 Child talking Child talking You're getting up Me, me, me, me, me, me Hey rex is the idiot, I'm Corbin I'm Rick You can follow us on Instagram It's so juicy It's a couple Uh, and take a breath for us on Patreon Patreon, no Patreon Um, there's exclusive content on there, everything that gets blocked is on there True There's quite a few things Yep It's cool to see Patreonic peoples giving us messages before you've put it up on the channel Oh yeah And then I know, oh, I know what's going up right now Yeah I got insider information pals Um, but, uh, this is called Geography Now India This has been requested probably since the inception of the channel And then, uh, Gabby did it a few weeks ago And then those requests always ramp up after he does some stuff Sure But it's 19 minutes, which is why Wow We haven't done it yet Good grief Uh, it's just, because this place gets hot Because I can't have the AC running while we're filming because it'll be loud Uh, and so Yeah, so we have to do this early Thank you We have to do this early in the morning So, we have finally encroached upon the giant India Some of you have been waiting a long time for this episode I'm just gonna say straight up You all know India is incredibly complex and diverse Even Indians have trouble understanding their own country Obviously I won't be able to scratch even the surface in this episode But I'll try my best You said a lot about it A lot of Indian giant things have helped me along the way So, thank you And that's an orange shirt Let's begin Life is energy It's time to learn geography No Hi everybody, I'm your host, Barbie This place doesn't even need much of an introduction Everybody has heard of India It's big, it's loud, it's colorful And most importantly, it has a plethora of confusing territorial anomalies That I just can't wait to cover Here we go It's bold saying India is a place where everyone is in a hurry But no one is ever on time First of all India is located in South Asia Right on the Indian and Arabian seas And the Bay of Bengal Bordered by six other countries So close to seven But that land bridge between Sri Lanka Got wiped away like 600 years ago by a cyclone India is divided into 29 states And seven union territories With the capital New Delhi Which acts as its own administrative unit And kept it in the capital territory Keep in mind, New Delhi is actually just the name Of one of the districts in the capital territory Made up of 11 The largest city, however, is actually Mumbai With New Delhi, Bengalore or Bengaluru And Hyderabad following after However, the four busiest airports Are Delhi, Indira, Gandhi, International Mumbai's Chatrapati, Shivaji, International Bengaluru's Kepe Golda International And Chennai International in the South Ah, you know why I'm smiling This is my favorite part of any episode we ever make Territorial Anomaly Time India is loaded with strange borders And deliciously complex demarcation lines First of all, what exactly is a union territory? In the simplest way I can put this Union territories are places that are too distinct To be incorporated into a state But too small to have their own local governments The first one, of course, is the Delhi National Capital Territory where the capital lies Chandigarh is a post-independent city Constructed to replace Lahore as the capital Of the Punjab area after it was split up Between India and Pakistan Then you have the island territories The smallest one, Lakshadweep and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands The Andaman Islands being home to one of the Last uncontacted people groups On the planet, the Sentinelese tribe Whom have been hostile to visitors I remember that As well as the Nicobar Islands Which used to be the short of Thali, Denmark Finally, the three union territories Are former European colony towns and ports Dhadra and Nagarhaveli, Daman and Diyu Which are separated by about 200 kilometers Across the Gulf of Kambat And the most confusing union territory The French-speaking Putacheri Which is actually split up between Four district cities across India Karikal, Mahe, Yanauan and Pondacheri Pondacheri is strange because it has 11 enclaves within the Tamil Nadu state Or in this area you can also find The experimental hippie-ish commune With a little bit of cash first Don't forget, here the eastern states Also known as the Seven Sisters Are connected by this incredibly narrow 27 kilometer wide pathway Known as the Siliguri Corridor This pathway is like a crucial armory That completes the India puzzle Or so you would think Now let's discuss the juicy stuff Now in the China episode I already talked about the disputed areas With India such as Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh The latter pretty much just belonging to India As it's almost completely inhabited And operated by Indians So let's move to the other disputes Now as of 2015 The Bangladesh episode is already outdated As India and Bangladesh have finally come to an agreement Over the frighteningly complex Former Enclave-X-Clave dispute In the end, India only lost About 40 square kilometers of land to Bangladesh And now only a few enclaves and ex-claves exist Now let's head north Now when you try to draw the shape of India You might want to be careful which depiction you use Some might use this picture Some might use this Some might use this And those that don't really study very well Might use this The point here is like The most heavily militarized, diplomatically stressed out region On the planet It's already had like four wars in the past half century Basically, India, Pakistan and to some extent China all want the entire area for themselves Although it's more of like a Pakistan-India thing In the China episode We already discussed the