Contribution of India to World civilisation:
1. Adaptability: The greatest peculiarity of Indian culture lies in its timely adaptability according to the circumstances. This is the sole reason behind the ushering of changes in our philosophy, literature, art, science, architecture, society, customs, mode of eating and drinking from time to time. But the originality of Indianism remained intact.
2. Absorption: The Indian society adapts art, literature, philosophy and all the other exterior influences. This is the only reason why solidarity gets clearly reflected through diversity in India.
3. Religious tolerance: India gave Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism to the world. Secularism is the greatest gift of India to the world. The religions in India such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and the religion of the Parsis were woven together in a single thread of religious tolerance though they had various differences.
4. Astronomy: Varahmihir and Aryabhatta were the famous astronomers of this age. Aryabhatta discovered the causes of the solar eclipse and the lunar eclipse. He had made an inference about the circumstances of the earth too. Varahmihir had discovered that the moon revolves round the earth and the earth revolves round the Sun.
5. Science and Technology: Hard and rough steel was used in India for the first time. Many dyes were discovered with the help of chemistry.
6. Geography: We get the description of the Indian rivers, mountains and other natural regions in the Puranas. But we have never striven to know about the Geography of other countries.
7. Medicines: The Indians studied physiology in order to find remedy for many maladies of human bodies. We get a description of various types of medicines in Atharva-Veda. The famous physiologists like Charak and Sushrut have narrated the uses of herbs for the treatment of various people in their famous texts named as the Charaksamhita and the Sushrutsamhita.
The above facts reveal that India's is a remarkable contribution to world civilization.
