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The vocabulary words
below are different than the ones included in the "Definitions"
page for South Asia. The "Definitions" include specific
terms that are necessary for readers to be familiar with when
trying to understand the various events that have occurred in South Asia. However, the vocabulary words below are
general terms that may be unfamiliar to students in certain grade levels.
The vocabulary words
are divided according to the particular section and then the
particular page that they appear on, so you may notice that
some of the words are repeated.
South
Asia
Peoples: linguistic, minorities vs. majorities,
colonial, elite, ethnic, reform movement, salvation,
Before Common Era (BCE), sects
Politics:
liberal democratic republic, prosperity, nation, partition,
democracy, ethnic, elite, dictatorial rule, monarchy, assembly,
minorities vs. majorities
Economics:
elite, illiteracy vs. literacy, gender sensitivity,
deprived, corruption, square kilometer, textiles, destitution,
sectors, monopoly, life expectancy, capitalistic market economy,
annual growth rate
Geography:
topography, lowlands vs. highlands, plain, plateau, peninsula,
climate, Arctic, temperate, tropical
History:
Indus River Valley, Before Common
Era (BCE), native peoples, edicts, partition, port city, resolution, colonization
Kashmir
Kashmir and Its People: partition, climate, suppress,
census
History of
Kashmir to 1947: succession, province, majority
vs. minority, bureaucracy, partition, foes
Partition,
1947-49: partition, viceroy, accede, accessions, precedence,
majority vs. minority, negotiations, United Nations, Security
Council
Kashmir, 1949-89:
negotiations, Security Council, uncontested election,
legislative assembly, ratify, unanimous, Cold War, diplomacy,
sacred, relic, constitutional, electorate, skirmishes, mediate,
autonomy, Simla Accord, ousted
Terrorism and
Repression in Kashmir: terrorism, oppressive, counter
measures, undermine, artillery shelling, suppress, repressive,
tactics, corruption, ousted, incursions, radicalize, compromise
Kashmir's Future: oppressive,
weaponry, nuclear testing,
missile systems,
nuclear bombs, nuclear war,
denounced, imposed,
sanctions, condemned,
military
hardware, proliferation,
nuclear weapons
Punjab
The Punjab and Its People: partition, province, state,
plain, alluvial
History of
Punjab to 1947: Before
Common Era (BCE), Indus River Valley, native, diplomacy, claimants, corruption, strife,
chaos, sentiment, preferential treatment, irrigation
Partition,
1947:, partition, appeasing, majority vs. minority
Punjab's Prosperity:
prosperity, prosperous, irrigation, equity, class barriers,
minority vs. majority, mechanization
Sikhism:
guru, reformer, devotional, rebirth, meditating, divine,
appointed, successor, sacred, executed, suppress, asserting,
inducted, initiation, revere, observe, oppression, subjects,
autonomous, adhere, national language, nominally
Demands for
Khalistan: status, activism, allied, counterbalance,
majority vs. minority, partitioning, union, autonomy,
independence, bilingual, designated official languages,
suppress, discontent, patriotism, secular, linguistic, enact,
parliament, exploiting, radical, moderate, shrine, assassinated,
revolution, dismissed, imposed, rebels, detained, campaign,
prosperity, gurus, denounced, adhere, assimilated, oppression,
autonomous
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