Genesis of Indian Culture: A Historical Overview

Abstract

In India, as in some other countries of the third world, great civilizations and cultures have flourished from times immemorial. Elsewhere the link has been broken. Contemporary India reverberates with the echoes of the past and gives them new shape and form each day. The evolution of culture is the result of the interplay of two factors the physical environment and metaphysical ideas. Indian national culture also consists of these two elements: the common temperament and outlook which constitutes the Indian mind and the intellectual influences of various movements and cultures which have been incorporated harmoniously with the national mind. Abstract: The paper focuses on the cultural history of India, it find that whenever any new movement of thought originated here or came from outside, it resulted temporarily in accentuating the existing differences. But soon the Indian mind set into motion its process of seeking unity in diversity, and after some time the conflicting elements were harmonized to lay the foundation of a new culture. This vision assumes a certain objective mental form in their particular social environment and becomes the group ideal, which is then objectified into certain mental and material characteristics making up what is called culture.