Indias Culture

Food, Language and Clothes

Indias Map

National and Official Languages

Hindi: Is the National Language of
India. Its the most widely spoken language among Indians. English: Is the Official Working Language of India.

State Languages
Each state in India has a main Language that can be used for official purpose within the state, in addition to Hindi and English. There are 29 states in India

Northern States Official Languages

States where Hindi is the official language: Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttrakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi and Harayana. These states are known as the Northern belt states. Punjab Punjabi Jammu and Kashmir - Urdu

Eastern States Official Languages

Assam Assamese West Bengal and Tripura Bengali Orissa Oriya Mizoram Mizo Sikkim Nepali Manipur Meitei Arunachal Pradesh English Nagaland - English

Western states official Languages

Gujarat Gujarati Goa Konkani Maharashtra Marathi

Southern States Official Languages

Karnataka Kannada Andhra Pradesh Telegu Tamil Nadu Tamil Kerala Malayalam

Food of India

Punjabi Food

Foods from North India: Mostly wheat flat breads Chappatis or Rootis, lentils or dals, vegetables and pickles. Northern foods contain Muglai flavor or Ghee (butter) flavor.

Bengali Food

Food from Eastern India consist mainly of rice, fish, dals, vegetables and sweets. Bengali sweets like Rasogolla and Sandesh are famous all over and favourite among all Indians.

Western India Food

Foods from Western India consist of coconut flavor in Goanese cuisine with lot of fish items which is eaten with rice. In Maharashtra and Gujarat people mostly eat rice, vegetables and dal.

South Indian Food

In the Southern states people eat mostly rice or items made from rice, such as Dosas and Idlis in Tamil Nadu. Due to hot climate the foods are mixed with hot peppers and tamarind. In Kerala a lot of fish items are prepared using both spices and coconuts.

Traditional Costumes
Sherwani Sari Churidar Kurta

Salwar Kameez

Traditional Costumes
Punjab
Salwar Kameez Kurta Pajama

Jammu and Kashmir

Pheran and Poots

Traditional Costumes
Rajasthan
Achakan & Dhoti

Ghaghra Choli

Traditional Costumes
West Bengal
Sari Dhoti Panjabi

Maharashtra Orissa

Traditional Costumes
Karnataka Andhra Pradesh

Tamil Nadu

Kerala

There is a great diversity among different regions of India in terms of language, culture and dress. But though we are different we all Indians. Unity in diversity is our distinct feature as Indians.