South/Southeast Asia Vocab Flashcards
Nonviolent Resistance
The practicing at achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests.
Boycott
Withdraw for commercial or social relations with a country as punishment or protest.
Partition
The action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.
Caste System
A social hierarchy [assed down through families.
Raj
British sovereignty in India.
Sari
Principal outer government of women of the Indian subcontinent.
Joint Family System
Multigenerational families with two or more married children.
Subcontinent
A large, distinguishable part of a continent such as North America or Southern Asia.
Insurgent
A rebel or revolutionary.
Indigenous
Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native.
Barbarian
A member of a community or tribe not belonging to one of the great civilizations.
Heterogeneity
The quality or state of being diverse in character or content.
Charpoy
A bed used especially in India consisting of a frame strung with tapes or light rope.
Deforestation
The purposeful clearing of forested land.
Purdah
The practice among women in certain Muslim and Hindu societies of living in a separate room or behind a curtain, or of dressing in all-enveloping clothes, in order to stay out of the sight of men or strangers.
Buffer State
A small neutral country situated between two larger hostile countries and serving to prevent the outbreak of regional conflict.
Malnutrition
Lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat.
