• Some greetings commonly used in India are saying Namaste, or simply saying Hi.

• Normally men should not shake a womans hand, but it is ok for men to shake hands with Westerners

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• A polite thing to say to a man is adressing him as Sar, and a polite thing to say to a woman is adressing her as Madam

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• There are a few hundred languages spoken in India.

  • Some of the most spoken languages are Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu