Asian Indian Americans - Research Article from Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 29 pages of information about Asian Indian Americans.

Asian Indian Americans - Research Article from Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 29 pages of information about Asian Indian Americans.
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India, the most populous country in South Asia, is a peninsula. Bounded by Nepal and the Himalaya mountains to the north, Pakistan to the northwest, the Indian Ocean to the south, the Arabian Sea to the west, and the Bay of Bengal to the east, India occupies about 1,560,000 square miles.

Second in population only to China, India is home to around 900 million people of diverse ethnicity, religion, and language. About 82 percent of all Indians are Hindus. Approximately 12 percent are Muslims, while smaller minorities include Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Zoroastrians. While official Indian languages include Hindi, which is spoken by about 30 percent of the population, and English, hundreds of dialects are also spoken in India.

India's capital is the modern city of New Delhi in northern India, and its flag is the "tricolor," which boasts three equal stripes of orange, white, and green...

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