Some interesting information about India.

• India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
  
• India invented the Number System.
  
• Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
  
• The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC.
  
• The great University of Nalanda was built in the 4th century CE.
  
• Sanskrit is the mother of most of the European languages.
  
• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
  
• Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.
  
• India was the richest country on earth until the time of British in the early 17th Century.
  
• Christopher Columbus was attracted by her wealth.
  
• The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago.
  
• Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart as 365.258 days.
  
• The value of "pi" was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem.
  
• He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
  
• Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were propounded by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
  
• According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
  
• The pioneer of wireless communication was Prof Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
  
• The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
  
• Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
  
• Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, purinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery.
  
• Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization) around 5000 years ago
  
• The place value system and the decimal system ware developed in India.