RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE OF INDIA

NALANDA UNIVERSITY

Nālandā was an ancient center

of higher learning in Bihar, India.

The site is located about 88 kilometers south east

of Patna, and was a religious 

center of learning from the

AD to 1197 AD. 

KONARK TEMPLE

Konark Sun Temple  [ko ark ]; also Konârak) is a ɳ ə13thcentury Sun Temple (also known as the Black

Pagoda), at Konark, in Odissa, India. It was supposedly built by king Narasimhadeva I of Eastern 

Ganga Dynasty around 1250.

MEENAKSHI TEMPLEMeenakshi Amman Temple is a historic 

Hindu temple located in the southern bank of river Vaigai in the temple city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is 

dedicated to Parvati who is known as Meenakshi and her consort, Shiva, named here as Sundareswarar.

TAJ MAHAL – THE WONDER

People come and dieso do the perishable objects

but beauty never diesand so does the great TAJ MAHAL, an incredible

symbol of Beauty....True Beauty

AJANTA ELLORA

The Ajanta Caves (Aji hā leni; Marathi: ṇṭ अजिजिंठा लणेी) in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are about 300 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments

which date from the 2nd century BC to about 480 or 650 BC.

KHAJURAHOThe Khajuraho Group of Monuments in 

Khajuraho, a town in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, located in Chhatarpur District, about 

620 kilometers (385 mi) southeast of New Delhi, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in 

India.

Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi 16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004), also known as M.S., was a renowned Carnatic vocalist.She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor. She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, often considered Asia's Nobel Prize, in 1974 with the citation reading "Exacting purists acknowledge Srimati M. S. Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semi-classical songs in the Karnataka tradition of South India.

Ravi Shankar, 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), often referred to by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar. He has been described as the best-known contemporary Indian musician.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan.

Amjad Ali Khan (Hindi: अजमजिंद अजली ख़ान; IAST: Amjad Alī Khān) (born 9 October 1945) (Urdu: امجد علی خان) is an Indian classical musician who plays the Sarod. Khan was born into a musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s. He was awarded India's second highest civilian honor, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2001.

Pt.Jasraj was born in Hisar, Mewat region, Haryana in an orthodox Brahmin family to Motiram, a classical singer. His family performed the Mewati gharana style. Motiram died when Jasraj was four, on the day he was to be appointed as the state musician in the court of Osman Ali Khan.

Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman (September 17, 1930 – April 22, 2013) was a well-known and award-winning Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer. His disciples included his two children Lalgudi G.J.R.Krishnan, Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, renowned Harikatha exponent Vishaka Hari,Sangeetha Shiromani Saketharaman, the leading Vainika Srikanth Chary. and the Academy Award nominated Bombay Jayashri Ramnath

Viswanathan Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess Grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. Anand has won the World Chess Championship five times (2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012), and has been the undisputed World Champion since 2007. Anand was the FIDE World Rapid Chess Champion in 2003, and is widely considered the strongest rapid player of his generation.

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist whose ground breaking work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. The discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect.

Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. They run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; children's and family counseling programmes; orphanages; and schools.

Mian Tansen (born 1493 or 1506 as Ramtanu Pandey – died 1586 or 1589 as Mian Tansen; also named Mohammad Ata Khan) was a prominent Hindustani classical music composer, musician and vocalist, known for a large number of compositions, and also an instrumentalist who popularized and improved the plucked rabab (of Central Asian original.

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar born 24 April 1973 is an Indian cricketer widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of his

generation. He is the first player to score one hundred international centuries, the first player to score a double

century in a One Day International, and thus far the only to complete 34,000 runs in international cricket.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-

violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights

and freedom across the world.

RICH SOURCES

AGRICULTURE

Agriculture in India has a significant history. Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry and fisheries accounted for 16.6% of the GDP in 2009, about 50% of the total workforce. The economic contribution of agriculture to India's GDP is steadily declining with the country's broad-based economic growth. Still, agriculture is demographically the broadest economic sector and plays a significant role in the overall socio-economic fabric of India.

Fishing in India is a major industry in its coastal states, employing over 14 million people . Fish production in India has increased more than tenfold since its independence in 1947.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, fish output in India doubled between 1990 and

2010.

The Mining industry in India is a major economic activity which contributes significantly to the economy of India. The GDP contribution of the mining industry varies from 2.2% to 2.5% only but going by the GDP of the total industrial sector it contributes around 10% to 11%. Even mining done on small scale contributes 6% to the entire cost of mineral production. India is the largest producer of sheet mica, the third largest producer of iron ore and the fifth largest producer of bauxite in the world. India's metal and mining industry was estimated to be $106.4bn (£68.5bn) in 2010.