To know the location and position of India.
To identify India as a subcontinent.
To understand the administrative divisions of India.
To appreciate the unity in diversity of India.
To identify and locate the state and union territory with their capitals.
“India is a country of great geographical extent. Its size is so vast that it
is often described as a subcontinent. Like a giant, it sprawls between the
snowy height of the Himalayas and the shores of the Indian Ocean, which
washes the land for thousands of Kilometres from Bengal to Kutch. The land
stretches on all sides encompassing the vast expansion of the northern plains,
the thirsty sands of the Thar in the west, the intricate maze of Indo-Myanmar
hills on the east, the uneven plateau surface, the ancient hills and the coconut
bearing coastal plains on the south, and the lofty snowcapped mountains on
the north. The land gets abundance of sunshine from the tropical sun and
splashing rains from the monsoons - the two elements together exerting a
tremendous impact on the diversity of its teeming millions. This is India, the
dispenser of our destiny - a destiny having a remarkable continuity, defying
time and still changing like the patterns in a Kaleidoscope”.