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www.hantra.com/India |
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India1@hantra.com |
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2/A, Durga Apartment, Ajmal Road, Vile-Parle (East), Mumbai 400057, India
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91-22-26182440 |
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91-22-26134740 |
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Mr. Sanjay Vasant Khedgikar |
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Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan |
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total: 3,287,590 sq km
land: 2,973,190 sq km
water: 314,400 sq km |
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1,049,700,118 (July 2003 est.) |
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Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000) |
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Hindu 81.3%, Muslim 12%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other groups including Buddhist, Jain, Parsi 2.5% (2000) |
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English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 30% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language |
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purchasing power parity - $2.664 trillion (2002 est.) |
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textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software |
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