Chapter 8
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| show | The strict social stratification and residential segregation of people—specifically in India’s Hindu society—on the basis of ancestry and occupation.
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| show | The major world language family that dominates the European geographic realm. This language family is also the most widely dispersed globally (Fig. G-8), and about half of humankind speaks one of its languages.
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| Dravidian languages | show 🗑
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| show | The subdivision of the British Indian Empire into India and Pakistan at the end of colonial rule on August 15, 1947.
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| Forward Capital | show 🗑
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| show | A national or regional development strategy based on the privatization of state-run companies, lowering of international trade tariffs, reduction of government subsidies, cutting of corporate taxes, and overall deregulation of business activity.
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| show | Informal term referring to the world’s most heavily populated cities; in this book, the term refers to a metropolis containing a population of greater than 10 million.
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| show | Unprecedented, record-breaking departures from the longer-term weather patterns of a certain area. In India, such evsevere heat waves, droughts, and non-monsoonal rainstorms that trigger massive flooding and widespread landslides.
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| show | The field of geography that focuses on the spatial aspects of demography and the influences of demographic change on particular countries and regions.
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| Population density | show 🗑
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| show | The number of people per unit area of arable land.
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| show | changes in population growth exhibited by countries undergoing industrialization. High birth rates and death rates are followed by plunging death rates, producing a huge net population gain; birth and death rates then converge at a low overall level
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| show | More precisely the Total Fertility Rate, it is the average number of children born to women of childbearing age in a given population.
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| show | The proportion of a national population that is either too old or too young to be productive and that must be cared for by the productive population.
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| show | Such a diagram of age-sex structure typically displays the percentage of each age group (commonly in five-year increments) as a horizontal bar, whose length represents its relationship to the total population
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| show | A demographic indicator showing the ratio of males to females in a given population.
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| show | The term means “students” or “seekers of religion.” Specifically, refers to the Islamist militia group that emerged from madrassas in Pakistan and ruled neighboring Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001;
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| show | The terrorist organization that evolved into an expanding global network under the directorship of Usama bin Laden between the mid-1990s and his elimination by the U.S. in 2011.
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| show | remote-controlled aerial vehicles as delivery systems to conduct military attacks. advantages include long flight times without, difficulty of detection from the ground, and imaging capabilities that allow drones to see what is invisible to pilots.
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| show | Dominated by unlicensed sellers of homemade goods and services, the primitive form of capitalism found in many developing countries that takes place beyond the control of government. The complement to a country’s formal sector
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| show | South Asia’s combined delta formed by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers. All of Bangladesh lies on this enormous deltaic plain, which also encompasses surrounding parts of eastern India. Well over 200 million people live here,
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| show | A legitimate organization that operates independently from any form of government and does not function as a for-profit business. Mostly seeks to improve social conditions, but is not affiliated with political organizations.
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| show | Small loans extended to poverty-stricken borrowers who would not otherwise qualify for them. The aim is to help combat poverty, encourage entrepreneurship, and to empower poor communities—especially their women.
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