SOUTH ASIA MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC QUALITIES

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SOUTH ASIA MAJOR GEOGRAPHIC QUALITIES

• POPULATION CLUSTER
• DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS
• ECONOMIES
• SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE
• CULTURAL REGIONALISM
• BOUNDARY PROBLEMS

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REGIONS OF THE REALM

• India
• Pakistan
• Bangladesh
• Mountainous North
• Southern Islands

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MONSOONS
To know India and her people, one has to know
the monsoon.

• Widespread flooding
• Property damage
• Destruction to agricultural lands
• Damage to transportation infrastructure
• Homelessness
• Disease
• Malnutrition
• Serious injury
• Death

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CULTURE

• A culturally fragmented realm
• Religious and linguistic diversity
• Religious Patterns
• Isalm
• Hinduism
• Sikhism
• Buddhism

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HINDUISM

• The worlds oldest religion
• Culture hearth of the Indus River
• Diffused south and east down the Ganges
• Absorbed and supplanted earlier native religions
  and customs

• Not just a religion

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MAJOR TENETS OF HINDUISM

• Three main ideas are important in understanding
  the Hindu religion and the caste system
• Reincarnation
• Karma
• Dharma

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THREE BASIC PRACTICESOF HINDUISM

• Puja or worship
• Cremation of the dead
• Regulations of the caste system
• Brahmans
• Untouchables
• Mahatma Ghandi
• Jawaharalal Nehru

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BUDDHISM

• Adherents objected to harsher features of
  Hinduism
• Focuses on knowledge, especially self-knowledge
• Elimination of worldly desires, determination not
  to hurt or kill people or animals

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FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS OF BUDDHISM

• Sorrow and suffering are part of all life.
• People suffer because they desire things they
  cannot have.
• The way to escape suffering is to end desire, to
  stop wanting, and to reach a stage of not
  wanting.
• To end desire, follow the middle path, i.e.,
  the path that avoids the extremes of too much
  pleasure and desire.

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EIGHTFOLD PATH TO THE MIDDLE WAY

• Right understanding
• Right purpose
• Right speech
• Right conduct
• Right means of earning a living
• Right effort
• Right awareness
• Right meditation

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RELIGIOUS CONTRASTS

• ISLAM
• Monotheistic
• No idols
• One sacred book
• Uniform dogma - 5 pillars
• Intolerant (of other religions)
• Eat beef/Sacrifice cows
• Bury Dead
• Social Equality (in theory)
• Theocratic society

• HINDUISM
• Polytheistic
• Many idols
• Various sacred writings
• Varying beliefs
• Absorbed other religions
• Venerate cows
• Burn dead ( alive)
• Caste separation
• State of secondary importance

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POPULATION GEOGRAPHY

• THE SPATIAL VIEW OF DEMOGRAPHY
• KEY MEASURES

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Key Concepts Applicable to the Realm

• Centripetal-Centrifugal Forces
• Forward Capital
• Irredentism
• Federal System

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PAKISTAN

• Population
• Sub-Regions
• Punjab
• Sind
• Baluchistan
• Northwest Frontier
• EconomyLow Income
• Cotton-based textile industries and Rice
  production

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KASHMIR

• Jammu Kashmir
• Hindu India or Muslim Pakistan?
• Kashmir
• Hindu Maharaja but Muslim population
• History of conflict
• Pakistani tribesmen invade (1947)
• Maharaja accedes to India
• Muslim extremists continue fighting

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INDIA

• POPULATION/DIVERSITY
• GOVERNMENT
• ECONOMY
• ENVIRONMENT
• PRODUCTS

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INDIAS CITIES

• MUMBAI (BOMBAY)- 19.4 MILLION
• KOLKATA (CALCUTTA)- 13.5 MILLION
• DELHI (NEW AND OLD)- 13.6 MILLION

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BANGLADESH

• POPULATION
• GOVERNMENT
• ECONOMY
• ENVIRONMENT
• PRODUCTS

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THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS

• Maldives
• Sri Lanka