Curated playlist
States and union territories of India
- BiharBihar was home to the first known republic in India, set up before the Buddha was born.
- OdishaAshoka invaded the ancient kingdom of Kalinga, now Odisha, in 261 BCE, and the war turned him toward Buddhism.
- Andhra PradeshPotti Sreeramulu fasted to death in 1952 to win a Telugu-speaking state. Andhra State was carved out the next year.
- GujaratGujarat, a state in western India, was home to the world's first dry dock at Lothal.
- AssamAssam, a state in India, is linked to the rest of the country by a strip of land just 22 kilometres wide.
- Uttar PradeshMore people live in Uttar Pradesh than in Brazil. It is India's most populous state, with over 241 million people.
- LadakhLadakh is a high Himalayan region of India, and its very name reads like an altitude report. In Tibetan, La dwags means the land of high passes. Its own people have called it Kanchapa, the land of snow, and Ripul, the country of mountains.…
- MaharashtraMaharashtra is India's richest state, yet farming still employs nearly half its people.
- West BengalWest Bengal's Left Front ran the state for three decades.
- DelhiDelhi's name has three competing origin stories. One says a king named Dhillu built the city in 50 BCE.