{"title":"Society","authors":"M. Kamdar","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"How large is India’s population?\u0000 In 2017, India’s population of 1.33 billion slipped past China’s 1.29 billion, making India the most populous country in the world. India’s population is expected to keep rising until it hits 1.7 billion people in 2050, after which it could...","PeriodicalId":308223,"journal":{"name":"India in the 21st Century","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115281421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"India’s Civilizational Legacy","authors":"M. Kamdar","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"How has India’s geography shaped its history?\u0000 The Indian subcontinent is a distinct geographic area, connected to yet largely separate from the vast continent of Eurasia. At once accessible and protected, the subcontinent’s geography and topography allowed a unique and multifaceted civilization to develop over...","PeriodicalId":308223,"journal":{"name":"India in the 21st Century","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125569755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Republic","authors":"M. Kamdar","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"What challenges did India face at independence?\u0000 When India achieved independence from Britain on August 15, 1947, it faced a daunting situation. Its population of 345 million was largely poor and uneducated. Average life expectancy was just thirty-two years. Ninety-two percent of India’s people were...","PeriodicalId":308223,"journal":{"name":"India in the 21st Century","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127359902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geopolitics","authors":"M. Kamdar","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Who are India’s neighbors?\u0000 India is by far the largest economy in South Asia, dominating neighboring Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Nepal, not to mention tiny Bhutan and Sikkim. It also shares a disputed border with China, a nuclear power whose military and economic...","PeriodicalId":308223,"journal":{"name":"India in the 21st Century","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129957592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politics","authors":"M. Kamdar","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"What is India’s political system?\u0000 The 1949 constitution established India as a “sovereign democratic republic.” In 1976, under a state of emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that suspended many citizen rights and freedoms, a forty-second amendment to the original constitution added the...","PeriodicalId":308223,"journal":{"name":"India in the 21st Century","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123802104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environment","authors":"M. Kamdar","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"How will climate change affect India?\u0000 With its large population, long coastlines, and location near the equator, India is particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of global warming. Rising sea levels will threaten the country’s many coastal cities, including the financial capital, Mumbai, and the...","PeriodicalId":308223,"journal":{"name":"India in the 21st Century","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131139266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The British Raj and the Road to Independence","authors":"M. Kamdar","doi":"10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199973606.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"What was the East India Company?\u0000 On December 31, 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a royal charter giving a group of English adventurers a fifteen-year monopoly over England’s trade with Asia. The first incarnation of the British East India Company was born. The British were...","PeriodicalId":308223,"journal":{"name":"India in the 21st Century","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117277068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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