Ignoring North East India is the most Indian thing in this video 😂

@o0...957

11 ай бұрын

Yup.

@ASH9366

11 ай бұрын

Sala koi puchta hi nehi 😅😢😂

@ravi-jz7ym

11 ай бұрын

I'm also feeling sorry for that

@NikeshDahal-yz1bf

11 ай бұрын

Mero Åma show garo Mero ama very mad ho now 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@tempurashrimp9917

11 ай бұрын

We do not exist. Us North Easterners are not real 🙏

Glad to see that Toycat is talking about my country. It's very interesting to know how deeply he researched about India. Btw, Chandigarh is the shared capital between Punjab and Haryana. I'm from Kolkata.

@richmanifesto1090

11 ай бұрын

How does a shared capital work

@enigmasadrenaline6

11 ай бұрын

you know that Toycat is actually like 1/12th Sri lankan cos of some grandmother he had :) Not sure if she was Tamil or Singhalese though

@Ironbanner12

11 ай бұрын

Same bro

@alahiri2002

11 ай бұрын

@@richmanifesto1090Are you aware of how the territory for Washington DC was taken from the US states of Maryland and Virginia, to create a neutral territory for the governance of the whole country? The portion taken from Virginia was later returned, but let’s pretend it wasn’t. Imagine if the purpose of DC was to serve as a capital for just those two states. It wouldn’t be fair for it to be a part of either state, so it makes sense for it to be its own district governed directly by the federal government. This might give you an idea of how Chandigarh functions. The city functions as the seat of government for the states of Punjab and Haryana, despite being a part of neither, leaving its governance the responsibility of the federal government. I think that’s a pretty rudimentary explanation.

@alahiri2002

11 ай бұрын

⁠@@enigmasadrenaline6In this very video he said she was neither, rather stating that she was a Burgher. Burghers are descendants of Europeans who settled in British Ceylon. While Burghers can (and should) be considered as Sri Lankan if they assimilated into society, I don’t think Toycat’s grandmother falls under that criteria. She was from Ceylon, not Sri Lanka. She had no connection to Sri Lanka other than being born and raised within the colonial territory that later became Sri Lanka. If she had remained in Sri Lanka after the dissolution of Ceylon, then she would be Sri Lankan. Imagine if a Brit went to Ghana when it was a British territory, had children there, raised them, returned to the UK when Ghana became independent, and then their grandchildren started telling people that they are “part Ghanaian.” Toycat is the grandchild in this situation.

Fun fact: Uttar Pradesh was called the United Provinces in British times, retaining the U.P. abbreviation. United what? Well, Agra and Oudh (prounounced Awadh), as they merged in the aftermath of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, locally known as "the First War of Independence." Just like U.P., there was a C.P. province (Central Provinces), but because of the impulse to nativize things, it was renamed Madhya Pradesh (madhya मध्य meaning central in Hindi in a geographic sense). To summarize, U.P. is still U.P. but C.P. is now M.P.

@yourcat2971

11 ай бұрын

"Sepoy mutiny" term was used by British. For us, it was the first war of Independence.

@aasifazimabadi786

11 ай бұрын

@@yourcat2971 That’s right. The British called it the “Sepoy Mutiny,” as if it was merely the East India Company sipahis (sepoys). To Indian nationalists, such as Savarkar, this came to be called as “the first war of independence.” The first time the term was employed, in English anyway, was by Karl Marx. It was the largest anticolonial rebellion in history and there has been extensive debate over what to call it because historians are still in disagreement over the causality: was it economic or political. I merely employed the outdated term for convenience first, as it seems to have achieved a greater level of familiarity beyond India. In all fairness, I did, however point out what it was locally known as (local to where this grand historical series of events, that being in India). Sorry for the misunderstanding.

@yourcat2971

11 ай бұрын

@@aasifazimabadi786 yes right. I also wrote to spread more awareness as British tries to downplay by called it sepoy mutiny.☺️

14:34 calling West Bengal gerrymandered isn't entirely wrong as the state was carved by the British to divide bengal based on religious lines. East Bengal eventually became Bangladesh

@swarupbanerjee147

11 ай бұрын

Bengal was divided twice, one during the Brittish raj and the other one during partiton, so which one are you referring? As far as i know, the first one was done by Brittish , and for latter one, Muslim Leauge was solely responsible!

@anid4669

11 ай бұрын

​@@swarupbanerjee147And the decades-old policy of divide and rule.

@leadharsh0616

11 ай бұрын

@@swarupbanerjee147 well bengal being divided by british raj directly led it to becoming part of pakistan during partition.

@MaKar372

11 ай бұрын

East Bengal became East-Pakistan and then became Bangladesh

Although there are 22 official languages, total number of languages are in the hundreds, some say even thousands. Probably the most linguistically diverse country.

@davisvoelzke8011

11 ай бұрын

except for papua new guinea

@alahiri2002

11 ай бұрын

Papua New Guinea is number one. Wild, I know. If you include the Indonesian half of the island, that number skyrockets even further, and Indonesia is in second place for this reason. Historically speaking, India has had a higher standing on this list, but more and more endangered languages become extinct every year. Nowadays, besides the island of New Guinea and nearby Pacific islands like Bougainville, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, there are now several African nations with higher linguistic diversity than India. This is simply because Africans and Melanesians are actively keeping their tribal languages alive, while most Indians are not.

