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- CENTRIPETAL - CENTRIFUGAL FORCES
- FORWARD CAPITAL
- IRREDENTISM
- PATHANS (OR PASHTUNS) OF PAKISTAN RELATED TO PEOPLES OF CENTRAL
AFGHANISTAN
- FEDERAL SYSTEM
- ADOPTED BY INDIA IN 1947
- PROVIDES REGIONS AND PEOPLES WITH SOME AUTONOMY AND IDENTITY
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- ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN
- POPULATION OF 149.6 MILLION
- 80% SUNNI MUSLIMS; 16% SHIA MINORITY
- SUBREGIONS:
- PUNJAB
- SIND
- BALUCHISTAN
- NORTH WEST FRONTIER
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- 33% URBANIZED
- LOW INCOME ECONOMY
- ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION BEGAN IN 1990 TO BOOST FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
PRIVATE INVESTMENT.
- COTTON-BASED TEXTILE INDUSTRY AND RICE
- SUPPORTS A LARGE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT (EMERGING REGIONAL POWER)
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- INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION
- JAMMU & KASHMIR FACED WITH THE CHOICE OF JOINING EITHER HINDU INDIA
OR MUSLIM PAKISTAN
- KASHMIR – HINDU MAHARAJA BUT MUSLIM POPULATION
- 1947 – PAKISTANI TRIBESMEN INVADE
- MAHARAJA FLEES TO DELHI AND ACCEDES TO INDIA
- INDIAN TROOPS DEPLOY – PAKISTANI REGULARS JOIN IN THE FIGHT
- JANUARY 1949 – U.N. CEASE FIRE
- 1980-88 MUSLIM EXTREMISTS CONTINUE INSURGENCY
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- ENCOMPASSES 3/4s OF SOUTH ASIA’S TOTAL AREA
- A FEDERATION OF 28 STATES, 6 UTs, AND 1 NCT
- POPULATION OF 1.086 BILLION PEOPLE
- 28% URBANIZED
- 14 MAJOR AND NUMEROUS MINOR LANGUAGES (LINGUA FRANCA?)
- CENTRIPETAL VS CENTRIFUGAL FORCES?
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- GDP OF $450 PER PERSON
- 38% LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LINE
- A MIXTURE OF TRADITIONAL VILLAGE FARMING AND MODERN AGRICULTURE
- HANDICRAFTS, OLD AND NEW BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY
- MULTITUDE OF SUPPORT SERVICES AND NUCLEAR POWER
- CLOTHING INDUSTRY
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- THE SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER YIELD, FAST-GROWING VARIETIES OF
RICE AND OTHER CEREALS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM-1960s
- FOCUSED ON THE FOOD CRISES
- INCREASED PRODUCTION PER UNIT AREA VIA:
- MIRACLE CROPS
- NEW IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
- INTENSIVE USE OF FERTILIZERS
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- MUMBAI (BOMBAY)- 18.3 MILLION
- ACHIEVED “PRIMACY” BASED ON ITS SITUATION (SUEZ CANAL)
- KOLKATA (CALCUTTA)- 14.3 MILLION
- 500,000 HOMELESS
- FORMER BRITISH COLONIAL CAPITAL- 1772
- ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY PARTITION
- DELHI (NEW AND OLD)- 15.3 MILLION
- BRITISH AND INDIAN SEAT OF GOVERNMENT
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- INDEPENDENT SINCE 1971
- FORMERLY EAST PAKISTAN
- 85% MUSLIM, 12% HINDU
- 139.5 MILLION PEOPLE
- PHYSIOLOGIC DENSITY = 3,800/sq mi
- 2.2% ANNUAL GROWTH RATE
- PER CAPITA GNP = 350 US DOLLARS
- NATURAL HAZARDS - CYCLONES
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- LOW LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT (TECHNOLOGY)
- ONE OF THE WORLD’S POOREST AND LEAST DEVELOPED STATES
- ECONOMY IS OVERWHELMINGLY AGRICULTURAL
- CULTIVATION OF RICE IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITY IN THE
ECONOMY.
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- MALDIVES
- >1,000 ISLANDS
- <115 SQ MI / 300 SQ KMS
- POPULATION OF 300,000
- DRAVIDIAN AND SRI LANKA SOURCES
- OVERWHELMINGLY MUSLIM
- HIGHEST GNP IN THE REALM
- SRI LANKA
- FORMERLY CEYLON
- INDEPENDENT SINCE 1948
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- 19.7 MILLION PEOPLE (70% BUDDHISTS)
- PLANTATION AGRICULTURE:
- SOUTH (MAJORITY OF POPULATION)
- ARYAN
- BUDDHISTS
- SPEAK SINHALA (INDO-EUROPEAN)
- NORTH (18% OF THE POPULATION)
- DRAVIDIAN
- HINDU
- TAMIL LANGUAGE
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- SINHALESE vs TAMILS
- TAMILS DEMANDED EQUAL RIGHTS:
- -- EDUCATION
- -- EMPLOYMENT
- -- LAND OWNERSHIP
- -- LANGUAGE AND POLITICS
- INSURGENT STATE
- LTTE – LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM
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