INDIAN CULTURE Part of a series on the
Culture of India
Indian culture is the heritage of
social norms and technologies that originated
in or are associated with the ethno- showSociety
linguistically diverse India, pertaining to the
Indian subcontinent until 1947 and the showArts and literature
Republic of India post-1947. The term also
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differ from place to place within the country.
RELIGIOUS CULTURE
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 Luther King Jr. and
James Bevel during the American
civil rights movement. Foreign-origin religion,
including Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism,
Christianity and Islam, are also present in India,[5]
as well as Zoroastrianism[6][7] and Baháʼí Faith[8][9]
both escaping persecution by Islam[10][11][12] have
also found shelter in India over the centuries.[13][14]
FAMILY STRUCTURE
AND WEDDING
For generations, India has had a prevailing tradition of
the joint family system. It is when extended members
of a family – parents, children, the children's spouses,
and their offspring, etc. – live together. Usually, the
oldest male member is the head of the joint Indian
family system. He mostly makes all important decisions
and rules, and other family members are likely to abide
by them. With the current economy, lifestyle, and cost
of living in most of the metro cities are high, the
population is leaving behind the joint family model and
adapting to the nuclear family mode
PHILOSOPHY
Indian philosophy comprises the philosophical
traditions of the Indian subcontinent. There are
six schools of orthodox Hindu philosophy—
Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mīmāṃsā
and Vedanta—and four heterodox schools—Jain
, Buddhist, Ājīvika and Cārvāka – last two are
also schools of Hinduism.[44][45] However, there
are other methods of classification; Vidyarania
for instance identifies sixteen schools of Indian
philosophy by including those that belong to
the Śaiva and Raseśvara traditions.[46] Since
medieval India (ca.1000–1500), schools of
Indian philosophical thought have been
classified by the Brahmanical tradition[47][48] as
either orthodox or non-orthodox – āstika or
nāstika – depending on whether they regard
the Vedas as an infallible source of knowledge.
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GREETI
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Greetings include Namaste (Hindi,Sanskrit and
Kannada), Nômôskar in Odia, Khulumkha (Tripuri),
Namaskar (Marathi), Namaskara (Kannada and
Sanskrit), Paranaam (Bhojpuri), Namaskaram (
Telugu, Malayalam), Vanakkam (Tamil
), Nômôshkar (Bengali), Nomoskar (Assamese
), Aadab (Urdu), and Sat Shri Akal (Punjabi). All
these are commonly spoken greetings or
salutations when people meet and are forms of
farewell when they depart. Namaskar is considered
slightly more formal than Namaste but both
express deep respect. Namaskar is commonly used
in India and Nepal by Hindus, Jains and Buddhists,
and many continue to use this outside the
Indian subcontinent. In Indian and Nepali culture,
the word is spoken at the beginning of written or
verbal communication. However, the same hands
folded gesture may be made wordlessly or said
