The document provides an overview of the religions, languages, cultures, festivals, cuisine, traditional attire, dance forms, and famous people and places across India's main geographic regions - North India, East India, South India, and West India. It discusses the diversity within Indian culture and highlights Hinduism as the core religion that promotes unity amidst diversity across the subcontinent.

1. INDIA

2. Buddhism Jainism Sikhism Islam Christianity Hinduism RELIGIONS IN INDIA

3. LANDSCAPES

4. The Seven Classical Dance Forms Mohini Attam Kathakali Bharatnatyam Kuchipudi Odissi Manipuri Kathak NATARAJA One of the most enduring symbols of India is the figure of

5. Languages of India Hindi Sanskrit Tamil Gujarati Urdu Punjabi Malayalam Bengali Marathi Konkani Kannada Assamese Telegu Oriya Rajasthani

6. North India - Culture, Festivals & The People Important festivals : Rakshabandhan - celebrated all over North India Lohri - Punjab Holi - celebrated all over North India Vaisakhi - Punjab Hemis - Jammu & Kashmir

7. North Indian Wedding Dress

8. Traditional Dances Bhangra Kathak

9. North Indian food Rajma Chawal Tandoori Chicken Naan Shahi Paneer Gulab Jamun Aloo Paratha

10. Famous places of the North Mount Kailash - Himalayas Taj Mahal - Agra Ladakh Lake - Kashmir Famous places In the North

11. India Gate - New Delhi " Lotus Temple “ - Delhi. Golden Temple - Amritsar, Punjab.

12. Great Indians The First Prime Minister of India. Jawaharlal Nehru Kalpana Chawla Har Gobind Khorana 1968 - Nobel Laureate in Medicine NASA Astronaut

13. East India - Culture, Festivals & The People Important Festivals : Durga pooja - Calcutta Bihu - Assam Kharchi Puja - Tripura Chapchar Kut - Mizoram Cheiraoba - Manipur Moastu - Nagaland

14. Bengali Wedding Apparel

15. Delicious Bengali Platter

16. Darjeeling – Tea Estate Howrah Bridge Famous places In the East Kalighat Kali Temple

17. Jagannath Temple, Puri Sun Temple, Konark Konark Temple Rajarani Temple, Bhubaneswar Wheel of Konark Temple Mukteswar Temple

18. Great Indians Mother Teresa Bharat Ratna, Noble Laureate for Peace. Vivekananda Most Famous and Influential Spiritual Leaders of Philosophy. Poet and Writer of India’s National Anthem and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore

19. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Indian poet, Novelist and the author of Vande Mataram Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose Physicist, who pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics. Amartya Sen 1998 - The Nobel Prize for Economics

20. South India - Culture, Festivals & The People Important festivals : Onam - harvest festival, Kerala. Vijayadashami (Dussehra) – Karnataka Pongal - Tamilnadu Sankranthi - Andhra Pradesh

21. Exotic W Exotic South Indian Wedding

22. Mouth Watering South Indian Cuisine

23. South Indian Traditional Dance Forms Bharatnatayam Yakshagana Kuchipudi Kathakali

24. Tirupathi - one of the richest and most visited religious centers in the world. Ooty - Udagamandalam Famous places In the South Mysore Palace

25. Meenakshi Temple - Madurai “ Gods Own Country”, Kerala The Charminar - Hyderabad

26. Great Indians Srinivasa Ramanujam Great Indian Mathematician Sir C.V. Raman 1930 - Nobel Laureate in Physics for work on scattering of light and Raman effect. A . P. J. Abdul Kalam ( Missile Man of India )‏ Current President - Scientist and an Engineer

27. M. S. Subbulakshmi Renowned Carnatic Vocalist. Vishwanath Anand International Chess Grandmaster. Sarojini Naidu ( The Nightingale of India ) Freedom Fighter and Poetess.

28. West India - Culture, Festivals & The People Important Festivals : Gangaur - Rajasthan Kite festival – All over west India Nagpanchami – All over West India Janmashtami – All over West India Ganesh Chaturthi - Maharashtra Navratri - Gujarat

29. Maharashtrian Couple

30. Indian Finger Food

31. Western Thar Desert, Rajasthan Hawa Mahal - "Palace of Winds" Jaipur The Ajanta and Ellora caves Famous places In the West

32. The Famous Goa Beach Gir National Park Bollywood Mount Abu - Rajasthan St Francis Church Goa

33. Vinoba Bhave National Teacher of India Great Indians Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi “ Father of Nation” Amitabh Bachchan Famous Bollywood Actor

34. Lata Mangeshkar World’s Foremost Indian Vocalist Sania Mirza Indian Tennis Player Azim Hashim Premji Indian businessman and richest person in the country

35. India the land of unity in diversity

36. "Oneness amongst men, the advancement of unity in diversity – this has been the core religion of India”. Rabindranath Tagore Poet and writer of India’s national anthem and Nobel laureate in literature in 1913, (1861­1941) :

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