WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA

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.