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Title: India: Post Decolonization


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India Post Decolonization
  • Global II Spiconardi

2
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

3
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

4
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

5
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

6
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

7
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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