1. INDIA

2. History
Long ago, India was ruled by Mogul emperors. Then the empire fell apart into smaller kingdoms, ruled by maharajas.
By the 1600’s, Europeans had come into India to trade for Indian spices, silks, cotton cloth, and tea.
In 1857, the British took control of India and ruled there until One very important man, Mohandas Gandhi helped India gain independence.
Gandhi practiced civil disobedience. That means that he would not do what the British wanted, but he was never violent.

3. CONT’D… gained its independence in 1947 from the Britain
Its constitution was completed in 1950 which put in place a secular and democratic republic.
It has remained a democracy with civil liberties and an active Supreme Court.

4. REPUBLIC OF INDIA country in South Asia 5000 year old civilization
federal Republic state based on bicameral parliament
29 states and 7 union territories
7th largest country in the world; with km2
2nd largest poulation in the world; over 1.2 billion people
14 different languages, dialects: Under constitution, Hindi (spoken by more than 40% of the country’s population) and English are official languages.
No state religion: India has one of the most religiously diverse nations. India is a birth place of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikkhism.

6. Political development
Political Freedom - FREE
Freedom Status PR CL
Freedom Rating
Aggregate Score
Trend Arrow
India
Free 2 3
2.5 77
PR = Political Rights CL = Civil Liberties CL, PR, Freedom Rating Explanation: 1 = most free and 7 = least free Aggregate Score Explanation: 0 = least free, 100 = most free

7. CONT’D... Freedom of the press Country Abuse Score Corruption 136
India 57
Country or Territory
2016
2015
2014
2013
Score
 India 79 38 36

8. Economic Development Economic liberalization begun in the 1990s.
Reforms were made for consolidating public accounts, promoting investment and industrial development and improving the business climate.
5 Indian companies recently received the globally acclaimed Deming prize. This prize is given to an organization for rigorous total quality management (TQM) practices.
Flextronics, the $14 billion global major in Electronic Manufacturing Services, has announced that it will make India a global competence centre for telecom software development.
The Indian pharmaceutical industry at $6.5 billion and growing at 8- 10%annually, is the 4th largest pharmaceutical industry in the world, and is expected to be worth $12 billion by 2008.

9. CONT’D...
Bharat Forge has the world's largest single-location forging facility, its clients include Honda, Toyota and Volvo amongst others.
Hero Honda with 1.7M motorcycles a year is now the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world. 
India is the 2nd largest tractor manufacturer in the world.
India is the 5th largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in the world.
Ford has just presented its Gold World Excellence Award to India's Cooper Tyres.
Suzuki, which makes Maruti in India has decided to make India its manufacturing, export and research hub outside Japan.
Hyundai India is set to become the global small car hub for the Korean giant and will produce 25k Santros to start with.
By 2010 it is set to supply half a million cars to Hyundai Korea. HMI and Ford.
 The prestigious UK automaker, MG Rover is marketing 100,000 Indica cars made by  Tata in Europe, under its own name

10. GDP growth (annual %)

11. Inflation (annual %)

12. Main Sectors in Economy
Breakdown of Economic Activity By Sector
Agriculture
Industry
Services
Employment By Sector (in % of Total Employment)
51.1
22.4
26.6
Value Added (in % of GDP)
17.4
28.8
53.8
Value Added (Annual % Change)
4.9
5.6
7.7

13. Unemployment, total (% of total labor force)

14. Poverty gap at $5.50 a day (% of population)

15. Poverty gap at $1.90 a day (%)

16. Development in Health Sector???
1990
2000
2010
2016
Life Expectancy at births (years)
57.9
62.6
66.6
68.3
Fertility Rate (births per woman)
4.05
3.31
2.60
2.35
Mortality Rate, under 5 (per 1000 live births)
88.4
45.5
36.2

17. HDI value of BRICS, 1980-2012 Countries 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
2010
2012
Russian Federation
…..
0.730
0.713
0.753
0.782
0.788
Brazil
0.522
0.590
0.669
0.699
0.726
China
0.407
0.495
0.637
0.689
South Africa
0.570
0.621
0.622
0.604
0.629
India
0.345
0.410
0.463
0.507
0.540
0.554

18. Going to the Movies
We love to watch movies in America. Hollywood is the biggest producer of films in the world, right?
WRONG! India produces about eight hundred movies a year. That’s even more than Hollywood. Indian families love to go to the movies just as much as we do.
Can you think of American movies or television shows that you have seen with Indian actors or actresses in them?

19. FUTURE???
Despite pressing problems such as significant overpopulation, environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and widespread corruption, economic growth following the launch of economic reforms in 1991 and a massive youthful population are driving India's emergence as a regional and global power.