How Diverse is India?
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
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For those of us outside of South Asia, our view of India can be somewhat monotonous. What I mean by this is that we often think of Hindi-speaking North Indian culture as being representative of all of India, even though-- as this video shows-- that is very much not the case.
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You missed to mention one point though. States in India are largely based on language like Tamil Nadu for Tamil, Bengal for Bengali, Punjab for Punjabi, Gujarat for Gujarati, Odisha for Odiya etc.
@Fat EartherNearly all the states have a single dominant language. But sometimes minority languages are recognised as additional official language. For example, Telangana main language is Telugu(84%), but Urdu(12%) is also recognised.
@Fat Earther Lol what...There is no such state in India.
@SA SH I'm guessing you're talking about Hindi.
1. Nope. Think of India as Europe. Not everyone can speak or understand English. Same for Hindi in India.
2. Yes, In South India and East India, majority people can't understand. Even in Northern and western India you'll meet people (from rural areas) who don't understand Hindi.
3. No, Villages don't need Hindi to be translated for them. Information reach them in their local languages.
@SA SH Hindi is usually accepted if you do not come from the same region and hence don't know the same regional language. However some people think it is unfair because Hindi is considered as a language of North India and refuse to use it over their regional language. It's complicated. Usually indians are by default multilingual , they speak English, Hindi, the language of the region from where they have originated and the language of the region where they are currently living.
@SA SH Hindi is the most widely spoken language but still only like half of Indians have any skills in it.
There's a quote "India is a continent masquerading as a country".
India has a far larger population than all of North and South America combined.
Who said it?
rahul g except in the economic aspect. It's economy is big, but still small for such a large population
India and other nations with similar looking peoples all the way to the Middle East should be clumped into their own continent and leave Asia.
@Tejas Misra south east asia was largely Indianised and influenced by India through trade from merchants and intermarriage. Bhutan, tibet and nepal has similar cultures
Proud to be Indian from NE india..😍😘
Was in kgp for 5 yrs and couldn't visit the beautiful NE. Feelsbadman
@Simple Man thanks captain obvious.
Adirudrayogi from Assam ✌🏾
Bhai koi acchi si North East ki ladki se shaadi hi karva dao
@@leviathandiabolo6296 Aapse kya?
So how many groups do you have?
India: Yes
What does this yes mean?
Haha even an Indian wouldn't know exactly
Normie
@@siddhivinayakmisra1160 a meme. You get asked for a quantity and to say a lot, you say yes
Also between choice of two options
00:15 it's sad to see the sacred symbol of a religion being censored just because Nazis used it.
Yeah
Kahan par censor Kiya hai?
Of few religion*
@@GreatNishanka ist this symbol used by other religions too?
@@ThisAlias yes in Hinduism, Buddhism, another type of swastika in Japan and Jainism. Thats all I know for now
Me
Nationality : Indian
State : Tripura
Race : Indo-mongoloid
Language : KokBorok (Tripuri)
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan
Writing system : Koloma(extinct)
Latin (now)
Me
Nationality: Indian
State: Uttar Pradesh
Race: Indo-Aryan
Language: Hindi
Language Family: Indo-Aryan (Which is a part of the Indo-Iranian family)
Writing System: Devanagari
Me
CITIZENSHIP- Indian
Nationality - Tamil
State- Tamilnadu
Race-Dravidian Aryan vedha mix
Language-Tamil
Language family - dravidian aka old tamil
writing system- modern Tamil
I might as well.
Nationality : indian
State : Karnataka
Region : tulunadu
Ethnic origin : vedic, old Kannada, and Tulu
Language : havyaka, although I know 4 other languages.
Writing system: Kannada, although the extinct Tulu script is being revived...
Barack Obama
Nationality martian
State olympus Mons
Race martians
Language martia
Language Family:Neo Latin
Writing system Latina
Me
Nationality : Indian
State : Punjab in ( Northern India )
Race - Indo - Aryan
Language - Punjabi
( Note : I am not a Sardar )
Bro you forget another part of India.. The diversity of The Island India
(Andaman-Nicobar and Lakshadweep) 🇮🇳💖
It should have been mentioned in South India.
Sentinelese lol
@@yashagrawal88
Only lakshdweep in South.
Andaman people are totally like typical Hindi speaking.
Nicobar is like Northeast Indian.
@@hemangshrivastava9561 sentinel tribe is since the Neolithic age. It doesn't speak any modern languages
Wasn't he talking about states mostly? A&N and Lakshadweep are UTs
It is so diverse that I can go on the road and find 2 people chatting in a language which I don't even know exists
I mean, sure.
@Hiren Ahir absolutely , my brother is dark brown , me light skin and my mother is brown and even one of my cousin has mongoloid feature but we are south indians and another one has curly hair and dark brown yeah our indian DNA is totally a marvel.
I lolled at the kannada Canada comparison. And the East India DLR station because I am from East India and now live near East India. If you know what I mean.
Unbelievable....u here....I follow u man... gud day mate..👍
Medlife Crisis exactly (On the East India reference, atleast).
Even thought I live Pakistan I still strongly identify with my Indian heritage .I love you india .hope our countries get along one day
Yea we seriously need to corporate more, it will save both countries a lot of trouble.
Dumb politicians.....they divide us in the name of nationalism.....
@@shamikghosh7197 they aren't dumb but use issues between us for votes
@@hussey4826 Actually, come to think of it...they r actually highly clever
@@shamikghosh7197 Yes, we people don't exactly hate each other.
-hey how diverse is india ?
khanubis: yeS
congrats on your first sponsored video !
Normie
Time conquer all of India..err *most of India*
*Bill Wurtz has joined the chat*
No one conquers the Tamil kings! :)
@Random person who created a new account Merchants probably ;)
@@thorstenfinke2751
and they've got SPICES
@Random person who created a new account Probably Dravidians.
As an Indian, I realized how diverse India is after seeing how homogenous Europe is. Went to Portugal for exchange. In our class, all were Portuguese except 1 Norwegian and me. The teacher was comparing our class to UN and telling how diverse our class was. I was confused coz my class in India full of Indians was way more diverse in terms of language, religion and skin colour
To be fair portugal is a relatively small country
Portugal is a pretty small country and doesn't at all represent Europe's massive diversity. Obviously individual nations that are fractions of India's size are going to be more ethnically homogenous than India. You're comparing apples and oranges.
no way you're comparing Portugal to India
Because we live in climate which changes 50km right at centre while they live in cold climate equally
Europe has its diversity too
Sardinians aren't no way genetically close to the English
Surprisingly, India Uses Quasi(Semi)-Federalism. Countries Like USA,CANADA,GERMANY,UK,SPAIN,ITALY Etc are more decentralized than India.
There's no such thing as "quasi-federalism" in polity. It's a made-up term used by some to describe federal countries which are more centralized with US as a reference point. A country is either Federal or unitary & the level of decentralisation isn't an indicator of federalism. It's whether the autonomy of sub-units, no matter how little it is, is constitutionally guaranteed or not. And in india,it certainly is.
Also, unlike most federations, indian federation is protected by an eternity clause. So while,one day, US could certainly become an unitary state if one party becomes dominant in all levels of government, in india, it isn't possible. ever.
So, by that regard, india is even stronger of a federation than US.
Coming to level of decentralisation, india is also highly decentralised. Although, not as much as US, the units, nonetheless, enjoy sole or joint control over a substantial range of issues.
India is ,however,more decentralised than Italy and Spain and on par with Canada.
@@greeenwaters9125 I wouldn't agree that India is on par with Canada when it comes to decentralisation, but it most certainly is more decentralised than Italy or Spain.
@@greeenwaters9125 In India it is already happening. The party ruling in the Central Government is dominating on the state governments.
I had no idea about the other "ollywoods!" In a video jampacked with cool facts, that was one of my favorites.
You forgot to mention "Hollywood", but I guess that one is too unimportant...
@@sohopedeco And dumber than the rest, and that's saying something! Also, the Ugandan movie 'Who Killed Captain Alex' mentions Nigerian Nollywood.
As a Malayalee I recommend Mollywood if you like realistic stories and conflicts. It also has terrific acting.
Ollywood is Odisha's Bollyhood or Hollyhood or something like that just remember that
The ones I know are (in order of best) Wakaliwood, Hollywood, nollywood, and bollywood
Hi, I am from the Mizoram state 😊
Me karnataka 🙂
Hiii from Kerala, South India
@Ash Vlogs no, in North East India
I'm from West Bengal ❤️ love u all🙏
Uttar Pradesh
India and the EU are both similar in size, both divided up by ethnolinguistic groups, and both extremely diverse subcontinents. The difference is the EU is broken up into different countries under one union whereas India is broken up into different states under one country.
indian states in future might fight for autonomy for themselves
@@kaustubh_ramteke_07 i think also
@@kaustubh_ramteke_07 that will only happen in your dream. Unity in diversity is our motto.
@@agniswar3this motto is good for listening purpose only. but in reality people have strong feelings for their regions (aka regionalism) in reality.
@@kaustubh_ramteke_07 it is true that most people ( including myself) has strong attachment for my own regional culture (in my case, bengali culture) but that doesn't mean I have no respect for other Indian cultures. Each culture is beautiful in its own. I am a proud Bengali but I am an Indian first then a Bengali.
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Compare the diversity of India like entire Europe.
India is like a continent, not by size in area but by the volume of diversity.
Yeah and North America is a town in terms of volume of diversity
It's more diverse than Europe because in Europe almost all languages are indo European languages but in india it has more than 4 language families. Also Europe has mainly Christianity but you know about india and its religion. Also racially Europe is homogenous unlike India.
@@dineshganyarpawar5441 Europe is far from racially homogeneous. You've got Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, Iberian, Slavic, Jewish, Romani, Helenic and Caucas as racially "native", let alone the large migrant populations from effectively everywhere on Earth.
@@almachizit3207 India is the largest when it comes to "native" diversity. Places like the US, Brazil have large foreign diversity. I don't think India is necessarily more ethnically diverse than Europe, but it certainly is more linguistically diverse while still being a single country.
@Juniper ?????? China and Pakistan would have bullied us to death if that were the case, United we are strong.
That's my country and my pride 🇮🇳🇮🇳
Yes 🙌
@Juniper Yup and Tamil Nadu is part of India 🇮🇳
@Juniper no, you're wrong.
Indo-aryans came but got 'indianised' that is to say they left worshipping 'indra' and started worshipping 'shiv' or pashupati from indus valley.
Aryans mixed with native indigenous indians. Also, the script used in hindi and sanskrit is brahmi which is throughout india.
There are many similarities between north and south but tamil is most different. Telugu, kannada and malayalam are very much sanskritised.
@Juniper no, tamil identity is mostly limited to south.
Tamil script and devnagri script developed from one ancestor.
Read history
@Juniper Bruh just stop, you can still feel pride in being a tamilan without demeaning others...The North, the South, the East and the West, all parts of India are a part of India and we all deserve the right to be called Indians...Sure there are Tamizhans, Bengalis, Biharese, Marathi, Malayali ,Gujarathi, North Eastern people ( sorry I can't mention everything lol) etc but we all share the same fact that we are Indians. So stop with your 'misplaced pride' bullshit. Even if what you said was true , that doesn't give you any right to demean others and put yourself as 'above' them somehow. What matters is that we are now part of this diversely beautiful country called India and we all have the right to be proud about it. Sorry if I came out to be rude in any way, I just can't stand it when people try to put others as inferior to themselves...I wish you and anyone reading this a good day. That's all I guess...
I often forget how massive India is. I should do something involving Hindu soon although it's a bit overwhelming. How'd you manage to cover and research this country despite how overwhelming it is?
Oh and congrats on the sponsorship!
Same! There's so much digging to do. So far I've found that both India and China were such trading behemoths you can find their influence everywhere. Indian language Tamil has similarities to South Korean owing to these trading relationships, and not to forget the Hindu kingdoms outside of India i.e. Thailand, Cambodia etc where Indian names and temples still exist.
Buddha's history is also really fascinating, i.e. he was born in a Republic and that's ringing Greek republic and philosophy bells for me.
It's so diverse that I still can't speak my neighbour's language! 😄
Interestingly enough, in 2 states of South India (Kerala and Tamil Nadu) as well as 4 in the Northeast (Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland), English is more widely understood than Hindi. If you pick a random person in those states, the chance of them being able to speak English is still pretty low, but it's even more unlikely that they'll speak Hindi.
That's because those countries a major host for christians. As christians they know english pretty well.
@@amaan6845 Some countries in Europe or Latin America are overwhelmingly Christian yet most people there don't speak English.
Pakistan is a bit more diverse than India ! Because almost all Indian languages, Religions & cultures are in Pakistan in shape of migrated communities from neighbouring countries especially India with additional 73 unique local languages as well as Unique Religions & Cultures of Kailash, Gilgit Baltistan etc
(72 Sectors of Islam are also enhance the diversity of Pakistan)
Love from Karachi !
28 states and 9 union territories now. Jammu and Kashmir was divided into 2 separate union territories - Ladakh and J&K.
@UCdWAqXi7flZqvIWi4Ii6sWw Man I hope you are still in school or I don't know how you passed. Let me explain to you in layman terms, there were 28 states before Telangana right, then one state was so total is 28+1=29.
Now Jammu and Kashmir was also one of the states and then it was dissolved which makes it 29-1=28.
Hope you get it now.
I guess now they're going to combine Daman-Dieu and Dadra-Nagar Haveli UTs. So 28 states and 8 union territories. 😁
Westerners need to realise that there is more to India than Delhi , Vanaras or Jaipur... You can't even imagine how diverse we are.
Exactly, most Western vloggers just go to these 3 places and call it done. We have so much more.
@@agentt3557
And start calling us streetshitters lmao.
They don't know shit about India
Yo hold up we also stereotype punjab because we always use it in arabfunny videos, or most of the time
Exactly, totally agreed
To most of the West, India is a massive country very far away, with religions they don't recognize and languages they don't understand. Of course certain specific locations/identities will become more culturally recognizable. It's not that westerners are _unaware_ of India's diversity, it's just that most aren't deeply educated on specifics.
I think Indians are the most diverse people in the world, with so many different faces and skin colors. India is a beautiful country.
Btw Africa is more diverse then India but due to India's population and density in smaller land mass then Africa it is considered more diverse
Also Brazil
@@silverfish2380 Africa is country or continent?
Can someone please update the stock images for India.....
Please coz i am tired of watching same clips being used by CNN , Fox CNBC and many independent UA-cam creators
I remember Samsung india doing a competition for just that .few months ago on that basically for getting new stock footage
@Venky Wank isn't it stressful to be so afraid of what you don't know?
I'm taking you're volunteering?
@Venky Wank
Do you even Live in India.
I think you just live in Indian new channel.
Crime is actually decreasing in india.
Look at stattics.
Funny guy😂😂
Pakistan is a bit more diverse than India ! Because almost all Indian languages, Religions & cultures are in Pakistan in shape of migrated communities from neighbouring countries especially India with additional 73 unique local languages as well as Unique Religions & Cultures of Kailash, Gilgit Baltistan etc
(72 Sectors of Islam are also enhance the diversity of Pakistan)
Love from Karachi !
Well there were maurayan and gupta empire who controlled more land mass than british india. Well we are not homogeneous but shares many aspect of our culture with each other
The Gupta Empire did not, as it was mainly concentrated in north India. On the other hand, the Khaljis and the Tughlaqs both raided south India, and may have had as much influence over that segment as the Gupta Empire. Further, the Mughal Empire penetrated to the deep south, and had the largest land mass after the British and the Mauryan Empires.
India: Divided by Culture but United by One Heart...
what does this mean
India is magical, So many different people! 😁
Interestingly, spoken Urdu is virtually the same language as Hindi.
They r two forms of the same language then why wont they be the same lol
@Juniper not the youth.
@Juniper only foolish people can disrespect other language
@Juniper ok nice
@Juniper Modi is a Gujarati technically he is from West India or atleast Central India. In no way Gujarat is North India unless you consider everything above Karnataka as North
Factual error
Urdu is a language from UP(north india) with hindi language in Arabic script,
Pakistan's domestic languages are punjabi sindhi and afgani, they speak Urdu because the Muslim elite before partition used to live in Hindu majority areas of India and were speaking URDU,
after the formation or Pakistan, they went there as civil servants and imposed urdu.
Hindu hindi speakers in North India are better in urdu in terms of accent, understanding and communication (without even learning it) than an average Pakistani. Because urdu borrows 80% from hindi as it was mafe by Hindu converts.
Facts, my dads side is very proud on being Bihari but during my family is mixed with people from UP and Hyderabad. I guess all those people united to become the Urdu speaking population (Muhajir) of Pakistan
2:22
Malayalam: Khanubis, *Am I joke to u?*
😇😇
Tulu: Welcome to the club!
Missed one of the six classical languages of India!
I am from India
Hail to mother India 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳
🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳Jai Hind
@@realpankajsahu Vande Mataram Bhai ❤️
Wow I appreciate the fact that your pronounciations of many places/state names were all accurate compared to how it is pronounced in the respective native languages
Er, not totally, I must say
@@agnivnandi5538 Oh come on, he was largely on target.
Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 was not part of India. Although Sri Lanka was a colony of U.K.🇬🇧 .During British rule it was known as Ceylon and India 🇮🇳,Pakistan 🇵🇰 and Bangladesh 🇧🇩 was known as British Raj
India+Pakistan +Bangladesh=British India
British India fell under crown rule in 1857 . British Burma in 1810s. that is togetherly known as British Raj.
Raj in hindi literally means "rule"
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@yitzhak rafaeli shekkelsteingoldmanberg umm, north africa? morocco, egypt, libya. they're much lighter than indians and they look similar to arabs and sometimes europeans.
@yitzhak rafaeli shekkelsteingoldmanberg what the hell? most indians look the same too besides the northwest indians like punjabis/kashmiris/himachal and northeast indians like assam/nagaland. people from delhi, up, bihar to south india look almost the same. only nw and ne india are a bit different.
Pakistan is a bit more diverse than India ! Because almost all Indian languages, Religions & cultures are in Pakistan in shape of migrated communities from neighbouring countries especially India with additional 73 unique local languages as well as Unique Religions & Cultures of Kailash, Gilgit Baltistan etc
(72 Sectors of Islam are also enhance the diversity of Pakistan)
Love from Karachi !
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5:16 Actually I have a correction that Arunachal Pradesh is part of the Seven Sister states while Sikkim is kinda considered as the brother state to them.
True lol
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Here are about 62 quick Informations that you should know about INDIA
1.The second largest pool of engineers & scientists of world is from India.
2. India is the Largest Democratic Country in The World.
3. India is the second largest English speaking country in the world - 125,226,449 numbers of English speakers
4. India is the Origin of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism .
5. India is the first nation in the world to have entered the Mars orbit in the first attempt.
6. India’s Kumbh Mela Festival is the world’s biggest gathering of humans on the earth.(The gathering of Kumbh Mela is so massive that is visible from the space).
7. CEOs of Google,Mastercard, Pepsico, Global foundries,Micron tech.,Softbank,Adobe, are INDIANS
8. India is the third in terms of records claimed in Guinness Book of World Records.
9. India has one of the 7 wonders of the world (Taj Mahal) & the tallest Statue in the World.
10. India has a world’s third largest Army.
11. India has the World's largest film Industry (Bollywood) in terms of quantity of Movies produced.
12. 0 'zero' in the number system was invented in India.
13. Calculus, Trigonometry, and Algebra originated in India.
14. Yoga was originated from India and is still in existence for over 5000 years.
15. The decimal system and place value system were developed in India around 100 B.C.
16. Snakes and ladders - the game, was invented in India
17. Chess was invented India
18. Takshila, the first ever university in the world started around 700 BC in India.
19. India sends more students to U.S. colleges than any country in the world.
20. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software ( Origin is India)
21. the GDP rank of India is 3rd in the world
22. India has the biggest population of vegetarians in the world.
23. India is the world’s largest importer of arms but it has never invaded or attacked any country.
24. the concept of shampoo was first invented in India.
25. India is the largest gold buyer in the world.
26. Indian housewives hold 11% of the World's Gold.
27. Diamonds were first discovered and mined in India.
28. Water on the moon was Discovered by India.
29. India was the first country to develop extraction and purifying techniques of sugar (The first country to consume sugar)
30. Plastic surgery had his roots more than 4000 years old in India.
31. India is world's largest Milk producer country.
32. World’s 70% of spices are produced in India.
33. over 850 languages are spoken in India on a daily basis, and that there are over 1600 languages total that are known in the country.
