WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA

Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC.

More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.

7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.

9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53

10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra

13. Chess was invented in India

14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India .

15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley India in 100 BC.

Quotes about India

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. Albert Einstein.


India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition. Mark Twain.


If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India French scholar Romain Rolland.



India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Hu Shih (former Chinese ambassador to USA )


ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.

BUT, if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.

I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA

Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN.

This has been sent by Swapan Das.

It is good, knowing your roots and your history. However, our Gurus tell us forget the past. It is over.
Forget the future. Don't worry over it. If you take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
You cannot do anything over your past and sitting on your laurels is the worst disease which we Indians are very much prone to. It does not help whether your grandfather held 2000 bighas of land in Bangladesh and had 10 acres of fish ponds where there were Hilsas weighing 20 Kg were caught.
What are you now?
A refugee from Bangladesh who still depends of government dole.
Look at the Punjabi.
He too was a refugee from West Pakistan but by sheer hard work, he has become a useful citizen instead of a parasite on the nation.
It is good we did not invade any country but when rulers, whether from Greece or Persia or Afganisthan or Britain, France or Portugal or China invaded us, we were found to be sitting ducks.
The Chinese still hold large tracts of our land which they grabbed in 1962 and still claim Arunachal Pradesh and are also surrounding us from the North, West and South with governments who consider us their enemies.
Forget what you
We still have Indians who are intelligent and hardworking but they leave India for the Western countries where they can work without any bias.
What can they do?
With intellectual imbeciles like Mulayam, Mayawati, Lalu Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan, Sibu Soren and their likes forming the ruling elite in India, our actual intellectuals who could do anything for India are leaving our shores. They have to.
With quota and reservations now extending upto 75% and nothing to prevent it becoming 100%, the cream of India will leave this country.
There will be many for 26/11
Our country will be ruled by mediocre and semi mediocre people, very ripe for China to invade again.
What Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and Roman Rolland said was about pe-independence India, when we were forced to be honest by the British.
What have we become under our home grown rulers.
About 60% of our 1.2 billion population are BPL and do not earn even Rs 300/- per month.These people sleep on empty stomachs and yet food grain rots in government godowns.
We have got recognition of our own unique symbol for the Rs, but how does it help these BPL people?
Does it give them more purchasing power?
India ranks 84th in the list prepared by Transparency Internationsl of the most corrupt countries.
I am sure our politicians would claim proudly that at least we beat our neighbours Sri Lanka (97th), Bangladesh and Pakistan (139th), Nepal (143),Myanmar (178).
60% of our MPs and MLAs have criminal records.
But are you still proud to be an Indian?