Benares | | persons who do not belong to any class |
sudras | | it is really a subcontinent facing this on the south |
Rajiv Gandhi | | majority origin of the people of India |
Aryan | | reflects the life and culture of the ancient Aryans of India |
Hinduism | | part of where India is located in Asia |
untouchables | | the ____south includes coastal plains on both sides |
arable | | Hindunistan in the north lies on the slope of the |
Himalayas | | men who wear long beards and turban |
karma | | Portuguese explorer |
China | | the _____Plateau in the center is bounded by the Gnats (mountains) on the east and west |
Indira Gandhi | | was elected president in July 2007, becoming the country's first woman to hold the post |
zero | | destiny |
Gandhi | | the caste system began as a race prejudice of the fair Aryans against these dark people |
Vedic literature | | the capital |
Dravidians | | India invented the ____and numeral in mathematics |
caste system | | dominant religion - oldest organized religion |
New Delhi | | rulers or warriors |
Buddhism | | believes in the sacredness of all life |
Brahmanas | | won the sympathy vote of the Indian people |
triangular | | workers and slaves |
Vasco de Gama | | a good soul is reborn after death into a higher status; a bad soul into a lower status or animal |
Ganges | | farmers, artists, and merchants |
Rao | | World's Largest Democracy |
Indus River | | Aryan origin |
kshatriyas | | "Father of Indian Independence" |
sikh | | class system of India |
Ravi Shankar | | founder Siddharta Gautama |
reincarnation | | priests and scholars |
vaishyas | | Prime Minister that was assassinated by Tamil rebels |
India | | only 57% of the land is this |
Deccan | | prose texts containing overservation on religious rites |
Hindi | | shape of India's peninsula |
Brahma | | official language |
Europe | | most famous river in India |
Pratibha Patil | | India's name came from |
Brahmans | | mother of the assassinated prime minister |
South Asia | | modern Indian musician |
Jainism | | chief Hindu God - the creator and world soul |
caucasian | | The huge area (3,185,019 sq,km.) makes it larger than this continent, without the USSR |
Indian Ocean | | Hindu holy city |
Tamil | | second to only this country in population |