Cultural
India, where you will get a huge culture and various traditions.

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NAMASTE - Place Both Hands Together and Bow Slightly

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Don’t be confused, before select your destination you should know some basic knowledge of this country.

We don’t know whatever you think about India and it’s culture, but before think and judge you must have some basic information about it.
Indian’s culture is as vast as it’s geography. People use different languages regarding their location, dress differently regarding their culture, follow different religions, eat different food regarding their availability but are of the same nature.

Religion

According to the census of 2011 there are 79.8% Hindu, 14.2% Muslims, 2.3% Christian, 17% Sikh and other specified 2%.
Religious practises are an integral part of a lifestyle.
Hinduism has long-established roots in India dating from 2000-1500 B.C.E
Vedas and Upanishads are the holy books of Hinduism.
Hinduism teaches meditation, yoga and ascetic practices to cultivate self-discipline and unity.
The cow is measured as a sacred animal.
Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism all are based on the impression of dharma and karma.
people contribute passionately, feeling the happiness or pain of others.
Any kind of festival or a carnival is never celebrated by a family or a particular home. The whole community is involved in bringing sparkle to an occasion.
Vedas and Upanishads are the holy books of Hinduism.

 

Major Celebrations

Republic Day ( 26 January )
Holi ( March )
Independence day (15 August )
Gandhi Jayanti ( 2nd October )
Dshahara (October )
Diwali ( November ) 

 

•    Family morals are very respected in India and are important in daily life.
•    Arranged marriages are preferred
•    Time change Intercaste marrying was forbidden but in urban areas is now common.
•    Families generally live with three or four generations in the same house.
•    Child care is provided by the female family members
•    There are the world’s oldest caste systems in India
•    These are four main: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras
•    It’s believed that Brahmins, the teachers are  Brahma's head. Kshatriyas, the warriors and rulers are Brahma’s arms. Vaishyas, the traders are Brahma’s thighs, and finally, Shudras, the workers are Brahma's feet.
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ब्राह्मणः अस्य मुखम् आसीत् बाहू राजन्यः कृतः |
ऊरू तत्-अस्य यत्-वैश्यः पद्भ्याम् शूद्रः अजायतः ||
                                                                   (ऋग्वेद संहिता, मण्डल 10, सूक्त 90, ऋचा 12)

•    The literate males are 82.14% while females are 65.46% (2011 census)
•    The Indian economy is one of the fastest-growing in the world
•    Approx 50% of the workforce is employed in agriculture 
•    GDP 7.2% (2018-19Est.) according to RBI

Food Culture

•    In Our country food is served in the thali.
•    If we talk about the tradition of eating food in the country, The history of Indian cuisine is about 5000 years old.
•    The civilization of Indian food is based on tradition.
•    The food here is eaten by hand.
•    This tradition is associated with Ayurveda.
•    According to Ayurveda, If you eat food by hand, it creates feelings and excitement.
•    Instead of India, the process of eating by hand is also followed in Africa and the Middle East.
•    Example of some Thalis of modern practice – Modiji Thali, Bahubali Thali, Sarpanch Thali, Maharaja Bhog Thali, Kumbhkaran Thali, Ahilya Devi Thali.
•    Many Muslims and Hindu women strictly deny drinking alcohol.
•    Wash your hand before eating otherwise you may be Invited.

 

Greetings

If you are in doubt to address someone, it is safe to say “Sir or Ma'am”
•    Generally, men will shake hands at the time of a meeting or leaving
•    Men should not attempt to shake hands with women
•    Some Indian women might shake hands with a western woman
•    According to our culture elders and superior are greeted first.
•    Don’t stand too close to others
•    Always use your right hand to touch, give, eat, or accept something.
•    Use both hands to give or receive gifts.
•    If everything is OK then don’t use Black or White because it denotes anger, negativity and mourning.
• Always try to address people by their professional title Dr, professor or, Mr or Mrs, etc. followed by their surname

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists; there is a similar reason, though not quite so forcible, for supposing that both the Gothic and the Celtic, though blended with a very different idiom, had the same origin with the Sanskrit ...
— Sir William Jones, 1786
 

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