India is a country with a population approaching 1.3 billion. It is quickly closing the population gap with its neighbor to the north China. However, with a geographical land mass equal to 1/3 that of the USA, India is, for the most part, densely populated.
Unemployment is common and 35% of Indians live below the poverty line. Many people are jobless and homeless. In the city of Calcutta, for example, there are 2,000,000 homeless people. However, there is economic growth in the business sector.
Many Western companies are moving some of their operations to India in order to take advantage of the inexpensive labor. Due in part to the tropical climate in much of India, diseases such as bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, typhoid fever, dengue fever, malaria, and Japanese encephalitis have taken their toll on the population.
The name `India’ is derived from the River Indus, the valleys around which were the home of the early settlers. The Aryan worshippers referred to the river Indus as the Sindhu. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan’ combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
India is a over 1,600 languages are spoken within its borders.
Hindus believe in 330 million gods and the devout Hindu will try to please as many of these as possible. Karma, the belief that one's situation in life is fixed as a reward or punishment for deeds done in a former life, dominates the Hindu worldview.
Hindus also believe that they must be reincarnated (reborn) 82 trillion times in their quest for salvation. Salvation for the Hindu is being united with the ultimate being, called Brahman-Atman. Once this occurs, they will cease to exist, and thus will be saved.
Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) | ![]() |
Area | 418, 323 km² | |
States and territories | West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar and Jharkhand | |
Most populous cities(2008) | Kolkata, Durgapur, Bhubaneswar, Patna, Siliguri, Asansol, Cuttack, Ranchi | |
Official languages | Bengali, Hindi and Odiya | |
Population | 226,925,195 |
The socio- economic condition of the reference area is in bleak. Contradictory envy with social alienation is one of the most dreadful equipments. Social alienation is isolation from the society which is nothing but single kind of swaggering unfriendliness or revengeful misdeeds with people living around. People do not get the help or advice or co-operation of theirs’ neighbors at the time of essential emergency need.
They prefer love- knot unite with the social miscreants, supply regular instigation to rape the Christian minorities women care- givers, firing up the Christians’ faithful Church with properties, abuse the girl adolescents especially tribal & minorities. Does repeated violence attack throwing bricks- stones for forcible collection of Tola or subscription or illegal demand of high posting service job in our social welfare organization so on and so forth.
At present situation, the deadly disease of social alienation has turned up such a low infectious level that even if one tries to help someone else, it is looked down upon with suspicion. As the tremendous consequences, it increases the high risk of psychotic illness in the society. Innocent huge children are brought up, as the future generation of our nation, in such an environment that tends to develop a sense of apathy towards neighboring people around them.