Top 10 Incredible Facts About India

September 03, 2020

India, the home to a billion people is famous for its cultures, traditions, and beauty. It was an island before it transformed into a country. Yeah! It is home to many languages. India is the largest producer of mangoes and milk. Yum!

Here are some amazing facts about India.

1) Is India an Island?

You read that right! India was an island around a hundred million years back. The continental plate of India slammed into Asia to make a landmass after that. This caused the formation of the mighty Himalayas.

2) The first rocket of India

The first rocket of India was moved in parts using a bicycle and assembled at the Thumba Launching Station in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

3) Indian Space Progam

India's ISRO Chandrayaan-1, first located water on a superficial level in September 2009. It successfully made use of its Moon Mineralogy Mapper.

4) The 2nd-largest English speaking country

India is 2nd to America in speaking English. 125 million people speak English in India.

5) The fastest human-computer

Shakuntla Devi solved this problem of 13digits: 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779, which had been randomly picked in 28 seconds, thus achieving the title of Human-computer.

6) Diamonds were first mined in India

Diamonds had been at first located uniquely in the alluvial shops of Guntur and Krishnain the Krishna River Delta. Before diamonds had been located in Brazil in the 18th century, India drove the globe in the manufacturing of diamonds.

7) India and Mangoes

India is the largest producer and purchaser of mangoes around (40%) on a global level. Indians love mangoes so much that Mango is India’s national fruit.

8) India - the World’s biggest milk producer

India produces & supplies about 132.4 m tonnes of milk every year. That is enormous!

9) Linguistical Diversity of India

There are 22 known languages, the official languages being Hindi and English. Other widely spoken languages, however, include Tamil, Bengali (the second most spoken language), Telugu, Urdu, and Punjabi. There are as many as 100 languages and 1500 dialects spoken across the country.

10) Does polyandry still Exist?

Polyandry means more than one man can wed a woman. Uttarakhand's Har ki Dun Valley (women have general authority over conjugal selections and abound inequity not located in severe slicing facet societies), the Jaunsar Bawar site near Mussoorie, the Kinnaur site of Himachal, the Toda people of Nilgiri Hills, the Khasa of Dehradun, the Gallong of Arunachal Pradesh, the Mala Madessar, the Mavilan still witnesses polyandry. Just wow!