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India (official name : the Republic of India) is a country of the south of Asia which occupies the major part of the Indian sub-continent.

The name of the country " India " is derived from the old version Persian of the word Sindhu, the name of the Indus river in Sanskrit.

The official texts also use the word Bharat (Hindi word derived from the name Sanskrit of an ancient king Hindu whose history can be found in Mahâbhârata).

A third name, Hindustan, i.e. " ground of the Hindus " into Persan, is employed since the period of the Empire moghol and is most used today still by the majority of the Indians in the current language.

India is the country more populated world after China. As an indication, Delhi, capital of India > 12,8 million inhabitants.

Twenty-three official languages are recognized there of which the Hindi (spoken in north, the language of the police headquarters),
the tamoul (spoken in the south) and English.

The Indian littoral extends on more than seven thousand kilometers. The country has borders common with Pakistan to the west, Tibet (People's Republic of China), Nepal, and Bhutan in the North-East, Bangladesh and Myanmar in the east. On the Indian Ocean, India is near the islands of the Republic of Maldives in south-west, Sri Lanka in the south, and Indonesia in south-east.

India also claims a border with Afghanistan in the North-West.

India is the hearth of civilizations among oldest, and an important historical crossroads of the commercial main roads. Four great religions were born in this only sub-continent : hindouism, Buddhism, jaïnism and sikhism. Formerly, India constituted a great part of the British empire ( Raj) before obtaining its independence in 1947. It is also important to note the presence, at the same time, of French and Portuguese counters on the Indian territory, which to him will be reassigned a few years after independence. After several decades of economic stagnation, the country developed much since about fifteen years, in particular thanks to the reforms launched in 1991. India, already giant demographic and regional power, without any doubt have to become one of the great powers of the XXIE century, like China and at the sides of the United States. January 22, 2007, an Indian capsule space uninhabited returns on ground after a 12 days mission in space, which marks a scientific and technical stake important for the country.  

The national Flag Indian (Tiranga, or tricolour) was adopted in this form during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly on July 22, 1947, a few days before L’independence of L’celebrated India on August 15, 1947.

It was used as national flag with the Indian dominion between August 15, 1947 and January 26, 1950, then with the Indian Republic.

In India, the "tricolour " term [ Tiranga – तिरंगा (in Hindi) ] almost always refers to the Indian national flag.

The flag is composed of three horizontal bands of equal width : saffron above, white in the medium and green for that of bottom.
In the center of the white band is a blue comprising 24 rays and known wheel under the name of Chakra D’Ashoka, in reference to the pillars D’Ashoka de Sarnath.
The diameter of this will chakra is equal to the three quarters height of the white band.
The report/ratio of the width to the length of the flag is two thirds.
This flag also that of the flag of the is armed Indian and is hoisted tous.les.jours in the military installations.

The Indian national flag was created by Pingali Venkayya.
The official constraints impose that the flag is made exclusively in "khadi", a particular type of wire makes hand. The use of the flag is strictly controlled by the Code of the Indian Flag.

The heraldic description (or blasonnement) of the flag would be : Party of orange and of sinople to the face of money charged of a "Chakra"of azure.

Practical Infos...

Ambassy of France in India

2/50-E Shantipath Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110021, Inde
Tél : (11) 611 87 90 à 93. Fax : (11) 687 23 05. Site web : ambassade / ambassy
Consulats Généraux à Bombay et Pondichéry / Consulate-generals in Bombay and Pondichery

Office du Tourisme du Gouvernement de l'Inde (GITO) : 88 Janpath, New Delhi 110 001, Inde
Tél : (11) 332 00 05 ou 332 00 08. Fax : (11) 332 01 09. Site web : office du tourisme / Tourist office

Office du Tourisme : 13 boulevard Haussmann (5e étage), 75009 Paris, France
Tél : 01 45 23 30 45. Fax : 01 45 23 33 45. E-mail : indtourparis@aol.com Site web : indiatourism

Vous pouvez également consulter le site web du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, République Française : Ministère des affaires étrangères / Ministry of foreign affairs

Informations en anglais sur le site de la CIA, sur l’Inde : CIA

All attacks, all surprises, all charms, all disgusts, all is only profusion. Noises, odors, omnipresent crowd, colors, extreme misery and extreme splendour, mountains of refuse and temples of a beauty to cut the breath, beggars emaciated and women with the paces of princesses in their blazing saris, cows walking nonchalamment in the medium of a vibrating crossroads or elephant with the turning of a lane following its mahout wisely, without forgetting the passers by which propose thousand wonders to you, ask you thousand questions, disfigure you by balancing the head. India will not be able to leave you indifferent.

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