India, officially the Republic of India ("Bharat Ganarajya"), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

The Indian subcontinent was home to the urban Indus Valley Civilisation of the 3rd millennium BCE. In the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism began to be composed. Social stratification, based on caste, emerged in the first millennium BCE, and Buddhism and Jainism arose. Early political consolidations took place under the Maurya and Gupta empires; the later peninsular Middle Kingdoms influenced cultures as far as southeast Asia. In the medieval era, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived, and Sikhism emerged, all adding to the region's diverse culture. Much of the north fell to the Delhi sultanate; the south was united under the Vijayanagara Empire. The economy expanded in the 17th century in the Mughal Empire. In the mid-18th century, the subcontinent came under British East India Company rule, and in the mid-19th under British crown rule. A nationalist movement emerged in the late 19th century, which later, under Mahatma Gandhi, was noted for nonviolent resistance and led to India's independence in 1947.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the population of India?
2. Does this make it the largest population in the world?
3. What is it ranked?
4. And by land mass?
5. Where is it located?
6. Is it land locked?
7. What body of water is to the southeast?
8. And what does it lay west of?
9. Is it near Sri Lanka?
10. What else?
11. What system came about in the first millennium BCE?
12. How does this categorize people?
13. Which religions followed?
14. When did Christiannity appear?
15. Who controlled the north?
16. And the south?
17. When did they begin to have an active commerce?
18. Under the rule of whom?
19. When did the royal of Britain take control?
20. What began later that century?
21. Known for?
22. Led by whom?
1. 1.2 billion people
2. no
3. second
4. seventh
5. South Asia
6. no
7. the Bay of Bengal
8. It shares land borders with Pakistan
9. yes
10. the Maldives
11. Social stratification
12. based on caste
13. Buddhism and Jainism
14. In the medieval era
15. the Delhi sultanate
16. the Vijayanagara Empire
17. in the 17th century
18. the Mughal Empire
19. mid-19th century
20. A nationalist movement
21. nonviolent resistance
22. Mahatma Gandh