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Drives on the
left
Calling code
+91
Founded
1947
Hemisphere
Northern
WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED
Indian
These are English demonyms for people from India. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.
Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.
No known flag
Indus Valley civilization
c. 3300–1300 BCE; urban peak c. 2600–1900 BCE
Settlements in present-day Pakistan and northwestern India, rather than all of either country.
Seals preserve animal motifs and an undeciphered script. They are not evidence of a national flag.
Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others.
Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is
hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that
fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk
import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing,
occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country
missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the
quiz no longer asks who fought in what.
Mahatma GandhiLed the independence movement
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights...
Jawaharlal NehruFirst prime minister
Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century.
B. R. AmbedkarArchitect of the constitution
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and politician who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau.
Indira GandhiPrime minister, assassinated in 1984
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian stateswoman who twice served as the Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.
Narendra ModiPrime minister since 2014
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who has served as the prime minister of India since 26 May 2014.
Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data
(2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source:
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