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India is the second most populous country and seventh largest country by land area located in South Asia. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal and Bhutan to the north, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. Modern humans arrived in India over 55,000 years ago from Africa and India has high human genetic diversity second only to Africa. The Indus Valley Civilization developed in northern India around 3000 BCE.

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India is the second most populous country and seventh largest country by land area located in South Asia. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west, China, Nepal and Bhutan to the north, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. Modern humans arrived in India over 55,000 years ago from Africa and India has high human genetic diversity second only to Africa. The Indus Valley Civilization developed in northern India around 3000 BCE.

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Date format dd-mm-yyyy[e]

Mains electricity 230 V–50 Hz

Driving side left[22]

Calling code +91

ISO 3166 code IN

Internet TLD .in (others)

India (Hindi: Bhārat), officially the Republic of India (Hindi: Bhārat Gaṇarājya),[23] is
a country in South Asia. It is the second-most populous country, the seventh-largest
country by land area, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by
the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of
Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the
west;[f] China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the
east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives;
its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border
with Thailand and Indonesia.
Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000
years ago.[24] Their long occupation, initially in varying forms of isolation as hunter-
gatherers, has made the region highly diverse, second only to Africa in
human genetic diversity.[25] Settled life emerged on the subcontinent in the western
margins of the Indus river basin 9,000 years ago, evolving gradually into the Indus
Valley Civilisation of the third millennium BCE.[26] By 1200 BCE, an archaic
form of Sanskrit, an Indo-European language, had diffused into India from the
northwest, unfolding as the language of the Rigveda, and recording the dawning
of Hinduism in India.[27] The Dravidian languages of India were supplanted in the
northern and western regions.[28] By 400
BCE, stratification and exclusion by caste had emerged within
Hinduism,[29] and Buddhism and Jainism had arisen, proclaiming social
orders unlinked to heredity.[30] Early political consolidations gave rise to the loose-
knit Maurya and Gupta Empires based in the Ganges Basin.[31] Their
collective era was suffused with wide-ranging creativity,[32] but also marked by the
declining status of women,[33] and the incorporation of untouchability into an
organised system of belief.[g][34] In South India, the Middle kingdoms exported
Dravidian-languages scripts and religious cultures to the kingdoms of Southeast
Asia.[35]
In the early medieval era, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism put down
roots on India's southern and western coasts.[36] Muslim armies from Central
Asia intermittently overran India's northern plains,[37] eventually establishing the Delhi
Sultanate, and drawing northern India into the cosmopolitan networks of medieval
Islam.[38] In the 15th century, the Vijayanagara Empire created a long-lasting
composite Hindu culture in south India.[39] In the Punjab, Sikhism emerged, rejecting
institutionalised religion.[40] The Mughal Empire, in 1526, ushered in two centuries of
relative peace,[41] leaving a legacy of luminous architecture.[h][42] Gradually
expanding rule of the British East India Company followed, turning India into a
colonial economy, but also consolidating its sovereignty.[43] British Crown rule began

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