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SOUTH ASIA II
(CHAPTER 8: 387-417)
KEY CONCEPTS APPLICABLE TO THE REALM
CENTRIPETAL - CENTRIFUGAL FORCES FORWARD CAPITAL
ISLAMABAD
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
West PakistanEast Pakistan
India
PAKISTAN (AT PARTITION)
PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN POPULATION OF 149.6 MILLION 80% SUNNI MUSLIMS; 16% SHIA MINORITY SUBREGIONS:
PUNJAB SIND BALUCHISTAN NORTH WEST FRONTIER
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT(PAKISTAN)
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)
KASHMIR
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
INDIA
INDIA
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?
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT(INDIA)
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
E. J. PALKA
E. J. PALKA
E. J. PALKA
GREEN REVOLUTION
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
INDIA’S GREAT CITIES
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
MUMBAI
KOLKATA
DELHI
BANGLADESH
BANGLADESH
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
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT(BANGLADESH)
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.
THE MOUNTAINOUS NORTH
THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS
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
SRI LANKA
19.7 MILLION PEOPLE (70% BUDDHISTS) PLANTATION AGRICULTURE:
TEA, RUBBER, COCONUTS SOUTH (MAJORITY OF POPULATION)
ARYAN BUDDHISTS SPEAK SINHALA (INDO-EUROPEAN)
NORTH (18% OF THE POPULATION) DRAVIDIAN HINDU TAMIL LANGUAGE
E. J. PALKA
E. J. PALKA
E. J. PALKA
E. J. PALKA
E. J. PALKA
SINHALESE vs TAMILS TAMILS DEMANDED EQUAL
RIGHTS:-- EDUCATION-- EMPLOYMENT-- LAND OWNERSHIP-- LANGUAGE AND POLITICS
INSURGENT STATE LTTE – LIBERATION TIGERS
OF TAMIL EELAM
SRI LANKA
SOUTH ASIA II
(CHAPTER 8: 387-477)
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