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A Cultural

Map of India

IndIa Unity in

Cultural Diversity

First edition

June 2018 Ashadha 1940

PD 5T BS

© national Council of

educational research and training, 2018 ` 195.00

Printed on 80 GSM Paper with

NCERT watermark

Published at the Publication

division by the Secretary, national council of educational research and training, Sri aurobindo marg, new delhi 110 016 and printed at gita offset Printers (P) ltd., c-90, okhla industrial area, Phase-i, new delhi 110 020

ISBN 978-93-5292-059-7

Publication team

head, Publication : M. Siraj Anwar division chief editor : Shveta Uppal chief Business : Gautam Ganguly manager chief Production : Arun Chitkara editor : Bijnan Sutar

Abdul Naim

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FOreWOrd

The National Council of Educational Research and Training is an organisation dedicated responsibility by bringing out curricular materials for students, teachers and general public from time to time. The present National Integration Module (NIM), imaginatively titled,

India: Unity in Cultural Diversity

is one more effort in this direction. Sponsored by the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government goals of the

Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat

programme. This programme envisages pairing of States and Union Territories (UTs) of the Indian Union through which students and members of social and cultural groups of a State/UT will have the opportunity to visit another State/UT and vice versa . In this process, these students and members of social and and literature, food and dress, arts and crafts and important places of historical and cultural diversity. In short, the Module has tried to provide a perspective to what India is and has when particular festivals are celebrated and the ways in which these are celebrated, also depend on varying popular perceptions and interpretations. Given the amazing diversity of India, this is only natural. Therefore, the Module has not tried to enforce uniformity while dealing with these aspects. To ensure correctness of information given in this Module all States and Union Territories had been requested to give their feedback. Feedback received from them have been duly noted and incorporated in the manner considered possible Shantiniketan, has been duly recognised and incorporated. The team comprising the faculty of the NCERT has tried to develop this material within a short span of time. Accordingly, information has mostly been culled from the publications and websites of the Government of India, States and Union Territories. Besides, wherever from sources that are available in the public domain. All the maps in the Module have been iv all interested readers, apart from students and teachers, for further improvement of the Module in the light of such issues. Having said so, I place on record my appreciation of the efforts which have been made by the Development Team in bringing out this Module. I also appreciate the work of the Publication Division in designing this Module in record time. The banyan tree (

Kalpavriksha

Kalpadruma)

on the back cover of the Module encapsulates the spirit of India that is

Bharata Varsha

. Finally, I also take this opportunity to thank the Ministry of Human Resource Development for entrusting the NCERT with the responsibility of bringing out this Module.

HRUSHIKESH SENAPATY

Director

New Delhi

National Council of Educational

February 2018

research and t raining develOPMent teaM

COntrIBUtOrsstate/Ut

Jyotsna Tiwari

Professor

and Head, Department of Education in Arts and Aesthetics, National Council of Educational Research and Training, New DelhiBihar, Delhi, Gujarat,

Haryana, Uttar Pradesh,

Puducherry

M.V.S.V. Prasad

Assistant Professor

, Department of Curriculum Studies, NCERT,

New DelhiAndhra Pradesh, Goa,

Lakshadweep, Sikkim,

T elangana

Mohd. Moazzamuddin

Pr ofessor , Department of Education in Languages, NCERT, New Delhi

Jammu and Kashmir,

Madhya Pradesh

Ranjan K. Biswas

Associate Professor

, Central Institute of Educational Technology, NCERT,

New DelhiChhattisgarh, Jharkhand,

Meghalaya, Nagaland

Sandhya Sahoo

Professor

, Department of Education in Languages, NCERT, New DelhiKarnataka, Maharashtra,

Mizoram, Odisha, Rajasthan

Seema Shukla Ojha

Associate Professor

, Department of Education in Social Sciences, NCERT,

New DelhiPunjab, Uttarakhand

Sharbari Banerjee

Assistant Professor

, Department of Education in Arts and Aesthetics, NCERT, New DelhiArunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, West Bengal

COOrdInatIOn

Pratyusa Kumar Mandal

Professor and Head, International Relations Division, NCERT, New DelhiAndaman and Nicobar

Islands, Assam, Kerala,

Tamil Nadu, Ladakh

the national Council of educational research and training acknowledges t he contribution of the following institutions and individuals in the making of this publ ication. development, namely, Kewal Kumar sharma, Ias,

Secretary

; r. subrahmanyam, Ias,

Special Secretary (TE)

; v.l.v.s.s. subba rao, Ies,

Economic Advisor

; and s. shankar,

Deputy Secretary (EBSB),

for support and encouragement.

Professor and Director, nCert

for agreeing to shoulder the responsibility of bringing out this publica tion and providing constant guidance. the efforts of the Coordinators and the members of th e development

We thank satish Maurya,

Cartographer

, for drawing the maps; aparna Pandey,

Professor,

approval of the maps. the websites and portals of numerous public and private organisations, i nstitutions, newspapers, magazines, and personal collections of individuals from whom images have been collected are gratefully acknowledged. have sent feedback on the draft versions of their respective states and

Union territories.

We are also grateful to the following academicians for going through the contents Panda, Professor of History, and Pankaj sharma, Assistant Professor, national defence academy (nda), Khadakwasla (Haryana, Maharashtra and Odisha); dinesh

Prasad

saklani, Professor of History, H.n. Bahuguna University, Uttarakhand (Uttar Pradesh and

Uttarakhand); nitai Ojha,

Associate Professor,

regional Institute of education, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh); richard Cabral, Coordinator, sCert, Goa (Goa);

C.n. Haneefa Koya

(lakshadweep); n. venudhar reddy, IIs,

Joint Secretary

, Ministry of Finance (telangana); M.v. srinivasan,

Associate Professor,

dCs, nCert (tamil nadu); ashita raveendran, Assistant Professor, PMd, nCert (Kerala) and r.r. Koireng,

Assistant Professor

, dCs, nCert (nagaland and Manipur).

