Tag: culture

All the given options are tagged as world heritage sites by UNESCO. Fatehpur Sikri of Uttar Pradesh was founded by Akbar. Tajmahal located in Agra was built by Shajahan in memory of his beloved wife Noor Jahan and Kaziranga national park protects one horned rhino and is located in the state of Assam.

Indian states were reorganized primarily on linguistic basis following the States Reorganisation Act of 1956, which created states along linguistic lines. This movement began with the creation of Andhra Pradesh for Telugu speakers in 1953. Language was the primary criterion for state boundaries, though other factors like administrative convenience were also considered.

Bihu is a celebration in Assam,  that is related to the crop cycle. There are three Bihu celebrations depending on the crop cycle timing- Rongali, Magh and Kati bihu.

The number of recognised languages in India is 22. Eight schedule deals with officials language and recognised languages for country.

Natraj, in the Hindu religion, depicts a form of the dancing Lord Shiva and symbolizes Shakti, or life force. It has international significance from the point of view of arts. Carl Sagan drew the metaphor between the cosmic dance of the Nataraj and the modern study of the 'cosmic dance' of subatomic particles.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research. It has a statue of Natraj in its compound. The plaque alongside the statue explains the belief is that Lord Shiva danced the Universe into existence, motivates it, and will eventually extinguish it.

The Vedas are the earliest surviving literature of Indian subcontinent. There are four Vedas: the Rig Veda, the Sama Veda, the Yajur Veda and the Atharva Veda. Of these the Rig Veda is the oldest and was composed about 3500 years ago. All the other Vedas are based upon it and consist to a large degree of various hymns from it. It consists of a thousand such hymns of different seers, each hymn averaging around ten verses. The Rig Veda is also the oldest book in Sanskrit or any Indo-European language.

Agni, the God of Fire, is one of the most prominent of the deities of the Vedas. Fire is central to all Vedic rituals. All the offerings in the Vedic sacrifices are invariably offered to Agni and through him to other gods. Agni is thus the primary recipient of all Vedic sacrifices.

Non-Material Culture refers to abstract or non-physical ideas like belief, thoughts, values, rules, norms, morals, language etc. whereas material culture refers to the physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture, like temples, mosques, schools etc.

Bronislaw Malinowski focussed on studying social behaviour and social relations. According to him, Culture is an instrument which enables man to secure his survival. According to him, all the aspects of culture are interconnected and there is nothing loose in the culture.