CULTURE OF INDIA

THE HISTORY OF INDIA HAS EVIDENCE OF HUMANS THERE 75,000 YEARS AGO!BY 2600 B.C.  A SOPHISTICATED CULTURE DEVELOPED.  THE BRONZE AGE SAW COLLAPSED BY 2 B.C. AND THE IRON AGE BEGAN ABOUT 5 B.C.   BY 3 B.C. A GOLDEN AGE EMERGED WITH HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM.  THESE INDIANS DIFFER FROM VARIOUS CITIES  AND FROM PLACE TO PLACE.   THEY HAVE SEVERAL CULTURES THAT HAVE THAT ARE  2 MILLENIA YEARS OLD.  MANY OF THEIR ELEMENTS HAVE HAD A PROFOUND IMPACT ON THE WORLD.

THEY USED SANSKRIT ORIGINALLY AND IT IS OF A WONDERFUL STRUCTURE AND MORE PERFECT THAN THE GREEKS.  HINDUISM IS INDIA'S MOST WIDELY SPOKEN LANGUAGE.  THEY HAVE OTHER LANGUAGES SUCH AS TAMIL. AND NASTELLO.

SOME OF THEIR OLDEST PRESERVED STORIES ARE FROM 400 B.C. AND BY 4 A.D. IT SAW A FINAL FARM.  IT TELLS THE STORY OF THE HINDU GOD.  THEY HAVE MANY STORIES.  THE INDIA CULTURE HAS MANY DANCERS OF CHHAU AND KUCHIPUDI.  THEY HAVE MANY DANCES AND TAUGHT IN THE ANCIENT BOOK.  THEY USE GESTURES TO COMMUNICATE THEIR FEELINGS. AND MYTHOLOGICAL TALES.  ONE OF THEIR OLDEST THEATRE TRADITIONS IS ABOUT 2000 YEARS OLD.

THEY USED MANY ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.   SOME HAVE STRINGS, SOME HAVE CYMBALS AND AIR PIPES.  ONE OF THEIR ANCIENT CLASSIFIED BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS WAS A 3000 YEAR OLD LITHOPHONE,  A HIGHLY POLISHED STONE THAT COULD BE CHANGED TOGETHER. TO MAKE MUSIC.

BY 1947 INDIA WAS INDEPENDENT FROM BRITAIN.  SOME SOCIOLOGISTS BELIEVE THE AMERICANS FELL THE WESTERN PERCEPTION OF INDIA AND HAS NUMEROUS STEREOTYPES.  PEOPLE MADE STEREOTYPICAL METAPHYSICAL ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE RELIGIOUS CULTURE.  THEY MADE ANCIENT CONTRIBUTIONS ABOUT HOW TO REFORM AND THERE IS A STANDARD OF HOW THEY GO ABOUT THEIR VARIOUS HINDU BELIEFS.

FOR MANY GENERATIONS THEY HAVE A TRADITION  OF LIFE WHERE PARENT'S CHILDREN AND THEIR SPOUSES  - 3 GENERATIONS OR MORE LIVE TOGETHER.  THE OLDEST  MALE MAKES ALL IMPORTANT DECISIONS.  THE TREND TODAY IS FROM JOINT FAMILIES. TO NUCLEAR FAMILIES.

THEY PRACTICE PRESCRIBED MARRIAGE.  THE FAMILY INHERITANCE PASSED DOWN THE MALE LINE.  THEY HAVE FEW DIVORCE RATES, BUT THEY ARE RISING.  TODAY FEWER MARRIAGES. ARE ARRANGED AND "LOVE MARRIAGES" ARE ABOUT 20% NOW.

WITH THEIR CULTURAL COMPLEX THEY HAVE MORE FESTIVALS THAN 365 DAYS PER YEAR!  SOME ARE RELIGIOUS AND OTHERS ARE FOR THE HARVEST.  SOME CELEBRATED BY MULTIPLE RELIGIONS.  BUDDHISTS ARE THE LARGEST POPULATION, THEN ISLAM, THEN CHRISTIANITY.  THEY ALSO HAVE REGIONAL FAIR.
IN HINDUISM NO COW MEAT IS EATEN AS THEY ARE A SYMBOL OF NONVIOLENCE.   SOME INDIA FOLKS EAT COWS.  THERE VARIETY OF FOOD IS INFINITE.  AN OLD 1500 A.D. RECIPE SAYS HOW TO MAKE A MILK BASED ON A DESERT.  RECIPES REFLECT HUMAN KNOWLEDGE OF CULTURE, ART AND EXPRESSION OF LOVE.  THEY HAVE SPICY FOODS AND SOME BLAND.  IN HISTORY GREAT THOUGHT WAS GIVEN TO THE TEXTURE AND COLOR AND TASTE OF EACH DISH.  THEY HAVE MANY SPICES.  THEIR CUISINE IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR ACROSS THE GLOBE.

THE WOMAN'S DRESSES VARY ACROSS ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.  NMEN WEAR EUROPEAN TROUSERS NOW.  THIS COUNTRY DISCOURAGES WEARING TIGHT CLOTHING MOST WOMEN WEAR SANDALS AND MAKE UP AND DURING A WEDDING THEY WEAR GOLD AND SILVER.  ONCE MARRIED THEY PLACED A RED MARK RED MARK ON THEIR FOREHEAD,  THEY COLOR THEIR HAIR AS WELL.  THEIR SILKCLOTH WAS WIDELY TRADED.  MAHATMA GANDHI ADVOCATED CLOTHES TO DECREASE RISE OF BRITISH INDUSTRIAL CLOTHES.  DURING THE 1980'S MANY FASHION SCHOOLS WERE HERE.

THERE ARE MANY CAVES PAINTINGS AND A LOVE OF NATURALISM. IN AGANTA, BAGH, ELLORA.  THEY HAVE A LOVE OF PAINTING IN ART SHOWS AND GALLERIES.  THEY MADE MANY MARBLE SCULPTURES IN 1850 A.D.  THEY PRODUCED SOME INTRICATE BRONZES AS WELL.  THEY ALSO BUILT SHRINES CARVED FROM SOLID SOLID ROCK AS EARLY AS 5TH CENTURY. THEY USED AN ANCIENT FIGHTING STYLE FROM 12TH CENTURY B.C. AS THE OLDEST MARTIAL ARTS.  THEY ALSO MENTION INDIAN MARTIAL ARTS.  THEY ALSO MENTION INDIAN MEDITATION.  THEY LIKE TO DO AYURVEDA MASSAGE.

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