@user-pakshibhithi10

11 ай бұрын

​@@alahiri2002I don't think India was more diverse than Papua New Guinea in the past too. I agree that tribal languages in India are dying at an alarming rate, but, there were not those many tribal languages in India to begin with, to have a linguistic diversity higher than Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

@joseaguilera1609

11 ай бұрын

@@alahiri2002 You forgot Mexico when speaking of linguistic diversity.

@PratUshh

11 ай бұрын

@@user-pakshibhithi10 Most of the major Indian languages have coutries worth of speaker and are full fledged languages with their own alphabets/grammar/customs/number systems/

20:15 Sikkim only agreed to become part of India because they were scared China would annex them instead. 🤷‍♂️

As a Singaporean Tamil , im glad you mentioned us and our Malaysian cousins across the border

@Hexi75

11 ай бұрын

Singapore, Malaysia Tamil, Malayalam

@XerrosNightscar

11 ай бұрын

@@Hexi75 not really the official language is Tamil in Singapore , and Majority of malaysian indians are tamil

@anaesthete5592

11 ай бұрын

​​​@@XerrosNightscar yeah the Tamil are the majority but there are other Indians also like malayalis, Telugus, Punjabis etc right?

@xijinpig8982

11 ай бұрын

​@@anaesthete5592 Yes, I'm Malaysian Malayali! :) But yes, most Malaysian Indians speak Tamil as mother tongue. There are many whose families are actually from Telugu regions of India too who came to Malaysia but has fully integrated with the Tamil community, hence inflating the percentage of Tamil Malaysians.

@anaesthete5592

11 ай бұрын

@@xijinpig8982 so you guys don't keep the ethnic distinction everyone get integrated with the majority Tamils

14:53 it's a big deal because a lot of former british administrative centres in India including Kolkata had anglicized names because the British didn't pronounce the place names properly. Kolkata is pronounced with Ko Calcutta is pronounced with Ca(as in car) Toycat being british did the exact same thing as those British ppl all those centuries ago

@CoolManCoolMan123

11 ай бұрын

Use Calsium for Calcutta. With car, it sounds like Caaalcutta,

@appa609

11 ай бұрын

​@@CoolManCoolMan123Calcium

@arghadutta001

11 ай бұрын

kolkata wasn't a city at all before British came- there were 3 Villagez called kolkata, sutanuti, gobindapur in the district of 24 pargans- when British came they asked a farmer about the name of the village, and the farmer mistakenly tink British was coming from North India and asked him in hindi- about his crops - he replied in brocken hindi- ' Cal Catta ' ' Cutted yesterday ' (the crops) 😂- and British thought the name of the village is Calcutta and We still using Calcutta in The name of Our University, High court and Medical colleges, 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

@3c3k

11 ай бұрын

@@arghadutta001 sounds like bs

@leadharsh0616

11 ай бұрын

@@3c3k cause it is

Bangalore was the anglicized name of "bendekaaluru" which was the city's old original name. The government changed the name to Bengaluru as it's a more Kannada sounding name but many people still refer to it as Bangalore

My pronunciation policy on this channel is partially because of fun comments - but also pronunciations of foreign words in "local" language genuinely does have lots of issues you can look up :) for now apologies if it offends any Indian viewers though! (no apologies for everyone else)

@user-zd2xj9rl2z

21 күн бұрын

That's the best explanation in parenthesis ever

I love how toycat for no good reason just decides to randomly rank a religion in the middle of the video. Forget about those sarcastic requests to explain something really obvious, all he has to do to get lots of comments is state an opinion about something controversial like religion and job done

If you want to visit India, these could be the general groupings: Tropical and among the most developed of India (Goa, Karnataka, Kerala) Dravidian Style Temple Architecture and Spicy foods (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu) "Classic" Tourism India (Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, West Bengal) Ethnic and linguistic diversity with natural landscapes (Himalayan and Seven Sister States)

@sidharthsundaramramachandr5384

11 ай бұрын

Tamil Nadu , Kerala are the most developed states in India.

@sheevpalps3846

11 ай бұрын

@@sidharthsundaramramachandr5384 That's true, it was just a rough grouping

@santosinipani9498

11 ай бұрын

Yes eastern India totally missed this group except west Bengal.. Irony..

@yomamasohot6411

11 ай бұрын

Sitting in MH laughing at these groupings🤣

@senor2930

11 ай бұрын

​@@yomamasohot6411you can guess the commenter dislikes MH out of jealousy, so didn't write the name! 😂

Fun fact : In Tamil Nadu your house must have a water conservation system on its roof if you don't fancy getting fined.

You murdered the indian names lmao. Fun fact , George Orwell is a bihari

@aasifazimabadi786

11 ай бұрын

That's right. He was born in Motihari, where my grandfather was posted in the 60s (of course, several years after Eric Arthur Blair passed away).

@oyungogdfrust4136

11 ай бұрын

literally 1984

@Spacemongerr

11 ай бұрын

Calling him a bihari is quite a stretch. He's an English Englishman who grew up in England. Born in Motihari to English parents and spent less than 1 year in India in his life

@dv9239

11 ай бұрын

​​@@Spacemongerrback then India followed Je Soli I guess If you were born here you could be an Indian citizen

@KurianfromIndia

11 ай бұрын

Thats like calling General Dyer a pakistani as he was born in now pakistan but has English parents

16:35 a lot of non-hindi States despise hindi imposition. Also hindi isnt exactly hindi everywhere. A lot of distinct related languages are grouped up as hindi which inflates numbers ex:Marwari in Rajasthan, Bhojpuri in bihar, Pahari languages of the Himalayan States. What we call hindi is the language found in Delhi and surrounding areas. It's technically not a major language.

