{"id":313,"date":"2017-10-02T18:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/?p=313"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:17:00","slug":"facts-about-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/facts-about-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian subcontinent forms a huge cultural sphere and its influence has radiated around almost the whole of Asia. India\u2019s cultural heritage is enormous, and includes archaeological evidence of some 10,000 years, as well a four-thousand-year-old literary tradition. Two Indian religions, Hinduism and Buddhism, as well the sacred language, Sanskrit, <a href=\"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/hindu-buddhist-cosmology\/\">cosmology<\/a> and architectural and other artistic prototypes gradually spread to other parts Asia.<\/p>\n<p>This is also partly true with the theatrical traditions. The grand epics, the <a href=\"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/the-mahabharata\/\"><i>Mahabharata<\/i><\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/the-ramayana\/\"><i>Ramayana<\/i><\/a>, for example, together with Hinduism, spread to various parts of Asia, where they are still enacted in various styles. The theory and dance-like acting technique of Indian theatre were also adapted and gradually localised in those regions with long-lasting contacts with the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian subcontinent forms a huge cultural sphere and its influence has radiated around almost the whole of Asia. India\u2019s cultural heritage is enormous, and includes archaeological evidence of some 10,000 years, as well a four-thousand-year-old literary tradition. Two Indian religions, Hinduism and Buddhism, as well the sacred language, Sanskrit, cosmology and architectural and other [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disco.teak.fi\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}