South Asia: Human Landscape
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Population and Settlement
Cultural Coherence and Diversity
Independence and Partition
• Gandhi Movie Clips
Kashmir
 Economic and Social Development
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Population
and
Settlement
Figure 12.13
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Group Exercise
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Compare India’s demographic indicators
(Table 12.1 p. 561) with the rest of South Asia
and other countries in the developing world.
What are some notable differences?
Migration and
Settlement Landscapes
Rural-to-urban
migration
Changes in
agriculture
Predominantly rural
Zones of outmigration
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Agricultural Regions
Rice cultivation
in Sri Lanka
Subsistence crops
Rice
Wheat
Millet
Other products
Oil seeds, coconut
groves, spice gardens,
tea plantations
Figure 12.13
Livestock
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The Green Revolution
Punjab, India
1960s: Agricultural
research stations
High yield crop varieties
Move toward food selfsufficiency
Environmental and
social problems
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Urban South Asia
Figures 12.15, 12.16, and 12.17
Mumbai
Dhaka
Karachi
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Cultural Coherence and Diversity
Early unity: Hinduism
Destruction of the Ayodhya Mosque
Islam
Added dimension to cultural
landscape
British colonialism
Since 1980s
Growing Hindu nationalism
Reaction to secular Indian
state
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Contemporary
Religious
Diversity
-Hinduism
-Islam
-Sikhism
-Buddhism and Jainism
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Geopolitical
Framework
Figure 12.28
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Geopolitical
Change in
South Asia
Figure 12.29
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The British Partition
(1947)
Figure 12.29
India and East and
West Pakistan
Hindu and Muslim
majorities, respectively
Millions displaced as a
result of the Partition
East Pakistan (1971)
Bangladesh
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Gandhi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxY
Q4CXoIwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h
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Gandhi and Non-Violence
Do you believe it is possible to use the
type of non-violence advocated by
Gandhi in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
in Northern Ireland, or in Afghanistan?
Why or why not?
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Ethnic
Conflict in
Kashmir
Figure 12.34
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Conflict in Kashmir: Majority Muslim
population which is more closely aligned
to Pakistan, but historically ruled by
minority Hindu princes which sought
closer ties to India after Partition and the
withdrawal of the British.
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Economic
Development
Region of
striking
contrasts
Figure 12.36
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Economic Differentiation
Indian Institutes of
Technology
Figure 12.35
Figure 12.39
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Global Linkages
Sialkot Industrial Complex
Pakistan (Figure 12.6.1)
Cotton Mill near Ahmedabad,
Gujarat in India (Figure Figure
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Development Indicators
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Status of Women
Grameen Bank – Bangladesh
Education in Kerala, India
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