Geography GEO 1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Indian Rebellion Of 1857, Geopolitics, Himalayas
16 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
South Asia
British Conquest in India
• British East India Company
• Sepoy Mutiny (1857) – india’s attempt at independence
• Direct and indirect British rule
Independence and Partition
• Gandhi – nonviolent protesting
• Hindu-Muslim division
• Displacement and violence
Ethnic Conflicts in South Asia
• Kashmir (china-india-Pakistan border by Himalayas)
1. Hindi rule
2. Muslim majority
3. Se
Ethnic Conflicts in South Asia
• The northeast fringe
• Sri Lanka
1. Ethnic violence
International Geopolitics
• Cold war between India and Pakistan
1. Both have nuclear weapons
• Tensions between china and India
• Pakistan’s complex geopolitics
1. Decentralized government
2. Hiding place for many radicals
South Asian Poverty
• Severe problem of chronic undernourishment
• Major sanitation problems
• India: over 50% live on less than $2 per day
• Growing middle class in India
• Healthy economy
India’s Growth Centers
• Silicon Plateau
• Abundant technical talent
Social Development
• Relatively low levels of health and education
• Educated South
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