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India, officially the Republic of India is a country in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories. [1] All Indian states and some of the union territories have their own elected government and the union territories come under the jurisdiction of the Central Government.
The barasingha is the state animal of the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. [ 28 ] A barasingh (as Kipling writes the name) is mentioned ten times in The Miracle of Purun Bhagat , the second story in The Second Jungle Book .
List of Indian state symbols. This is a list of the symbols of the states and union territories of India. Each state and union territory has a unique set of official symbols, usually a state emblem, an animal, a bird, a flower and a tree. A second animal (fish, butterfly, reptile, aquatic animal or heritage animal) sometimes appears, as do ...
Uttar Pradesh ( / ˌʊtər prəˈdɛʃ / UUT-ər prə-DESH, [ 13] Hindi: [ˈʊtːəɾ pɾəˈdeːʃ]; lit. 'North Province') is a state in northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world – more populous than all but four other countries ...
List of Indian state birds State Common name [3] Binomial name [4] Image IUCN category [5] Andhra Pradesh: Rose-ringed parakeet: Psittacula krameri: Least Concern: Arunachal Pradesh: Great hornbill: Buceros bicornis: Vulnerable: Assam: White-winged wood duck: Asarcornis scutulata: Endangered: Bihar: House Sparrow: Passer domesticus: Least ...
The state emblem of Uttar Pradesh owes its origin to the Royal Society in the United Kingdom, which approved the symbol in 1916. The 'Coat of Arms' adorning all UP government files, letterheads and vehicles and other government stationery, including its publications using it as seal, has an underlined idea. Unveiling this quite an unknown idea ...
Sankissa (also Sankasia, Sankassa and Sankasya) was an ancient city in India. The city came into prominence at the time of Gautama Buddha. According to a Buddhist source, it was thirty leagues from Savatthi. [ 1] After the Gautama Buddha's Mahaparinirvana (death) king Ashoka developed this place and installed one of his Pillars of Ashoka in the ...
Bengali. Hindi. Santali. Urdu. Nepali. States and union territories of India by the most commonly spoken languages, among which most are scheduled but some are not scheduled languages, like Ao of Nagaland, Khasi of Meghalaya, Ladakhi of Ladakh, Mizo of Mizoram and Nyishi of Arunachal Pradesh. Exceptionally, Mizo attains state level official ...