MODERN PROBLEM AND BENEFITS BY CULTURE AND CUSTOMS OF INDIA
CULTURE:
Culture can be defined as the belief, knowledge, art, moral, law, custom and other capabilities and habits acquired by man in society. [1]
CUSTOM:
Custom can be defined as the habitual pattern that is passed from one generation to next generation.
For example: Holi is the Hindu religious festival celebrated in India, It is also called color Festival, and ‘The Festival of Love’ is popular in the spring season.
Many festivals like this are celebrated in India and it is passed from generation to generation.
RELIGION:
Hinduism and Buddhism are regarded as originating from India and it is identified as the third and fourth largest religions. About eighty four percentages of the total population of the India are Hinduism, thirteen percentages of India is Muslim (Islamic nation) and the remaining three percentages of India are Christians, Sikhs, Buddhism and Jainism. Fig.1 (Hindu philosophy in ancient India-Vedas, Aryans and non-Aryans) [2]
FOOD:
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Most child marriages involve underage women, many of whom are in poor socio-economic conditions. It is 47% from small sample surveys of 1998. Rural rates of child marriage are higher than urban rates in 2009. It is due to the lack of education among rural than urban. Child in the young age doesn’t know about marriage and they marry an unknown person, it affects their psychological thinking and leads to depression in their life. The law for child marriage was changed by the Indian government as its ‘The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act of 2006’, which applies only to Hindus, Christians, Jains, Buddhists and those who are non-Muslims of India and outside the state of Jammu and Kashmir. For Muslims of India, child marriage is based on Sharia and Nikah because they have been claimed as a personal law
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