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Geography
Regional Issues
Imperialism
Independence
Political Challenges
100
The highest mountain in the world, located between Nepal and Tibet.
What is Mount Everest?
100
Region of India that contains the Indus River and many of its tributaries, and therefore is a source of conflict between India and Pakistan.
What is Kashmir?
100
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is imperialism?
100
Gandhi's "truth force"
What is satyagraha?
100
The world's largest democracy.
What is India?
200
The largest country in South Asia.
What is India?
200
India's cold war policy.
What is nonalignment?
200
India was a colony of this European Power.
What is Great Britain?
200
Became the first Prime Minister of India in 1947.
Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?
200
A government ruled by several political parties.
What is a coalition government?
300
The most holy river in India.
What is the Ganges?
300
A major issue for South Issue. (Hint, think of the problem in Bangladesh)
What is increasing population?
300
A Hindu nationalist group, became one of two major political parties in India.
What is the Indian National Congress?
300
The massacre in which General Dyer ordered open fire on a group of peaceful Indians at a park in 1919 is known as this.
What is the Amritsar Massacre?
300
A country with no official religion.
What is a secular nation?
400
This word is defined as "a large landmass that juts out from a continent"
What is subcontinent?
400
This was formed in the late 1980s to inform the Indian people about the benefits and risks of nuclear power.
What is the Indian Nuclear Society?
400
Armed uprising of Indian soldiers against British command.
What is the Sepoy Rebellion?
400
This group of people was concerned about the Hindus replacing the British as oppressive rulers.
Who are the Muslims?
400
This political party led a coalition government during the 1990s.
What is the BJP (Bharata Janata Party?)
500
The most densely populated country in South Asia.
What is Bangladesh?
500
This calls for the building of 30 major dams and over 3,000 smaller dams.
What is the Narmada Valley Project?
500
Business set up by British traders that acquired considerable power over Mughal India.
What is the East India Company?
500
This word is defined as "division" and these two nations formed at independence from Britain in 1947.
What is partition, India and Pakistan?
500
This government system has a central government and state governments. (India and the US both have this)... don't say democracy.
What is a Federal System?