The official Sanskrit name for India is Bharat.

   INDIA has been called Bharat even in Satya Yuga (Golden Age).

   The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus.

   The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.

   Chess was invented in India.

   Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India.

   The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

   The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh and is 2444 meters above sea level.

   India has the most post offices in the world!

   The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people!

   Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.

   The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana in the 6th century.

   The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world, located in Ladakh between the Dras and Suru rivers.

   India is the seventh largest country in the world.

   India's population is more than one billion making it the second most populous country after China.

   India is the largest democracy in the world.

   India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.

   India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.

   India is the world's largest democracy.

   India invented the Number System. Aryabhatta invented the number zero.

   The World's first university was established in Takshashila in 700 B.C.

   Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages.

   Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.

   Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

   Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2,500 years ago.

   Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.

   Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism & Sikhism religions, born in India are followed by 25% of the world's population.

   The place value system and the decimal system were developed in India in 100 BC.

   India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.

   India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.

   India is the largest English-speaking nation in the world.

   India is the only country other than U.S. and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.

   India is the only society in the world which has never known slavery.

  There are around 18 languages recognized by the Indian Constitution.