GEO 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Official Language, Economic Restructuring
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India: pakistan, bangladesh, mountainous north, southern islands. Population distribution: demography: study of distribution, composition, growth rates, and flow patterns. I(cid:374)dia"s de(cid:374)sit(cid:455) is appro(cid:454)i(cid:373)atel(cid:455) 5 ti(cid:373)es that of the us. Each american consumes 50 times the amount of energy as 1 indian: distribution graphs, example: france versus india, us apx 77 people per mile2 , bangladesh apx 2644 people per mile2. Languages: official language is english, 13 other languages spoken by many millions of people each. Hinduism: reincarnation, not just religion, way of life, karma, puja (worship, cremation, castes. European interaction: 1700s british east india company, control of trade, economic restructuring. Infrastructure development transportation, manufacturing: social restructuring. Hindu exodus from pakistan and bangladesh to india. Sorrow and suffering are part of life. The way to stop suffering is to stop wanting. Follow the middle path and avoid extremes of too much pleasure and desire to end desire: 8-fold path to end desire, buddhism fell when islam came.
