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India is privileged to be
the part of Indus Valley Civilization which took place nearly
five thousand years back. The flourished cities of Mohenjodaro
and Harappa which are now in Pakistan were ruled by priests
and held the rudiments of Hinduism. These civilisations are
known to possess a sophisticated lifestyle, a highly developed
sense of aesthetics, an astonishing knowledge of town planning
and an unfathomable script language. The Indus civilization at
one point of time extended nearly a million square kilometres
across the Indus river valley. It existed at the same time as
the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Sumer but far outlasted
them. Surviving for nearly a thousand years the Indus valley
civilisation fell to tectonic upheavals in about 1700 BC,
which caused a series of floods.
At the dawn of Vedic ages the Aryans came in from the North
and spread through large parts of India bringing with them
their culture and religious beliefs. The Four Vedas or the
important books of Hinduism were compiled in this period.
India got its independence from Britain in 1947 after a long
struggle led mostly by Mahatma Gandhi. In the process of
becoming independent, India was divided in two countries
instead of one, other country came to be known as Pakistan.
India, the unique and diverse country has made a huge progress
and coped with great problems, and has developed its industry
and its agriculture, and has maintained a system of government
which makes it the largest democracy in the world.
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