34. India has the largest postal service in the world.
35. India has the second largest Road network in the world
36. Three of the world's top ten megacities are located in India
37. Indian Prime Minister (Modi) was a Tea Vendor, and now he is the 2nd most Popular world leader on Social Media.
38. Varansi is the Oldest continually inhibited city in the world.
39.India has the largest number of news channels in the world
40. India has the largest number of news channels in the world
41. India is the only country other than the USA and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.
42. It is the largest newspaper market in the world.
43. World’s largest electronic ID program, Aadhar, is underway in India.
44. The Mid-day Meal Scheme is the popular name for school meal programme in India, is the largest school lunch programme in the world, covering 12 million children.
45. The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over 1.6 million people!
46. India has World's largest Cricket playground & BCCI is the richest body in the World cricket.
47. By volume of pills produced, the Indian pharmaceutical industry is the world’s second largest after China.
48. India born steel czar Lakshmi Mittal and Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani figure in the forbes list of “World’s most powerful billionares”
49. State Bank of India has the maximum number of branches in the world.
50. Dr M.C. Modi holds the world record for performing maximum eye operations @ 40 operations per hour.
51. Meghalaya (India) is the wettest inhabited place on the earth.
52. 38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are! Indians.
53. India is the only country to have an entire ocean named after it, i.e. Indian Ocean.
54. India has more people using the internet than the entire population of the U.S.
55. India has the fastest growing telecom market and the lowest call rates in the world.
56. Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
57. The Indian Kabaddi Team has won all the Kabaddi World Cups.
58. India export softwares to more than 90 contries.
59. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. (Origin is India)
60. The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana. He first explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem in the 6th century, long before the European mathematicians.
61. India has the largest written constitution in the world.
62. Half of India’s population is under the age of 25.
Quotes about India :-
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
Albert Einstein
India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.
Mark Twain
If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India .
French scholar Romain Rolland
India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
Hu Shih .
(former Chin ambassador to USA )
half of the population is under 25? It's fucking scary, but don't you know condoms exist?
Being Indian, we have people, leaders and politicians who want to divide India.
We (probably 60% of the population) recently have forgotten motto, "United we stand, Divided we fall".
Kuch bhi
@@nongthangsana Modi is divider in chief - Time Magazine 2019.
Shaming voters, smart.
Kawhi Mvp
Respecting fascist leaders always leads to catastrophe, he’s right.
Aakash Kalaria If the central government actually care about South India especially Tamil Nadu, then no one would accept division. If the government does very little to us then division isn't bad
7:29 love how you showed my native culture when you said the exact word 'culture'.
What is your native culture?
@@siddharthsahu2101 assamese
@@antareepgogoi6065 Ah ... that's great to know. Thanks!
When I talk about India. I usually include the whole subcontinent, so also Pakistan, Bangladesch, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal and the maledivs on top of the country India.
That's too much to fit into a reasonably long video.
I like Sri Lanka and Bhutan .
Bhutan is probably one of the best countries in the world . However about Pakistan , Bangladesh and Nepal they.... kinda dislike them especially Bangladesh . Maldives just a tourist destination
@@kishore369 What's so special about Buthan? (just asking)
@@kishore369 Nepal has a good reason, hundreds of people in Bhutan were expelled from there just because they spoke Nepali and followed Hinduism
Then you are describing South Asia
Create a video like this one on the Philippines. The video will do really great!
Love to India from middle east
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Me:
Nationality: Indian 🇮🇳❤️
State: Gujarat 🦁
Religion: Hinduism 🕉️❤️
Race: indo-balochi
Ancestors: My grandfather's great-grandfather was from Afghanistan- ethics(hindu afgani balochi) after confession, then due to the persecution of Hindus there, he had to leave Afghanistan and come to Sindh and Balochistan became our home and everything After the partition of india n pak, my father's great-grandfather shifted to Gujarat forever. I am not ashamed because at that time pak used to be part of our india only when partition did not happen. Our ancestors were actually from Afghanistan but proud to be say I'm indian🇮🇳🕉️❤️
Language family: Gujrati and balochi
Writing system: gujrati.
Cool😎 I'm from britain, where I live, there are a lot of punjabis
@@mrtrollnator123you misspelled it… its north punjab with rishi and west punjab with Trudeau
@KhAnubis , in India there are 28 state and 9 union territories , after the Jammu and Kashmir reorganisation bill
In the non-indian parts of the World we don’t recognize India’s nor Pakistan’s claims over Kashmir
Free Kashmir, the genocide watch has issued a genocide alert, warning India not to commit genocide upon Kashmiris.
Genocide Watch’s Ten Stages of the genocidal process are also far advanced:
1. Classification: Hindu and Sikh Indian Army “us” vs. Kashmiri Muslim civilian “them;”
2. Symbolization: Muslims have Muslim names (on ID cards), Kashmiri language, dress, mosques;
3. Discrimination: Hindu pandits were economically dominant until 1990; BJP reasserted Hindu power;
4. Dehumanization: Muslims are called “terrorists”, “separatists,” “criminals,” “insurgents;”
5. Organization: 600,000 heavily armed Indian Army troops and police dominate Kashmir;
6. Polarization: Modi and the BJP incite anti-Muslim hatred; social media spread falsehoods;
7. Preparation: The Indian Army occupies Kashmir; BJP leaders speak of the “Final Solution” for Kashmir;
8. Persecution: Kashmiri Muslims are locked down, subject to arrest, torture, rape, and murder;
9: Extermination: Genocidal massacres occurred during Partition; since 1990, there have been at least 25 massacres with death tolls over 25: 10 of Muslims by Indian troops; 15 of Hindus by Muslim militants;
10. Denial: Modi and BJP say their goals are to “bring prosperity” and “end terrorism”; they deny any massacres. No Indian Army troops or police are ever tried for torture, rape or murder. Modi’s takeover is popular in India.
