vocabulary

Migration: the process or act of migrating.

Hindu: a person, esp. of northern India, who adheres to Hinduism.

Mantra: a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.

Sanskrit: an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.

Veda: Sometimes, **Vedas.** the entire body of Hindu sacred writings, chief among which are four books, the Rig-Veda, the Sama-Veda, the Atharva-Veda, and the Yajur-Veda.

Smrti: that class of Hindu sacred literature based on human memory

Kama: the god of erotic desire, sometimes seen as an aspect of the god whose other aspect is Mara, or death.

Dharma: essential quality or character, as of the cosmos or one's own nature.

Artha: In Hinduism, //**artha**// is one of the four goals of life, known as purusharthas

Moksa: (Hinduism) release from the cycle of rebirth

Monsoon: he seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.

Agriculture: the science, art, or occupation concerned with cultivating land, raising crops, and feeding, breeding, and raising livestock; farming.

Sari: a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.

Bindi: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px;">a small colored ornamental dot worn in the middle of a woman's forehead, esp. Hindu and sometimes Sikh

Polytheism: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.

Monotheism: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.

<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;">Textiles: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">any cloth or goods produced by weaving, knitting, or felting.

Buddhism: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enlightenment that enables one to halt the endless sequence of births and deaths to which one is otherwise subject.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;">Jute: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">a strong, coarse fiber used for making burlap, gunny, cordage, etc., obtained from two East Indian plants,<span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//Corchorus capsularis// and <span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//C. olitorius,// of the linden family.

Cultivation: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">the act or art of cultivating.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP): <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">gross national product excluding payments on foreign investments.<span class="labset" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; font-style: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//Abbreviation:// GDP

Mughal Empire: In India, the **Mughal Empire** was one of the greatest **empires** ever.The **Mughal Empire** ruled hundreds of millions of people. India was much larger then than now because of the conquering of the **Mughal** Emperors.

Mosque: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">a Muslim temple or place of public worship.

<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;">Sikhism: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">the religion and practices of the Sikhs

Secular: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: <span class="ital-inline" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 1.25em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline;">//secular interests.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;">Mahatama Gandhi: <span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)

Satyagraha: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">in India) the policy of passive resistance inaugurated by Mohandas Gandhi in 1919 as a method of gaining political and social reforms.

Mahavira: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">a semilegendary teacher, believed to have died c480 b.c., who reformed older doctrines to establish Jainism in its present form: regarded as the twenty-fourth and latest Tirthankara.

Democracy: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

Partition: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; line-height: 16px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">a division into or distribution in portions or shares. //