Indian culture Flashcards
What is heritage?
Heritage is anything that is inherited; it has been in existence and is being passed to us.
What is natural heritage?
Natural heritage includes natural or geographical features like mountains, forests, deserts, land, sea, river, lake, etc.
What is Cultural heritage?
It is a creation of humans using their intelligence, skills, and artistic ability.
Cultural heritage is divided into:
tangible and intangible heritage
Tangible heritage is also called
archeological heritage
Tangible heritage is
means built heritage which comprises physical objects, concrete forms, materials, etc., for e.g., monuments and forts.
Intangible heritage is also called
Living heritage
Intangible heritage is
ranges from ideas, traditions, living styles, practices, etc. The continuing tradition constitutes living heritage and represents the personality and nature of a country. for e.g., customs, traditions, language, etc.
Culture is
It is a complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, art, morals and any other habits acquired by human beings.
The dictionary gives the meaning of culture
as the training and refinement of mind, taste, and manners or “the intellectual side of Civilization”
Material culture
includes technology, architecture, art forms, material goods and equipment used in daily life in the household, agriculture, commerce, warfare and other social activities. All these reflect material culture.
Non-material culture
includes literature and intellectual tradition, believes, myths, legends, and other habit acquired by a human being as a member of society.
What is an integrated system?
culture
What is the chief vehicle of culture?
language
Heritage also represents?
culture
India is reffered to as
Bharat varsha
India is named after the King
Bharat- The legendary king
Indians had faith in the river
Sindhu
The Persians called Indians Hindhu and it was passed on to Greece and thus
along the river sindhu and beyond was called Hindustan.
Indian culture is not a monolith but a
synthesis of diverse standards of the culture of different people of India.
It is assimilative and built into
itself whatever was good in other cultures and thus enriched itself along.
The power of simulation and synthesis has throughout the ages categorized the Indian culture and passed through
Vedic, Islamic and European influences and survived with its own glory in spite of numerous invasions faced from time to time.
