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south asia
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Monsoon | a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain |
indo-european languages | family native to western and southern ... Membership in the various branches |
Dravidian languages | Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, all of which have long literary traditions. Smaller literary languages are Tulu and Kodava |
Partition | the action or state of dividing or being divided into parts. |
Forward Capital | symbolically relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons. |
Population density | number of people per unit of area |
Physiologic density | number of people per unit area of arable land |
Demographic transition | phenomenon and theory which refers to the historical shift from high birth rates and high infant death rates in societies with minimal technology |
Fertility rate | measures the average number of children per woman |
Population pyramid | graph that shows the distribution of ages across a population divided down the center between male and female members |
Sex ratio | ratio of males to females in a population |
Communal tension | violent parties feel solidarity for their respective groups |
hindutva | Indian cultural, national, and religious identity |
Caste system | divides Hindus into four main categories - Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and the Shudras |
Micro-credit | the lending of small amounts of money at low interest to new businesses in the developing world |
Buffer state | a small neutral country situated between two larger hostile countries and serving to prevent the outbreak of regional conflict. |
Taliban | fundamentalist religious group that held power over most of Afghanistan during the late 1990s. |
al-Qaeda | ideologues envision the removal of all foreign influences in Muslim countries. Al-Qaeda members believe that a Christian–Jewish alliance is conspiring to destroy Islam |
Drone warfare | warfare with the use of army drones with the capability of taking out many people whilst being controlled by very far away. |