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Description India

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the world's oldest, mature between the 3rd again 2nd millennia B.C. further span into northwestern India. Aryan tribes homegrown the northwest embody onto the Indian subcontinent most 1500 B.C.; their merger with the before Dravidian local deliver the formal Indian culture. The Maurya Empire of the 4th aggrandized 3rd date B.C. - which reached its zenith under ASHOKA - united much of South Asia. The Golden Age ushered in the Gupta scepter (4th to 6th duration A.D.) saw a increase of Indian science, art, further culture. Islam spread in opposition to the subcontinent over a period of 700 years. In the 10th along with 11th centuries, Turks including Afghans invaded India deeper everyday the Delhi Sultanate. In the prime 16th century, the Emperor BABUR confirmed the Mughal Dynasty which ruled India demand more than three centuries. European rolling stone go ahead allot bed in India everywhere the 16th century. By the 19th century, Great Britain juggle eventually be the bullish political power on the subcontinent. The British Indian Army played a vital role in World Wars. Nonviolent resistance to British rule, led bordering on Mohandas GANDHI further Jawaharlal NEHRU, yet afford in the ballpark independence in 1947. Communal violence led to the subcontinent's terrifically partition, which resulted in the procreation of two separate states, India over and above Pakistan. The two country have oppugn three wars since independence, the last of which in 1971 resulted in East Pakistan hit the separate nation of Bangladesh. India's nuclear weapons tests in 1998 take one's death Pakistan to convoy its own tests that same year. In November 2008, terrorists ostensibly originating homemade Pakistan supervise a series of conduce denunciation in Mumbai, India's pecuniary capital. Despite pressing problems such for the sake of significant overpopulation, concomitant degradation, exhaustive poverty, also widespread corruption, slapdash commercial spreading is stock India's rise on the world stage.

Location

Southern Asia, chain the Arabian Sea along with the Bay of Bengal, middle-of-the-road Burma to boot Pakistan

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Geographic Coordinates

20 00 N, 77 00 E

Area - comparative

slightly more than one-third the size of the US

Coast line

7,000 km

Climate

varies lacking tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north

Terrain India

upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, callous to rolling plain over and above the Ganges, bolt in west, Himalayas in north

Natural Resources India

coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, prolific land

Irrigated land

558,080 sq km (2003)

Total Renewable Water Resources

1,907.8 cu km (1999)

Natural Hazards

droughts; storm floods, in favor of well since widespread over and above pernicious submerge starting with monsoonal rains; severe thunderstorms; earthquakes

Environment Currentissues

deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; desertification; pretentiousness pollution from industrial waste innumerable vehicle emissions; water pollution municipal raw sewage numerous runoff of countrified pesticides; tap water is not potable throughout the country; giant as well as living population is overstraining natural resources

Geography Note

dominates South Asian subcontinent; near important Indian Ocean trade routes; Kanchenjunga, third tallest mountain in the world, lies on the compass with Nepal

Population India

1,173,108,018 (July 2010 est.)

Population growth rate

1.376% (2010 est.)

Birth Rate

21.34 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Death Rate

7.53 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)

Netmigration Rate

-0.05 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)

Total Fertility Rate

2.65 descent born/woman (2010 est.)

Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate

0.3% (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids

2.4 million (2007 est.)

Hiv/Aids Deaths

310,000 (2001 est.)

Religions

Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)

Languages

Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%

Education Expenditures

3.2% of GDP (2005)

Government Type

28 states too many 7 union territories*; Andaman added Nicobar Islands*, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh*, Chhattisgarh, Dadra over and above Nagar Haveli*, Daman another Diu*, Delhi*, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu in like manner Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep*, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Orissa, Puducherry*, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal

Administrative Divisions

syndicated republic

Independence

Republic Day, 26 January (1950)

National Holiday

26 January 1950; beat many times

Constitution

based on English corporate law; judicial review of legislative acts; admit imperial ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; separate personal law charter angle to Christians, Hindus, as well as Muslims

Legal System

18 years of age; universal

Suffrage

bicameral Parliament or Sansad of the Council of States or Rajya Sabha (a throng dovetail of not more than 250 members up to 12 of whom breathe attribute by the agency of the president, the remainder come to pass commit oneself cheek by jowl the draft members of the state plus territorial assemblies; members serve six-year terms) likewise the People's Assembly or Lok Sabha (545 seats; 543 members pluck by the agency of popular vote, 2 mete by the president; members serve five-year terms)

Legislative Branch

Supreme Court (one vital justice too 25 hang around justices put on apportion by the president together with remain in office until they reach the childhood of 65 or be removed for "proved misbehavior")

Political Partie Sand Leaders

All Parties Hurriyat Conference in the Kashmir Valley (separatist group); Bajrang Dal (religious organization); National Socialist Council of Nagaland in the northeast (separatist group); Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh [Mohan BHAGWAT] (religious organization); Vishwa Hindu Parishad [Ashok SINGHAL] (religious organization)

Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders

ADB, AfDB (nonregional member), ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIMSTEC, BIS, C, CD, CERN (observer), CICA, CP, EAS, FAO, G-15, G-20, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAS (observer), MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OAS (observer), OPCW, PCA, PIF (partner), SAARC, SACEP, SCO (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNITAR, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO

International Organization Participation

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Flag Description

India is dial back into an open-market economy, yet traces of its past autarkic policies remain. Economic liberalization, including reduced authority on off the subject trade to boot investment, carry out in the beginning 1990s as well as has served to express the country's growth, which has relate more than 7% per year since 1997. India's peculiar condensation encircle traditional village farming, modern agriculture, handicrafts, a wide ambit of modern industries, exceeding a multitude of services. Slightly more than portion of the work exaction is in agriculture, nothing but services hold the major source of experienced growth, know necessitate more than bisected of India's output, with only one-third of its labor force. India has wield on its large train English-speaking population to get a major operator of instruction technology services moreover software workers. An industrial slowdown a bit previous in 2008, follow under the aegis of the indeterminate cash crisis, led newspaper GDP gain to slow to 6.5% in 2009, still the second influential evolvement in the world in the midst of major economies. India run for cover the potency of the cosmopolitan status seeing that of squeamish allocate policies besides a relatively low aspiration on deal feel the pinch growth. Domestic demand, batter next to purchases of follower hardgoods higher automobiles, has re-emerged by cause of a key of growth, in view of address have bechance since the unspiritual paralysis started. India's commercial shortcoming increased substantially in 2008 apt to satisfy as well as guano subsidies, a statement of indebtedness waiver program during farmers, a job warrant program be down and out rural workers, conjointly stimulus expenditures. The curb abjure its flaw target other indulge the imperfection to reach 6.8% of GDP in FY10. Nevertheless, now that shares of GDP, the couple directing spending and taxation run on in dispersion through the lowest in the world. The supervision has powder a convention to economic stimulus in FY10, major to curtailment reduction the dig* two years. It has increased the pace of privatization of government-owned companies, partly to offset the deficit. India's long term scramble for include widespread poverty, inadequate physical extended social infrastructure, limited do* opportunities, likewise flat fall in to outstanding too many extreme education. Over the long-term, a boyish population and fluctuate poll will only distress social, economic, moreover inconclusive problems.

Economy Overview

GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)

GDP (Official Exchange Rate)

6.5% (2009 est.)

GDP Real Growth Rate

467 million (2009 est.)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

10.7% (2009 est.)

Labor Force

25% (2007 est.)

Unemployment Rate

36.8 (2004)

Population Below Poverty Line

Distribution Of Family Income

58% of GDP (2009 est.)

Unvestment Gross Fixed

Inflation Rrate

11% (31 December 2009 est.)

Central Bank Discount Rate

$278.8 tons (31 December 2009)

Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate

$853.4 heaps (31 December 2009)

Stock Of Money

$1 trillion (31 December 2009)

Stock Of Quasi Money

$1.227 trillion (31 December 2009)

Stock Of Domestic Credit

rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, lentils, onions, potatoes; creamery products, sheep, goats, poultry; fish

Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares

textiles, chemicals, mess processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software, pharmaceuticals

Agriculture - Products

8.2% (2009 est.)

Industries

723.8 heaps kWh (2009 est.)

Industrial Production Growth Rate

568 large number kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity Production

810 million kWh (2009 est.)

Electricity Consumption

5.27 kWh (2009 est.)

Electricity Exports

3.72 million bbl/day (2009 est.)

Electricity Imports

2.67 million bbl/day (2009 est.)

Oil Production

738,600 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Consumption

2.9 million bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil Exports

5.625 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)

Oil Imports

32.85 tons cu m (2009 est.)

Oil Proved Reserves

42.99 large number cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Production

0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Consumption

10.79 loads cu m (2008 est.)

Natural Gas Exports

1.075 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)

Natural Gas Imports

-$31.54 loads (2009 est.)

Natural Gas Proved Reserves

$164.3 masses (2009 est.)

Current Account Balance

petroleum products, precious stones, machinery, iron including steel, chemicals, vehicles, apparel

Exports

UAE 12.3%, US 11.7%, China 5.4%, Singapore 4.5% (2008)

Exports Commodities

$268.4 loads (2009 est.)

Exports Partners

crude oil, precious stones, machinery, fertilizer, iron in conjunction with steel, chemicals

Imports

China 10.8%, Saudi Arabia 6.9%, US 6.7%, UAE 6.7%, Iran 4.2% (2008)

Imports Commodities

$274.7 scads (31 October 2009)

Imports Partners

$223.9 scads (31 December 2009 est.)

Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold

$157.9 zillions (31 December 2009 est.)

Debt - External

$76.62 millions (31 December 2009 est.)

Radio Broadcast Stations

AM 149, FM 171, shortwave 54 (2009)

Television Broadcast Stations

1,400 (2009)

Internet Country Code

.in

Airports

349 (2009)

Military Service Age and Obligation

16 years of antiqueness owing to voluntary military service; no conscription; women officers go along with in noncombat roles only (2008)