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  India - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
India is the seventh-largest country by geographical area and has one of the most diverse populations of wildlife, geographical terrain and climate systems found anywhere in the world.
India gained its independence on August 15th, 1947 - 565 princely states united with British-era provinces to form a united nation, but not before the Muslim-majority provinces were partitioned as a result of the separatist campaign led by the Muslim League to form Pakistan.
India's climate is strongly influenced by the Himalayas and the Thar Desert.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/India   (3909 words)

  
 Geography of India - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
India is bounded in the southwest by the Arabian Sea and in the southeast by the Bay of Bengal.
India is bordered by Pakistan, the People's Republic of China, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan and AfghanistanThe Indian government considers the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir to be a part of India.
India's wetland ecosystem is widely distributed from the cold and arid; from ones in the Ladakh region in the state of Jammu and Kashmir to the ones in the wet and humid climate of peninsula India.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Geography_of_India   (5405 words)

  
 India -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
India is a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement and the United Nations (as part of British India).
India is the second fastest growing major economy in the world, with a GDP growth rate of 8.1% at the end of the first quarter of 2006.
India is home to two major linguistic families: Indo-European (whose branch Indo-Aryan is spoken by about 74% of the population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 24%).
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 India
India is also the second most populated country in the world with over one billion people speaking about four hundred languages.
India is home to several major rivers such as the Ganga (Ganges), the Brahmaputra, the Yamuna, the Godavari and the Krishna.
India has a rich and unique cultural heritage, having striven to preserve its established traditions throughout history; its dynamic nature is manifest in its willingness to respect and tolerate foreign ways and practices.
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 India - Enpsychlopedia
India is the fourth largest economy in the world in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) and the tenth largest in nominal (exchange-rate) terms.
Image:Yumthanghimalayas.jpg India is largely on the Indian subcontinent situated on the Indian Plate, the northerly portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, in southern Asia.
India is home to two major linguistic families: Indo-Aryan (spoken by about 74% of the population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 24%) with a number of other languages from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman linguistic families.
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 India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
India (Hindī: भारत Bhārat), officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia.
Modern India is self-sufficient in agricultural production and is now the fourth largest economy in the world (PPP), having made rapid economic progress in the last ten years, especially in the field of information technology.
Despite these gains, India is still an economically developing country and ranks 122nd in per capita income among the nations of the world and 127th in the United Nations 2005 human development index.
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 Top20India.com - Your Top20 Guide to India!
India has a coastline which stretches over seven thousand kilometres, and shares its borders with Pakistan to the west, the People's Republic of China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast, and Bangladesh and Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) on the east.
India has unresolved border disputes with China, which escalated into a brief war in 1962, and Pakistan which resulted in wars in 1947, 1965, and 1971, and a border altercation in the northern state of Kashmir in 1999.
India is home to two major linguistic families, those of the Indo-Aryan (spoken by about 74% of the Indian population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 24% of the Indian population) derived languages.
www.top20india.com   (3652 words)

  
 India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
India is the second fastest growing major economy in the world, with a GDP growth rate of 8.4%, as of the first quarter of 2006.
India has a labour force of 496.4 million of which 60% is employed in agriculture or agriculture-related industries, 17% in mainstream industry and 23% in service industries.
India is also a major exporter of software, financial, research and technology services.
www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-India   (3629 words)

  
 Ecoregions in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests (Bhutan, India, Nepal)
Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal)
Northwestern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows (China, India, Pakistan)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecoregions_of_India   (183 words)

  
 India
The Republic of India is a large country in South Asia, and one of only two countries in the world with a population of over one billion.
India is also the second most populous country in the world and the world's largest democracy.
The boundary separating India and Pakistan is known as the Line of Control, that separating India and China as the 'Line of Actual Control'.India's bicameral parliament consists of the upper house known as the Council of States, or Rajya Sabha and the lower house known as the House of the People, or Lok Sabha.
www.indiamystica.com   (2687 words)

  
 Shola - Wild India
Shola is a type of high-altitude stunted evergreen forest found in southern India.
Shola forests are found only in the southern portion of the Western Ghats mountains of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states, in the South Western Ghats montane rain forests ecoregion.
The area shows high endemicity and is rivalled only by the forests in northeast India - 35 percent of the plants, 42 percent of the fishes, 48 percent of the reptiles, and 75 percent of the amphibians that live in these rain forests are endemic species.
www.wildindia.org /wiki/Shola   (476 words)

  
 Animal Info - India
Threatened Species: The following list includes all mammals which occur in India and are rated as Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN) or Vulnerable (VU) in the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.
(Endemic to India.) (Previously considered to be a subspecies of Herpestes javanicus.)
India contains portions of the Eastern Himalayas and the Sri Lanka and Western Ghats of India Global Biodiversity Hotspots
www.animalinfo.org /country/india.htm   (325 words)

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