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| a social class that a person belongs to by birth |
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| the modern name for the major religion of India |
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| a major world religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama |
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| a name, meaning the "enlightened one," used for Siddhartha Gautama |
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| a beautiful tomb built by the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan to honor his wife |
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| a 20th-century Indian who helped lead his country to independence by using nonviolent resistance to colonial rule |
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| a method of protest that draws attention to a problem without using violence |
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| one of the sacred writings on Hinduism |
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| the rebirth of a soul in another body |
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| in Hinduism, the consequences of a person's actions in this life, which determines his or her fate in the next life |
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| in Buddhism, a state of wisdom that breaks the cycle of reincarnation |
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| a region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent; India and Pakistan dispute control of Kashmir |
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| the use of special seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, and pesticides to produce high crop yields and food production |
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| a small business in which the workers manufacture items in their homes |
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| Indian city that is hone to many high-tech industries |
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| a conservative Islamic group that took control of Afghanistan in the mid-1990's. |
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| the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset each day |
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| to avoid eating, often for religious reasons |
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| a government in which the powers of the king or queen are limited by the constitution |
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| travel to unique environments by people who take care to preserve them in their natural state |
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