HISTORY (General)

INDIA LAND ECONOMY  Mts. = Himalayas  Exports – gems, jewelry, textile,  Subcontinent – separates India and bauxite and cotton and jute rest of S Asia from China and rest E  Farming – cotton of Asia  Rice (2 largest producer)  Much farmland  Cottage Industry  ++ 70% live in farming  Production at home villages  Service Industry – due to outsourcing  RIVERS  EX: Internet companies  Ganges – sacred river  Very polluted  Indus – north India  Much Pollution  Water, land, air  Deforestation

HISTORY (General) RELIGIONS (List)  Buddhism – 500 BC  Driven out by 300BC  Bengal Famine – 1943 AD  4 million starve  Islam – 700s AD  Green Revolution - Gov.  From SW Asia – Islam enter India Attempt to have better techn.  1500 AD Founded Mogul in order to grown food. Empire  “Father of Green  Rule India for 200 yrs. Revolution”  Still over 140 million Muslims in India  Norman Borlaug  Aryans – 1500 BC  Hinduism – around 1500 BC  First to settle  blend of Aryans beliefs and  Well planned cities local beliefs = around Indus monotheistic  Started caste system  Christianity (some)  Mogul Empire – 1500AD  Rule over 200 years  Sikhism – monotheistic (one god)  Islam Close to Hinduism Often fight with Hindus Sikhs want their own country Chapter 5:1 “INDIA” INDIA GOVERNMENT HINDUISM (specifics)

 Largest democracy******** Blend of Aryan and local beliefs – +1500BC  2nd – USA  Caste System – social class  India = Parliament  Based on ancestry  2 Houses  Born into – could not change  *Council of States  TODAY –  (Represents states)  Caste system is against law  * House of People  Still influences culture  (Like US House of Reps) 80% on population = Hinduism  Prime Minister BELIEFS  Appointed by ruling party * One Supreme Being - monotheistic * Takes many god-like & animal Government is working to get electricity to forms. farming villages. * Reincarnation = Body dies – soul reborn Animal or human * Repeated until perfection reached * Wrong to kill living creature Cows sacred

Holiday * Diwali (dee VAH lee) *Festival of Lights *Coming of winter *Victory of good over evil CONFLICTS/WAR COLONIZATION Colony = overseas territory or settlement tied to a parent country  Gaining independence from Britain -1947  Muslim v. Hindu British 1700s AD- mid 1900s AD  After Britain left, Muslims =  built roads, RR and seaports  Minority culture – feared  Made big $ from  inequality from the Hindus Plantations, mines and factories Britain becomes majority culture

 E & W Pakistan created – Great Partition  Muslim homeland Mohandas Gandhi  1971 E Pakistan = Bangladesh  Nonviolence resistance (Civil Disobedience)  1947 won independence from British CULTURE EXTRAS

+ 18 official languages  + 1 billion people  Hindi (most used)  Pollution vast problem  English – in business and  Pollution killing government wildlife  Parks established to protect Hinduism primary religion Diwali = Holiday