A

Presentation
On
“INDIAN HARITAGE”
Stream :- MAM SEM – IV
Subject :-Management Principals
Prepared By :- Janvi H. Dhorajiya
Submitted to : Ayub Khan
(ASS. Professor in Smt. Shantaben Haribhai Gajera
MBA Mahila College )
Heritage
 introduction

Heritage means what we inherit from our ancestors

and from our past.

The heritage of India is the result of developments

in the social , economy , culture and life style of
people.

The land and people are two component of

heritage.
 Cultural heritage
Religions
Family structure and marriage
Greetings
Festivals
Animals
Cuisine
Clothing
Languages and literature
Epics
Dance
Architecture
 Religions

India is home to some of the most ancient

civilizations, including four major world
religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and
Sikhism.
 Religions
1.9 0.8 0.4
2.3

13.4
Hindu
Islam
Christians
Sikhs
Buddhists
Jains

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 Family Structure & Marriage
India has had a prevailing tradition of the joint
family system.
It is a system under which extended members of a
family live together.
Arranged marriages have been the tradition in Indian
society.
the majority of Indians have their marriages planned
by their parents and other respected family-
members. In the past, the age of marriage was
young.
Indian Family
 Greeting

Namaste (Hindi)
Juhar/Namaskar (Odia , Kannada)
Swagatam (Marathi)
Namaskaram (Telugu, Malayalam)
Vanakkam(Tamil)
Nomoshkaar (Bengali)
Nomoskar (Assamese)
Namaste
 Festivals
The three national, the Independence Day,
the Republic Day and the Gandhi Jayanti, are
celebrated in India.

Indian New year festival are celebrated in different

part of India with unique style in different times.
 Animals

• The varied and rich wildlife of India has had a

profound impact on the region's popular
culture.

• In Hinduism, the cow is regarded as a symbol

of ahinsa (non-violence), mother goddess and
bringer of good fortune and wealth.
Cuisine
 Clothing

Traditional clothing in India greatly varies across

different parts of the country and is influenced by
local culture.

Popular styles of dress include as sari for women

and dhoti or lungi for men. Stitched clothes are
also popular such as churidar or salwar-kameez for
women, withdupatta thrown over shoulder
completing the outfit.
OUR TRADITIONAL COSTUMES
Dhoti-Kurta
 Languages and literature
Sanskrit is the root of all Indian languages.

India is home to hundreds of languages. Twenty

three of these are spoken by more than one million
people, and almost all of them are officially
recognized in another in different parts of the
country.

Hindi, which is spoken by 422,048,642 people

(41.03%)
 Epics
The Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata are the oldest
preserved and well-known epics of India.
Other regional epics include Tamil Ramavataram,
Kannada PampaBharata.
Hindi Ramacharitamanasa,
andMalayalam Adhyathmaramayanam.
In addition to these two great Indian epics, there are five
major epics in the classical Tamil language —
Silappatikaram, Manimekalai, Civaka-cintamani and
Valayapathi-kundalakesi.
Oldest Epics
 Dance

India has had a long romance with the art of dance.

The Indian art of dance as taught in these ancient

books, according to Ragini Devi, is the expression of
inner beauty and the divine in man.

It is a deliberate art, nothing is left to chance, each

gesture seeks to communicate the ideas, each facial
expression the emotions.
 Architecture

Indian architecture encompasses a multitude of

expressions over space and time, constantly
absorbing new ideas.

The Indus Valley Civilization (2600–1900 BC)

Mauryan and Gupta empires
Sculpture
 Bibliography

www.inidanheritages.org
www.Wikipedia.org – cultural heritage
www.google.com/images