How India came to be called ‘sone ki chidiya’?

Fun Facts 05 Dec 2018

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Across the world, India was famous as ‘Sone ki Chidiya’. Know more about the history of gold & the love for gold among Indians which made it famous as the ‘golden bird’.
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Gold has the ability to be hammered into sheets so thin that a pile of them an inch high can contain as many as 200,000 separate sheets.

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Gold has the ability to be hammered into sheets so thin that a pile of them an inch high can contain as many as 200,000 separate sheets.