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India is a land of diversity. The country has diverse religion, culture, traditions, language, race etc. As such it is a must to know and be rooted in the awareness of Indian Culture as it moulds and shapes the young people giving them insights of their own culture and identity. India has long and rich cultural history which needs to be preserved. The gap between the formal system of education and the country's rich cultural heritage needs to be bridged and for the same a teacher can be a key factor. The study is done keeping in mind the objective to find out an awareness of Indian Culture among the pre-service teacher trainees of DIETs in Nagaland which is further categorized to male and female, and Arts and Science Streams. Out of ten DIETs in Nagaland 32 teacher trainees from urban and 32 teacher trainees from rural area respectively were chosen randomly for the study. The questions were prepared on various aspects of Indian Culture like dance, music, literature, festivals, monuments, personalities, food and religion to find out the awareness of Indian Culture among the pre-service teacher trainees. The measures of mean, S.D., and 't' test is used. Mean percentage of each groups was also calculated to see whether the groups were average, below average or above average. The study indicates no perceptible difference between male and female as well as no appreciable difference between Arts and Science streams.