Does Ancient India have a government?
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Certainly Yes. They had "Indus valley civilization" - which is one of the oldest organized civilization and then the monarchy system took control. after that, britishers invaded india on the name of 'business' (because india was the richest country in the world at that time) and they, with the other invedors, looted and ruled for some centuries. after freedom, they have democracy. so now India is the world's largest democracy and also it is most diversed country in terms of religions. India is great !!
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A land of beauty, A land of culture, A land which truly signifies UNITY Among DIVERSITY. A country which has the largest, oldest and continuous civilization in world. A country which is the largest democracy in the world. A country of people who truly believe in "Vasudhev Kutumbakam" meaning this whole world is a family. A land of "Vedas" which are the most ancient scriptures in the world. Vedas are written in "Sanskrit" the language which is mother to all the languages in the world. Sanskrit even today is considered most suitable language for computer software.\n\nA civilization which despite being the richest and most advanced in past times never invaded other countries. A country that is proud to be the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, Mahavir Swami, Swami Vivekananda and Gandhi. A land of peace. A land of inventors who gave the world foundation to build all the scientific discoveries. A place which invented ZERO The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC. A land which gave birth to - Ayurved - The earliest school of medicine known to humans. Surgery was first performed by Sushruta about 2600 years ago.\n\nBirthplace of Algebra, trigonometry and calculus. A country which gave the world - Chess the ultimate game of strategy.\n\nA country which gave the world "Yoga". A country which was home to the World's first university established in Takshashila in 700BC, where more than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education. \n\nEven today a country which is fast emerging as world's superpower in Information technology. India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.\n\nPlease see below for more information on India\n\nhttp://www.isamaj.com/indinfo/\n\nhttp://www.isamaj.com/indinfo/facts1.htm
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NASA took a photo of the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka that shows a series of shoals lying in the water between two points of land.  It the shoals were above water, they would connect the two points of land and form a bridge between India and Sri Lanka.\n\nSome have claimed that this is the bridge that Rama commanded to be built in the Hindu epic Ramayana.  A few archaeologists claim to have found evidence suggesting that the bridge is man-made.\n\nNASA has distanced itself from such claims with the following quote:\n\n"The images [...] may be ours, but their interpretation is certainly not ours. [...] Remote sensing images or photographs from orbit cannot provide direct information about the origin or age of a chain of islands, and certainly cannot determine whether humans were involved in producing any of the patterns seen."
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Democracy is a system where the population of a society controls the government. It may be narrowly defined as that of nation-state government specifically, or more broadly to describe a society as a whole, which can also exert political power and social power.\n\nDemocratic government aspires to serve under "the people" rather than ruling over them. This ideal is pursued by implementing some form of a voting system, usually involving indirect representation (see also republic).\n\nIndia is worlds largest Democracy.
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nope.\n\nthey have an Emperor.
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There is not king or queen in punjab.\nThe government and administration in Punjab are organized on the same lines as in other states of India. The legislative wing of the State is the House of People or the Vidhan Sabha. Punjab has an unicameral legislature, having abolished the upper house, the Vidhan Parishad in the ‘60s. The chief minister and members of his cabinet are members of the legislature and they are at the top of the executive wing of the government and are accountable to the legislature. As elsewhere, the MLAs, or Members of the Legislative Assembly, wield considerable influence over policy-making and implementation, more so because they are members of District level Planning and Grievance Committees set up by the government in each district.\n\nLocal government \nThe system of local government consists of Municipal Corporations, Municipalities, and Notified Area Committees in urban areas. Their main source of revenue is octroi and their main administrative functions are conservancy, local health laws, and approving building plans in their local jurisdiction, In rural areas, there is the usual set up of village panchayats, panchayat samitis and zilla parishads though, in practice, they do not wield administrative or legal powers of any consequence. Unlike in states such as Karnataka or Maharashtra, local government cannot be said to be highly developed in Punjab. \n\nThe judiciary \nThe judiciary and the executive are separated in Punjab as in other states in the country. However, the state shares a common High Court with the state of Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
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When this Kichadi UPA government is tottering, under the weight of number of parties, how come, a national government, with leaders of opposite views, can be formed and expect it to deliver goods.\n\nThere are no states men, now a days, only politicians, who don't bother about the nation, but about themselves only.\n\nI think, this system will continue, because there is one party for each caste in India.. There are no principles involved, but only selfishness.
