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  • Urbanization
    increase in the percentage of people who live in cities
  • divides Indian society into groups based on birth or occupatio
    Caste System
  • one of the world’s oldest religions; the dominant religion of India
    Hinduism
  • Colony
    territory inhabited and controlled by people from a foreign land
  • one of India’s largest cities (the first letter is M)
    Mumbai (Bombay)
  • one of India’s largest cities (the first letter is K)
    Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • religion based on the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
    Buddhism
  • site of former Muslim kingdom in northern India
    Delhi
  • religion blending Hinduism and Islam and teaching equality for all
    Sikhism
  • Partition
    division
  • Jainism
    ancient religion that teaches nonviolence as a way of life
  • Green Revolution
    program that encouraged farmers to adopt modern agricultural methods