Amazing Facts about India

• India is the world's largest, oldest and continuous civilization.
• India never invaded any country in the last 10000 years of history
• Number system was invented by India.  Aryabhatta invented zero
• World's first university was established at Takshasila in India in 700 BC.   More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied here. 
• Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days. 
• Chess game was invented in India
• The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC
• India is the largest English speaking nation in the world
• India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence. 
• India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.
• There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA ( 1.5%)
• The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev in India 
• The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh.
  Built in 1893 after levelling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.  
• The largest employer in the world is Indian Railways employing  1 million people
• India has the most post offices in the world
• Until 1896,  India was the only source of Diamonds in the World
• Algebra, Trignometry and Calculus were originated in India
• There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.