@victorvanderdrift5006

11 ай бұрын

I thought Hindi is (partially?) mutually intelligible with Urdu too? Genuine question

@bonemarrow3439

11 ай бұрын

@@victorvanderdrift5006 Oh yea, Urdu and Hindi are basically the same. There's complete mutual intelligibility between them. What's considered standard urdu is also what's spoken in Delhi. Standard Urdu and Standard Hindi are two dialects of Hindustani.

@sheevpalps3846

11 ай бұрын

@@victorvanderdrift5006 That's true, but more complex words or even slang is different since Urdu is heavily influenced by Arabic/Farsi while Hindi is by Sanskrit. And if you're talking about writing, they're not mutually intelligible at all since Hindi is in Devanagari and Urdu Perso-Arabic Script.

@yashagrawal88

11 ай бұрын

@@bonemarrow3439 Standard Urdu is based on the dialect of Urdu of Rohilkhand. In Delhi Karkhandari Urdu is spoken.

@jagnoorsingh2031

11 ай бұрын

​@@victorvanderdrift5006in writing they officially use different scripts but in terms of speaking they are the same but with different sets vocabulary, like let's say American English and British English. Though most speakers of both the "languages" mix them with each other when speaking.

As a natural-born Texan-American (as opposed to Native American) who has never had the opportunity to visit the beautiful and fascinating land of India, I've always wanted to ask if it bothers Indian-Indians from India that Americans (usually Caucasian-Americans) in the United States often still incorrectly refer to descendents of pre-European Native Americans as "Indians", considering the fact that we've known for several centuries now that the vast majority of these peoples do not trace their ancestral heritage back to the Indian subcontinent?

@bonemarrow3439

11 ай бұрын

It's annoying but that's about it. It's not much offence but it's rather the ignorance. Native Americans are their own unique culture just like us. It's been over 300 years, and still calling native Americans 'Indians' is just... Weird and ignorant.

@d.c.8828

11 ай бұрын

@@bonemarrow3439 I agree. I always try to correct people but there's a weird form of pride in embracing ignorance here in the U.S.A.--the stereotypes are true!

@sheevpalps3846

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's rather strange but I don't think most Indians would give more than an "eyeroll". I think it's a disservice to both Native Americans and Indians to refer to them by that term though, since both cultures are so unique. I know sometimes when I search up Indian related things like clothes or foods it's sort of frustrating for only Native American ones come up!

@v.sandrone4268

11 ай бұрын

As an Australian, I can confirm that Australian Aboriginals find it a mixture of insulting and hilarious to be called African-American, which a subset of Americans use for all dark skinned people.

@sheevpalps3846

11 ай бұрын

@@v.sandrone4268 Dude as an American, I can confirm we don't call all dark skinned people "African-American" lol. Where did you hear that?

These pronunciations killed me

@sebbog

11 ай бұрын

MRBEAAST!!

@aasifazimabadi786

11 ай бұрын

British man mispronouncing Indian names... why am I surprised? It is kind of funny, though.

26:48 we did actually draw the flag as children and it’s pretty easy, although we skipped the details of the chakra (the blue bit) and just used the correct number of lines in a blue circle anyway, as your favourite patreon supporter from India (and in general too), give me a shout if you’re ever planning a trip here, and you need some local assistance or something

@bestleefboi

11 ай бұрын

Yeah

@harshsingh-aug26

11 ай бұрын

👍

@alahiri2002

11 ай бұрын

The number of spokes being 24 also makes it significantly easier. You can just divide the wheel into quadrants, half each of them, and split those subdivisions into thirds, leaving 4 * 2 * 3 = 24 spokes. I think it is fairly simple for a child to draw it like a diagram, far easier than many beautiful flags such as that of South Africa.

Jhar-khand. JAAR-kand. That's where my late grandmother was born (specifically Hazaribagh). Back then, it was part of Bihar in British India.

Bihar has the lowest literacy rate not Andra Pradesh. Kerala has the highest literacy

@sheevpalps3846

11 ай бұрын

It's strange to me that Andhra is still on the low side for literacy, with things like water access, pollution, or especially poverty they exceed especially well.

@Banom7a

11 ай бұрын

bihar is a joke

@aaryankumar8770

11 ай бұрын

Nope,you're relying on older data Andhra has the lowest literacy rate now Though bihar is just 2% ahead

@dv9239

11 ай бұрын

​@@sheevpalps3846all of Andhra's smart people migrated to Hyderabad 😂 Which is now in Telangana

@user-pakshibhithi10

11 ай бұрын

​@@sheevpalps3846Andhra is sometimes called the "Bihar of South India". I don't think it's justified to use Bihar as a synonym to underdeveloped. But, some people just like to bash Bihar all the time. Andhra has access to the coast, but, it is also not poor (per capita wise). But, has a low literacy rate. It is because Andhra and Telangana were united before. So, many educated Andhra people went to live in Hyderabad (which is in Telangana). So, it reduced the literacy rate of today's Andhra Pradesh. If Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were seperate states from the beginning, then, Telangana would have a lower literacy rate compared to Andhra. Because, the Nizams ruled Telangana and under Nizams many people didn't have access to basic education.

