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The education system of India is the world's second-largest. [452] India has over 900 universities, 40,000 colleges [453] and 1.5 million schools. [454] In India's higher education system, a significant number of seats are reserved under affirmative action policies for the historically disadvantaged.
The rankings of national happiness are based on a happiness measurement survey undertaken world-wide by the polling company Gallup, Inc.Nationally representative samples of respondents are asked to think of a ladder, with the best possible life for them being a 10, and the worst possible life being a 0.
List India Ranking/Total Countries Source Notes World Happiness Report: 137/156: UN-SDSN: 20 March 2021 report. Score=3.573 Happy Planet Index: 30 / 140
India is the world's biggest producer of mica blocks and mica splittings. [75] India ranks second amongst the world's largest producers of barite and chromite. [75] The Pleistocene system is rich in minerals. India is the third-largest coal producer in the world and ranks fourth in the production of iron ore.
Today, Hinduism and Buddhism are the world's third- and fourth-largest religions respectively, with over 1 billion followers altogether, [88] [89] [90] and possibly as many as 1.5 or 1.6 billion followers. [88] [91] Throughout India's history, religion has been an important part of the country's culture.
Next is Sri Lanka, which has the 2nd highest GDP per capita and the 4th largest economy in the region. According to a World Bank report in 2015, driven by a strong expansion in India, coupled with favourable oil prices, from the last quarter of 2014 South Asia became the fastest-growing region in the world. [292]
In Hindi, the constitution replaces India with Bharat everywhere, except the part defining the country’s names, which says in Hindi, “Bharat, that is India, shall be a Union of States.”
India became an independent nation in 1947 after a struggle for independence led by influential figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Subash Chandra Bose and underwent a violent partition. India (as of April 2023) is the most populous country with over 1.4 billion people, and is also the most populous democracy in the world.