
Indian Culture And Traditions
Every culture has three aspects: first, upward will, core ideal and thought turned upon the ideal; second, creative self-expression and appreciative aestheticism and imagination; and thirdly, practical and outward formulation. These three are represented, respectively, by religion and philosophy; Art, poetry, literature; Society, politics, and outward frame of external life. In addition, it is the function of the culture to lead these four elements of life in man and to build some kind of harmony of these forms and motives. India has a history going back thousands of years and a prehistory going back hundreds of thousands of years. There was a long phase of Paleolithic hunting and gathering cultures …