Man no offense but this your most uninformed video ever Toycat. Please read this if you watched the video because most stuff there is completely wrong. Saying that Punjab is the center of India-Pakistan problems isn't really correct, during the partition in 1947 most of the Sikh population moved to the east to what is now Indian Punjab due to Pakistan being made as a country for Muslims due to which nowadays Pakistani Punjab has a tiny Sikh population. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are the two least developed states in the whole country despite being the two most populated as well. In Bihar despite alcohol being banned the law is not really enforced at all, in Bihar the police is very easy to bribe and thus Bihar is still not low in percentage of people who consume alcohol. Calling Jain vegetarianism very popular in Maharasthra is wrong, the percentage of population which is vegetarian in the state is 40%, that might seem very high for someone from Europe or the US but in India there are multiple states with over 70% vegetarians like Haryanna, Punjab and Rajasthan. Odisha is pretty famous for its hurricanes and tsunamis which it has suffered a lot of unfortunately. Calcutta became Kolkata to make it more accurate to how Indians would pronounce because Calcutta was based off of British pronouncement. The Marxist uprising known as the Naxalites is based in Chhattisgarh instead of Jharkhand, Jharkhand is the second more affected state but not at all the center. India speaks English as a bridge language more than Hindi, the south has very little Hindi literacy and prefers its own languages but pretty high English literacy thus the country and the Union Government uses English as a way to communicate with the entire country. Maharastra is the center of both Bollywood and also the largest state economically, it has the highest total total gdp and the most factories. Arunachal Pradesh is fully administered by India now I am pretty sure, the places occupied by China are now mostly abandoned I am pretty sure, don't much about that border village though. Calling Tamil Nadu super religious is pretty weird because Southern India in general is less extremist and religious than the North like Uttar Pradesh. Kerala is governed by the Communist Part of India and is the MOST DEVELOPED state in the country, it has the lowest poverty rate *(0.6!)* , the best healthcare, lowest infant mortality rate, highest literacy rate and arguably has the best education system as well. It is almost out of place within the country with its very high development and quality of life. It is also the state which all the people living in the poorer states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar want to move to. Chandigarh is the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, not Punjab and Uttarakhand. For Haryana, economically the capital is Gurgaon (I am from there) which while it is a satellite city of Delhi it is still a part of Haryana. Andhra Pradesh DOES NOT have the lowest literacy rate in the country. It is better than Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. Bihar has the lowest literacy rate of the country. Development wise I would say the best states are Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Punjab, Telangana, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Goa and Maharashtra. And I would say the worst are Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand

@arcisvar4863

11 ай бұрын

Yeah it seems that he did no research for this and just pulled up a map n started talking.

@Kiwikap

11 ай бұрын

@@arcisvar4863 Also south indians hate hindi not bengalis as he said in the video

@bonemarrow3439

11 ай бұрын

Yea i agree, this was one of his most uninformed videos

@aarush4205

11 ай бұрын

Suprised by how Terrible this video was compared to normal. he didn't mention any imp key features, lots of wrong information and yeah the Kerala thing. Didn't mention how south India just doesn't like Hindi and missed out so much info

@Kiwikap

11 ай бұрын

Don't forget da religious conversions in Kerala 🤡

According to our culture and religion, alcohol is a bad thing. Also, there is a huge and I mean HUGE issue with alcoholics in the nation. So, prohibition of alcohol, IF implemented and maintained correctly, then it's a good thing. Also many people consider people who drink alcohol as 3rd class people, basically lower class people.

@KurianfromIndia

11 ай бұрын

Kerala says stfu

@GreatNishanka

11 ай бұрын

@elfrjz yeah lol

@DevotionWithCreativity

11 ай бұрын

Even in states where it is allowed Alcohol is highly taxed and is quiet expensive. Just to discourage people from consuming it😂

@GreatNishanka

11 ай бұрын

@@DevotionWithCreativity true lol

17:29 Bangalore is the anglicized old name Bengaluru is the native name. Folktalewise, the name translates to 'Boiled bean town'

@connormcgee4711

11 ай бұрын

Is their a story why it is called that?

@user-pakshibhithi10

11 ай бұрын

​@@connormcgee4711Maybe it's famous for Boiled beans. Like a local cuisine.

@akilanelango8997

3 ай бұрын

​@@connormcgee4711 The lore says that a king stopped by on what is now Bengaluru, tired, and that an old lady offered him boiled beans. After which the area was proclaimed "Benda-kaalu-ooru", literally "The town of the boiled beans".

@connormcgee4711

3 ай бұрын

@@akilanelango8997 Thank you!

19:52 the Portuguese ruled Goa for 400 years, they were the first to reach india by sea and last to leave. The Portuguese inquisition was one the bloodiest parts of Indian history. Everyone who was not a catholic were persecuted, be it Jain, jew, hindu, muslim, native Syriac Christians, Zoroastrians etc. Places of worship especially Hindu and Jain were completely destroyed in the first decade of Portugal history. Its a very harrowing story to learn about. Converted Brazilian Amerindian soldiers would come break down houses and burn the people at the Stake for being a devil worshiper. Also fun fact the current prime minister of Portugal is 3/4ths Goan

@brtuh5865

11 ай бұрын

least barbaric european empire

You missed Pondicherry, Lakshadweep 😢

@noobita4983

11 ай бұрын

Dadra and stuff too

@waspsandwich6548

11 ай бұрын

​@@noobita4983dadra and Nagar haveli and damman and diu

If you want to go to one place, ill give you a few tips - If you like traffic and bollywood, mumbai is your place. If you like tech then its Bangalore. if you like historical monuments, ill say go to the National Capital Region (Noida, Agra, Delhi). if you enjoy relaxing on the beach then you can go to either Goa or The Andaman and Nicobar islands.