Genocide Watch calls upon the United Nations and its members to warn India not to commit genocide in Kashmir.
www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/2019/08/15/Genocide-Alert-for-Kashmir-India
@ᏒᎯᎻᏬᏝ they're more developed than POK residents😂😂
Pakistan is a bit more diverse than India ! Because almost all Indian languages, Religions & cultures are in Pakistan in shape of migrated communities from neighbouring countries especially India with additional 73 unique local languages as well as Unique Religions & Cultures of Kailash, Gilgit Baltistan etc
(72 Sectors of Islam are also enhance the diversity of Pakistan)
Love from Karachi !
@@greenisbest2973 That's not genocide dear, that's just silencing brutes who don't get to cooperate with us.
If you want to know what's a genocide, read about the Bangladeshi genocide of 1971 which caused a brain drain among the Bangladeshis and more than 200,000 women were raped. It's interesting to note that the so called protector of liberty and democracy, USA didn't note this thing at all coz their sugar babe who committed this genocide (Pakistan) was their customer after all😂
You could do China or South Africa next!
0:54 Small pedantic correction: Sri Lanka wasn't part of British India. It was a separate colony.
Nope
Back then, it was called #Ceylon
@@Cjnw hence the Ceylon tea
Indian Stars
Nope
*Sri Lanka* was discovered by *hanuman,* please read *Ramayana.* Sri Lanka was ruled by *Ravana,* then Rama killed Ravana and overtook *Lanka*
Please talk about opium war two, i could not find a simplified video for it
History matters did a vídeo about the second opium war
@@franciscomm7675 it was way too oversimplified
You've done two mistakes.1. India have almost 1,37 billion people, not only 1,2 billion.2. India is the country with the third most Muslims in the world, behind Indonesia and Pakistan.
Love to India from Israel🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇳🇮🇳
@@עמנואלנחמו Im German 😄😄 👌
India is a muti-racial ( Aryans, dravidians, Mongoloids), muti-ethnic( punjabis, Hindis, Tamils etc), multi linguistic (Hindi, Urdu, Kannada etc), muti-terrain( Himalayas, thar desert, western ghats etc) country.
Even Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh was part of India for thousands of years.
Aryans and Dravidians only a linguistic grouping.. racially they are the same today..
@@kingknights5107 😁😁😁😁 first get some knowledge.
Indo- aryans predominantly have r1a1 gene in them.
Even in this modern world of internet and smart phones, dravidians struggle to learn indo-aryan languages and vice versa.
Both are not same at all.
@@rebelxyz2077 Nonsense.. Both Dravidians and Aryans are Caucasoids and are of one race.. And all Indians are a mix of Dravidians and Aryans.. every single one..
@@kingknights5107 😄😄😄first gain some knowledge kids.
Seven sisters states are
1) Arunachal
2) Assam
3) Magalaya
4) Mizoram
5)Manipur
6) Nagaland
7) Tripura
Sikkim is not in the sevens sister states it the eight sister
Sikkim is the little brother.
*Meghalaya
The picture at 5:41 is completely wrong to describe the North East India. That picture is probably from Jharkhand. Please Google people of North East India. We are a minority that is usually forgotten even inside of India. We look different, dress different have completely different culture and even have different cuisine.
Then why you are part of India?
@@עמנואלנחמו because they are. They are just always forgotten. There is a saying that Indian people know more of the USA than the Seven sisters
It's so annoying when I tell people I'm Indian (I live in the UK) and they try to impress me with a random Hindi sentence; I'm like "Mate, I have no idea what that means, are you trying to speak Hindi or something?"😆 I then proceed to tell them I'm from the South and that I do not know Hindi.
Also annoying is when people talk about "Indian Food" and think it's spicy and is made of "curry". I still have no idea what "curry" is supposed to be, and not every region has spicy food, although certain regions do add a lot of spice to their food. Some parts of Karnataka (Udipi) in fact have very sweet food.
I'm not saying it's wrong that these stereotypes are present, I didn't know how diverse the UK is either, before coming here. It's just that annoyance is my first reaction.
Still wrong with Northeast India languages spoken are Assamese, Bodo, khasi, garo, Mizo, Manipuri, Nagaland is further divided according to their tribes and that also for Arunachal is further divided. Languages in Manipur is further divided and also with other states
There are more languages spoken in NE than you mention.
@@megadave6879 yes I know read nicely
@@TravelwithPaul I have read it my friend. I am from Manipur and even here we speak more than 20 languages. I would have understood if you had included 'etc' or 'and many more'. But it's okay.
@@megadave6879 I made the change ☺
@@TravelwithPaul Nice... 😁😁😁
Excellent summary of India but what you failed to focus is that the "South" does not speak Kannada or Tamil or Telugu or Malayalam. They are each a language of a specific state, like Telugu is spoken only in Andhra Pradesh (and Telangana since Andhra split in 2016), Tamil only in Tamil Nadu and similarly, Marathi in Maharashtra and for all other regions.
