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Competencies
C-2.3, C-4.2

• Critical thinking
• Information literacy
• Creativity
21st CENTURY SKILLS
• AIL
8 India’s Rich Heritage
• Social skills

Warm Up

Can you name this style of painting? Tick (3) it.

(a) Tribal art (b) Madhubani (c) Warli

India has a unique and rich culture. It has been made unique by our
languages, dances, music, paintings, architecture, etc. These elements

show unity in diversity in our art and culture.

Languages

A number of languages are spoken in our country. Different forms of
the same language are called dialects. About 800 languages and dialects
are spoken in India. Hindi and English have been chosen as the Official

Languages of India. The Constitution of our country has recognised 22

languages. These are as under:

Assamese Bengali Bodo Dogri Gujarati
Hindi Kannada Kashmiri Konkani Maithili

Malayalam Manipuri Marathi Nepali Odiya
Punjabi Sanskrit Santhali Sindhi Tamil

Telugu Urdu

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