''india is a land of ancient culture'' Explain
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India has since ancient times been a land of several religions. Ancient India saw the birth of Brahmanism or Hinduism, jainism, and Buddhism, but all these cultures and religions intermingled and interacted. ... The other name by which India was better known was Bharatavarsha or the land of the Bharatas.
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Cultural Heritage of India:
- India has gifted to the world a di¬verse and rich heritage.
- Cultural heritage is a man-made heritage. Whatever is received or created by humans with his ability, wisdom, art and skills is called cultural heritage.
- Since ancient times people of many castes and tribes such as Aryans, Kshatrap, Kushan, Huns, Persians, Turks, Arabs, Mughal, Brit-ish, French, etc. came to India. So, Indian culture kept on becoming rich with mutual exchanges with all these people.
- Our art of architecture and sculpture is more than 5000 years old. We can find evidence of this in the remains of Indus Valley Civilisation.
- By observing the remains of the figures of Gods and Goddesses, humans, animals and several toys, as well as sculpture of a bearded man and the statue of a dancer we can proudly boast about rich cultural heritage.
- The figure of bullock or lion on the inverted Lotus of Mauryan Era, the statue of Gautam Buddha in a meditative form, the Kalkhand statues of Jain Tirthankaras the caves of Ellora of Rashtrakuta dynasty, etc. also reveal the richness of our cultural heritage.
- Our cultural heritage consists a vast range of palaces, buildings, sculptures, stupas, viharas, chaityas, temples, mosques, tombs, forts and gates.
- Over and above these, important historical places of the freedom movement are also part of our cultural heritage. Some of these places are Sabarmati Ashram, Dandi, Bardoli, Vardha, Shantiniketan (Kolkata), Delhi, etc.
Important discoveries that enriches cultural heritage:
Other important things that make our cultural heritage extremely rich and varied are – our languages, scriptures, discovery of zero, mathematics, our calendars, astronomy, iron structures, varied literature, religion, yuddhashashtra, ancient chariots, works and references of political science, zoology, botany, Vastu shastra, republic system, judiciary, legislation, environment protection, etc.