Each has its own pilgrimage sites, heroes, legends and even culinary specialties, mingling in diversity that is the very pulse of society.
Stretching back in an unbroken sweep over 5000 years, India's culture has been
enriched by successive waves of migration which were absorbed into the Indian
way of life. It is this variety which is a special hallmark of India. Its physical, religious and racial variety is as immense as its linguistic
diversity. Underneath this diversity lies the continuity of Indian civilization and social structure from the very earliest times until the present day.
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