Characteristics of Indian Culture

General Characteristics Of Culture, LANGUAGES & LITERATURE, Practicing Different Rituals, Myriad Forms Of Dance and Music, AGRICULTURE, Suggested Readings

1. CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN CULTURE Chethan B Manjunath Assistant Professor, Department of English Sri D Devaraj Urs Govt. First Grade College, Hunsur

2. General Characteristics Of Culture Culture is learned and acquired Culture is shared by a group of people Culture is cumulative Culture changes Culture is dynamic Culture gives us a range of permissible behavior patterns Culture is diverse

3. speaking in a conference at Allahabad on April 5, 1936, Mahatma Gandhi said about India Culture. “Many of us are striving to produce a blend of all the cultures which seems today to be in clash with one another. No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. There is no such thing as pure Aryan Culture in existence in India Today. Whether the Aryans were indigenous to India or were unwelcome intruders, does not interest me much. What does interest me is the fact that my remote ancestors blended with one another with the utmost freedom and we of the present generation are result of that blend”.

4. "India is a country with a basic unity, but of great variety in religion, in cultural traditions and in ways of living. It is only by mutual for? bearance and respect for each other, as the great Asoka thought, that we shall build up a strong, stable and cooperative community in the whole of India.“ “Those who see India, are deeply moved by its Unity in Diversity. No one can break this unity. This fundamental unity of India is its great fundament element”. Jawaharlal Nehru at the 58th Session of the Indian National Congress, Hyderabad, January, 15-18, 1953.

5. “It is this Bharata, an ancestor of the Pandavas and Kauravas , after who our country is named - Bharat. Our land is also known as Bharatvarsha , or the kingdom of Bharata.” ― Sudha Murty , The Serpent's Revenge: Unusual Tales from the Mahabharata

6. Unity in Diversity Diversities in their food habits dress patterns. over centuries. A number of people of different racial stock, ethnic backgrounds and religious beliefs have settled down here .

7. We See People Around Us Speaking Different Languages, Having Different Religions.

8. LANGUAGES & LITERATURE Kannada,English , Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marati , Malayalam . Dr. R.K.Mukerjee writes, “India is a museum of different types, communities, customs, traditions, religions, cultures, beliefs, languages, castes and social system”.

9. Practicing Different Rituals.

10. Myriad Forms Of Dance and Music * The music of India includes multiple varieties of religious. -Folk, Pop and Classical Music. *There are many well-known dance forms. * Kuchipudi-andhra Pradesh, Bharatanatyam Tamilnadu , Kathak, Kathakali Etc.

11. A Number Of People Of Different Racial Stock, Ethnic Backgrounds and Religious Beliefs have Settled Down here . Sir Herbert Rizle , “Even after the linguistic, social and geographical diversity, a special uniformity is seen from Kanyakumari to the Himalayas.”

12. AGRICULTURE * India is one of the global leaders in the agriculture. * The second largest producer of rice & wheat in the world. India is one of the greatest producer of Cotton, Sugarcane, Peanuts, Jute, Tea, Spices, Pulses Etc.

13. Suggested Readings Gandhi, , and Mahadev H. Desai. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth . , 1993. Print. Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964. The Discovery of India. Garden City, N.Y. :Anchor Books, 1959. Print Chaudhuri, Kirti N.: Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean, CUP, Cambridge, 1985. Sudha Murty , The Serpent's Revenge: Unusual Tales from the Mahabharata