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Culture of India
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About Indian Culture
The Indian culture is rich and varied and therefore unique in its very own ways. Ways of communication between people is an important component of indian culture. Indians have accepted modern life, improved our lifestyle but the values and beliefs remain unchanged. Indians person remains unchanged because the culture and values are deeply rooted in our hearts, mind, body and soul.
The Indian culture treats guests as god and serves and cares for them as if they are part and parcel of the family itself. Respect for elders is an important factor in Indian culture. Seniors are the driving force for any family and therefore love and respect for elders is always there. Indians usually take blessings of his elders by touching their feet. Seniors used to transmit Indian culture to the newer generation.
"Respect for one another" is another lesson that is taught from books on Indian culture. All persons are similar and respect for one another is those duties. A saying is much prevelant in india, "Give Respect and Take Respect".
The nature is another useful way in entering our Indian culture. Right from our early childhood we are taught to help one another requiring assistance and distress. Otherwise monetary then at least the kind of manners or nonmonétaires.
The Indian culture tells us to multiply and distribute the joy and happiness and sadness and pain. It tells us that with all this we can develop cooperation and improve life among ourselves and later make this world a better place to live in it.
India is a land of diversity often staggering. It is a puzzle denteux people - of every faith and religion, living together to create a unique and colorful mosaic. There is a festival for every reason and every season. Many festivals celebrate the various harvests, commemorate great historical figures and events, while many express devotion to the deities of different religions. Each celebration focuses on the rituals of prayer, blessings research, exchanging goodwill, decorating houses, wearing new clothes, music, and dance.
Namaskar or Namaste is the most popular form of greeting in India. It is a general greeting that is used to accommodate someone and also to offer the farewell. While namaskar, both the palms are placed together and increased below the face to greet a person. It is believed that the two hands symbolize a spirit or individual meeting the individual. While the right hand is a higher nature, the left hand reflects the nature mundane or less. Other common forms of greetings by the various communities and regions in India are - rested-Sri akal by Sikhs, vannakkam by Tamil, Juley by Laddhakis and Tashi by the Sikkimese, among others.
Indian Cusine
Accroding to indian culture food is treated with respect as it is considered as a gift of god. Indian recipes are scientifically prepared and aimed at nourishing the body as well as it is supposed to be pleasing for mind and eyes.
Ingredients of each meals are based on different rasas each and every rasas believed to have right physical benefit .
Indian cuisines are considered to be one of the unique in the world.
Indian cuisine has got different flavous from sweet to sour bitter or hot, from heating to cooling foods, from food for body to food for the brain. Each indian recipes developed by different states in india are different and unique to one another. Unlike any other country in the world, indian cusines are elaborate and has got tasty range of vegetarian cuisines.
Most of the india cusinves are flavoured with the use of spices.
Some of the most famous culinary traditions develped in india was orgninally prepared in the royal courts of the Mughals, Hyderabad.
Of all coastal States in the country Goa, Kerala and Bengal Have culinary traditions with a preponderance of fish with Goa and Kerala making coconuts to a greate extend.
Goa offers one the widest range of seafood cusines in india which includes tiger prawns, crabs, shellfish, lobsters accompanies with locally made wine and rice.
Kerala, one of the southern most state of india is noted for its variety of appam, palappam, dosa, steam cakes which are prepared out of rice flour and the fish item like karimeen. Majority of this type of fish is caught from backwaters of kerala.
Curd is an essential part of almost every Indian menu.
These largest platters contain up to a dozen dishes in individual servings consisting of meat chicken, vegetables - with gravy or dry, pulses accompaniments and widely served.
Some of India's best, evened culinary traditions are the TANDOORI cooking best known and loved. TANDOOR is the Indian oven, a homely clay lined cylinder filled with sizzling coals.
Festivals of India
Festivals and celebrations in india are vibrant with color, enthusiasm, rituals and unique customs.
Most of the visitors are scintellated by the quality and way in which festivals are celebrated in indian societ.
One of the popular festival celebrated by majority of indians is Diwali. Diwali is named as the festival of lights.
Diwali falls on the later part of the year especially during the months of October and November.
Accroding to indian mythology diwali is celebrated as celebration for the victory good against evil.
The day is celebrated by lighting lamps, diyas, visiting relatives, preparing special cusines and firework display.
Dusshera is another most celebrated festival in india. It is believed that on this particular day day lord ram killed the evil Ravana.
Ramzan is another festival celebrated india being the most important festival among indian muslims.
The festival is celebrated after a month long fasting and prayers.
Just like other parts of the world Christmas and easter is also celebrated in india especially among the chiristinan community. The way in which christmas is celebrated in india is same as other parts of the world.
Parsi New Year is one of the most important days in the Parsi community. It marks the beginning of a New Year filled with joy and prosperity.
15th august is celebrated by all Indians, on this day india got independece from the colonial british rule.
Holi is another festival that is celebrated by different communities in northern part of india.
Holi is the festival of colours.
Other festivals that are being celebrated all over the country are Onam, Baisakhi, Pongal, Mahavir Jayanti, Buddha Jayanti, Guru Purnima, Raksha Bandhan, Krishna Janmashtami, Gandhi Jayanti, Kumbh Mela, Children’s day, Ganesh Chaturthi and many many more festivals.
Like every part of the world festivals bring joy and happiness in the lives of indians.
People of India
Indian population is polygenetic and is said to be the melting pot of various racial mosaic. Few, if any, can claim to belortg to any particular stock. Nevertheless, many Indians pride themselves on their Aryan descent.
The species known as Ramapithecaswas found in tjne Slwalik foothills of the northwestern Himalayas. This species believed to ie the first in the line of hominids (human family) lived some 14 million years ago. Researches have found that a species rescinbling the AustralopithecusUved in Indiasome 2 million years ago. Even this discovery leaves an evolutionary gap of as much as 12 million years since Ramawthecus.
Races in India (as per classical pattern) According to Dr. B. s. Guha. The population of India is derived from 6 main ethnic groups:
Negrito,
Proto-Australoids or Austrics,
Mongololds,
MediteiTanean or Dravidian,
Western Brachycephals and
Nordic Aryans.
Negroids, the brachycephalic (broad headed) from Africa were the oldest people to found only in patches among the hill tribes of south India (Irulas, Kodars, Paniyans and Kurumbas) on the mainland. But they survive day of the Saka month are given below: in the Andaman Islands, where they have retained their language.
Proto - Australoids or Austrics were a race of people, with wavy hair plentifully distributed over their brown bodies, long heads with low foreheads and prominent eyeridges, noses with low and broad roots, thick jaws, large palates and teeth and small chins.
The Austrics of india represent a race of medium height, dark (and in some cases black) complexion with long heads and rather flat moses but otherwise of regular features. Miscegenation with the earlier Negroids may be the reason for the dark or black pigmentation of the skin and flat noses. Austric tribes spread over the whole of india and then pass on to Burma, Malaya and the islands of South East Asia. The Austrics form the bedrock of the people.
The Austrics laid the foundation of Indian civilization. They cultivated rice and vegetables and made sugar from sugarcane. Their language has survived in the Kol orMunda speech Mundari current in Eastern and Central India.
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