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location

Geographical locationIndia The geography of

India describes the geographic features of India, a country in South Asia. India lies largely on the Indian Plate, the northern portion of the Indo-Australian Plate, whose continental crust forms the Indian subcontinent. The country is situated north of the equator between 8°4' and 37°6' north latitude and 68°7' and 97°25' east longitude.

Madagascar

Madagascar is an island in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of southernAfrica, east of Mozambique. It is the fourth largest island in the world.It is situated in between 20° 00' South latitude and 47° 00' East longitude. This latitude and longitude has placed Madagascar in the southern part of Africa and in the Indian Ocean as an island.

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LanguagesIndia

Around 387

languages are spoken in India. The languages of India belong to several language familieslanguagesAssamese • Bengali • Bodo •Dogri •Gujarati • Kannada • Kashmiri • Konkani •Maithili •Malayalam • Manipuri • Marathi •Nepali • Oriya • Punjabi •Sanskrit •Santali • Sindhi • Tamil • Telugu • Tulu •UrduOfficial languages :Hindi, English .

Madagascar The Malagasy

language of Malayo-Polynesian origin, is generally spoken throughout the island. The official languages of Madagascar are Malagasy and French. Madagascar is a Francophone country, and French is spoken among the educated population of this former French colony. The main language is Malagas.

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Religions

IndiaMany & different religions

people live in india. Indian religions are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent; namely Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism. Christianity , islam

Madagascar

The three major religions in Madagascar are traditional, Christian, and Islamic. The traditional religion is the African religion. 52% of Madagascar's religion is Traditional. The second major religion is Christianity; 41% of the religion is Christianity and 7% is Islamic practices.

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INDIAN wedding & engagement7

Hindu wedding

Eight types of marriage: Brahma marriage, Daiva marriage, Arsha marriage,Prajapatya marriage , Gandharva marriage, Asura marriage,Rakshasa marriage, Paishacha marriage

Main rituals:

Kanyadaan

Panigrahana

Saptapadi

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There are a few key rituals common in a Hindu wedding ceremony. These are

*Kanyadaan - the giving away of daughter by the father

*Panigrahana - a ritual in presence of fire, where the groom takes the bride's hand as a sign of their union

*Saptapadi - is the most important ritual. It is called the seven step ritual, where each step corresponds to a vow groom makes to bride, and a vow the bride makes to groom.

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Madagascar MARRIAGES

When two people are in love and are ready to get married, they must first get engaged. That doesn’t sound too different from other cultures, right? Except in Madagascar, there are some unique meanings behind the engagement and marriage traditions.

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Antyesti or Hindu funeral rites,also referred to as Antim Sanskar,is an important Sanskara,sacrament of Hindu society.Extensive texts of such rites are available, particularly in the Garuda Purana. There is wide inconsistency in theory and practice, and the procedures differ from place to place. Further, these rites also differ depending on the caste,jāti, social group, and the status of the deceased person.

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indian death ceremony

In the Indian subcontinent, human bodies were either exposed to the elements of nature, and to the birds, or buried in the earth, in a river, and sometimes a cave or an urn[citation needed]. Centuries later, cremation became the usual mode of disposal of the dead bodies, with certain exceptions – the exceptions being bodies of infants[citation needed], yogis, sadhus, and a few others. Cremation became popular due to the Hindu concept of detachment of soul from the body at the time of death, and the transmigration of the soul from one body to another

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Madagascar :

Famadihana is a funerary tradition of the Malagasy people in Madagascar. Known as the turning of the bones, people bring forth the bodies of their ancestors from the family crypts and rewrap them in fresh cloth, then dance with the corpses around the tomb to live music

Madagascar's dance with the dead

To outsiders dancing with the corpse of a dead loved one, years after their demise, might seem ghoulish. But as Jonny Hogg reports, to the people of Madagascar, it is a ritual of respect for their departed ancestors.

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video related to Famadihana festival

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Every five to ten years, it is the custom for many Malagasy families to exhume their deceased relatives, wrap them in new shrouds, and dance with their bodies before returning them to ancestral crypts. The ceremonies of famadihana take place in winter as some believe that the dead are cold, so need new shrouds. Deceased ancestors are gone but are always resting close by. Their tombs lie in the backyards of family homes. Famadihanainvolves huge family festivity and sumptuous banquets of meat and rice. It is a time for the living to meet the dead, to show respect to ancestors and ask for their blessing.

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