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| Monsoon | Refers to the seasonal reversal of wind and moisture flows in certain parts of the subtropics and lower-middle latitudes.
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| Indo-European languages | The major world language family that dominates the European geographic realm. Also widely dispersed globally.
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| Dravidian languages | The language family, indigenous to the South Asian realm, that dominates southern India today.
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| Partition | 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 | Capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory, usually near an international border. A South Asian example of this is Pakistan’s capital, Islambad.
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| Population density | The number of people per unit area. Also see arithmetic density and physiologic density measures.
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| Physiologic density | The number of people per unit area of arable land.
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| Demographic transition | Multi-stage model, based on western Europe’s experience, of changes in population growth exhibited by countries undergoing industrialization.
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| Fertility rate | Total - The average number of children born to women of childbearing age in a given population.
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| Population pyramid | Graphic representation or profile of a national population according to age and gender.
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| Sex ratio | A demographic indicator showing the ratio of males to females in a given population.
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| Communal tension | Persistent stress among a country’s sociocultural groups that can often erupt into communal violence, particularly in India.
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| Hindutva | “Hinduness” as expressed through Hindu nationalism, Hindu heritage, and/or Hindu patriotism. Indian cornerstone fundamentalist movement.
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| Caste system | 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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| Outsourcing | To import products and resources from foreign countries.
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| Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) | A legitimate organization that operates independently from any form of government and does not function as a for-profit business.
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| Micro-credit | Small loans extended to poverty-stricken borrowers who would not otherwise qualify for them.
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| Buffer state | A country or set of countries separating ideological or political adversaries.
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| Taliban | Refers to the Islamist militia group that emerged from madrassas in Pakistan and ruled neighboring Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001.
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| al-Qaeda | 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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| Rising sea level | 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.
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| Drone warfare | The use of remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles as delivery systems to conduct military attacks.
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