Chinese disputes with India So I won't cover those in this episode If you want to learn more Just watch the China episode But anyway, this entire area was a former domain Known as the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir That was under royal Maharaja rulers All the way up until independence Currently, this place is split up by this Fenced-off, militarized line Known as the line of control Between India and Pakistan Why is this? Well, in the quickest way I can put this Okay, the British are out We gotta take your land Uh, no We want to be an independent princely state We're supposed to take your land And majority of your people are Muslim Just like us Even though your ruler is Hindu as well Hey, India If you help me I'll let you secede my territory to your land With autonomy Deal I love how Mike played India He totally represents India I won't keep in mind Pakistan's capital, Islamabad Is less than 80 kilometers away from all that drama The line of control meanders through the mountains Until it stops at a point called NJ 9842 This is where things get really crazy The weird name? Because from there, you hit the C.H.G. Glacier The second longest non-polar glacier in the world And this is pretty much military After point NJ 9842 You hit the actual ground position line A series of military outposts That extend all the way to the Chinese border That means everything in this area Is ground zero for the Indo-Pac tension And you know the crazy thing is There's actually literally small towns Of normal regular civilians Living in these areas high up in the mountains Many of which just go about daily life Going to work and raising their families Otherwise they have a river dispute with Nepal And various river islands disputed with Bangladesh Outside of all the dispute stuff though India not only has the world's second largest Road network And three of the world's top 10 mega cities And their own space program But they also have a copious abundance Of landmarks and notable sites Way too many to list But some of the ones that you guys The Indian Jager Peeps have told me to mention Include places like The abandoned Dhanushkodi ghost city Golkanda Fort The four pillars of Charminar The Ajanta Buddhist art caves The Elora monolithic ruins Mandu fortress The Golden Temple Which feeds over 100,000 people a day The Golgumbaz mausoleum The Kalabantin Durk post The ruins of Hampi The hill forts of Rajasthan Chaturunjaya hill Which is basically like a mecca for Jains The temple of the Bodhi tree Jaan Mahal Bangar Fort The most haunted place in India Mahabhat Macbara And keep in mind Just like in China You can find a great wall of India in Rajasthan There's also the Paritala Anjanaya temple With the largest statue in India Depending Hanuman And at over 150 acres The Sri Rangan Ataswamy temple The largest Hindu temple in the world Man, there's also that building With the stuff and the thing Whatever Anyway, we could go on for centuries Talking about India's rich constructed damasaw But what it lies on top of Is even more fascinating Now, don't make this mistake I'm going to India All I need are my sandals and sunscreen Oh, crap As a seven-block street in the land area India has a wide range of landscapes Climates and elevations That all contrast from one block to another First of all, let's talk about the north India sits on the Indian tectonic plate That essentially smashed into the Eurasian plate Which in return created the largest mountain range The Himalayas Of course it's so strong that it's estimated that the Himalayas Grow about 2.4 inches or 6.1 centimeters Every year There's also you can find Kanchenjunga The tallest mountain in India Or the third in the world Right on the border of Nepal Keep your eye on these mountains These are pretty much the source Of most of India's major rivers That give life to the whole country That's why India takes these mountains so seriously You can also find the largest natural lake Ular up in the Jammu Kashmir area Below the Himalayas You reach the north Indian river plains Sometimes referred to as the Indus Ganga This is the most fertile part of India Where the most important rivers Like the Ganges and its tributaries flow Heading a little south You reach the Sapura and Vindia ranges That pretty much divide north India From south India On each side you get the west And east got mountains Which in return creates this massive triangle thing Called the Deccan Plateau This place is moderately forced Especially in the east In the Chotra Nagpur Plateau Where you get a section of the Swampy Sunderbans That they share with Bangladesh Check out the Bangladesh episode Head a little west And you have the dry Tahr Desert Along the border with Pakistan As well as the run of Kuch Known as the South Desert And finally the only active volcanic area To be the Adaman and Nicobar Islands Look at that The Beren Island works And actual conical eruptions And baritone having 10 mud volcanoes Now here's the thing Although India has a relatively high population density They do relatively well With maintaining their ecological footing In fact in 2016 They beat a world record By planting disputably 50 million trees In one day They've also agreed to re-forced About 12% of their country by 2030 The most heavily-forced area Being the southern sister states In East India Now one of the factors That contributes to this Would be the fact that India Has the lowest meat consumption In the world With the highest population Of vegetarians At around 40% Most of whom are lacto-vegetarians That consume milk products By the way in India When buying groceries This label means vegetarian And this one means Not vegetarian Nonetheless the remainder of the population Does typically eat Some kind of animal protein Mostly in the forms of seafood Or chicken But almost never beef or pork Unless you're part of the Muslim Or Christian minorities Scattered throughout the West and East areas Now let's talk about the role Of cattle Shall we? India has more cattle And livestock than anywhere else In the world at around 330 million And it's interesting Because since they have Prevalent Hindu traditions The killing of cows Is illegal in many of the states Except for a few And each day Has varying degrees of punishment For committing intentional Cow slaughter Keyword intentional Cows accidentally get Hit by cars all the time Once a cow is too old To produce milk It typically is released Into the open to die Naturally in the wild Ideally Nonetheless male cattle Get it much worse As they are deemed As kind of useless Some places use them As draft animals for labor Some religious sex Use them as sacrifices But otherwise They are typically sold To the underground market For beef or hides To this day They sell cows As male cattle in India So that means Something's happening To the males Nonetheless, India does Have the third highest Carbon emission rate After China and the US Fourth, if you consider The EU However, emission per capita They rank pretty low At only about Two kilotons per person Contrast that with Cobra There are 94 national parks 501 animal sanctuaries Across the country Where you can find Some of the national animals Like the peacock The Ganges River dolphin The king cobra The Indian elephant And the highest population Of Bengal tigers In the world The most irrigated land In the world Which allows them to become The number one producer Of multiple products Like millet, bananas, lemons, Limes, mangoes Mangoes, mangoes, mangoes Chickpeas, milk, butter, Fennel, jute And about 75% of the world's Spices alone Come from India Speaking of which Food Typically you can find This table I was thinking the same thing In Nan, in the north Idli and dosa In the south And everybody eats rice The more commonly commercialized Indian foods But not what they're not As grew up knowing Like samosa, tikka masala Tandoories And my favorite India dish Yeah, delicious Of India Seriously, India You took spinach And made it fat I love you guys Otherwise, the west Is mostly known for their chutneys And pickled foods As well as beef Since there's a high number Of Muslims and Christians The south uses a lot more coconut And has some of the best curries Like poriyals, sambras, rasams And tutus And the east is known For having the best desserts Keda, mishti doi, raskula Or shunday Speaking of which India is so diverse and complex That sometimes Even Indian people Need translators When going to different states It's about to get Ten times more confusing One It's a little extra Shashi Tudor once said In India We celebrate the commonality Of major differences We are a land of belonging Rather than blood First of all India has a population Of about 1.3 billion people And it's the second most Populous country in the world After China With about 18% Of the world's population About 72% of the country Is Indo-Aryan And a quarter are Dravidian And the majority Of the remainder Are Mongoloid Asian And other people groups They also use the Indian rupee As their currency They use the type C, D And M plug outlets And they drive on the left Side of the road So they go for these bank notes To leave the country But you guys have sent me A lot of them for fan mail For fan Friday videos So I don't want to go to jail Again Now keep in mind Those statistics that I just mentioned Are incredibly generalized Of the Indo-Aryan And Dravidian communities There are about 2,000 Different ethno-linguistic People groups in India With about 1645 District indigenous tribes 52 major ones So obviously We can't cover them all But what we do know Is that the north Is very different from the south For one, the north Mostly speaks the languages That are all related To the Indo-Aryan branch With languages like Where the south Speaks a completely Unintelligible Dravidian branch With languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada Tamil, I thought it was Kannada Canada Also has the sign of Tibetan and Austro-Asianic languages Spoken in foreign languages I want to know how much of these things He's pronouncing correctly How do they all like Communicate with each other Great question Although India does not Have an official language There are 22 recognized National languages And of these Two are the most prevalent Taught in schools And used by government officials Hindi and English And very often these Are like mixed mid-sentence Don't be surprised If you hear someone Speaking Hindi And then suddenly Finishing off in English It's like Why are you trying to do that? 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Policy can put the order And the washing machine I told them But I said I'm going to give them A bob-stagger with a chainsaw Now of course Let's discuss the one thing That goes hand in hand with Hinduism About 80% Of India claims to be Hindu Or as part of the Hindu practice and community Now we don't have time To explain everything About the tenets And multilayered philosophies And practices of Hinduism If you want to know How ideology Pretty much dominate most of life In India Everything from family To business You will see colourful Mesmerizing shrines, temples, statues And rituals being performed Everywhere Even in public On the Barat Mata The mother of India Statues are everywhere She's like the symbol of India The largest Hindu pilgrimage The Kuma La happens Every three years Rotating between four cities In which the adherents Bade in the Ganges River and enjoy a massive festival With tens of millions of people Like seriously