The South Asian Realm
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| show | Refers to the seasonal reversal of wind and moisture flows in certain parts of the subtropics and lower-middle latitudes.
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| Caste system | show 🗑
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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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| show | The language family, indigenous to the South Asian realm, that dominates southern India today; as opposed to the Indo-European languages, whose tongues dominate northern India.
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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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| Neoliberalism | show 🗑
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| Megacity | show 🗑
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| show | Unprecedented, record-breaking departures from the longer-term weather patterns of a certain area.
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| Population geography | show 🗑
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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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| Demographic transition | show 🗑
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| Fertility rate | show 🗑
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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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| Population pyramid | show 🗑
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| Sex ratio | show 🗑
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| Buffer state | show 🗑
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| Urban primacy | show 🗑
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| Taliban | show 🗑
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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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| China‐Pakistan Economic Corridor | show 🗑
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| Drone warfare | show 🗑
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| Communal tension | show 🗑
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| Hindutva | show 🗑
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| Informal sector | show 🗑
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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.
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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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| show | One of the expected major impacts of global climate change on the world ocean resulting from the large-scale melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice. Low-lying coastal settlements and human activities are at greatest risk of inundation.
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