@TeddyBearGaming999

11 ай бұрын

Bangalore has pretty much nothing to do, and the traffic is just as bad or worse than Mumbai. Wouldn’t bother as a tourist

@shivanshna7618

11 ай бұрын

Go to uttrakhand and Himachal for cold mountains

India is a great example of how people of different cultures and with different languages and political preferences can work together. The only country that is remotely similar is China I would say. And if they manage to work together in the future they will be the most important countries in the world.

@DevotionWithCreativity

11 ай бұрын

The only similarity between China n India is that both r in Asia. Otherwise everything is different

@duckpotat9818

11 ай бұрын

I @@DevotionWithCreativity he means in terms of size

The world cup will be held in India this year. You should definitely visit India in October and support your country England. Also, it will be the time of festive season, where major Indian festivals (Durga Puja, Navratri, Diwali) will be celebrated. On top of that, the G20 leaders will be coming to India at the same time. The period of September to November will be so hectic period that India has never ever seen or dreamt of.

We renamed a bunch of cities and states to move it closer to their local or historical names. Its a move away from colonialism.

This is so hecking fascinating Russian regions/states next? (They're called "oblast")

@evanmagill9114

11 ай бұрын

He’ll do it but you have to give him the coords. 😉

@DavidSolimano

11 ай бұрын

Come on, you can't just bring up oblasts without mentioning okrugs, republics, and krais

@dasha-minecraft

11 ай бұрын

@@DavidSolimano eyyy you know what's up :)

@sheevpalps3846

11 ай бұрын

That'll be cool, I think Russia can parallel India with its ethnic diversity

@waspsandwich6548

11 ай бұрын

​@@dasha-minecraftand the autonomous oblast. And I guess the municipalities too

As an Indian, I haven't heard people from India call India as beautiful, especially when they've lived anywhere else outside of India (I am also quite guilty of it but I guess that's just the side of India I end up seeing more often than not)

@davisvoelzke8011

11 ай бұрын

makes sense; almost all countries are beautiful if they are large enough

@HappyBeezerStudios

11 ай бұрын

@@davisvoelzke8011 Even the small ones are beautiful

@ASH9366

11 ай бұрын

Developing Countries Overpopulation destroy Nature & Natural beauty 🏁 But our dharmic culture keeping us united & teaches how to live in this world 🌐 A great knowledgeable Ancient Country India 🇮🇳

@Sai-ns9ky

11 ай бұрын

I live in India and I believe that natural india is very very beautiful. Its the cities that look ugly and disorganized.

@shashankbj3804

11 ай бұрын

Just you bro

I am extremely impressed with the amount of research that went into the video, ngl. India is so incredibly diverse, it's difficult to truly understand this place

I appreciate how you tried to explain the states. Here is a bit more info, and corrections. 1. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana used to be one state post state division according to language act. Both of these states speak telugu but later in 2014 Telangana and Andhra got split because of a dispute about resources. 2. The reason why Calcutta changed to Kolkata, Bangalore to Bengaluru or Bombay to Mumbai is because they are the original names. When the brits came along they tried to anglicise the names and they anglicised a lot of place names in India. Eg. Kozhikode to Calicut, Vishakhapatnam to Vizag etc. 3. I guess you didn't know much about India before it was colonised. So India is a very ancient civilisation and all of these states got united under a single empire multiple times under Gupta rule or Vijayanagara rule or Mughal rule etc. We all have more or less same principle and culture but in a different way. Each state has its own language, own classical dance form, different versions of a same festival etc. So it isn't surprising that we managed to annex all these areas, they all existed before. 4. I am an Indian but I didn't know about that Rajasthani king. Most of us don't know about him so yeah. 5. All of us Indians are native people. What we mean by tribes is, historically also because India has a lot of jungles and mountains, there were and are many people living in tribes in mountains, whose language and culture differs from the rest of the local culture or state. They are called tribes, who don't belong to one of the majority population. India isn't a homogeneous country, like the UK ( the UK natives are atleast whites), we have different languages, religions, festivals, beliefs etc. So advice contacting a local person before doing a video about India. Prevents you from misinformation.

@haroeneissa790

10 ай бұрын

The are also a lot of cultural differences between US states. As an example people from New York like Pizza and people from Chicago like Hotdogs.

@Harshiahaha

10 ай бұрын

@@haroeneissa790 Idk if you are joking or being serious 😅. Imo that doesn't count as cultural difference for sure. Language, festivals, architecture style, history, music, films.. everything totally changes from state to state here

@haroeneissa790

10 ай бұрын

@@Harshiahaha yeah. It was a joke. I am not even American. I am from the Netherlands.

fun fact: West bengal was under communist rule for 34 years. it was the longest running communist government elected by democracy anywhere in the world. It is still under a center-left party.

A very interesting fact about maps published in India is obviously that the many occupied territories in Kashmir are obviously shown as ours but also that in all maps Tibet is always labbeled on the borders aswell as China . In all maps a Tibet is kind of highlighted as a seperate region , semi independent region within China , this is so in even all textbooks issued . This is because the annexation of Tibet by the prc was heavily condemned by India as India has many Buddhists and the religion itself originated here .

Absolutely love how ibx2cat pronounces all the states of India! Utter hilarious!

14:57 Kolkata's name was changed because Calcutta was named by the British and before that the EIC. Also it's Jhar-kh-and

it's stupid if I think this video will get a lot of views just because there are a lot of indians?

