8 Contributions of India to the World

BANGALORE: An independent India was bequeathed a shattered economy, widespread illiteracy and shocking poverty. But we have rose above the odds and grown in to a stable economy with great growth. Even though India is still considered as a developing country, it had played a vital part in the development of the world. India had contributed with some of the millstones of inventions without which the world couldn’t have been the same place that it is now. Thus let us look at some of the important gifts that India gave the world as compiled by Scoop Whoop.

India gave the world its first university - Takshashila University

Education is one among the important industry in the current world. People are competitive to grab knowledge and get placed in high paying white collar jobs. But what if the universities never exist? There wouldn’t have been any graduates at all. India gave the world its first university, Takshashila, which was established in 700 BC. It had 300 lecture halls with stone benches for sitting; laboratories and other facilities were also available.

India gave the world the numeral, Zero

Zero is both a number and numerical digit, without which mathematics will be incomplete as well as our day today lives. Today, zero is perhaps the most pervasive global symbol known. In the story of zero, something can be made out of nothing. India invented the number system as well as we are the first once use Zero as a symbol and in arithmetic operations.

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