Heritage of India
* Heritage means a property or any special thing which is given to us as an inheritance. The rich and natural things of India are the Heritages for us.
*India is on 7th rank area wise and it comes on 2nd rank population wise in the world.
*India was so rich in Heritage as everyone from the other countries wanted to settle here. They loved our values of nonviolence and peace.
*People from the Indus valley have made our country rich and wealthy.
*Many scholars ,sages , artists , saints , historians have contributed to the growth and development of our culture.
*Culture means living a life with some own rules and values.
There are two types of heritages -
1. Natural heritage - It consists of natural things like mountain, forest, desert ,rivers, flowers ,water ,fresh air, arrangement of food etc.
a) Landscape - It is formed due to different shapes of land. Example Himalaya ,Amarnath, Kedarnath etc.
b) Rivers - It is generally found near landscape for some good views. It s used by us for various purposes like washing, cleaning ,irrigation etc. Example Ganga, Yamuna ,Narmada.
c) Vegetation - It means the environment with good amount of flora including fruit flowers etc. Example Neem, Rose Basil, Jasmine.
d) Wildlife - It means the country with animals. Animals are even the vehicles of our God Goddesses as a religious belief . Example- Tiger, lion ,rhino, elephant, peacock.
2. Cultural heritage of India - It consists of the cultural and archaeological importance like Sun temple of Modhera, Jama Masjid of Ahmedabad, Rajmahal of Vadodara etc.
* Tourist place of Jain and Buddhist - There is a lot of people who follows Jainism and Buddhism and it can be seen as a proof in various places of Gujarat like Vadnagar ,Taranga, Shamlaji , Koteshwar etc.
India : Land of people
* The Dravidians are the most ancient people of India.
* There are 6 more tribes who came and settled here.
1.Negritoit (Habsi people) -They were from Africa they came via Balochistan to India.
They were black in colour and they were almost four to five feet with curly hair.
2. Australoid (Nishad people)- They were from South East Asia. They were black skin people with broad head, flat nose and short height . They made clay utensils and knew many more skills.
3. The Dravidians - They created Sindhu Valley Civilization. They gave the concept of mother as a god is and father as a God.
They came from North. They introduced dhup ,Aarti for Puja.
They were weavers , spinners ,dyers.
Dravidians family today are from Tamil ,Telugu , Kannada and Malayalam because the Aryans force them to leave the north area.
4. Mongoloid - These people were from North China. They had yellow complexion flat face and chubby cheeks.
5. Alpine, Dinarik and Armenoid - They were from Central Asia. They found in a large number in Gujarat, Saurashtra, Maharashtra, Bengal and Orissa
6. The Aryans - Aryans were the creator of Aryan civilization.
They were nature lovers and worshiped trees ,rivers ,mountains ,sun ,wind and rain.
They had composed many hymns. In the course of time, they started performing yoga and other activities.
When they arrived in the North , they slowly started dominating the Dravidians with their religious acts, inter caste marriages and so on.
So, the Dravidians had to leave north and settle in the south area.
Preservation and conservation of heritage.
There is an article in our constitution which is 51(A) that describes the duty to preserve our heritages and what are its importance?( Below are the points which comes under the article)
* Preserve the hormonious culture.
* Maintain forest rivers wild animals birds with maintaining the environment.
* Protect the public property .
* Maintain purity sanity and beauty.
* As Indian Heritage is a major outcome for the development of the people of India and nature has donated much to us. So ,we should maintain and use them in a wise way
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