Redistributing the land from the rich to the poor.
What is land reform?
100
Complete control over a market or a product.
What is a monopoly?
100
A religious minority in India, they seek their own separate nation in Punjab.
What is Sikh?
100
The refusal to recognize any one official religion.
What is secular?
100
Indian troops rebelled against the British army in 1857 because Hindus and Muslims were being forced to travel overseas and touch rifles greased with pork and cow fat.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
200
A change in agriculture to use fertilizer, new farming methods, and genetically engineered seeds to improve crop yields.
What is the Green Revolution?
200
The rate at which babies die.
What is infant mortality?
200
He was India's prime minister until his assassination by Tamil terrorists in 1991.
Who is Rajiv Gandhi?
200
A popular vote to allow people to decide their own future.
What is a plebiscite?
200
British corporation led by Robert Clive that gained exclusive rights to build trading posts in India.
What is East India Company?
300
A small business run from the home
What is cottage industry?
300
A small country located between two larger powerful powers.
What is a buffer state?
300
During her term as prime minister she tried to limit freedoms and modernize the country until she was murdered by her own Sikh bodyguards.
Who is Indira Gandhi?
300
System based upon the British form of government, where most of the power lies in the hands of the party that wins the most seats.
What is parliamentary democracy?
300
Incident in 1919 when General Dyer ordered troops to open fire on thousands of Indian protesters.
What is the Amritsar Massacre?
400
The poor rent land from the wealthy and pay taxes in the form of surplus crops.
What is a tenant farmer?
400
Gandhi's "truth force" or nonviolent resistance.
What is Satyagraha?
400
India's first prime minister who focused on modernizing India's economy.
Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?
400
Several parties that join together to rule.
What is a coalition?
400
Founded in 1906 by Muhammad Ali Jinnah to seek separate nations for Hindus and Muslims.
What is the Muslim League?
500
A controversial plan to build dams that would produce electric power but will destroy farmland and displace thousands of people.
What is Narmada Valley Project?
500
The refusal to obey unjust laws, as practiced by Henry David Thoreau.
What is civil disobedience?
500
Site of a disaster in 1984 where an American chemical plant accidentally leaked poison gas into the air killing thousands of people.
What is Bhopal?
500
The leaders of this political group stress the return to Hindu traditions.
What is the Bharata Janata Party?
500
Founded in 1885 to urge the British to open government jobs to Indians.