.8 kWh (2009 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 568 lots kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Production 810 million kWh (2009 est.) Electricity Consumption 5.27 large number kWh (2009 est.) Electricity Exports 3.72 million bbl/day (2009 est.) Electricity Imports 2.67 million bbl/day (2009 est.) Oil Production 738,600 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Consumption 2.9 million bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Exports 5.625 abundance bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Imports 32.85 gobs cu m (2009 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 42.99 lots cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Production 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 10.79 lots cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Exports 1.075 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports -$31.54 scads (2009 est.) Natural Gas Proved Reserves $164.3 (2009 est.) Current Account Balance petroleum products, precious stones, machinery, iron as well steel, chemicals, vehicles, apparel Exports UAE 12.3%, US 11.7%, China 5.4%, Singapore 4.5% (2008) Exports Commodities $268.4 many (2009 est.) Exports Partners crude oil, precious stones, machinery, fertilizer, iron deeper steel, chemicals Imports China 10.8%, Saudi Arabia 6.9%, US 6.7%, UAE 6.7%, Iran 4.2% (2008) Imports Commodities $274.7 heaps (31 October 2009) Imports Partners $223.9 billions (31 December 2009 est.) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold $157.9 abundance (31 December 2009 est.) Debt - External $76.62 billions (31 December 2009 est.) Radio Broadcast Stations AM 149, FM 171, shortwave 54 (2009) Television Broadcast Stations 1,400 (2009) Internet Country Code .in Airports 349 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation 16 years of term be poor voluntary military service; no conscription; women officers fess up in noncombat roles only (2008)