This document discusses India's rich cultural heritage spanning thousands of years. It summarizes that the oldest scripts in India are Brahmic scripts from the Ashoka pillars from 260 BC. It notes some of India's oldest cities like Varanasi estimated at 5000 years old, and universities like Nalanda. The document outlines some of India's oldest art forms including terracotta figures from 2500-1800 BC. It discusses India's two oldest languages - Sanskrit from 3500 BC and Tamil from 500 BC. It highlights important historical and cultural figures that have shaped India's heritage like Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi.

1. STIMULATING INDIAN
KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM, ARTS
AND CULTURE

3. CULTURAL HERITAGE

4. IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
INDO – GREECO ROMAN IDEAS BUILT IN 544 A.D
BLEND OF MATHURA AND GANDHARA SCHOOL OF ART
DEPICTED BUDDHIST LANDSCAPE FROM 1ST -13TH CENTURY A.D

5. ANCIENT INDIAN CALENDAR
THIS WAS INTRODUCED IN 79 C.E. (SAKA)ADOPTED IN 1957
GREGORIAN CALENDAR 1592 ; INTRODUCED BY POPE GREGORY XIII

6. ASHOKA EDICTS
ARAMAIC SCRIPT ----- INDUS SCRIPT -----BRAHMIC SCRIPT -------PRAKRIT
OLDEST SCRIPTS IN INDIA IS BRAHMIC SCRIPT WAS WRITTEN ON THE ASHOKA PILLAR IN SAARNATH IN 260 B.C.

7. WORD LIPI
BRAHMI SCRIPT
File:Coins of Agathocles and
Pantaleon used for the
decipherment of the Brahmi

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9. VARANASI - OLDEST CITY AND IS 5000 YEARS OLD
 UJJAIN
 NALANDA
 RAMESHWARAM
 SHANTI NIKETAN
ANCIENT CITY

10. ANCIENT HERBS
MEDICINAL AND FOOD : 8TH CENTURY B.C
CINNAMON
CUMIN
CLOVE
CARDAMOM

11. ORAL TRADITIONS
 LEGENDS
 FOLK TALES
 PROVERBS
 MUSIC & SONG
RIGVEDA COMPOSED IN 3500

12. OLDEST ART FORMS
 2500 B.C. AND 1800 B.C -TERRACOTA BRONZE FIGURES
 MITHILA ART ONE OF THE OLDEST
 MADHUBANI
 WORLI – 2500 B.C FROM THE WESTERN GHATS OF INDIA
 TANJORE
 GOND
 KALAMKARI
 CHERIYAL
 KALIGHAT
OLDEST DANCE FORMS
 BHARATNATYAM ORIGINATED FROM TAMIL
NADU
 ODISSI – OLDEST SURVIVING INDIAN
CLASSICAL DANCE STARTED AROUND 2ND
CENTURY B.C., PART OF THE NATYA SHASTRA

13. HISTORICAL MONUMENTS
AJANTA AND ELLORA CAVES

15. ANCIENT LANGUAGES
LANGUAGE WRITING SYSTEM
HINDI DEVNAGIRI
ENGLISH LATIN
KASHMIRI SHARDA
PUNJABI GURMUKHI
TAMIL- OLDEST LANGAUGE IN THE WORLD 500 B.C. ABUGIDA/ BRAHMI
SANSKRIT – 3500 B.C. DEVNAGIRI

16. OUT OF THE SEVEN OLDEST LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD, TWO ARE FROM INDIA SANSKRIT AND TAMIL
SANSKRIT WAS ESENTIALLY AN ORAL LANGUAGE WHEN THE RIGVEDA WAS COMPOSED IN 3500 BC
IT WAS ORIGINATED AS A WRITTEN LANGUAGE IN 1700 1200 BCE
PANNIN CONNECTED TO VEDIC SANSKRIT IN 500 B.C.
TEACH SUBHASHAS /SHOLKAS WHICH ARE ESENTIALLY ARE ONE- TWO LINERS ON LIFE AND LIVING
HELP IN MULTICULTURAL AND MULTILINGUAL RESOURCE
‘UDAR CHARITRA NAAM TU VASUDHAIV KUTUMBAKAM’
SANSKRIT

17. TAGORE – NOBLE LAUREATE
 CREATED SHANTI NIKETAN
 TAGORE BELIEFS
 TRUE MODERNISM IS NOT WESTERN ATTIRE
 ROTE SCHOOL STRUCTURE WHERE CHILDREN ARE
INTERNED IT IS :
A) IMAGINATION
B) PURSUIT OF SCIENCE
C) ROOTEDNESS IN CULTURE AND ART
D) NOT UNREASONABLE TRADITIONALISM
 STARTED AN EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOLING IN
SHANTINIKETAN : NATURE, EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

18.  THE GREATEST BRAND AMBASSADORS OF THE WORLD
 CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT BRANDING IN THROUGH
HISTORY AND NOT INDUSTRY
 BAPU’S ARTEFACTS WERE SOLD FOR MILLION POUNDS
SYMBOLIZING CONNECTING OUR PAST TO THE PRESENT
MAHATMA GANDHI

19. THE HERITAGE OF A COMMUNITY LOST ACROSS TIME : MATTAN TEMPLE IN ANANATNAG