Edgar Allan Poe - Annabel Lee Research Paper
INDIA / HINDU LITERATURE
LOCATION * India is the most populous nation (after China) and seventh largest in area. * Located in South Asia on the Indian subcontinent. * About 3000 km ( 1865 mi) wide and has, 7000 km (4350 mi ) along the Bay of Bangal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west. * India’s land frontier of about 5700 km ( 3540 mi) is shared with Pakistan on the west; with China, Nepal, and Bhutan on the north; and with Bangladesh, and Burma on the east. India’s seventh neighbor is the island nation of Sri Lanka, located off the southern tip of peninsula. Northeast India is virtually is the isolated from the rest of the nation by the county of Bangladesh. Also part of India are the Laccative islands off the western coast and the Andaman and Nicobar islands, located in the eastern portion of the Bay of Bangal.
CULTURE * Indian culture is a great antiquity. The earliest Indian civilization grew up in the Indus Valley from 4000 to 2500 B.C. Beginning about 1500 B.C , Aryan invaders entered India from the northeast and intermingled with local Dravidian population. * India can be divided into three main topographic regions: Himalayan Mountain systems on the north, Ganges, and Brahmaputra rivers in central India; and Peninsular India of the South. * The Himalayas from parts of India’s boarders with Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tibet in the west and with Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet in the east. The region is topographically complex and divided into prominent elongated valleys and mountain ranges. * The Northern Plains are part are vast lowland extending across the subcontinent from Pakistan in the west to Bangladesh in the east. * And in the rest of India by the Ganges and its many tributaries.
LANGUAGES More than 200 languages are spoken in India, and linguistic diversity provides an important key to understanding Indian Civilization. Four major languages groups are represented. The most important of
LOCATION * India is the most populous nation (after China) and seventh largest in area. * Located in South Asia on the Indian subcontinent. * About 3000 km ( 1865 mi) wide and has, 7000 km (4350 mi ) along the Bay of Bangal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west. * India’s land frontier of about 5700 km ( 3540 mi) is shared with Pakistan on the west; with China, Nepal, and Bhutan on the north; and with Bangladesh, and Burma on the east. India’s seventh neighbor is the island nation of Sri Lanka, located off the southern tip of peninsula. Northeast India is virtually is the isolated from the rest of the nation by the county of Bangladesh. Also part of India are the Laccative islands off the western coast and the Andaman and Nicobar islands, located in the eastern portion of the Bay of Bangal.
CULTURE * Indian culture is a great antiquity. The earliest Indian civilization grew up in the Indus Valley from 4000 to 2500 B.C. Beginning about 1500 B.C , Aryan invaders entered India from the northeast and intermingled with local Dravidian population. * India can be divided into three main topographic regions: Himalayan Mountain systems on the north, Ganges, and Brahmaputra rivers in central India; and Peninsular India of the South. * The Himalayas from parts of India’s boarders with Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tibet in the west and with Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet in the east. The region is topographically complex and divided into prominent elongated valleys and mountain ranges. * The Northern Plains are part are vast lowland extending across the subcontinent from Pakistan in the west to Bangladesh in the east. * And in the rest of India by the Ganges and its many tributaries.
LANGUAGES More than 200 languages are spoken in India, and linguistic diversity provides an important key to understanding Indian Civilization. Four major languages groups are represented. The most important of