Ancient Indian Culture

It is rather natural for any person to be proud and protective of their culture because they are brought up admiring it. Indian culture is wide and diverse and no answer can fully justify the explanation it requires.

Historic Indian culture was when a lot of feats were accomplished by Vedic culture in science, mathematics and various other fields. At that time, it was predominantly Hinduistic because there weren't any other people coming to India with the idea of invasion. Our centuries' old books had accurate calculations of the value of pi, irrational numbers and even the distance between the sun and the earth. It was also when women were protected staying in houses to get meals ready. It was and has always been sad for women in almost all cultures.

India recieved diversity when people from other countries invaded for their wealth. The invaders and travellers brought and enforced their culture here. It was also when people misinterpreted caste system as something that should be decide by their families.

Traditional culture had joint families. Children had cousin and neighbours to play with. Addictions and bad habits weren't possible. Kids were answerable to parents even past 40 and 50 years of age. So there was no place for extra marital relationships.

Indian culture respects natural human relationships. In traditional Indian society, marriage is of the most important factor and every individual is expected to stand by his or her partner. Indians do not take divorce which isn't common.

The perspective of Indian culture is ancient but not narrow. There isn't any need to follow the tradition instead praise it!

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