books.google.co.in - At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nation was born. It has 17 major languages and 22,000 distinct dialects. It has over a billion individuals of every ethnic extraction known to humanity. It has a population that is 32 percent illiterate, but also one of the worlds largest pools of trained...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/India.html?id=fRSC_uTGhZ8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIndia