India
| Greater Indian Commonwealth Bŕhad Bhāratiya Rāṣṭramandal | |
|---|---|
 Flag | |
Anthem: Jana Gana Mana | |
| Capital | New Delhi |
| Largest city | Mumbai |
| Official languages | English, Hindustani |
| Recognised regional languages | many others |
| Religion | Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrism, Judaism |
| Demonym | Indian, Bharatiya |
| Government | Federal constitutional monarchy |
• Empress of India | Elizabeth II |
• Prime Minister | Agatha Sangma |
| Legislature | Parliament |
| Home rule | |
• Status of dominion | 1947 |
| Currency | Indian rupee (INR) |
| Time zone | UTC+05:30 |
| Date format | dd.mm.yyyy |
| Driving side | right |
| Internet TLD | .in |
India, officially known as Greater Indian Commonwealth and also known by its endonym Bharat, is a capitalist state in South Asia. It is bordered to the north by Nepal, Bhutan and China, to the west by Afghanistan and Iran, and to the east by Burma. Formerly a colony of the British Empire, it was granted home rule in the late 1940s, although it still retains the Queen as ceremonial Head of State, along with the other Commonwealth realms.
The country is a member of the Alliance of Free States, and in recent years, has come to challenge its former colonizers, the Franco-British Union, as the greatest power of the Alliance, even overtaking the FBU as the world's largest capitalist economy, with the region having been subject to a great deal of financial investment as a hub of capitalism outside of Western Europe.
India is the most populous country in the world, and is a multicultural and multilingual society, although the most common language and religions are Hindustani (including both Hindi and Urdu) and Hinduism respectively. Other common languages include Bengali, Marathi, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Pashto and Sinhalese. There have been tensions between different religious and ethnic groups to a notable degree, with Muslim and Sikh seperatist movements (India's second and third largest faiths) having played a noticeable role in Indian politics the past. However, separatist sentiment has tended to be relatively low since independence, in spite of occasional hostilities.
