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Values: Historical Past and Contemporary Indian Society
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There are several factors responsible for emergence of the modern India nation state as a multi-religious, multi-racial, multicultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-lingual country. It is one of the world’s oldest civilizations and second largest populated countries in the world. The historical development is conscientious for having present day composite culture in modern India. Several centuries old flows of outsiders and continuous merger of culture with different racial and religious groups into Indian subcontinent over the period of time have very heavily influenced India’s culture and society. This composite culture of India is accountable for development of its literature, philosophy, music, art, architecture, sculpture, and paintings in Indian subcontinent. The external aggressions by foreigners like, Greeks, Muslim, Mangol, Huns, Afghan, etc. and the spread of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jaininsm, Islam, and Sikhism in India brought significant changes in the mainstream society. The preBritish India sharing boarder with ancient Persia through Hindu Kush and Pamir Plateau and since several centuries the fusion of culture took place among the Hindus, Buddhist, Jains, Muslims, Sikhs and several tribal groups. After independence, India has been declared as a secular nation with Hindu majority population. The Muslim is minority but in terms of their population size they are also large population constituting 14.2% of country’s total population. According to Population Census Report 2011, there are Hindu 80%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, and Jains constitute 0.4% population are living in India.
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