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•India 1,241 M
•Pakistan 177 M
•Bangladesh 151 M
•Nepal 31 M
•Bhutan 0.7 M
•Sri Lanka 21 M
•Total 1,622,000
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- 23% of World Population
- 3% of land area
- 66% of world's poor
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•Onshore winds and rain in summer (June) when hot sun heats up the land, air rises and cooler air from the ocean blows onto the land |
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- Northern Mountains: Himalayas, Karakoram
- Rivers in the central areas
- Plateau in the sounthern regions
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- Pakistan Earthquake in 2005 (7.6 magnitude)
- 75,000 dead and 3 million homeless
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- 1,560 miles
- Passes through Core Area of India
- Delhi to Calcutta
- High Rainfall and good soils
- Wheat in west
- Rice in east
- Hindus believe that bathing in the water washes away sins
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- 1800 miles
- Passes through Assam and Tibet
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- Central Indian Plateau
- Chota-Nagpur Plateau
- Deccan Plateau
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- Mesoamerica
- Andean America
- West Africa
- Mesopotamia
- Indus Valley
- Ganges Delta
- Wei/Huang River
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•Prince Siddhartha (Buddha ) 6th century BC
•Buddhism becomes state religion under Asoka
•Asoka Spread Buddhism to Sri Lanka, SE Asia, and
•Mediterranean Europe and made it the state religion
•Asoka spread his empire by preaching the virtues of peace and stability from his Buddhist beliefs
•400+ million Buddhists today, Sri Lanka is Buddhist
•Upon Asoka’s death, Buddhism retreated and Hindu
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| Islam influence 10th century |
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•Indus River Valley, Punjab, Ganges Delta
•By 14th century Islamic Mughal Empire controlled large parts of India
•Islam appealed to Indians of the lower caste,
•But many local leaders found it better to cooperate and convert than to be annihilated
•Buddhist monks killed, destroyed monasteries, burned libraries, only 1 million Buddhists in India today
•Pakistan is 96%, Bangladesh is 83%, and India is 13% Muslim today
•Realm as a whole is 60% Hindu and about one third Muslim |
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| British control through the British East India Company |
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•Exploited local rivalries (divide and conquer)
•Sepoy Rebellion 1857 against the company led to direct British Rule until 1947 |
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| British Control 1857 to 1947 |
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•India was somewhat industrialized when the British took over and was selling goods to SE and SW Asia
•Economic set back for Indians
•Ruled directly over Punjab, Bengal ,and Assam
•562 “Native States” ruled by locals with British advisors
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| Positive Vestiges of Colonialism |
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•Positive Vestiges of Colonialism
•Railroads, roads, Canals
•Irrigation Canals
•Mumbai (Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta) and Chennai (Madras)
•Education of an Elite
•Modern Industrialization
•Modern medicine
•Began to eliminate:
•Burning of widows alive on funeral pyres
•Female infanticide
•Child Marriage
•Caste System |
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| Partition into India and Pakistan |
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- Since the 1930s, Muslims had begun to campaign for a separate state
- Parition came August 15, 1947 into Muslim and Hindu states
- The country of Pakistan was made
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| Remaining problems of the India/Pakistan Partition |
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•Sikhs in Punjab were split between the two countries
•15 million refugees (was this a forced or voluntary migration?)
•Still Many Muslims in India (map on next slide)
•Kashmir
•Calcutta loses hinterland to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
•177 million Muslims in India today, almost as many as in Pakistan |
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Main differences between Islam/Hinduism
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•Monotheistic
•No idols
•One sacred book
•Uniform dogma - 5 pillars
•Eat beef
•Bury Dead
•Social Equality (in theory)
•Theocratic society |
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Main differences between Islam/Hinduism
Hinduism
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•Polytheistic
•Many idols
•Various sacred writings
•Varying beliefs
•Venerate cows
•Burn dead (& alive)
•Caste separation
•“State” of secondary importance |
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•Systematic analysis of population phenomena through empirical, statistical and mathematical methods.
•Interested about changes in the population size and composition. |
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•Concerned by the spatial aspects of population:
•1- Simple description of the location of the population.
•2- Explanation of its spatial pattern and distribution.
•3- Geographical analysis (processes such as urbanization and migration).
•Demography emphasizes time while population geography emphasizes space. |
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- total population/ total area
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- total population/ total area of arable land
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- births per 1,000 population per year
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- deaths per 1,000 population per year
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- (RNI) number of births minus numbr of deaths expressed as a percentage
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•number of years it will take a population to double if no in-migration or out-migration and if birth rates and death rates do not change
•Equals 70 divided by the RNI |
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| Demographic transition model |
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- There are four stages of development
- Stage 1: High Death rate| Low Birth Rate
- As a country moves through the stages, death rate decreases and birth rate increases
- But in Stage 4, birth rate and death are relatively low
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