| A | B |
|---|
| group set up in 1985 to work for the change of treatment of Indians let by Gandhi and Nehru | Indian National Congress (INC) |
| Use of nonviolent resistance to end injustice "truth force" | Satyagraha |
| the rate at which babies die | Infant mortality |
| polytheistic religion that dominates India | Hinduism |
| areas that have nuclear power or programs to develop nuclear arms | Nuclear power |
| small country located between two large, hostile powers | Buffer state |
| Name given to Gandhi by his followers "Great Soul" | Mahatma |
| won independence from Britain after WWII | Sri Lanka |
| Founded in 1906 under the leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muslim League |
| too many people in 1 area for the resources that are available | Overpopulation |
| technical advance in agriculture | Green Revolution |
| Gandhi led 200 mile march to protest the tax on salt | Salt March of 1930 |
| passed by Britain in 1947 to remove themselves from possible civil war and split up India | Indian Independence Act |
| 1st prime minister of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| took a strong anti-communist stand during Cold War and joined military alliances set up by the US to stop Soviet expansion | Pakistan |
| ruling alliance of several political parties | Coalition |
| controversial project in central India that calls for building 30 major dams 1 more than 3000 smaller dams | Narmada Valley Project |
| worldly or unrelated to religion | Secular |
| daughter of Nehru who took prime minister seat in 1966 and ruled until 1984 | Indira Gandhi |
| inability to read or write | Illiteracy |
| bloody uprising in Amristar that was the turning point in India's struggle for independence from Britain | Amristar Massacre |
| took over leadership of Congress movement in 1920, united large sections of Indian people in support of home rule | Mohandas Gandhi |
| farmers who rent land from a large landowner and pays the owner either in cash or with a portion of the crop | Tenant farmers |
| government program in which ownership of farmland is redistributed | Land reform |
| leader of Muslim League | Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
| small business conducted in the home | Cottage industries |
| upper part of India's parliament whose members are chosen by the individual state government | Rajya Sobha |
| Holy book of Islam | Koran |
| Hindu ethnic minority in Sri Lanka fighting for separation | Tamil Tigers |
| region of India bordered by India, Pakistan, & China whose territory is cause of much fighting | Kashmir |
| policy that did not favor either the US or Soviets during the Cold War | Nonalignment |
| monotheistic religon that dominates Pakistan | Islam |
| Islamic fundamentalist state invaded by Soviets | Afghanistan |
| lower part of India's parliament chosen by the people | Lok Sobha |
| use of nonviolent means to resist civil laws considered to be unjust | civil disobedience |
| general who banned all public gatherings after 5 British officials were killed | Reginald Dyer |
| mistake while cleaning a storage tank made and clouds of deadly gas leaked into atmosphere killing more than 2000 people | Bhopal disaster |
| American philosopher who influenced Gandhi and advocated civil disobedience | Henry David Thoreau |
| being poor | Poverty |
| Indian religion formed in early 1500s by blending elements of Islam and Hinduism followers that were persecuted by Indian government | Sikhs |
| direct popular vote on a single question or issue | Plebiscite |
| son of Indira who was new prime minister of India after Indira Gandhi and was killed by Tamil Tigers | Rajiv Gandhi |
| machines replace hand tools and steam and electricity took the place of animals and humans-generating business, trade, & manufacturing | Industrialization |
| formerly East Pakistan-won independence through Indian help | Bangladesh |
| city which held a clash between Hindus and Muslims over a mosque | Ayodhya |
| Indians follow policy of noncooperation until Brits quit being in India | "Quit India" Movement |
| government ruled democratically by a national representative body that has supreme legislative powers | Parliamentary democracy |
| region in Himalayas that is struggling for independence from China | Tibet |
| Indian army assaulted the Golden Temple without warning or provocation | Operation Blue Star |
| using acts such as bombings or hijackings to publicize cause and achieve goals- using fear to intimidate gov't | Terrorism |
| deliberate killing of an ethnic or religous group | Genocide |
