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| A valuable type of wood; grown in India and Southeast Asia. P653 |
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| An early language form in South Asia; used as a sacred language in India today. P655 |
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| Indian troops commanded by British officers during the colonial era in India. P658 |
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| The belief that the human soul is reborn again and again in different bodies. P660 |
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| Among Hindus and Buddhists, the positive or negative force caused by a person’s actions. P660 |
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| Among Buddhists, the escape from the suffering of life. P661 |
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| A system in which people’s position in society is determined by their birth into a particular caste or group. P662 |
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| People at the bottom of the Indian caste system who do the work that is considered unclean. P663 |
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| A program begun by the Indian government in the 1960s that encouraged farmers to modernize their methods to produce more food. P665 |
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