Prime Ministers
This first prime minister of India saw industrialization as critical for his new country's growing economy.
Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?
In 1887, this woman began learning Urdu about a decade after becoming Empress of India.
Who is Victoria?
What is swadeshi?
The British imperial officials relied on the use of this term to construct and to maintain colonial infrastructure in settlements such as Singapore or New South Wales.
What is convict labor?
This region was renamed Bangladesh when it gained independence in 1971.
What is East Pakistan?
This two-time prime minister of India provided financial incentives (as well as less savory methods of coercion) to induce individuals to be sterilized.
Who is Indira Gandhi?
This major political event is the reason why Cyril Radcliffe did not want to go back to South Asia ("or he might get shot").
What was Partition?
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Explain one factor in the Partition of British India that gave India a competitive economic advantage over East/West Pakistan.
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This term shed light on the exploitative aspects of the "call center" revolution of the 1990s and early 2000s, highlighting the inequity of call center workers in the global economy.
What is cyber coolie?
In 1940, the All-India Muslim League met in this city, now the capital of Pakistan, to call for a separate Muslim state.
What is Lahore?
What is Make in India?
This is another term for an indentured Indian laborer and considered more polite than the term coolie, which often has a derogatory connotation.
What is girmitiya?
Despite belonging to an anti-separationist party, Chit Hlaing as president of the Legislative Council of this province allowed its separation from the rest of British India in 1937.
What is Burma (Myanmar)?
This concept describes the demographic trend which has led to the rapid expansion of cities such as New Delhi and Mumbai in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
What is rural-urban migration?
This Caribbean island was the destination for the largest number of Indian indentured laborers outside of the Indian Ocean.
What is Trinidad (and Tobago)?
This economics professor from Cornell served under Manmohan Singh's administration in India.
Who is Kaushik Basu?
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Explain one continuity between the pre-colonial South Asian economy and the economy of the British Raj. This can make reference to patterns of labor, manufacture, or exchange.
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This name is given to the massive prison built in the Andaman Islands, to which many nationalist leaders in British India were sent between 1896 and 1947.
What is the Cellular Jail?
This global economic powerhouse was founded in the nineteenth century by a family of Parsi merchants from Gujarat.
What is Tata?
Fancy a cup of tea? If your tea is fancy, it might come from this former province of British India, now a state in the eastern part of India.
What is Assam?
This slogan gave ammunition to Indira Gandhi's opponents, who punned that Gandhi intended to "remove poor people," not just poverty.
What is Garibi Hatao?
Poor living conditions, especially a lack of clean water, led to the spread of this disease among Indian plantation workers in Assam in the late nineteenth century. British officials blamed the workers themselves for being intrinsically "contagious."
What is cholera? (Or what is kala-azar?)
This natural-fiber cloth is associated with Gandhi's nationalist movement, traditionally spun on a charkha.
What is khadi?
This term is a central rhetorical concept in Narendra Modi's economic policy, which demands expanding access to economic institutions (like banks) to previously underserved communities.
What is financial inclusion?
If there's a global championship match for high-stepping, the guards from this bordertown would win every year!
What is Wagah?