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FACTS ABOUT INDIA\n\n\n a.. India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.\n\n b.. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.\n\n c.. The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700BC.\n     More than 10,500 students from all over the world studies more\n     than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century\n     BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field\n     of education.\n \nd.. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is\n     the  most suitable language for computer software - a report in\n Forbes magazine, July 1987.\n \n e.. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.\n Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.\n Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our\n civilization.\n\n f.. Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of\n development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of\n British invasion in the early 17th Century.\n\n g.. The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago.\n The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.\n The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.\n\n h.. Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the\n sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart.\n Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century)365.258756484 days.\n\n i.. The value of "pi" was first calculated by Budhayana, and he\nexplained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He\ndiscovered  this in the 6th century long before the European\nmathematicians.\n \nj.. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India.\n Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.\n The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas\n Hindus used numbers as big as 1053(10 to the power of (53) with\n specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today,\n the largest used number is Tera 1012(10 to the power of 12).\n\n k.. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896,\n India was the only source for diamonds to the world.\n\n l.. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in\n the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless\n communication was Prof. Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.\n\n m.. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in\n Saurashtra.\n\n n.. According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake\n called 'Sudarshana' was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during\n Chandragupta Maurya's time.\n\n o.. Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.\n\n p.. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health\n scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans,\n cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic\n surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known\n in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge\n of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism,\n genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.\n \nq.. When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years\n ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley(Indus Valley\n Civilization)\n\n r.. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in\n India in 100 BC.\n\nIndia is.......the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country in the world AND one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at least 10, 000 years old).  \n\nThe name `India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu.\n\nIndia is.......the Largest democracy in the world, the 6th largest country in the world AND one of the most ancient and living civilizations (at le
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India's History\n\n India's extraordinary history is intimately tied to its geography. A meeting ground between the East and the West, it has always been an invader's paradise, while at the same time its natural isolation and magnetic religions allowed it to adapt to and absorb many of the peoples who penetrated its mountain passes. No matter how many Persians, Greeks, Chinese nomads, Arabs, Portuguese, British and other raiders had their way with the land, local Hindu kingdoms invariably survived their depradations, living out their own sagas of conquest and collapse. All the while, these local dynasties built upon the roots of a culture well established since the time of the first invaders, the Aryans. In short, India has always been simply too big, too complicated, and too culturally subtle to let any one empire dominate it for long. \n\nTrue to the haphazard ambiance of the country, the discovery of India's most ancient civilization literally happened by accident. British engineers in the mid-1800's, busy constructing a railway line between Karachi and Punjab, found ancient, kiln-baked bricks along the path of the track. This discovery was treated at the time as little more than a curiosity, but archaeologists later revisited the site in the 1920's and determined that the bricks were over 5000 years old. Soon afterward, two important cities were discovered: Harappa on the Ravi river, and Mohenjodaro on the Indus. \n\nThe civilization that laid the bricks, one of the world's oldest, was known as the Indus. They had a written language and were highly sophisticated. Dating back to 3000 BC, they originated in the south and moved north, building complex, mathematically-planned cities. Some of these towns were almost three miles in diameter and contained as many as 30,000 residents. These ancient municipalities had granaries, citadels, and even household toilets. In Mohenjodaro, a mile-long canal connected the city to the sea, and trading ships