India is a Country in South Asia, covering most of the land of Indian subcontinent. India's coastline stretches 7000 km, neighboring  Pakistan  and  Afghanistan from  the  north - west, China, Nepal, and Bhutan from north, Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east.  Maldives is the vicinity of Indian Ocean from the south-west, Sri Lanka from  the  south, and Indonesia  from  the  south-east.  India  is   the  second  largest  in   the  world in  terms of Population, a population of over one billion people today to almost ( 1,045,845,226 billion  as World Population statistics 2002 shows), which means that  the  population density  of India, is equal to  %  18.0607  the  world's  population), As  for as the population density  of Asia is concerned it is equal to (28.11%).

It also ranked seventh in the world in terms of area, amounting to (3,287,590 million square kilometres ).  The  size and space as compared with the world amount (2.5515% of the world), and (6,788% of the Asian continent.)
India is known to have some of the oldest civilizations the world has seen and was the center of many of important trade routes throughout history. It has four major religions of the world known as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.
India has also been a colonial territory of United Kingdom and became an independent nation in 1947. In The last two decades India got tremendous growth and prosperity in economic fields and has been playing greater role in region and the world.

The paintings at the Bhimbetka on rocks in Madhya Pradesh shed shelter on the oldest traces of human life in India. The first known permanent settlements appeared over 9,000 years ago and gradually developed into the Indus Valley Civilization. It is being said that during the 2600 Bc to 1900 BC India was at its peak time.

The santhi satooba monuments in Madhya Pradesh dated back to third century BC is indebted to the Asoka dynasty. The longs and historical minarate known as Qutub Minar in Delhi is built by Qutbuddin Aibak. From 5the century BC there were many dynasties ruled on Delhi Paintings at the Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, Sixth century.
In the third century BCE, most of South Asia was   united into the Maurya Empire by  Chandragupta  Maurya and  flourished  under  Ashoka the Great. From the third century CE, the Gupta dynasty oversaw the period referred to as ancient "India's Golden Age." Empires in Southern India included those of the Chalukyas, the Cholas and the Vijayanagara Empire.  Science, technology, engineering, art, logic, language, literature, mathematics, astronomy, religion and philosophy flourished under the patronage of these kings.

Following invasions from Central Asia between the 10th and 12th centuries, much of North India came under the rule of the Delhi Sultanate and later the Mughal Empire. Under the rule of Akbar the Great, India enjoyed much cultural and economic progress as well as religious harmony. Mughal emperors gradually expanded their empires to cover large parts of the subcontinent. However, in North-Eastern India, the dominant  power was the Ahom kingdom of Assam, among the few kingdoms to have resisted Mughal subjugation. The first major threat to Mughal imperial power came from a Hindu Rajput king Maha Rana Pratap of Mewar in the 14th century and later from a Hindu state known as the Maratha confederacy, that dominated much of India in the mid-18th century.