Ever been to Bangalore
@Juniper oh yes
@Juniper Dude northies are not controlling anything in South and never will they, it's people with money. And also Karnataka and kannada will never going to disappear, it's the people who disappear. Karnataka and kannada is going to be present unlit the end of humankind.
andhra split is of 2014
Jai hind from Arunachal Pradesh (India) 🇮🇳
7:34 is the typical narrative spread by the British that they united India, and without them there would be no India. The Maratha Empire you mentioned covered a large part of modern India and without the British, might have united the country under one government. So while the British did make one political entity, it's not unique or magnanimous of them to do so.
No they wouldn't have, modern day politics wouldn't have taken place in India if it wasn't for the Brits, we'd still be divided as various kingdoms
@@alanmanoj5930 well it's Patel was the reason India is United unless indian subcontinent will divided into 500 small kingdom
Wonderful video! I am now very interested in learning as much as I can about India
Fun fact: India (subcontinent) was always and still is the world's densest populated area.
Edit: Why you edited Jain's religious symbol?
Very interesting video! I had no idea it was this diverse
Me
Indian
State : Maharashtra
Mother tongue: Marathi
Other languages i know: English, Hindi
Racial Dominion : Indo-Aryan
But for all of us , India ie Bharat comes first before all things
Jai Hind
Vande Mataram 🇮🇳🇮🇳
"Diversity of hues, form and shape enricheth and adorneth the garden, and heighteneth the effect thereof. In like manner, when divers shades of thought, temperament and character, are brought together under the power and influence of one central agency, the beauty and glory of human perfection will be revealed and made manifest." ~ Baha'i Faith
It is more diverse that every state and territory is like a different country...
If I go 200 kms far in any direction then we will see that culture has changed...
In italy is the same but every 10km
British didn't unify India. Wtf are u talking about? They ruled over India, that is all. Unifying was the furthest thing they did with their divide and rule policy. Indians united by themselves in the interest of fighting against British.
So sick of this colonial troupe as saviours and unifiers
He said Brits United India "against" themselves 😅 .
@@homosapien2983 the right thing would be to say "Indians united against the British"
@@darkpanda239 That's true, but also what he said is also true. Britain sadly, did indeed unite Indians against other Indians. The British is famous for their divide and rule policy.
@@lekevire wdym "unify Indians against other Indians"? Makes little sense. If u mean the divide between 2 religions, then no. The divide has always existed and the two groups have been fighting even before the British and they've merely exploited that divide. The British unified no one.
Mauryan empire United india thousands of years ago
hey great video, but I just wanna comment something real quick. I'm half
Pakistani and half Bangladeshi, and I know a fair bit about south asia
as a whole so I came to make a few corrections. the first is at 3:59
where you said
"north India mostly speaks indo-aryan languages like Hindi which is notably similar to the Urdu spoken in Pakistan"
the key word I want to dissect is "similar".by saying that, people might get the impression that it's a similar situation with Spanish and Portuguese, when in reality its not even close. Urdu and Hindi are actually the same language but because of political tension, are referred to by different names. secondly, multiple times throughout the video, you mention that Hindi is the most spoken language, and while that's true, its more of a dialect continuum than a language proper. people in rajastan cant understand people in bihar. the Hindi people speak as a lingua franca is based off the Hindi spoken in New Delhi, and that is what Urdu is a dialect of.
I apologize if this seemed too nit picky, but I just wanted to correct some things. hope this helps
No, this wasn‘t nitpicky at all, I actually really appreciate you looking through this to set the record straight!
I would not agree that people in Rajasthan wouldn't understand the people in Bihar. Hindi is my second language and I understand people from these states perfectly. Could be the villages you are talking about, but I still think it won't make the languages illegible.
the hindi people learn is the hindi spoken in new delhi. hindi is what linguists call a "dialect continuum" I recoment watching this video on it:
ua-cam.com/video/vkiNj07ekK4/v-deo.html
Neat!
Hindi and Urdu are not the same, Urdu is a mixture of Hindi, Farsi, Turkish, and Arabic, although they share a lot in common, they are different.
😍Much diversity. But from the ancient period itself, everyone the scholars to the common man think we are one.🇮🇳
I'm a Keralite. Politically Kerala was never be a part of india upto 1948.
Even though we were under The Kings rule, our ancestor's literal works, poems dance forms, songs.. everything were based on Ramayana Mahabharatha and other puranas. The poets and thinkers always sang and wrote the glory of our mother land.🇮🇳
It proves that The basic of Indian Unity is not Political. The Religious and cultural 🙏
what, you didn't mention wakaliwood? how could you!?!?
Thats uganda or smt bollywood is the indian one
what is wakaliwood i am indian and have heard of only bolly and tolly
Wakaliwood is the best area of film, based in wakaliga Uganda, nollywood attempts to be as good as it (nollywood is Nigerian)
India is so diverse that a language like bengali is more directly related to spanish than it is to tamil
@☞ོ☜ོ 66 years ago bangali is related to spanish because of the indo-european language group
India now actually has 28 states and 9 union territories. Jammu & Kashmir (the state) got divided into Jammu & Kashmir (the UT) and Ladakh (UT).
