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| The Indian subcontinent was home to the urban Indus Valley Civilization of the
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| 3rd millennium BCE.
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| In the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism
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| began to be composed.
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| Social stratification, based in caste, emerged in India in the first millennium
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| BCE, and Buddhism and Jainism arose.
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| Early political consolidations took place under the Maurya and Gupta empires;
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| in southern India, the Middle Kingdoms influenced cultures as far as southeast
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| Asia.
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| In the medieval era, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived
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| in India, and Sikhism emerged, all adding to India’s diverse culture.
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| Much of northern India fell to the Delhi sultanate; |
| southern India was united
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| under the Vijayanagara Empire.
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| India’s economy expanded in the 17th century in the Mughal empire.
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| In the mid-18th century, India came under British East India Company rule,
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| and in the mid-19th under British crown rule.
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| A nationalist movement emerged in the late 19th century, which later,
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| under Mahatma Gandhi, was noted for non-violent resistance and led to India’s
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| political freedom in 1947.
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| In 2015, the Indian economy was the world’s seventh largest by nominal GDP and
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| third largest by purchasing power parity. |
| Following market-based economic
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| reforms in 1991, India became one of the fastest-growing major economies and is
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| considered a newly industrialised country.
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| However, it continues to face the challenges of poverty, corruption,
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| malnutrition, and inadequate public healthcare.
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| A nuclear weapons state and regional power, it has the third largest standing
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| army in the world and ranks sixth in military expenditure among nations.
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| India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary
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| system and consists of 29 states and 7 union territories.
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| It is a pluralistic, multilingual and multi-ethnic society and is also home to
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| a diversity of wildlife in a variety of protected habitats. |