Nice one Toycat! Great to see some light on India, I would love more like this.

26:56 that 'stamp' is the Ashoka Chakra(wheel) its just a circle with 24 spokes easy to draw imo, it's from 250 BCE and the spokes depict Buddhist Moral laws i believe

@louisthelemur1238

11 ай бұрын

Dharmic you mean

An Indian would pronounce Calcutta and Kolkata differently. The names are not English. Bangalore is an anglicised version of the city's Kannada name Bengaluru.

Just like india ignores North-East you preety much ignore them too. BTW love your content from Nepal.

@sheevpalps3846

11 ай бұрын

They comprise less than 4% of the population, and he gave that much effort in the video describing them as well. So I would say it's proportional.

@o0...957

11 ай бұрын

​@@sheevpalps3846That doesn't mean we feel good being ignored more than 90% of the time.

@Infiniteemptiness

11 ай бұрын

​@@o0...957Please northeast is not even 1% to India's GDP and forget about their tribal tensions, militancy, tribal wars etc... Big states get attention because they're big and represent 95% of India's population

@o0...957

11 ай бұрын

@@Infiniteemptiness Yup keep up this attitude. No wonder, we are just a bunch of buffer states for the rest of the country.

@priyadarshi8548

11 ай бұрын

@@Infiniteemptiness this kind of attitude is shameful

This video is so fascinating, learnt so much about Indian geography!! Its so nuanced!

4:41 the border is like that because it was common for people to wonder to the other country. There were many incidents of cross fire

16:40 hohoo! that is not even enough, there still around half a dozen languages wanting scheduled status

India is such an interesting Country.

being an Inidan watching is, is so funny i cant comprehend this man. But Shoutout toycat

There is also a big Tamil population in South London, especially in Sutton, Croydon and Kingston. Here the second most spoken language is Tamil and alot of my friends are Tamil

I love your energetic general interest level of detail and complete irreverence of the topics you cover :D please never never grow up ; )

Hello a Jain here , so we basically practice total and absolute non-violence so we dont even eat parts of plants which would hurt the plant like carrots potatoes onions etc. Also we have a huge focus on education and higher education

@MaKar372

11 ай бұрын

Jain are the one of the highest tax payers in India and man decided to streotype them..Typical brit

Great video brotha

Even though I live in India ,Uttar Pradesh in agra the city of The Taj Mahal, and most likely I am going to know everything explained in this video, I still am going to watch this entire video I still am going to watch the entire video cuz I just like to listen to toycat talk about things (^_^)

West Bengal is a famous state- India and West Bengal state has many similarities - Both has 3 names- India, Bharat, Hindustan, Bangal, West Bengal, Poschimbongo, Streching from Himalayas to Sea, Both have official name in English, Both have Crown, Heaven and disputed separatist territory in north- Kashmir and Darjiling, Both split in 1947 and still suffers- 😢 both want united India and united Bengal -

You covered a lot in such a short time, good job! - Love from India.

Great Video! Can u do this for Bulgaria too?

I know people are trying to actually split Tamil Nadu into two states. Going back there this summer, also spending some time in Singapore. Last year I went to Kerala and I was surprised by the sheer number of communist flags everywhere

@Indian_Tovarisch

11 ай бұрын

Yeah Kerala is the communist bastion of India They had communist government since the 1950s

If you really want to visit India and you're a city person, visit Bengaluru as it has lesser pollution and cuz it's big in tech and startups people come from everywhere and as you mentioned, English is a bridge language it is used more than most other places. Example: In Delhi, Hindi is spoken over English. Bengaluru's altitude makes its temperature and weather pleasant. PS. if u do visit, visit in probably the autumn months as it is pretty much monsoon/rainy season right now.

Time for us indians to flood this video

You should go to Shimla, Goa and New Delhi (especially Akshardham Temple)

Lol loved this video Toycat. Btw even though kerala is "communist" its also the most developed and one the best states to live in india.

@MrChair2

2 ай бұрын

even though or because? socialism often raises hdi, literacy etc, look at cuba or ussr

@__chinmay__

2 ай бұрын

@@MrChair2 nowadays I can't say its even socialist but yes back then the party did have democratic socialist principles that developed the state a lot.

Calcutta was changed to kolkata, since calcutta was give by british , west bengal shape is like that because it was partitioned, they are maoist not marxist 15:30, Bangalore was renamed to bangaluru to make sound more native but both name are used interchangably

Indian state Rajasthan is similar to Germany in terms of land area.

Watching this in India lol. My Dad is from a villiage in Andra Pradesh and my mother is from Hyderabad but moved to smaller cities in Andra Pradesh. We live in the US now.

@sheevpalps3846

11 ай бұрын

Dude same, but I was born in US and both my parents are from Andhra

@VerbalVantage

11 ай бұрын

@@sheevpalps3846 ya I was born in the US too. Dallas Texas. Where are you from?

@sheevpalps3846

11 ай бұрын

@@VerbalVantage Born in Birmingham, lived all over though like New Orleans, NYC, and Tampa. Been to places like Dallas though, it was very nice.

@VerbalVantage

11 ай бұрын

@@sheevpalps3846 nice. Never been to any of those lol but I want to see New Orleans

@sheevpalps3846

11 ай бұрын

@@VerbalVantage Lived there the longest, and probably my favorite. Food is the best, and a good number of activities too

youre such an attractive sri lankan male I love the second channel, and have learned alot. very cool.

