History of India
How it affects culture, economy, and society.
Population Pyramid
More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_planning_in_India (social)
Cultural Traits:
Languages
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Marathi
- Urdu
- Gujarati
- Punjabi
- Assamese
- Sinhalese
Religions
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Christianity
- Jainism
- Zoroastrianism
- Judaism
Bollywood
Bollywood is a Mumbai-based Hindi-speaking film industry in India. It is considered one of the biggest film industries in the world regarding its amount of films produced. Most of the film plots are melodramatic and include singing hence why most Bollywood actors are singers as well.
Cultural Pictures
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Effects...
Religion has also caused violence as much as it has influenced the government. It has caused two wars between Pakistan and India where Muslim rebels have been waging a separatist war against the government since the early 1980s.
As for a long term effects, Americanization has been greatly impacting India in both a positive and negative way. Americanization is a person or place that, over time, begins to the share the same values, beliefs, and customs and is assimilated into American society. For India, various American businesses have opened up shop there and young Indians are beginning to adapt to the customs of that of an American's. Many Indians don't see a problem with the change, but a lot are very unhappy with it. They think it takes away from India's uniqueness and greatly affects religious practice and family customs.
Outsourcing has also brought loads of opportunity to the youth of India. It gives them a chance to make money and can help them support their selves. It also benefits America as a source of cheap labor.
For more information...
Americanization
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/how-india-became-america.html?_r=0
Outsourcing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_outsourcing_to_India