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  1. Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, 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. during the American civil rights movement.

  2. Jul 4, 2018 · India has one of the earliest scholastic traditions of the systematic study of performing arts. Natyasastra, a 2,000-year-old Sanskrit text, describes five systems of classifying musical instruments. The oldest preserved examples of Indian music are the melodies of the Samaveda, written in the early years of the first millennium BC.

  3. Indian classical music is one of the oldest forms of music in the world, with roots traced back more than 2,000 years. It is a unique and complex art form passed down through generations and still thriving today. Since ancient times, music has been an integral part of Indian culture. Indian music has always had a rich and diverse tradition ...

  4. The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Geopolitically, it spans major landmasses from the countries of Bangladesh , Bhutan , India , [note 1] the Maldives , [note 2] Nepal , [note 3] Pakistan , [note 4] and Sri Lanka .

  5. Hindustani music, one of the two principal types of South Asian classical music, found mainly in the northern three-fourths of the subcontinent, where Indo-Aryan languages are spoken. (The other principal type, Karnatak music, is found in the Dravidian-speaking region of southern India.) The two.

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    India accounts for the bulk of the Indian subcontinent, lying atop the Indian tectonic plate, a part of the Indo-Australian Plate. India's defining geological processes began 75 million years ago when the Indian Plate, then part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana , began a north-eastward drift caused by seafloor spreading to its south-west, and later, south and south-east. [172]

  7. Aug 11, 2017 · Sufi traditions first entered the Indian subcontinent during the early rule of the Delhi Sultanate. Modern day Sufism is most popularly and widely known for its poetry and its music, with songs that attempt to unite the musician and the listener with the Divine.