India India is the seventh largest , and the second most populous country in the world. It holds 1.24 Billion inhabitant. the capital of India is New Delhi, and the official currency is the Indian rupee. India is a home to vast diversity in Geography, climate, culture, religion and population. Ghandi's home country holds 18 registered languages, and around 2000 claimed religious groups. India won independence in 1947, following a protest led by Mohandas Ghandi, the independence divided what was known as British India into two countries: India and Pakistan. Started in 1991 India begun economic reform that helped the country to become the seventh largest economy in the world. Indians hope the current prime minister Shri Narendra Modi who was elected in 2014, will address the country's continuing problems with: Poverty, inequality, corruption, energy and infrastructure.