Fast facts
Form of Government
Federal republic
Major mountain range
Himalaya
Main religion in India
Hinduism
What animal is sacred in India?
Cow
When did India's earliest civilisation arise?
About 5,000 years ago.
Money
Rupee
Name of the desert
The Thar Desert
Castes are determined by...
How many animal spices are there in India?
About 65,000 animal species.
When did India become indipendent?
In 1947
Capital
New Delhi
Major rivers
Gange, Yamuna, Indus, Brahmaputra
High castes include...
priests, landowners and soldiers.
What is the Sundarbans?
The largest mangrove forest in the world.
What language did the Ayran speak?
They spoke Sanskrit.
Official languages
Hindi, English
South borders (sea)
Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea
Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism.
What is one of the rarest animals in India?
The snow leopard
Who was Babur? What did he do?
He was a Mongol leader and founded the Mongol Empire in the 16th century.
Describe the flag
3 stripes (green, saffron and white with a wheel)
What is "silt"?
Silt means "limo", a fertile kind of soil deposited by rivers on lands.
What's a "shanty town"?
Shanty (baracca) towns are places where extremely poor people live in buildings made from mud or wood.
What animals swim together with tigers in the Sundarbans forest?
Dolphins, sea turtles, sharks, and saltwater crocodiles.
Who was Aryabhatta?
He was an astronomer. He determined that the Earth revolved around the sun.