FACTS ABOUT INDIA

The official Sanskrit name for India is Bharat.
The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
Sanskrit is considered as the mother of all higher languages. This is because it is the most precise, and therefore suitable language for computer software.
Chess was invented in India.
Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India.
The place value system and the decimal system were developed in 100 BC in India.
It 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).
The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.
Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 1053 with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 1012.
Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.