@notboring2792

11 ай бұрын

first btw

@Somaliaballedits

11 ай бұрын

​@@notboring2792cap

very entertaining as always toycat, atrocious pronunciation XD but thats ok, you should vist bengaluru, goa and kerala here in the south and the himalays up north also cant wait for that religion rankings video! cheers

16:59 Bro what you just said was also said by Winston Churchill. Although his words were a bit harsher than yours.

I love this video. Please tell me about states elsewhere.

17:14 Bangalore : Name given by brits Bengaluru: name give by Indians

Yaa A Great Ancient Fascinating Country 🏁 Proud to be Indian 🇮🇳 Thanks ibx2cat

if u are default person - visit delhi, mumbai, jaipur, agra etc , if u are a (idk well researched maybe) person - visit chennai, kolkata, bangalore, hyderabad. if u are adventurous - go to north east some places which i would recommed deccan plateau during rainy season- really green konkan - really beautiful rainforest kerala for some rainforest and backwaters kolkata if u want the feel of london (lmao) puri - very holy place indore - really clean city pondicherry - diverse kashmir - for beautiful meadows and the list goes on .....

@ashwinvk4124

11 ай бұрын

Kerala doesn't really doesn't habe that much of rainforest

Another interesting thing about Goa, the second largest practiced religion is Catholicism (also due to the Portuguese presence for over 400 years)

There are eighty Three counties in the US that are dry. Over 40% of the counties in the state of Arkansas is dry....

I am amazed by your knowledge of india, also pronunciation of indian regions. Watching your videos for since long time.

Also want to say, the groupings of Indian ethnicities and languages fall into 3 general ones, *Indo-Aryan* (North, Central, East, West), *Dravidian* (South), and *Sino-Tibetan/Austroasiatic* (Northeast). Each have their own take on religions like Hinduism and Buddhism, style of governments ranging from Communism favored to tribalism in some regions, and foods since some states have spicy, seafood-heavy, and rice-based ones while others are vegetarian and bread-based.

@user-pakshibhithi10

11 ай бұрын

Even East is Indo-Aryan, which category do you think Bihar's languages, Odia and Bengali fit?

@sheevpalps3846

11 ай бұрын

@@user-pakshibhithi10 True, I forgot to mention that

@user-pakshibhithi10

11 ай бұрын

@elfrjz That moustache guy didn't belong to IA, he belonged to IE. Tbh that classification isn't incorrect.

@user-pakshibhithi10

11 ай бұрын

@elfrjz Yeah, maybe he liked the word 'Aryan'. At that time, historians used Indo-Aryan instead of Indo-European

@keralanaturelover196

10 ай бұрын

​@@sheevpalps3846east is tribal people. Maharashtra deccan people

you should do this kind of video but for the regions of quebec

I would love if you did a breakdown of Nigeria’s States!!!!!!

Lemme throw in some contexts idk if u will read this comment 1)Jammu & Kashmir was a state until 2019, when it was made an union territory and even bifurcated into to two: J&K and Ladakh. 2) Pradesh= Province Khand= section Rashtra= nation Nadu/Sthan= Land 3)Indian Punjab was divided into 3 states: Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. This was done based on language, which brings us to 4) most Indian states is formed on linguistic borders. 5) 'New Delhi' is the national capital, which is part of the 'National Capital Territory of Delhi', which in turn is part of the 'National Capital Region'. Delhi is also the only Union territory, which has its own state legislative and state assembly election. Delhi Govt although shares much of its powers with the Central government. 6) Rajasthan means "land of the Kings" coz it was a collection of royal princely states under colonial government. 7) Uttar Pradesh means "Northern Province", and in the year 2000 was bifurcated into Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. 8) Gujarat was formed out of Kutch, Shaurashtra and parts of Bombay presidency. 9) Maharashtra means "the great nation" which is derived from the sanskrit word "Maharathi" meaning "the great Charioteer". 10) Odissa and West Bengal are the only states that didnt have their borders changed after independence. 11) Bengal region was divided on religious lines into West & East Bengal (modern day Bangladesh). Thats why its called *West* Bengal. 12) Kolkata was the Capital & commercial center of British India until 1911. Calcutta (read Kal-kuh-tuh) was the anglicized pronunciation of Kolkata (read: Kole-Kaa-Taa) 13) Tamil Nadu means "Land of Tamils", is the 2nd richest state of India and many of India's classical literature and art forms originate here. 14) Kerala is the last strong hold of communism (West Bengal was communist until 2011, and Tripura until 2018). Kerala was formerly the royal princely state of Trivandrum under British Raj. And yes Kerala has done pretty good for itself and is comparable to many 1st world nations. It has a poverty rate of only 0.5% and its HDI is on par with Malaysia and Thailand. 15) Telengana was the princely state of Hyderabad but in 1956 it was was united with Andhra Pradesh, as both regions spoke the same language, Telugu. But 2014, Telengana was bifurcated as a seperate state, out of Andhra Pradesh.

In Childhood our first drawing starts from making Tricolour 🇮🇳 with Ashoka Chakra of 24 spikes in the centre totally nostalgia 🥺🥺

Bengaluru was called Bangalore because of the British Raj attempting to make city names easier to pronounce. Such examples are: Viśākhapaṭnaṁ / Vizag Tiruvanantapuraṁ / Trivandrum Tirucchirāppaḷḷi / Trichy Kōḻikkōḍŭ / Calicut But because Indo-European language speakers can’t pronounce some of the sounds in those city names (and because locals found it easier to say those names since they took less time), those British names became well-known and commonly used despite the state governments renaming the cities.