0:49 Sri Lanka was not the part of British india. It was a crown colony of Britishers. You should do your research properly
I think he meant British Empire in general.
1:34 That billboard is in marathi, and not hindi 😂
IKRR
As someone commenting from 2020, I can say India did it. It is now oficially the world's superpower.
No its not
1:39 that's marathi on the signboard lol but its ok
Sri Lanka was never part of the British Raj! It was a separate Crown Colony
when westerners think of india by land they think of north india, when they think of our look and accent they think of south indians, when they think about indian music they just think about punjabi music (punjabi folk) or hindustani music (north indian classical), when they think about our food its samosa, palak paneer, butter chicken (north) or dosa (south), and they think all of us are hindi speakers and hindus
You missed out Ladakh & Jammu+Kashmir.
Btw, Ladakh is Buddhist majority, and J&K is Muslim majority (so it would have made your point even stronger)
Thank you for the video. FYI region between Himalayas and hind mahasagar (Indian Ocean) was and is known as Hindustan. So the ancient India when different kingdom were a thing the whole region was known as Hindustan (from east Afghanistan to Burma in Myanmar)
very well researched video thanks man
I am from Jammu & Kashmir. Why didn't you mention my state?
@Nabil Ibrahim Where are you from?
Bcoz kashmir is belong from Pakistan
@@shubhank5409 lol never
I was going dislike the video at 7:39
But at 7:40 I liked it 🤣🤣
Really loved your content ❤❤
Odia is also a major language spoken in East India, in the state of Odisha (earlier Orissa). Odia is closely related to Bengali and is descended from a common Eastern Prakrit language, albeit with somewhat of a mixed history. It is not clear which one emerged first, but Odia culture is quite old, laying claim to the Odissi dance, one of the classical dances of India. It is a continuation of the kingdom of Kalinga (from the Mauryan times). Odia and Bengali are to some extent mutually intelligible. Bihar has its own set of languages, which can be called dialects of Hindi (like Bhojpuri) although Maithili is more close to Bengali.
How diverse is india
Me as an Indian: well this sounds interesting
Telugu and Kannada have similarities with hindi as much as they have similarities with tamil
totally agree, I'm from karnataka.
jai hind❤
India is so much diverse that in many district of same state, we can't communicate with other due to different language
From Telugu States ap and ts jai hindh🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Congratulations on getting sponsored!!
The one good thing the British did was become the outside threat needed to unite India. Without them India would not be united today (yes there were large Indian empires, but nationalism would take hold and divide the subcontinent just as it did elsewhere).
India is a civilizational country it was bound to united sooner or later and India also had threat from Invaders Like Portuguese,French,Persians,
Afghans,Nepalese,Burmese etc
Everyone was invading and looting India due to political instability.
Marathas would have unified India or Sikhs would have did so.
@@bhanupratap1063 Bro Burmese? they were literally part of India before seperation
Harmony in Diversity is real India which is cemented by Indian Constitution
I'm from Sri Lanka - the island was never part of British India, it always had its own separate colonial administration
India is small if seen as a continent and big if seen as a country
Yaaaaaaay!! Keep getting those sponsorships!
Hello khanubis i really love your videos. Btw hello from Singapore!!!
Kannada and Canada has no connection
just a joke bruh
Finally! Someone knows about the DLR that isn't a train geek or an East Londoner!
Proven very useful to me during VidCon London, though.
@@KhAnubis Fun fact about East India station: At the eastern end of the platforms the Prime Meridian passes through it
i could've met you if i learnt about your channel back then
Kashmir is now 2 Union Territories, btw
Good Video tho
Also, seeing you butcher EVERYTHING in India was lol! 😂
NO OFFENSE INTENDED
JUST SAYING
I just don't like how you did not include Kashmir into north India. It has free and fair elections, with higher turnout rates than any US elections. Kashmir is politically administered by India, and Kashmiris hold Indian passports. You have only made a few Pakistanis happy by doing this.
aka Swas that's not what I'm saying, he's going over the cultures of India in the North and doesn't talk about Kashmir even if it's administered by India.
Holy moist towelettes I never realized one country could be this diverse How could they ever move around in this country if that is diverse how can they even understand how could they ever move around in this country if that is diverse how could they even understand each other? i’m honestly impressed that they can run the government there. Gg India
"Unity In Diversity" for a reason! :)
It's called English. That's the reason for all of that even if not everyone in India could speak or write it, they can use it as a neutral language, that's the reason Indian hasn't been successful in making Hindi the national language, although I heard their current PM has said that he will not use English anymore when abroad or at home as he will only use Hindi.
The other reason I would say is the fact that it has a federal system instead of a unitary system. Although, the Indian parliament can change the borders of the states at anytime without their consent! Not just the union territories.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
No the Parliament cannot change the borders of state unilaterally, the power resides with the President, who will be recommending the Bill for such division in both Houses of the Parliament, even after that the consent of the State legislation would also be required..!
And Hindi imposition has been pushed forward by the current government, but we are strongly against it( Kerala and Tamil Nadu).
I'm from Kerala btw..!
In North-East India under the eitht states we have many autonomous councils Like other Indian states And people of North-East India speaks not only Assamese Nepali etc. But mostly are speaking Sino-Tibetic , and Sino- Burmease languages