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Facts About India

July 25, 2008

  • INDIA is the world’s largest, oldest continuous civilization.
  • In the last 10,000 years, India has never invaded any country.
  • India is the world’s largest democracy.
  • India is one of the few countries in the world that gained independence without violence.
  • The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 6,000 years ago.
  • Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages.
  • India was the richest country on earth until the 17th Century, when the British invaded.
  • Chess was invented in India.
  • India invented the number system.  Albert Einstein said: “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”
  • Algebra, trigonometry, and calculus originated in India.
  • The value of “pi” was first calculated by the mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem.  He discovered it in the 6th century, which was long before European mathematicians.
  • India is the largest English-speaking nation in the world.
  • Thirty-eight percent of doctors in the United States are of Indian descent, and 12 percent of scientists are as well.

Source: Trump, Donald J. & Robert T. Kiyosaki, Why We Want You To Be Rich, (USA: Rich Publishing, 2007), pp.56-57

*photos were lifted from www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3454.htm 

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