India has immense diversity across its geography, religions, cultures, and languages. Geographically, India spans the Himalayan mountains in the north to the Thar desert in the west. It has over 30 states and union territories. Religiously, India's major faiths are Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Culturally, India is home to many ethnic groups that speak over 120 languages and have unique customs. Linguistically, there are over 22 scheduled languages. India's diversity makes it a rich and vibrant society.

1. DIVERSITY AND
SOCIETY IN
INDIA
VINAY M

2. INDIAN DIVERSITY
• India is also called Bharatha,
Bharathavarsha, Jambu Dvipa,
• It is 7th
largest by its geographical
area, it is 3287263sq km.
• It is 2nd
largest country in the world in
exceeding of 121 crores population
• It is situated in Northern Hemisphere
of the globe.
• There are about 30 states and 7
union territories New Delhi is the
capital.
• India is having the 5000 years old
cultural ,tradition society is highly
rich.

3. • The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and
respect. It means understanding that each individual
is unique, and recognizing our individual differences.
In literary terms delivery means differences. this
along the dimensions of race, language,
ethnicity,gender,sexual orientation,socio-economic
status, age physicall abilities,religious beliefs,
political belifies or other ideologies

4. Diversity in India
• Geographical diversity
• Religious diversity
• Cultural diversity
• Racial or ethnic
diversity
• Linguistic diversity.

5. Geographical diversity
• India is a vast peninsula with total area of
about 33 million sq km
• Its length from north to south is about
3200kms and breadth from east to west nearly
3000kms.
• India is called sub-continent
• Total costal area of India 7516.5
• Around there is 200island alone in Andaman
and there is 19island in Nicobar

6. Major Physiographic Divisions
• The Himalaya mountains.
• The northern plains.
• The peninsular plateau.
• The Indian desert.
• The costal plains.
• The islands.

7. The Himalaya mountains.
• The himalyamountain is the northeren
mountain range in india.
• Himalyan range is the lofiest mountain
range in the world
• The average height is 5600 mtrs
• The length is 2400km and breadth on an
average 240kms

8. PHYSIRAPHICALLY THE MOUNTAIN OF NORTH
MAY BE DIVIDED INTO PARTS
• Shivalik Range
• Middle Himalaya or the Himadri.
• The great Himalaya or the Himadri.

9. Shivalik Range
• Southern Most range of
the himalayas know
has shivalik range or
the OUTER
HIMALYAS
• It also called as dun
dehru dun middel
Himalya or the
Himachal.

10. Middle Himalaya or the
Himadri.
• Its Hieght Is 3500to
4500kms.
• The range lies
between the Shivalik
range and greater
Himalayas.

11. The Great Himalaya or the
Himadri.
• This range is home of the heigest peaks
on earth
• It is snow capped it is knowsas himadri
• The average heigst of the peak in range is
6000mts average breadth is 120-190kms.

12. Division Greater northern plains
• The Punjab Plains
• The Ganga Plains
• The Brahmaputra

13. Climatic condition of India
• WINTER SEASON OR COLD SEASON
• SUMMER SEASON
• MANSOON OR RAINY SEASON
• POST MANSOON SEASON

14. Religious Diversity
“SARVADHARMA SAMBHAV”Equal
respect to all religious.

15. Hindusim
• Hinduism is the one of the oldest religious
of the world
• In India consist the 79.8% of the total
population of the country.
• There is no proper evidence for the origin.
• The very word Hindu is not of Indian
origin.

16. Different Names Of Hinduism
• Sanatana dharma
• Vaidika dharma
• Arya dharma
• Vedanta dharma
Bhagavad Gita in Indian thought is it is
‘Handbook Of Hindustan’
It consist of 700 Sanskrit verses divided into 18
chapters

17. Islam
• The Islam religious is regarded as the second
biggest religious of the world.
• Muslim constitute the biggest religious
minority group in India
• As per 2011 census they constitute 14.2%of
the total population of the India
• It is founded by ‘Prophet Mohammed’
• QURAN is considered as the holy book of Muslims.

18. Christianity
• Christianity it is one of the biggest religious of
the mankind judged in the terms of the
followers
• It is the 3rd
largest in the india
• Christianity entered india by st thomas during
the first century A.D
Roman catholic
The protestants

19. Buddhism
• Buddhism is a nontheistic religious or
philosophy that encompasses a variety of
tradition
• Introduced by Goutham Buddha.
Two major schools
Hinayana
Mahayana

20. Jainism
• In india jainism is the small section 0.4%
in indian total population
• Introduced by vardhammana mahavira
Two major division of the jainisum is
Shwethambara
Digambara
Three jewels of jainisim are
Right Faith,right Knowledge,right Conduct

21. Cultural Diversity
• The cultural diversity is other source of
diversity in India it is the home for vast variety
of differences such as caste
,tribes,communities,religious,language,
coustomes and living style.
• India is called as Ethnological Museum

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