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India. A Diverse Culture. The Culture. India is a country that bases its society off of a social hierarchy. They value large families, and like to arrange their children’s marriages to keep peaceful, extended families.
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India A Diverse Culture
The Culture • India is a country that bases its society off of a social hierarchy. • They value large families, and like to arrange their children’s marriages to keep peaceful, extended families. • India is a multi-cultural country that not only celebrates different holidays (i.e.: Republic Day, Independence Day, and Gandhi Jayanti, but also practices many religions (i.e.: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism). • Their cuisine is unique because they use many different spices to make it. • The traditional clothing consists of saris and Ghaghra Cholis (Lehengas) for women and for men the traditional clothes are the Dhoti, pancha / veshti or Kurta. • The music is a variety of religious, folk, popular, pop, and classical music.
Musical Instruments Indian instruments such as the sitar, sambal, Bullbul, and the Gotuvadyam. The Gotuvadyma looks like its made out of wood, has twenty-one strings and fretless. It sounds similar to the Sitar.
MusicalInstruments Left: A woman playing the sitar Right: Some of the Indian instruments such as the Gotuvadyam, Santur, Sitar, etc
There are multiple varieties of folk, popular, pop, classical music and R & B in India. An important genre is Raga music, which is based on seventy two melas, or sets of notes that are always played in order. Raga’s are played with different emotions, such as shringara (romantic and erotic); hasya (humorous); karuna (pathetic); raudra (anger); veera (heroic);, and so on. They each coincide with the six seasons, winter, spring, summer, autumn, rainy season and early winter, and the different time of day, early morning, sunrise, morning, noon, afternoon, sunset, early evening and late night. Most of the early Indian music was written by saints for devotion and meditation. It is used throughout temples. Most of the music also comes from filmi, film music. The Hollywood of India is nicknamed Bollywood and many of their songs are incorporated styles from traditional Ondian religious melodies and American Boardway music. Musical occasions and styles
Music occasions and styles (Above left corner) People are having fun and playing music. (bottom right) The movie Saawariya which had many song and dance numbers.
Interesting Information Religion: India is the birthplace of a variety of religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Janism, and Sikhism. Traditions: Arranged marriages have been part of the tradition in Indian society for centuries. Even today, many Indians have their marriages planned by their parents and other family members Music: The music of India includes samples of religious, folk, popular, pop, and classical music. The oldest examples of Indian music are the melodies of the Samaveda that are still sung in certain Vedic Śrauta sacrifices
Interesting Information A statue depicting Maitreya at the Thikse Monastery in Ladakh. (Below) Indian Flag (Above) A variety of Indian curries and vegetable dishes. (below)
