India A short journey

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IndiaA short journey

• Narasimha Reddy

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Red Indians, West Indians.

• So many different Indians!!
• Columbus went looking for India Why?
• Found America
• Birth of Modern America linked to India!!!
• About 2.5 million Indians now in USA
• We have to prove Columbus Right!!

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Some Facts

• Largest Democracy
• 1.1 Billion people more than 70 rural
• Diverse population
• 25 States and 10 Union Territories
• Many Languages
• 22 officially recognized
• Unofficially in hundreds
• Many Religions
• Hinduism (82), Islam(12), Christianity(2),
  Sikhism(2), Buddhism(1), Jainism(0.4)
• As diverse as Europe

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Marathi
Oriya
Hindi
Kannada
Telugu
Tamil
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Diversity

• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (A sikh)
• Leader of the largest political party Sonia
  Gandhi (An Italian born Catholic)
• President A woman
• Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Rajasekhar
  Reddy (A converted Christian)

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Some Facts

• Multi-party Parliamentary Democracy
• About 50 political parties
• Three branches
• Parliament
• Lower House popular vote, every 5 years
• Upper House elected by lower house and State
  Legislators, elected for 6 years, with 1/3
  elected every 2 years
• President
• Elected by Parliament and State Legislators
• Judiciary
• Lower courts presided by judges (no jury system)

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Indian Flag

• Saffron Piety and Patriotism
• White Purity and Peace
• Green Prosperity
• Wheel Progress

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• Emblem on Indian currency
• From the period of Ashoka
• Stands for 24 hour justice
• Protection in 4 directions

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India A brief History

• Indus Civilization one of the oldest
  civilizations
• 5000 BC and before
• Didnt invade other countries
• Many Invaders, most settled and mixed
• Muslims from Middle East
• Moghul Dynasty
• British Colony
• Came as Traders (East India Company)
• Independent since 15th August, 1947

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India Contributions

• Zero, Early Algebra, Decimal system, Early
  Trigonometry,Yoga, Chess
• Gave birth to four religions Hinduism, Buddhism,
  Sikhism, Jainism
• Secular long before the West
• Jews have been living in India longer than in
  Europe
• Non-violence, Peaceful means
• Gandhi inspired many leaders elsewhere including
  Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
• First University in Takshila in 700BC
• Sanskrit considered the mother of all European
  languages

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India Economic Liberalization

• Started in early 1990s under severe economic
  crunch
• 3 billion foreign currency reserves
• Economy is now resurgent
• About 300 billion in reserves now
• Economy largely driven by domestic consumption

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India Economy numbers

• 5th Largest in Dollar-exchange terms at 1.5
  trillion, 4th Largest in Purchasing parity terms
  5.21 trillion
• Per capita 1,089 or 4,542
• 4 in the top 25 richest people in the world
• Lakshmi Mittal (Steel), Ambani brothers (Telecom,
  Petrochemicals others), Azim Premji (Software)
• Poverty rate about 20
• Growing Wealth, growing disparity

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India Other measures

• Life Expectancy 64 (male), 67 (female)
• Population Density 324 per sq.km
• Roughly 10 times that of USA
• Slightly lower than Japan
• Per-capita power consumption 631 Kwh
• Roughly 1/20th of USA
• Grain consumption
• Roughly 1/5th of USA
• Meat consumption
• About 1/20th of USA

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India/USA Wealth Comparison
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India and TAMU link

• In early 70s, food shortages
• Green Revolution
• Norman Borlag, now at TAMU
• Won Nobel Peace Prize
• Self-sufficient and exports food now

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India in Images Rich Culture
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India Architecture
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India Art
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India in Images Spanning many centuries at once
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India in Images Rapidly Modernizing
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India in Images Changing Social Practices
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India in Images Traditional/Western attire
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Bollywood Facts

• Produces twice as many movies as Hollywood
• Popular in many parts of the World
• Asia, Africa, Middle East
• Europe and USA (Non Resident Indians -NRI)
• Movies now made with both Indian and NRI themes

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Non Resident Indians

• About 20 million worldwide
• USA 2.5M, Canada 800K, Middle East 4.5M,
  UK1.5M, Africa3M, Malaysia2.5M
• USA NRIs concentrated in few areas
• Own 35-40 of hotels/motels
• Roughly 1/3 of engineers in Silicon Valley
• Doctors
• NRIs send back roughly 25 billion to India every
  year

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India

• A vibrant democracy
• Resurgent economy
• Secular with many religions
• Diverse cultures and languages
• Rapidly modernizing