sailed as far as Mesopotamia. At its height, the Indus civilization extended over half a million square miles across the Indus river valley, and though it existed at the same time as the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Sumer, it far outlasted them. \n\nThe first group to invade India were the Aryans, who came out of the north in about 1500 BC. The Aryans brought with them strong cultural traditions that, miraculously, still remain in force today. They spoke and wrote in a language called Sanskrit, which was later used in the first documentation of the Vedas. Though warriors and conquerors, the Aryans lived alongside Indus, introducing them to the caste system and establishing the basis of the Indian religions. The Aryans inhabited the northern regions for about 700 years, then moved further south and east when they developed iron tools and weapons. They eventually settled the Ganges valley and built large kingdoms throughout much of northern India. \n\nThe second great invasion into India occurred around 500 BC, when the Persian kings Cyrus and Darius, pushing their empire eastward, conquered the ever-prized Indus Valley. Compared to the Aryans, the Persian influence was marginal, perhaps because they were only able to occupy the region for a relatively brief period of about 150 years. The Persians were in turn conquered by the Greeks under Alexander the Great, who swept through the country as far as the Beas River, where he defeated king Porus and an army of 200 elephants in 326 BC. The tireless, charismatic conqueror wanted to extend his empire even further eastward, but his own troops (undoubtedly exhausted) refused to continue. Alexander returned home, leaving behind garrisons to keep the trade routes open. \n\n While the Persians and Greeks subdued the Indus Valley and the northwest, Aryan-based kingdoms continued developing in the East. In the 5th century BC, Siddhartha Gautama founded the religion of Buddhism, a profoundly influential work of human th
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in a bureaucratic state, government is elected and pretends to care and help the people...for reelection of course.  \n\nin a feudal state, government is not elected and doesn't have to care or help the people, it's all about themselves.
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Yes, it is the oldest continuing religion on Earth. The Rig Veda is the oldest sacred text in the world (first written down in about 5000BCE, but before this time it was merely memorized and chanted). \n\nThe most liberal? Perhaps it should be said that it is the most tolerant. Some denominations and sects and subsects of Hinduism could definately be defined as liberal, but some denominations, sects, and subsects can be very conservative, or orthodox, or traditional. So it varies...but they are all very tolerant. In fact, tolerance and respect are the rule rather than the exception. It is rare that Hindu sects, denominations, and subsects are intolerant or disrespectful. In the past Hinduism was extremely liberal compared to many religions during its time, but with the invasions of other religions and cultures into India, and the eventual colonization of India by the British...the influence and sometimes forced acceptance of those cultures, laws, and norms did have some effects on Hinduism. Many of the sages who is said to have written the Rig Veda were women, as well as men. \n\nAgain, though, "liberal" depends greatly on the individual denominations, sects, and subsects...the individual gurus, the individual temples and priests. It varies as to just how liberal they are. Many in India are trying to preserve the traditions while at the same time feeling the forces of western materialism taking its effects. This has caused there to be "fundamentalist" Hindus there. Hindus in the west (both of Indian origin and those who adopt Hinduism but aren't from India) often are much more liberal than even the "liberal" Hindus in India (although there are exceptions to some groups here in the west and even to those in India where there are groups there that are sometimes even more liberal than those in the west..so there are exceptions). \n\nSome great resources on Hinduism:\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/religion\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org\nhttp://www.galva108.org\nhttp://www.westernhindu.com\nhttp://www.beliefnet.com\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com
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No, sir, we don't live in the ancient times.  Nowadays that's considered cruel and unusual punishment.\n\nYeah, but the constitution says they are free from cruel and unusual punishment.
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We YES ........ Indian Government NO ..Actually yes ....... \n\nWill they ?? NO
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Yes\n25 heres a list of em all\nThere are 25 states, six union territories and the National Capitol Territory (Delhi) in the Republic of India.\nhttp://www.indax.com/basic.html
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There is very little cultural information about the Indus valley Civ. There is some evidence left that they traded with the Sumerians, etc. but there is really no documentation left from their civ, so the general consensus is that they communicated in a clay/cuneiform fashion.
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I thought Hinduism was the dominant religion there... if you are talking about the sport... back in the day India was a British colony... cricket is a British sport... makes sense to me.
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today or in ancient times?  in any case: with a military