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 IndiaToday.
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 greatfundament 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.

14. Suggested Readings
• Gandhi, , and Mahadev H. Desai. An Autobiography:The Story of My
Experiments withTruth. , 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