Diversity amid Globalization Chapter 12 key terms
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- British East India Company
- the private organization that acted as an arm of the British government
- bustees
- sprawling squatter settlements
- caste system
- the strict division of society
- Chipko movement
- tree hugging to protect ancient groves from logging
- cyclone
- a large-scale, atmospheric wind-and-pressure system characterized by low pressure at its center and by circular wind motion, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
- dalit
- people who were not traditionallly allowed to enter Hindu temples, untouchables
- Dravidian language
- a linguistic group that is unique to South Asia
- federal state
- state where a significant amount of power is being vested in its individual states
- forward capital
- a city that signals both symbolically and geographically the intentions of the country
- Green Revolution
- agricultural cultivation techniques based on hybrid crop strains and the heavy use of industrial fertilizers and chemical pesticides
- Hindi
- the most widely spoken language of South Asia
- Hindu nationalism
- these promote Hindu values as the essential and exclusive fabric of Indian society, fundamentalism
- Indian diaspora
- the migration of large numbers of Indians to foreign countries
- Jainism
- religion that stresses non-violence taking this creed to its ultimate extreme
- linguistic nationalism
- the linking of specific language with nationalistic goals
- maharaja
- a king subject to British advisors
- monsoon
- the distinct seasonal change of wind direction, which corresponds to wet and dry periods
- Mughal Empire
- the most powerful of the Muslim states, dominated much of the region from its power center in the upper Indus-Ganges basin
- orographic rainfall
- results from the uplifting and cooling of moist monsoon winds over the Western Ghats; as a result some stations receive more than 200 inches of rain during the 4 month wet season
- salinization
- the buildup of salt in agricultural fields
- Sanskrit
- the sacred language that Hindu's epic stories are written in
- Sikhism
- religion that combines elements of Islam and Hinduism
- subcontinent
- a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent
- Urdu
- the language of the Muslim majority including the former ruling class