India: Post Decolonization

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India Post Decolonization

• Global II Spiconardi

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Social Change

• The Caste System
• Gandhi campaigned to end the caste system
• In 1950, the Indian constitution banned
  discrimination against the untouchables
• Urbanization
• Urbanization loss/decline of traditional
  culture
• Urbanization has helped break down caste
  barriers, but they are still prevalent in rural
  areas

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Indian Government Foreign Policy

• India is a democracy
• Federal System ? power divided between a strong
  central government and smaller local governments
  (similar to U.S.)
• Struggle for Democracy
• Ethnic and religious conflicts have made
  democracy difficult
• Prime ministers Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi have
  been assassinated

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Indian Government Foreign Policy

• Non-alignment ? a policy of not supporting either
  the U.S. or U.S.S.R. during the Cold War
• This allowed India to accept financial aid from
  both capitalist communist nations

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Sikh Separatism

• Sikhism ?religion that blends elements of
  Hinduism and Islam
• Through discipline meditation on God one can
  attain salvation
• Many Sikhs have demanded self-rule due to
  discrimination they have faced
• Indian government had prevented Sikhs from having
  a political voice

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India Pakistan Nuclear Proliferation

• Despite the creation of Pakistan in 1947, there
  is still conflict
• India Pakistan have fought over a region called
  Kashmir
• Terrorist attacked Indias parliament in 2001
• Nuclear Proliferation
• Both India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons
• Great fear among the international community that
  nuclear war could break out between the two
  countries

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Lack of oil natural gas
Industrial Growth

• Hindu Caste System
• Less educational opportunity for women poor
• Ethnic religious prejudices

Social Equality

• Rapid Population Growth
• Floods from monsoons/Droughts

Produce Enough Food
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