ABOUT INCREDIBLE INDIA

5. RICH CULTURAL
HERITAGE OF INDIA

7. NALANDA UNIVERSITY
Nālandā was an
ancient center
of higher learning in
Bihar, India.
The site is located about
88 kilometers south east
of Patna, and was
a religious
center of learning from
the
AD to 1197 AD.

11. KONARK TEMPLE
Konark Sun Temple [ko ark ]; also Konârak) is a ɳ ə
13th
century Sun Temple (also known as the Black
Pagoda), at Konark, in Odissa, India. It was
supposedly built by king Narasimhadeva I of Eastern
Ganga Dynasty around 1250.

13. MEENAKSHI TEMPLE
Meenakshi Amman
Temple is a historic
Hindu temple located in
the southern bank of
river Vaigai in the
temple city of
Madurai, Tamil
Nadu, India. It is
dedicated
to Parvati who is known
as Meenakshi and her
consort, Shiva, named
here as Sundareswarar.

15. TAJ MAHAL – THE WONDER
People come and die
so do the perishable objects
but beauty never dies
and so does the great TAJ MAHAL, an incredible
symbol of Beauty....True Beauty

16. AJANTA ELLORA
The Ajanta Caves (Aji hā leni; Marathi:ṇṭ अजिजिंठा लेणी)
in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are
about 300 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments
which date from the 2nd century BC to about 480
or 650 BC.

18. KHAJURAHO
The Khajuraho Group of Monuments in
Khajuraho, a town in the Indian state of Madhya
Pradesh, located in Chhatarpur District, about
620 kilometers (385 mi) southeast of New Delhi,
is one of the most popular tourist destinations in
India.

21. Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi 16 September 1916 – 11 December
2004), also known as M.S., was a renowned Carnatic vocalist.
She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian
honor. She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award, often
considered Asia's Nobel Prize, in 1974 with the citation reading "Exacting purists
acknowledge Srimati M. S. Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semi-
classical songs in the Karnataka tradition of South India.

22. Ravi Shankar, 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), often referred to by the
title Pandit, was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar. He
has been described as the best-known contemporary Indian musician.
Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India
with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in
1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan.

23. Amjad Ali Khan (Hindi: अजमजिंद अजली ख़ान; IAST: Amjad Alī Khān) (born 9 October
1945) (Urdu: ‫ )امجد علی خان‬is an Indian classical musician who plays the Sarod. Khan
was born into a musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s.
He was awarded India's second highest civilian honor, the Padma Vibhushan, in
2001.

24. Pt.Jasraj was born in Hisar, Mewat region, Haryana in an
orthodox Brahmin family to Motiram, a classical singer. His family performed
the Mewati gharana style. Motiram died when Jasraj was four, on the day he
was to be appointed as the state musician in the court of Osman Ali Khan.

25. Lalgudi Gopala Iyer Jayaraman (September 17, 1930 – April 22, 2013)
was a well-known and award-winning Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist
and composer. His disciples included his two children Lalgudi
G.J.R.Krishnan, Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi, renowned Harikatha
exponent Vishaka Hari,Sangeetha Shiromani Saketharaman, the leading
Vainika Srikanth Chary. and the Academy Award nominated Bombay
Jayashri Ramnath

26. Viswanathan Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess Grandmaster
and the current World Chess Champion. Anand has won the World Chess
Championship five times (2000, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012), and has been the
undisputed World Champion since 2007. Anand was the FIDE World Rapid Chess
Champion in 2003, and is widely considered the strongest rapid player of his
generation.

27. Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970)
was an Indian physicist whose ground breaking work in the field of light scattering
earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. The discovery that when light traverses a
transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This
phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect.

28. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious
congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133
countries. They run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and
tuberculosis; soup kitchens; children's and family counseling programmes; orphanages;
and schools.

29. Mian Tansen (born 1493 or 1506 as Ramtanu Pandey – died 1586 or 1589 as Mian
Tansen; also named Mohammad Ata Khan) was a prominent Hindustani classical
music composer, musician and vocalist, known for a large number of compositions, and
also an instrumentalist who popularized and improved the plucked rabab (of Central
Asian original.

30. Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a
Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and
its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to
win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual
and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown
outside Bengal

31. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar born 24 April 1973 is an Indian
cricketer widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of his
generation. He is the first player to score one hundred
international centuries, the first player to score a double
century in a One Day International, and thus far the only to
complete 34,000 runs in international cricket.

32. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30
January 1948) was the preeminent leader of Indian
nationalism in British-ruled India. Employing non-
violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to
independence and inspired movements for civil rights
and freedom across the world.

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43. AGRICULTURE

45. Agriculture in India has a significant history. Today, India ranks second
worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry and
fisheries accounted for 16.6% of the GDP in 2009, about 50% of the total
workforce. The economic contribution of agriculture to India's GDP is
steadily declining with the country's broad-based economic growth. Still,
agriculture is demographically the broadest economic sector and plays a
significant role in the overall socio-economic fabric of India.

48. Fishing in India is a major industry in its coastal states,
employing over 14 million people . Fish production in India has
increased more than tenfold since its independence in 1947.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the
United Nations, fish output in India doubled between 1990 and
2010.

52. The Mining industry in India is a
major economic activity which
contributes significantly to the
economy of India. The GDP
contribution of the mining industry
varies from 2.2% to 2.5% only but
going by the GDP of the total
industrial sector it contributes
around 10% to 11%. Even mining
done on small scale contributes 6%
to the entire cost of mineral
production.
India is the largest producer of
sheet mica, the third largest
producer of iron ore and the fifth
largest producer of bauxite in the
world. India's metal and mining
industry was estimated to be
$106.4bn (£68.5bn) in 2010.