@vibinrobin

11 ай бұрын

Cochin is Kochi. And Calicut is Kozhikode.

@liverbot4854

11 ай бұрын

@@vibinrobin Thank you. I’ve edited my comment now.

hey toycat my dad was about to beat me again but then his phone lit up with a notification saying you uploaded a new video. he decided not to beat me thanks to another one of your award winning videos. thank you mr cat

@foxgamerz7314

11 ай бұрын

Real

Karala . What the heck is that bro . And only issue in Kerala is unemployment and drinking problem

Thank You sir for the very fun and factual video.

cant believe toy cat didnt mention the cumbum forest range in andhra pradesh 🙈

Mumbai and Delhi are probably the best places to visit on a first trip to India. And a visit to Delhi can include a visit to the Taj Mahal in Agra as well

Bangalore, bombay and Calcutta are brtitish names for bengaluru, mumbai and kolkata respectively. So many posh people still use the british names.

*🇮🇳 Interesting fact:* the fact that ibx2cat uses Google Maps® to explain the states of India means that just by looking at the Script underneath the English text of the places in the state, you can clearly make out the different languages of our country & where they're spoken (as all Indian languages have their own scripts) like: 🇮🇳 Hindi - हिन्दी 🇧🇩 Bengali - বাংলা 🇮🇳 Telugu - తెలుగు 🇮🇳 Tamil - தமிழ் 🇮🇳 Gujarati - ગુજરાતી 🇵🇰 Urdu - اُردو 🇮🇳 Kannada - ಕನ್ನಡ 🇮🇳 Odia - ଓଡ଼ିଆ 🇮🇳 Malayalam - മലയാളം 🇮🇳 Punjabi - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

@AnirbanKnight

11 ай бұрын

Why are you putting Bangladesh and Pakistan flags before Indian languages? 😒

@NikeshDahal-yz1bf

11 ай бұрын

There manly spoken there

@debangansamanta

11 ай бұрын

Why is bengali termed as Bangladeshi? It's Indian

@AnirbanKnight

11 ай бұрын

@@NikeshDahal-yz1bf bro you have no clue about distribution of languages. 7 crore people in India speaks Urdu compared to 1.7 crore in Pakistan. India has the largest Urdu speaking population on earth. Bengali is spoken by 9.7 crore people in India and Indian dialect (Kolkata dialect) is the accepted as the standardized and official form of Bengali language. Since Independence quality Bengali literature has seen a clear shift towards West Bengal. While Bangladesh concentrated more on religious and Islamic literature and leaned towards urdu and Arabic Bengali literature is clearly being carried by writers and authors of West Bengal.

You forgot about solid, liquid and gaseous? You find all three in the streets

@Spacemongerr

11 ай бұрын

Very good

We 5 South states are suffering because we controlled population...now North govt is trying to increase parliament seats in up bihar according to new delimitation process..

I like that you made the entire video unscripted but you could've at least kept a few points or hints about the more factual stuff like the literacy rates.

If you go to India, you go to Mumbai, Delhi, and Goa. Should give you a good taste of India. I've lived in Banglaore, Delhi, and Mumbai (and the US) and I can tell you that Mumbai is just something special. I wouldn't recommend going to Bangalore, logistically getting anywhere over there can be a nightmare!

@user-pakshibhithi10

11 ай бұрын

Traffic is the worst.

It is very good that you are trying to understand beautiful Bharat. But please note that it is the British who tried to 'categorise' the religions - the Abrahamic religions are the 'foreign' religions, that originated somewhere in the middle east. The rest are mainly the offshoot of Vedic religions - they are all one and the same. They originated in Bharat. Jai Bharat Mata ki 🙏

Andra was only recently split to create Telghana, UT capital is shared by punjab and haryana, haryana was added to punjab by the british so they were separated when state was formed, you should have mentioned language of different state. And you should have mentioned all UT, like Puduncheery territory is separate and each territory is surrounded by different state

Should have talked about Puducherry, since it is actually 4 non-contiguous regions.

Lot of the names which have changed were done so to give them the proper pronunciation as per the native regions. The previous names of the states were Anglicized, and sorry to say 'bastardized' the names to some extent. Hence, Bangalore more recently became Bengaluru, Madras became Chennai, Calcutta became Kolkata, Bombay became Mumbai. Might I add that all this is a very conscious attempt by the Indian state and people to remove the remnants of the British colonial legacy of which frankly not many of the people can relate to at all. However, India has not gone overboard with this as there are still British colonial names for Parks, Streets, Buildings and much much more which remain and will continue to remain.

"utter-kuh-hand" im crying omg

Toycat where is the religion tierlist video we need it now

No even though our language are different..but . We have connection with each other with our food, tradition, dress, culture.

I arrived in Bangalore the same day you said to visit Bangalore

24:07 They do scare away businesses. 😂😂.

22:28 - You might be interested to know that the letters in the bottom row (and the sounds they represent) are not Tamil at all. They ended up here due to the influence of the Sanskrit language over the centuries. This influence has faced resistance from the "Pure Tamil movement" (do check it out!) that took root in the last century. 22:46 - Tamil Nadu in general is equally rational as it is religious, thanks to the "Dravidian movement" that has successfully put the State high on many positive indexes of development. 23:38 - CPI(M) and CPI are not really fighting in Kerala. They are allies. It is the "Indian National Congress" (INC) that is numerically the real opposition in the State.