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  2. Culture of India - Wikipedia

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    Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, [4] are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well-known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin ...

  3. Sculpture in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    Sculpture in the Indian subcontinent, partly because of the climate of the Indian subcontinent makes the long-term survival of organic materials difficult, essentially consists of sculpture of stone, metal or terracotta. It is clear there was a great deal of painting, and sculpture in wood and ivory, during these periods, but there are only a ...

  4. South Indian culture - Wikipedia

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    South Indian culture refers to the cultural region typically covering the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.The idea of South India is closely linked to the Dravidian ethnic and linguistic identity and therefore it can also refer to groups in central India such as the Gondi and the Kui.

  5. Arts and entertainment in India - Wikipedia

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    India is made up of several dozen ethnic groups, speaking their own languages and dialects. Alongside distinctly subcontinental forms there are major influences from Persian, Arab and British music. Indian genres like filmi and bhangra have become popular throughout the United Kingdom, South and East Asia, and around the world.

  6. List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in India

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    Whole India (mainly North India) It is a re-enactment of God Rama's life according to Ramayana. 00110: Ramman, religious festival and ritual theatre of the Garhwal Himalayas, India 2009 Festival Garhwal, Uttarakhand: It is a festival of the Garhwali people of Saloor Dungra village. Not performed anywhere in the Himalayas. 00281: Chhau dance: 2010

  7. Indian art - Wikipedia

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    [28] [23] It is often suggested that the style of the colossal Yaksha statuary had an important influence on the creation of later divine images and human figures in India. [29] The female equivalent of the Yakshas were the Yakshinis, often associated with trees and children, and whose voluptuous figures became omnipresent in Indian art. [23]

  8. Folklore of India - Wikipedia

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    Let's take examples of the Santhals or the Gonds. The Santhals have their culture heroes Beer Kherwal and Bidu Chandan. Gonds have their folk hero Chital Singh Chhatti. Banjara folk hero is Lakha Banjara or Raja Isalu. [citation needed] But not only heroes, the heroines of Indian folklore have also significant contribution in shaping the ...

  9. Hindu art - Wikipedia

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    Hinduism, with its 1.2 billion followers, is the religion of about 15-16 % of the world's population [1] and as such the culture that ensues it is full of different aspects of life that are effected by art.