Enjoy Amazing Facts about India

This is a compilation of random facts about India or related to India.

Enjoy Mind-Blowing, Shocking and Amazing Facts about India.

1. Navi Mumbai, a planned satellite township of Mumbai, was developed in 1972 and is the largest planned township on the planet.
2. In 2004, 200 women took law in their own hands and came to the court armed with vegetable knives and chilli powder and murdered on the court floor a serial rapist. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.
3. War of 27 years fought between the Maratha Empire and the Mughal Empire from 1681 to 1707 was the longest recorded military engagement in the history of India.
4. In 1955, Jawaharlal Nehru rejected an offer to India for a permanent UN Security Council seat to avoid being embroiled in the cold war politics.
5. Viswanathan Anand is first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match.
6. India is one of only 3 remaining countries in the world to have a horsed cavalry regiment.
7. Agni III is the most accurate missile in the world in its range category and BrahMos is the fastest operational cruise missile in the world.
8. The process of crystallization of sugar from sugarcane juice was discovered in India in the Gupta period (350 AD).
9. Many tribes in India worship Asura and Ravan and consider Vijaya Dashami and Dussehra to be black days.
10. In 1928, when the Indian Hockey team was on its way to Amsterdam, they played a series of exhibition matches in England. Seeing its caliber, England decided not to field a team for the Olympics as “they did not want to lose to a slave country.”
11. Lonar Lake, a saltwater lake in Maharashtra, was created by ameteor hitting the Earth and is one of its kind in India.
12. Raj Kapoor’s 1951 film Awaara was massively popular in Soviet Russia and China. The film and its title song were Mao Zedong’s (Founder of People’s Republic of China) favorite.
13. There were two US navy warships called USS Krishna and USS Indra that served during World War II.
14. The oldest building in Asia is in India, the Sanchi Stupa.
15. There is a species of Shark known as the Ganges Shark that inhabits River Ganga and it is critically endangered
16. The first railroad was constructed by two Indians (Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Jaganath Shunkerseth) and not the British.
17. Mount Kailash has never been climbed, in spite of Chinese government’s support to the climbers.
18. When going to battle Indian kings would make their horses wear trunks. The other side’s elephants would refuse to attack the horses thinking that the horses were baby elephants.
19. If Uttar Pradesh were to be a separate country, it would be world’s fifth most populous country.
20. Bodhidharma, a prince of the Pallava dynasty went to China and began the physical training of the Shaolin monks that led to the creation of Kung Fu.
21. Tipu Sultan used Rockets with Swords fixed in the front against the British in the Anglo-Mysore Wars.
22. There is a French electronic band named “Masala Dosa.”
23. Ajmal Amir Kasab had a case booked for entering CST station without a ticket.
24. There was a Great Hedge built by the British across India primarily to collect the salt tax. It was 4000 km long and 12 feet in height spanning from Punjab to Orissa. None of it remains today.
25. There is a village called Delhi in New York, USA. There is a city called Madras in Oregon, USA.
26. India has three Antarctic stations, Dakshin Gangotri, Maitri and Bharathi.
27. After United States, India has the largest number of English speakers.
28. During the battle of Rezang La in the 1962 India-Sino war a battalion called 13 Kumaon Regiment consisting of mere 120 soldiers held off 6000 Chinese with heavy artillery killing 1300 of their soldiers.
29. Bangalored‘ is a word in Oxford dictionary, which came up after heavy outsourcing to India took the world by storm.
30. One of the oldest College of Engineering in the world is in Chennai, College of Engineering (Guindy).
31. There is a village in Assam called Jatinga where over the last 100 years, thousands of birds have flown to their death over a small strip of land.
32. India has the world’s smallest prison population.
33. The average cost of census taking in India is $0.5 per person (US: $39, World Average: $4.6).
34. Frozen bank accounts of Ottavio Quattrocchi were unexpectedly released by India’s law ministry in 2006 apparently without the consent of the CBI which had asked for them to be frozen.
35. India Post allows you to order personalized stamps with your picture on them.