Talk:Culture of India

More on Culture

This page needs a section on cultural history and since culture is so closely linked to religion in India, a note on Islamic and western influences. I think we also need more on the actual culture of India (or diversity of culture) and less about art (or it should be called 'Indian culture and art' and be a redirect from indian art and indian culture). Any thoughts? --Pranathi 05:31, 6 May 2005

Holy Hell...

Someone tag this with a clean-up!

OR in the article?

Anyone care to explain how Pakistan was "influenced by the medieval Indo-Persian culture"? I just reverted it.[1] as Pakistan did not exist as a nation in the medieval period. Darkness Shines (talk) 19:01, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

India was also not present in its current form. At that time Pakistan and North India belonged to Delhi Sultanate. Am I wrong in this? --Dravidianhero (talk) 19:05, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

India has been around for thousands of years, it used to the land beyond the Indus. But if I recall correctly, Alexander the great popped in there, which I think was most certainly before the medieval period. But even as city states the country was there, Pakistan however is a new nation, so they cannot have been "influenced by the medieval Indo-Persian culture" which is just a silly suggestion. Darkness Shines (talk) 19:17, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Regardless of when Pakistan originated, content on which culture Pakistan was influenced by, that too in the lead, is beyond the scope of this article. Correct Knowledge^«৳alk» 19:23, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Isn't it a bit radical to exclude all other regions? such as Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka or Bangladesh. Can Culture be limited by national borders? I don't think so. However, I agree, that it could be left in the lead section.--Dravidianhero (talk) 19:34, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

You are right, culture cannot be limited by national borders. I was only making a limited point that this article need not cover the Culture of Pakistan which is an article by itself. Maybe, an article on Culture in South Asia could include a similar lead. Correct Knowledge^«৳alk» 19:47, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

No tribal culture section

Please add a section for tribal people with their specific customs and traditions.--Dravidianhero (talk) 12:49, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

No Bengali culture Photograph

Please post or try to add some bengali food items and specially the photos of bengali sweets and fish curry items.That will make the bengali's happy.Please try to mentain that Kolkata is said to be the cultural capital of India Anurag Chakraborty —Preceding undated comment added 12:36, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

OR: subcultural variations evolved mainly by contact with Muslim powers

The "evolved by mainly" Muslim powers claim in lede is original research, ignores nizams in Hyderabad which is hardly northern India. Punjabi Indian culture in the north is quite different than islamic culture. The second para of the lede also ignores the large Christian population in the south and their distinct culture. I studied the suggestions to lede over last 6 months by several editors; someone is giving undue emphasis to Muslim and north India without supporting such emphasis. Claiming no support necessary is inappropriate, see wp:v. Please provide a few respected scholarly support, at least on the talk page, for this "subcultural variations evolved mainly by contact with Muslim powers".

The lede should mention India's cultural diversity, without the original research whether the culture was "mainly" influenced by Muslim or British or whoever. Kiitos.