You can practically see it Happening from space Now a controversial topic In relation to Hinduism Would be the caste system Which is basically a belief That people are born into a socio-economic life That they are destined to serve into Today however The system is more fluid And loose from what it used to be From a long time ago And thanks to economic reforms Anybody with enough drive Can kind of move up the social ladder Regardless of birth Nonetheless, India is home To every major religion in the world Even a few Jews Including the Vinay Manashe An indigenous group That clings to Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Even a few Jews Oh, that was a lot of information. Ah! Okay, so by now you can't get a grasp of how incredibly mixed and diversified India's population is, but what exactly holds the country together? Well, for one, you kind of have to understand Indian history, which will take way too long to explain, but in the quickest way I can put it, into this valley, Maurya and Gupta empires, southern empires, golden age middle kingdoms, a ton of new religions come flocking in, the north fell to the Delhi Sultanate, the south became the Vijaya Nakara empire, Mughal empire starts, British East India Company, direct British rule, nationalist movements, independence, republic, economic liberalization in 1991, and here we are today. Vijaya. This country used to be made up of around 500 smaller royal princely states, and when the British came in, they kind of exploited them to manage such a huge population. Although India is a democratic federal republic, and the largest democracy in the world, the old royal families still exist today, and although they have no political power, they hold high positions of influence in their communities across India. So today, typically, you could meet someone that would be considered an Indian crank or princess. Nonetheless, the biggest thing that really united Indians in the past two centuries would probably be their hatred of British rule. It was kind of like, well, this is not cool. Yep. What do you say you and I work together in a, in this thing? Especially one good thing you could say that came out of imperialism was that it kind of stopped all the internal squabbling and unified the groups towards one common goal, to get rid of imperialism. Today, Indians are just proud to be Indian. I mean, a Tamil soccer player can get cheered on by a Rajasthani, a Punjabi pop star can sell out tickets in Orissa, a spin of which all Indians love movies and music. India has the second largest film industry in terms of volume pumping out nearly 2,000 films per year. Surprisingly, Nigeria pumps out more. Not second. Nigeria pumps out more. That's only about $2 billion annually compared to Hollywood. Very, very, very hard to believe. But still, it's impressive. And keep in mind, it's not just Bollywood, but it's also Tollywood, Gollywood, Colliewood, Pollywood, and so on. There's like 20 different woods in India. Oh, and like every movie in India has at least one scene where everybody breaks out in song and there's almost always a happy ending. That is not true. How much of his stuff is crap? It's almost become an obsession to be light or fair skinned, causing people to go so far as to buy skinned products. Some other controversies include things like illiteracy, being an issue in many parts of the country, especially in the rural areas. But I mean, come on, when your country has literally hundreds of different writing systems, go figure. I mean, give them a break. Also, many of you guys, the Indian geography groups, have asked me to bring awareness to the fact that India does, unfortunately, have some of the highest rates of human trafficking and child slavery. The government is trying to crack down and culture is slowly being reformed. But for now, it's a sad reality that still does exist. Hey, here at GN, we talk about the good and the bad. I'm just saying. Otherwise, sports do definitely tie everyone together as well, especially cricket, the national sport, even though they also use it really well in football hockey. India also has a lot of their own indigenous sports, like Doppakel and Assam, bull racing in Kerala, but it's Suknar, Ragh, pushing in Misura and Malakamba, the strange pole yoga gymnastics team in the South. That's me before we film. India or Indian descent might include people like Starfaqatama or the Buddha, Mahavir, Ashoka the Great, Pritviraj Chauhan, Arangzeb, Shivaji of the Maratha Empire, Mahantas or Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Subhash Chanda Bose, Jawahar Lal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, Sibi Raman, Satyendra Nath Bose, Bhagat Singh, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Arir Khan, Salman Khan, Priyana Chopra, Ben Kingsley, Sundar Pichai, Satya Narayana, Nadella, Teyar Raman, Sachin Tendulkaran and Hendra Singh Dhoni. There's also literally millions of other famous people. I missed out on, if you want to mention them, please. Here's a comment section below. Use it. I can tell you a bunch of famous people. I can tell you a bunch of interesting people. Interesting people. Marathon, shall we? You forgot. You forgot. You forgot. Now, no surprise, India is huge and therefore has a huge international outreach when it comes to diplomacy to almost everyone, except their immediate neighbors. First of all, countries with large population percentages of Hindus and Indians like Fiji, Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, Mauritius and Malaysia typically stay close to India's roster of go-to friends. They enjoy cordial relations with trade. Now, the UK may have left on a sour note but they still have a lot of ties to their former colonizer in terms of business and