Editor,

for his

Assistant Editor,

contractual) and Ilma nasir, (

Editorial Assistant,

contractual) for their painstaking work; surender Kumar and his team comprising sadiq saeed, neha Pal, aarti, sum an Prajapati and Masihuddin (

DTP Operators

) for their continuous assistance in designing the book. last but not the least, the assistance of Pallavi Preeti ( JPF , Ird) in incorporating the editorial Finally, we also appreciate the cooperation we have received from M. sir aj anwar,

Professor

, Head of the Publication division, in completing this work in due time.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CUltUral eXPressIOn OF IndIa

From east to west and from north to south it spans over distances of 2,933 and 3,214 kilometres respectively. With a cumulative landmass of about 3,287 square kilometres, it encompasses almost every topographical feature found in the world. As far as the current size of the population is concerned, it ranks number two in the world.

More than the size, the population map of India

stands out because of its immense diversity. This diversity has been sustained over centuries largely because of the numerous traditions, practices and knowledge systems, which communities across the country have relentlessly nurtured and come to of such traditions and practices are seen portrayed in languages and literature, food habits and cuisine, clothing and dress, fairs and festivals, arts and crafts, music, dance and drama, and architectural and sculptural styles. Besides, the diversity is also Both these strands, the classical and the folk, draw

IntrOdUCtIOn

traditions across regions, giving rise to what we

Sambalpuri DanceIndependence Day Celebration

Though culture comprises traditions, practices

and knowledge systems, yet it is a dynamic entity. Societies remain alive and functional as long as they are able to adapt to changing circumstances and modify aspects of their cultures accordingly. Indian culture is not alien to such changes. At every stage of historical evolution the country has only enriched its culture through greater interaction amongst various streams of people, assimilation by each of what was best of the other, with plenty of creativity amongst all, to attain synthesis. Similar trends are seen in our cultural endeavours in modern times, be it in the domain of spectator sports or in the way we have come to refashion our national life around the celebration of certain National Days. viii

The Current Scenario

In this great national enterprise, each State and Union Territory (UT) of the Indian Union has contributed its fair share.

From the days

of the nationalist movement in the late 19th century

CE, conscious

efforts have been made by our national leadership, irrespective of the cultural and linguistic region or the political unit they belonged to, to make space for such voluntary contributions to pour in, so as to showcase the collective representation was made by the then colonial administration to split people on religious lines. Boycotting what was foreign was not the only motto of the movement that followed this attempt. Nor was substituting the foreign with swadeshi, or what was of our own, a mere emotional indulgence. Its real objective was to a pride of place in the world for its crafts, industrial beverages, standing as one people. It was thus a national enterprise to pick up the thread from where it was lost and then to carry it forward with renewed resolve to attain freedom and thereupon to achieve far greater heights in all spheres of life, as a modern civilised nation. Since then such efforts have been gathering pace without relent.

But, much as we may cherish what we have

accomplished as a country thus far, this is again a moment when we must propel ourselves far more energetically in this direction. As per the 2011 census

35.3 percent of our population is below 14 years of age and nearly 41 percent below the age of 20 years.

For this generation to effectively contribute to the process of nation building it is imperative that they bond and work with each other through enhanced understanding of cultures, traditions and practices of different States and UTs. One has also to bear in mind the fact that this is a generation that is seeking the best of education for itself while sharing an equally strong enthusiasm for mobility and career opportunities as no other generation did before.

The Present Goals of Education and the

ek Bharat

Shreshtha Bharat

Initiative

As it is evident to all, who care to think, culture and education

— one in the form of the lives

that we live and the other which fosters rational understanding of phenomena and motivates one to apply its output in the form of knowledge in real life

— cannot be

divorced from one another. the

National Curriculum Framework

(NCF) 2005
clearly recognises this and states how the aim of education should be about ‘connecting curricular an overriding identity informed by caring concerns (for diversity) within the democratic polity of not only realise the goals of education as stated by the NCF

2005, but also to materialise the objectives of

Ek Bharat Shreshtha

Bharat

, an initiative announced by the Prime

Minister of India, Shri

Narendra Modi on 31

October 2015 on the

occasion of the 140th birth anniversary of Sardar

Vallabhbhai Patel, the

towering leader to whom the credit goes for unifying the Princely States with the Indian Union after

Independence. These

unity in diversity of our nation and to strengthen the

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

a Swadeshi advertisement of 1920s ix emotional bonds between the people of our country, (ii) promote the spirit of national integration through a deep and structured engagement between all States and Union planned engagement between

States, (iii) showcase the rich

heritage and culture, customs and traditions of paired States for enabling people to understand and appreciate the diversity that is India, thus fostering a sense of common identity, (iv) environment that promotes learning between States

is more interesting is the fact that this tendency of caring for the preservation of the distinctiveness of the individual traditions, has seamlessly allowed modernity to be culturally absorbed into the lives of kind in the whole world.

our attention to the fact that India is a nation of incredible multiplicity, which lives naturally in its varied geographical surroundings. And, while doing so, it reiterates an inescapable truism. If there were no diversities, could there have been the joys of meeting, knowing, interacting and celebrating the life that we are so familiar with and frequently partake of? Without diversities, could it have been possible for the wise ones of yore to say ‘what is not there in Bharat (India) is not there in the Jagat Indian culture has been built over centuries. And these indeed are the nuclei, which ‘enable people to imbibe the innate chord of binding and brotherhood, make our people aware about the seamless integral hull of the modern Indian State, spread across a vast landmass onquotesdbs_dbs26.pdfusesText_32

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