SOUTH ASIA II

(CHAPTER 8: 394-425)

KEY CONCEPTS APPLICABLE TO THE REALM

CENTRIPETAL - CENTRIFUGAL FORCESFORWARD CAPITAL ISLAMABAD

IRREDENTISM PATHANS (OR PASHTUNS) OF PAKISTAN

RELATED TO PEOPLES OF CENTRAL AFGHANISTAN

FEDERAL SYSTEM ADOPTED BY INDIA IN 1947 PROVIDES REGIONS AND PEOPLES WITH SOME

AUTONOMY AND IDENTITY

MUSLIMS IN INDIA1931

1951

1991

RELIGIOUS CONTRASTS

ISLAM Monotheistic No idols One sacred book Uniform dogma - 5 pillars Intolerant (of other religions) Eat beef/Sacrifice cows Bury Dead Social Equality (in theory) Theocratic society

HINDUISM Polytheistic Many idols Various sacred writings Varying beliefs Absorbed other religions Venerate cows Burn dead (& alive) Caste separation “State” of secondary importance

KASHMIR

INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION JAMMU & KASHMIR FACED WITH THE CHOICE OF JOINING

EITHER HINDU INDIA OR MUSLIM PAKISTAN KASHMIR – HINDU MAHARAJA BUT MUSLIM POPULATION

1947 – PAKISTANI TRIBESMEN INVADEMAHARAJA FLEES TO DELHI AND ACCEDES TO INDIAINDIAN TROOPS MOVE IN – PAKISTANI REFULARS JOIN INJANUARY 1949 – U.N. CEASE FIRE1980-88 MUSLIM EXTREMISTS CONTINUE INSURGENCY

West PakistanEast Pakistan

India

PAKISTAN (AT PARTITION)

POPULATION GEOGRAPHY

THE SPATIAL VIEW OF DEMOGRAPHY STUDY OF POPULATION DISTRIBUTION,

COMPOSITION, RATES OF GROWTH, AND PATTERNS OF FLOW

POPULATION DENSITY (INDIA) ARITHMETIC- 904/sq mi PHYSIOLOGIC- 1,615/sq mi (US=415/sq mi)

KEY MEASURES RATE OF NATURAL INCREASE DOUBLING TIME

INDIA JAPAN

70+60-

6950-5940-4930-3910-19

0-9

AGEMALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE

20 10 0 10 2030 15 0 3015

Percent of Population Percent of Population

POPULATION PROFILES

20-29

26522

42

8747.6

17653

5282

865341

31536

0 200 400 600 800 1000

People per square mile

Europe

Russia

North America

Japan

Middle America

South America

N. Africa/S.W. Asia

Subsaharan Africa

South Asia

Southeast Asia

Europe

Russia

North America

Japan

Austral

Middle America

South America

N. Africa/S.W. Asia

Subsaharan Africa

South Asia

East Asia

Southeast AsiaPacific

POPULATION DENSITYWorld Average = 117/mi2

Realm

What if the world were a village?

What is The World Village Project?Imagine that this web page is a village. However, this villagerepresents the planet Earth. If we were to reduce the worldpopulation to a village of 1000 inhabitants with all existing humanratios remaining the same then, this would be our reality...Men and Woman520 Woman480 Men[Graph]Places of Origin584Asians 124 Africans 84Latin Americans 95 Eastern/Western Europeans55 Russians 52 North Americans 4 Australians 2New Zealanders [Graph]LanguageThe people of our web based village would have a great deal ofdifficulty communicating. This list only accounts for half of ourvillagers. The other half are made up of; Bengali, Portuguese,Indonesian, Japanese, German, French, and 200 other languages.165 Mandarin 86English 83Hindi 64Spanish 58Russian 37Arabic [Graph] Religion329 Christians178Moslems167non-religious132Hindus62Buddhists45atheists 3Jews86other[Graph]Age/Reproduction330 of the 1000 people in the village are children. Only 60 people are over the age of 65. Under half of the married women in the village have access tocontraceptive devices. 28 new babies are born each year Mortality165 of the 330 children are immunized against infections. 10 people die every year. 3 from lack of food. 1 from cancer. 2 are babies. 1 person in the village has HIV, but it has not developed intoAIDS. Life in Town200 people control 75% of the wealth. Another 200 receive only 2% of the wealth. 70 of the 1000 people own automobiles (But of those 70 someown more then one). About one-third of the people have access to clean, safedrinking water. 335 of the adults are illiterate. Land/HousingThe woodland in our village is decreasing rapidly, and thewasteland is growing. However, the other land areas are stable.The village has a total of 6,000 acres of land. 700 acres of cropland. 1400 acres of pasture. 1900 acres of woodland. 2000 acres of desert, tundra, pavement and other wasteland. On average each person has 6 acres of land. 800 would live in sub-standard housing. The village allocates 83% of its fertilizer to 40% of its cropland.That land is owned by the 270 richest and most well fed people inthe village. The remaining 60% of land, with 17% of the fertilizer,produces 28% of the food to feed the other 730 people. Theaverage grain yield on that land is one-third that of the land ownedby the rich people. [Graph]Misc. People5 Soldiers. 7 Teachers. 1 Doctor. 3 refuges from war 50 Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals Rape130(1 in 4) of the women in the village have either beenraped, or suffered attempted rape. 1/4 of those women are under the age of 18. 80% of rape is committed by someone the victim knows. Only about 67 of these cases result in a conviction. 61% of all rape cases are victims less than 18 years old. BudgetThe village has an annual budget of $3 Million Dollars $181,000 goes to weapons and war $159,000 goes to education $132,000 goes to health care Each person's share would be $3000 [Graph]WeaponsWithin the borders of the village there are several holdings ofnuclear weapons. These weapons are controlled by less than 100 of the people. Our village has enough nuclear weaponry to destroy everyliving thing within the village 3 times. Education/ComputersLess than 10 people would have a college education 200 people can not read. 1 Person would have a computer That person is probably not connected to the internet Assuming there are about 20,000,000 people connected to theinternet .003 of them will ever visit this site!

Drugs200 of the people have tried marijuana once in their lives. 10% of the teenagers smoke marijuana on a daily basis. 47% of our teenagers smoke or chew tabacco (updated for1998) Interesting Facts(Sent in by readers)If I was to look at all the faces of the 6 billion (6*10**9)people in the world and they were contained in a book with0,1 thick pages, 10 people per page, on both sides of eachsheet: 1) the book will be 30 km thick 2) looking at 10 peopleevery second (one side of each sheet), 16 hours a day, willtake me 28 and a half years 3) by the time I finish, in the year2026, there will be 2 billion extra people to look at,contained in a brand new 10 km thick volume!--Carlos Triay(triay@arttic.fr) All of the world's current population fits in the state of Texas.Yup, all 6 billion people. And each gets about 500 square feet(50 square meters approximately) as his/her ownchunk.--Alex Wieder (tcs@tao.agoron.com) If all those people start queuing, each one occupying only onefoot, the queue would be very, very long, too. The humanityqueue would be about one million 680 thousands km (a littlemore than a million miles!) - approximately 42 tours aroundthe globe!!!--Cludio Kubrusly (clode@originet.com.br) What if the people of the world made a movie? If all sixbillion people made a movie, with only 15 seconds of footageper person: This is 6.75 meters (= 20 feet) of film to each person. There would be 40.5 millions km (= 25.3 million miles)of negative! The film would be 23,333,333 hours long. To watch this film it would take 972,222 days or 2thousands 661 years, 9 months and some days. (This iswithout sleeping, eating, or any other time-out). Current World PopulationThe world population is updated every 30 seconds GuestbookFeedback is the key to this site. Please leavecoments:Sign Guestbook Guestbook Archive 1 Guestbook Archive 2

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POPULATION DENSITY

POPULATION GROWTH

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION MODEL

133,000,00050,300

2,644 people/sq mile

UNITED STATES 77 people/

sq mile

POPULATION DENSITY COMPARISON

United States - Bangladesh

BANGLADESH

GREEN REVOLUTION

THE SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER YIELD, FAST-GROWING VARIETIES OF RICE AND OTHER CEREALS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM-1960s FOCUSED ON THE FOOD CRISES INCREASED PRODUCTION PER UNIT AREA VIA:

MIRACLE CROPS NEW IRRIGATION SYSTEMS INTENSIVE USE OF FERTILIZERS

TARGETED AREAS

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT(INDIA)

LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT (TECHNOLOGY)

A MIXTURE OF TRADITIONAL VILLAGE FARMING AND MODERN AGRICULTURE

HANDICRAFTS, OLD AND NEW BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY

A MULTITUDE OF SUPPORT SERVICES AND NUCLEAR POWER

INDIA’S GREAT CITIES

MUMBAI (BOMBAY)- 19.4 MILLION ACHIEVED “PRIMACY” BASED ON ITS

SITUATION (SUEZ CANAL)

KOLKATA (CALCUTTA)- 13.5 MILLION 500,000 HOMELESS FORMER BRITISH COLONIAL CAPITAL- 1772 ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY PARTITION

DELHI (NEW AND OLD)- 13.6 MILLION BRITISH AND INDIAN SEAT OF GOVERNMENT

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT(BANGLADESH)

LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT (TECHNOLOGY)ONE OF THE WORLD’S POOREST AND LEAST DEVELOPED STATESECONOMY IS OVERWHELMINGLY AGRICULTURALCULTIVATION OF RICE IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ACTIVITY IN THE ECONOMY.

BANGLADESH

INDEPENDENT SINCE 1971

FORMERLY EAST PAKISTAN

85% MUSLIM, 12% HINDU

133 MILLION PEOPLE

PHYSIOLOGIC DENSITY = 3,622/sq mi

1.9% ANNUAL GROWTH RATE

PER CAPITA GNP = 350 US DOLLARS

NATURAL HAZARDS - CYCLONES

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT(PAKISTAN)

LEVELS OF DEVELOPMENT (TECHNOLOGY)

A POOR COUNTRY THAT SUPPORTS A LARGE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT

ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION BEGAN IN 1990 TO BOOST FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC PRIVATE INVESTMENT.

SRI LANKA

INDEPENDENT SINCE 194819.7 MILLION PEOPLE (70% BUDDHISTS)PLANTATION AGRICULTURE: TEA, RUBBER, COCONUTS

SOUTH (MAJORITY OF POPULATION) ARYAN BUDDHISTS SPEAK SINHALA (INDO-EUROPEAN)

NORTH (18% OF THE POPULATION) DRAVIDIAN HINDU TAMIL LANGUAGE

Sinhalese vs TamilsTamils - demanded equal rights in:-- education-- employment-- landownership

-- linguistic & political representation

Insurgent StateLTTE - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

SRI LANKA

SOUTH ASIA II

(CHAPTER 8: 394-425)