India History and Culture

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. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.” -- Mark Twain
“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

"It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance that when Western civilization discovers Relativity it applies it to the manufacture of atom-bombs, whereas Indian civilization applies it to the development of new states of consciousness." -- Alan Watts (1915-1973) Harvard University Professor

“Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago.” -- Grant Duff, British Historian of India

ndia 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. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.” -- Mark Twain
“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

"It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance that when Western civilization discovers Relativity it applies it to the manufacture of atom-bombs, whereas Indian civilization applies it to the development of new states of consciousness." -- Alan Watts (1915-1973) Harvard University Professor

“Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago.” -- Grant Duff, British Historian of India
Languages. The majority of the population are Indo-European speaking a variety of languages related to European languages such as Greek, German, or English. The bulk of Indian religion and almost all...