FACTS ABOUT INDIA

**FACTS ABOUT INDIA**

* India is the world’s largest,oldest, continuous civilization.

* The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism,
and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world’s population.

* India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.

* India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have
built a super computer indigenously.

* India has the second largest pool of Scientists andEngineers in the World.

* Chess was invented in India.

* The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and
he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem.

* He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.

* The World’s first university was established inTakshashila in 700BC.

* More than 10,500 studentsfrom all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.

* The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient Indiain the field of education.

* India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

* The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.


♥♥♥ PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN ♥♥♥