| History
of India goes back to 3,200 years when Hinduism was first
founded. As a consequence of India's size, the history of the country
has seldom been the same for two adjoining territories, and its great
natural wealth has lured a succession of traders and foreign influences
to it, each having left their imprint in the country, however faint
or localized. Thus, Chinese fishing nets in Kerala are a throwback to
that country's ancient maritime trade, while in the north, terra-cotta
figurines of the centuries BC bear distinctly Greek traces. |