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Monday, March 17, 2008 by Nivedita Mishra Republic of India

Capital New Delhi
Largest city Mumbai
Official Languages:
Scheduled Languages:
Hindi, English[show]
Hindi in the Devanagari script is the official language of the union[5] and English the 'subsidiary official language'.[6]
8th Schedule:[show]
Assamese
Bengali
Bodo
Dogri
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Kashmiri
Konkani
Maithili
Malayalam
Manipuri
Marathi
Nepali
Oriya
Punjabi
Sanskrit
Santali
Sindhi
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu[7]
Demonym Indian
Government Federal republic[8]
Parliamentary democracy[9]
- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
- President Pratibha Patil
Independence from British colonial rule
- Declared 15 August 1947
- Republic 26 January 1950
Area
- Total 3,287,590‡ km² (7th)
1,269,346 sq mi
- Water (%) 9.56
Population
- 2007 estimate 1.12 billion[8] (2nd)
- 2001 census 1,027,015,248
- Density 329/km² (31st)
852/sq mi
GDP (PPP) 2007 estimate
- Total $ 4.726 trillion[8] (3rd)
- Per capita $ 4,182 (118th)
GDP (nominal) 2007 estimate
- Total $ 1.089 trillion (12th)
- Per capita $ 1004 (132nd)
Gini (2004) 36.8[10]
HDI (2007) ▲ 0.619 (medium) (128th)
Currency Indian rupee (₨) (INR)
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
- Summer (DST) not observed (UTC+5:30)
Internet TLD .in
Calling code +91

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