India has a long and rich cultural history that has been influenced by globalization but remains deeply rooted in tradition. While global brands and dress styles from the West have grown more common, traditional clothes, religion, and holidays still play a central role in Indian culture. The diverse landscape is home to iconic sites like the Taj Mahal as well as sacred places of worship and unusual temples demonstrating the complexity of Indian cultural heritage.

3. Objectives:
* General Objective
- Meeting new cultures different from ours and how faithful they are to their traditions.
*Specific Objectives
- Demonstrate how much globalization affects the cultures of this country.
- Increase tourism in this country and encourage the population to have huge interest in their
culture
Problem:
How does the globalization affect or influence over the culture of India?
Hypothesis:
-Globalization affects significantly because now we can see vegetarian hamburger shops
in India and also hold brands worldwide such as BEMBOS.
-They have also radically changed the way they dress according to what is commonly used
by Americans and only wear traditional clothes for major holidays.

4. From the dawn of time, travelers have come to India. Whether in search of adventure
or spiritual enlightenment, all linked with one thing in common: India changed their lives
forever.
It is a very interesting country with an ancient culture and customs very different
from ours. The food is seasoned, and very, very spicy.

5. History
• The origin of Indian civilization can be located in the Indus Valley civilization
2500 a.C
• The Emperor Asoka began to unite kingdoms small and medium
250 a.C
• Began dividing the country into numerous small kingdoms and dynasties like the
240 a.C. Mauryas, Chalukyas, and many more, who ruled around the country
• Muslims came to India and began to expand their domains and founded the
XVI Cent. Mughal empire.
• The Europeans and the British came to India and began to rule the country.
XVIII Cent.
• "Mahatma" Gandhi became independent on August 15.
1947
• India was established as a Democratic Republic on 26 January.
1950

6. Location: Indian Subcontinent
Time Zone: GMT + 5.30.
Area: 3,166,414 km ².
Population: 1,100,000,000 inhabitants (2003).
Population density: 347 people per km ².
Capital: New Delhi. (Population: 19,817,439 inhabitants (2001).
Political System:
Republic since 1947.
Head of state: President Pratibha Patil since 2007.
Head of Government: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh since 2004.
Language:
The official language is Hindi, spoken by about 30% of the population. English is often
used for official and commercial matters. Moreover, the Indian constitution recognizes 17
other regional languages. Among other highlights: Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati and Oriya spoken
mainly in the north and Tamil and Telugu are spoken in the south.

8. Turbans:
It is very common to see some men in the crowd
wearing a large turban and beard. So who are the Sikhs
wear which is one of the religions of India, professing
about 4% of the population.
Tika:
The bindi or tika is a traditional decoration of
Indian women, was originally a small red dot on the
forehead, according to legend, red is the color of blood,
the source of life and energy.
Saris:
Most women in India wearing a garment called a
sari, which is the national traditional clothing and placed
one end of the wrapping cloth around the waist and the
other passing over the shoulders or head.

9. Gods of India:
SHIVA is the destroyer
BRAHMA is the creator god of the universe.
of the universe.
VISHNU is the preserver
god of the universe.

10. Fauna and Flora:
India is an overpopulated country with a population density which is the highest in the
world, but this does not stop that in this country there are protected areas of nature where
we can find diverse fauna and flora, with species as spectacular as the Tiger of Bengal, which
is the country's national animal.
The national animal is the tiger, the national bird is the peacock and the national
flower is the lotus, which alt always present in the images of Hindu deities.

11. Sports:

12. Bollywood:
Bollywood is the informal name popularly used for the Hindi film industry
based in Bombay, Maharashtra, India. This term, coined in the 1970, comes from a
word game between Bombay and Hollywood.
The group formed by Bollywood and films in languages like
Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada (Kanna) and Malayalam are the core of
the film industry in India. Bollywood is a cornerstone of popular culture in India
and the rest of the Indian subcontinent.
The most representative of Bollywood films are the musical
scenes. Typically, each film includes songs and dances of the country, mixed
with interesting choreography of Western pop.

13. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was
an Indian politician and thinker. He was
born on October 2, 1869 and died on
January 30, 1948. He is known by the
nickname of Mahatma Gandhi (Great Soul).
Gandhi experienced a true devotion
to his mother, a woman of extraordinary
piety and holiness. It was she who
powerfully influenced their religious and
mystic, and his love for all humanity,
particularly the poor and suffering.

14. Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal is not only one of the wonders of the modern world is much
more. This complex of buildings built between 1631 and 1654 in the city of Agra
(India) for an emperor as a mausoleum for his favorite wife, enclosed behind a
monument to a love story.
The Taj Mahal is not a single building, but a whole complex oflarge dimensions.
There is a total of 22 small domes symbolizing the 22 years of the construction of
the Taj Mahal. On the building there is a large dome in the center is the crown of
the palace, Taj Mahal. Surrounding this there are four smaller domes chattris,
and at the end of the platform rise four minarets culminating in even smaller domes,
built with an inclination outwards so that in case of collapse, do not fall on the main
building .

15. Karni Mata, the Hindu temple of rats
It's a strange Hindu temple located in Deshnoke (Rajasthan, India); not exactly known
for their worship of the goddess Karni Mata, but rather by the adoration of the faithful who
profess to thousands of rats living inside.
The temple, originally from the fifteenth century, is populated by a whole army of rats
according to local belief are the reincarnations of the souls of the followers of the goddess,
Karni Mata. And so they should allegiance whether you're believers or not.
As in all Hindu temple can not enter with shoes and you have to walk stepping on the
droppings they leave rats by.

16. River Ganges. The river of floating corpses.
The river Ganges is considered the sacred river of Hinduism. A place where rich and
poor, over the centuries have been the custom of cremating the bodies and throwing the
remains. It so happens that there are even people with few resources who rents funeral piles
and after a few hours before the body has been cremated, the remains thrown into the river
so it is not difficult to see bodies floating in the Ganges.
This, coupled with the brutal industrial pollution to which this subject area, have made
this river more than a place of worship, a rather unsanitary. And people think that this river
purifies, so bathe and drink the water while floating down the river of human remains and
debris. industry.

17. Conclusion:
India is a country that has managed to succeed in spite of adversity and poverty in the
lives of most people. It is a country whose population is characterized by their hard work and
dedication and above all respect for others. People have a great desire to excel, which has led
to stand out from other countries.
And despite the fact that globalization has increased, this country has been able to
assert their culture, and has made ​known to the world without losing its traditions.