India is a vast and enormous country. It's the seventh largest country in the world in terms of land area
And it's a second largest country in terms of population
With over 1.2 billion people because there are so many people living in such a large area of course
It's understandable that there would be some cultural differences between the regions so here are 10 differences between North Indians and South
Indians how's it going everybody my name is Leroy Kenton
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We have the origins now
They have different origins so the North Indians are descendants of the Aryan race
Whereas the South Indians are descendants of the Dravidian race? It's estimated that 72% of Indians are descendants of Aryans whereas?
28% are of Dravidian race and the next up is addressing style although the dressing style is largely the same
There are some slight differences between the everyday clothing women in the northern states such as Punjab Bihar and Delhi
vapor for salwar kameez or churidhar
but in the southern states like Kerala and Tamil Nadu
The saree is the preferred dress for men in the south wearing white Doty's or colorful Lundy's are very common
But Doty's in the north aren't that elaborate and men usually end up wearing pants in the north now
There is a big difference in language between the two cultures because they come from different places the Dravidian language like Tamil
Kannada and Telugu
Is unrelated to languages of other known cultures in the north of India because they speak languages
Which have evolved from the indo-aryan language like Punjabi Hindi Urdu and Kashmiri and now looking at the musical instruments
Right so the musical instruments used by musicians
also
vary while sitar sarangi and
Santoor are very popular in the North the violin the veena as well as Mr
Dan gum are favored in the south well so the musical instruments very so of course you can imagine that dancing does as well
Many forms of classic Indian dance is very
Devotional so the dancers play out musicals that tell fables of the gods some poplar Dan forms in the north are
Kkatalk cha who gaya ODC and mani pari dances that are popular in the south are capped, Akali
Kuchipudi as well as mohini attam
Now every single region has its own unique cuisine South Indian food is much spicier and hot than North India
South Indians consume a lot more rice while North Indians have a lot more wheat North Indians prepare parathas chapati
puri
and rotis
Now rice is combined with different lentils to prepare dishes like rice dosa and these are very common in South India now
fish and coconut are used a lot more by South Indians than North Indians now we want to look at the
Differences with the religion both northern and southern India has a majority
population of Hindus Muslims are the largest minority in India
And they're mostly concentrated in yupi Delhi
Kashmir and Gujarat after that there's Sikhism Jainism Buddhism and Christianity
You can pretty much find all these religions in South India as well about
80% of South Indians follow Hinduism Islam is the second highest number and that's at 11 percent while
Christianity follows at 8 percent
But there are a greater population of Muslims that live in North India than they do in the south
And also these two regions have pretty distinct histories the North has been historically
Considered the base of the ancient families like the Mari as Gupta's
Harsha's the Mughals Sikhs and the British Empire as for the South now it had the most
important trading Shore in the Indian subcontinent
And they traded with the Romans Greeks Arabs Syrians Jews as well as the Chinese from the south
Now looking at the economic growth so now unlike the north the South Indian states have really recorded higher than average
numbers over the past three decades
The south also ranks higher in terms of social and economic development in areas such as fertility rate as well as infrastructure
however economic disparity between the rich and the poor
Illiteracy as well as poverty are still major problems in the region and finally I want to look at the major
cities so thus other cities have become a hub for
Technological research and development cities like Bengaluru as well as Hyderabad are global capitals of call
Centers now cities like Delhi on the other hand in the north are really more about the political
Workings of the country and how the country is gonna be operating
Versus like technological advancements so there you have it guys
Those were some differences between the North Indians as well as the South Indians, and thank you so much for requesting this episode
I definitely learned a lot more and end-of-the-day India is still such a beautiful place and so
United regardless of the differences between the north and the south
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