India
Note Sheet
Facts
and stuff
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Official name-
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Capital-
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Population-
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Life expectancy-
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Literacy rate-
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Official language- Hindi (23 other languages are
spoken)
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Religion- 82% are Hindu
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Government- federal republic
Physical
geography
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____________ are the northern border between India and
China
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Water surrounds much of India:
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Half of the pop. Lives near the ___________ river.
Other river include: Brahmaputra, Narmad, Godavari, Krishna
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________ of India’s surface water may be polluted
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Industry is
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Most environmental damage has resulted from
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Economic
geography
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Three-fourths of the people are in __________
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Mostly _________________ farmers
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Cash crops include __________________________________
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Cattle, sacred in India, are used as
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Country
livin’
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Three- quarters of the people are
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Most of these
people cannot ___________________________
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are rare
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Families tend to be large-
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More than 30% of India’s rural population are
___________________. Those who own
small plots are often forced into heavy debt
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Rice is the major food, Indian diets include
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Houses are built of local materials including, mud,
dried cattle-dung plaster, brick or bamboo
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Rural India is a ___________________________
The
____________ system
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Divides India into four major social classes or,
castes, according to occupation
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______________________________were below these four
castes
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Under the caste system, a person is born into a caste
and cannot move into another
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Since independence, the government has worked hard to
abolish the caste system. But the caste
system remains a part of Hindu life
City
life
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Most city people wear
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Women work with men in professional and factory jobs a
small number are wealthy, a larger sector is middle class
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Most of the urban population remains __________
More
about city livin’
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Many are ____________
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Others live in
homes built of scraps of wood, cardboard, and cloth
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They do not have
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Millions of people from rural areas move to urban
areas to seek a
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________________ is India’s largest city
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_____________________ is a giant industrial seaport
city
Just
a little bit O’ history
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Europeans arrived in India during the 16th
century
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It became the “jewel in the crown” of the British
Empire- trading products such as cotton, tea, indigo, coffee and jute
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India began to demand independence in the early
___________century
Mahatma
Gandhi
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