CHAPTER 25 PART 2 PAKISTAN AND BANGLADESH

ANCIENT LANDS

INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION, A CULTURAL HEARTH IN WHAT IS NOW PAKISTAN

WHAT WERE REASONS THAT IT DEVELOPED HERE? (MAP PAGE 544)

FERTILE LANDS ALONG THE INDUS

WHAT LANDFORM PREVENTED ITS EXPANSION TO THE EAST?

THAR DESERT

OTHER CONQUERORS

ARYANSMAURYAN

GUPTAMUGHALBRITAIN

PARTITION AND WAR IN 1947, AT THE END OF THE RAJ, OR

BRITISH RULE, INDIA WAS SPLIT INTO NEW DIVISIONS

THE PARTITION WAS BASED ALONG RELIGIOUS LINES

MUSLIMS IN EASTERN INDIAN WERE FORCED TO MIGRATE TO EAST PAKISTAN

MUSLIMS IN WESTERN INDIA WERE FORCED TO GO TO WEST PAKISTAN

HINDUS FLED TO INDIA FROM THESE TWO NEW REGIONS

Muslims leave India, 1947. Just as Hindus fled to India after the establishment of Pakistan, millions of Muslims migrated to the Islamic republic from India. During this period the migrant Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs slaughtered each other in great numbers.

Hindus leave Pakistan, 1947. India's freedom was won at a terrible price, since the partition of India caused suffering and death for millions of Indians. Fearing Muslim violence, Hindus and Sikhs fled by every available form of transportation from the areas of Punjab and Bengal which were included in Pakistan.

MUSLIMS

HINDUS

1971 CIVIL WAR

EAST PAKISTAN WANTED A SEPARATE STATE FROM WEST

PAKISTANINDIA HELPED TO CREATE THE

NEW COUNTRY OF BANGLADESH IN 1971

KASHMIR

THE FERTILE VALLEY OF KASHMIR(SEE MAP ON PAGE 574)

IS A DISPUTED TERRITORY.SEVERAL WARS BETWEEN INDIA

AND PAKISTANHAVE NOT RESOLVED THE CONTROL

OF KASHMIR

WHAT THIRD COUNTRY MAY BE INVOLVED IN THE TERRITORIAL

DISPUTES?

WHAT RIVER HAS ITS HEADWATERS IN KASHMIR?

WHAT 2 RELIGIONS ARE PART OF THE FEUD?

MAP OF KASHMIR

STRUGGLING ECONOMIES

Rapidly growing populations challenge resources in Bangladesh and Pakistan

Most agriculture is subsistence farming Economic activities are affected by the

monsoonal winds that bring heavy rains and flooding to Bangladesh

Much of Pakistan is arid and soil is poor

PAKISTAN FARMING

MONSOONALFLOODING IN BANGLDESH

MAIN INDUSTRIES IN BANGLADESH ARE

EXPORTS OF FISH, RICE,AND JUTE, WHICH IS

USED TO MAKE ROPE AND CARPET

SMALL INDUSTRY AND MICROCREDIT

MOST BUSINESSES IN PAKISTAN AND BANGLADESH ARE SMALL

MICROCREDIT IS A POLICY THAT GIVES SMALL LOANS TO ENTRPRENEURS TO

START THEIR OWN BUSINESSES THIS HAS RAISED THE STANDARD OF

LIVING FOR SOUTH ASIANS, ESPECIALLY WOMEN

ONE RELIGION, MANY PEOPLES MOST PEOPLE IN PAKISTAN

AND BANGLADESH ARE MUSLIM

MANY WOMEN IN THESE TWO COUNTRIES PRACTICE PURDAH, OR THE CUSTOM OF VEILING, COMMON IN

SW ASIA

PAKISTAN IS MULTICULTURAL AND THE

LANGUAGE IS URDU, CHOSEN FOR NATIONAL UNITY, BECAUSE SOME

REGIONS IN PAKISTAN HAVE THEIR OWN LOCAL

LANGUAGES

CULTURES IN BANGLADESH

PEOPLE IN BANGLADESH SPEAK SANSKRIT

THEY ARE MOSTLY BENGALIS ABOUT 10% ARE HINDUS

FORMER PRIME MINISTER ZIAOF BANGLADESH

THE ARTS

PEOPLE OF THIS REGION HAVE A GREAT LOVE OF POETRY

BANGLADESH’S MOST FAMOUS POET, TAGORE, A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER,

WROTE ABOUT THE GANGES

MUSIC AND DANCE

Trailer for Sema, the Dance of the Whirling Dervishes By Seth Bloombaum On ExposureRoom.mht

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THE SUFIS, MUSLIMS WHOARE FAMOUS FOR A WHIRLING

DANCE, PRACTICEQAWWALI, A DEVOTIONAL

SINGING AND DANCING

PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN AND TERRORISM

WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO ABOUT EFFORTS TO STOP AL-QAEDA IN

PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN