Visiting travelers, aggressors as well as historians named the region a Golden Sparrow, for people here loved to hold gold - as an imperishable store of value. Unafraid and theft free, not only did they display their treasures in styles of jewelry, they decorated their deities with golden ornaments. Gold was seen as celebration of life. Be it a childbirth or a marriage - exchange of gold as gifts was a tradition. No wonder, even today, Indian families custody thirty thousand tons of gold - most of any nation - poor or developed. To put it in perspective, United States Federal Reserve has ~ one fourth of Golden Sparrows.