tourism. India is still part of the Commonwealth? Not Commonwealth, well, there's a difference and the UK has over 1.5 million citizens of Indian descent. As mentioned in the China episode, China is kind of like India's I'm only here to do business with you and nothing else friend as drama still hasn't subsided in regards to the territory conflicts. Now, when it comes to the US, things started kind of sour back in the 70s during the Indo-Pac War in 1971 when the US sided with Pakistan, their arch nemesis. Today, relations have cooled off mostly. The US supports India's move towards democracy and as a key ally in the military conflicts in the Middle East. When it comes to their best friends, however, most of the Indians I talked to have said Russia and Bhutan. Russia because during the Indo-Pac Wars, Russia came in and supported them and ever since then, each country has held a high position of respect for the other, especially as global superpowers. Bhutan and India signed a treaty of friendship almost immediately after independence. The two countries have shared interest and a currency-pegged system as well. Bhutan even supported the annexation of their cousins in the Sikkim state into India as it gave a nice buffer of land from China's stake to their claim. In conclusion, you will not find anywhere else on earth like India. Thousands and millions of people inhabiting a cultural, majestic, green, slightly gritty at times, slab of earth, blessed and cursed in so many ways, yet wonderfully harmonized, mostly in a unity unlike anywhere else. In the end, that's India. Ah! Stay tuned, Indonesia is coming up next. I liked all the puns. Wow. Have you ever seen those things on the internet? It's called like the Too Much Information Challenge. Yes. Where they feed you a bunch of women. Yeah, and see what you retain. Yeah. Have you seen the video about, Michael would know what this is, because he showed it to me. It's like the history of the world in five minutes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. That one kills me. It's like from the beginning of the creation of the universe until present day, with every single possible thing that ever happened in world history. It's brilliant. This was way more engaging than I thought it would be for 19 minutes, because of the speed at which he's going. He's going really fast, he's having a lot of information. A lot of information. However, I would love to know how much of his stuff is actually verifiably accurate, because a lot of the things, not a lot, some of the things I could pick up on that weren't. Yeah. And actually kind of a couple of things pissed me off a little. But as a whole, dang. I want to see his teleprompter too. Yeah. And that was like four years of Indian culture and history wrapped into a 19 minute video. Yeah, and then not like I could remember. No. No. And as always, let us know what was right. Yeah, I just, all I could think of was how many things are going to be picked up by stupid babies. I'm going to go, well, actually, we're going to get a ton of comments of both supporting what he said and said, yeah, that was true. And then we'll get comments saying no, that is not true. No, no, it's always like somebody does this by the United States. Yeah, exactly. It's also about different perspectives as well. But we knew this already. You can take an entire lifetime. Oh, yeah. Of studying India and you're never going to even scratch the surface. You just won't. You could just, you could take a lifetime just studying the architecture. I did love the part where you were showing us all like the ruins of different. Oh, yeah. That's one of the things, if I had the opportunity to tour India for months, which probably won't, sorry, guys, have a family. If I did, I would love to just travel each different place and see like that one, the nature, but then also the old ruins and that's always the favorite part about seeing anywhere. Yeah. When I went to Ireland, we went and searched for old castles. Old things, yeah. That's what I love to do. Absolutely. I like to touch just to be somewhere that's been around for hundreds or thousands of years and to touch it and know who else has been here and touched that and been around that. I'm with you. That is an interesting, one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Yeah. Arguably the oldest in terms of total history. It's quite funny how often civilizations argue about what civilization is the oldest. I know. Like when you go to Ireland, there's places that are considered to be the oldest right in the world. In the world. And then China says, wait a minute, and then Egypt says, wait a minute, and then India, and then India's like, hold my beer. Yeah. And the one who can't say anything is America. We're like, hey, wait, no, you guys got that. Unless you talk to the Native Americans. Yeah, exactly. They would have some information and go, yeah, well actually, guys, before you got here, then you get into genocide and all that, it's fun. Yeah. Hashtag American history. But yeah, that was fun. Let us know if there's other videos of information about India. I think we've done a couple of, we've done more ads, tourism ads. Yeah. Which I'd love to do more of those. Yeah, yeah, always love those, but informational ones as well. Yeah, just informational culture about particular regions. I know there's ones that people sent me about temples as well, learning about the different temples. I don't know nothing about, I just know that you build a temple and it's cool. Yeah. That's the extent of my knowledge. Exactly. I'm sure it's for some religious reason. But yeah, let us know some other videos like that. I hope you stay till the end. If you did kudos to you. I'm sure your chai is ice cold.