Incredible India

Incredible India  India ,   country  that occupies the greater part of  South Asia . Its capital is  New Delhi , built in the 20th century just south of the historic hub of Old Delhi to serve as India’s administrative centre. Its government is a  constitutional   republic  that represents a highly  diverse  population consisting of thousands of ethnic groups and likely hundreds of languages. With roughly one-sixth of the world’s total population, India is the second most populous country, after  China . It is known from archaeological evidence that a highly sophisticated urbanized culture—the  Indus civilization —dominated the northwestern part of the subcontinent from about 2600 to 2000  BCE . From that period on, India functioned as a virtually self-contained political and cultural arena, which gave rise to a distinctive tradition that was associated primarily with  Hinduism , the roots of which can largely be traced to the Indus civilization. Other religions, notably  Buddhism  and