KASHMIR Conflict

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KASHMIR Conflict

• Continuation of India-Pakistan Conflict
• 1947 Post-Independence
• 2/3 Muslim
• 1/3 Hindu
• Maharaja of Kashmir was Hindu
• Chose to stay part of India
• WATER is main issue
• Threat of NUCLEAR WAR
• UN involvement
• Pakistan blames Indian army
• India blames Pakistani terrorism

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Women in India

• Traditional gender roles
• esp. middle class women
• Indian mythology idolizes motherhood
• Working women still expected to do housework
• Marriages traditionally arranged
• Today couples have more say
• Newspaper/internet ads
• Dowries sometimes to grooms family
• Brides family pays for wedding
• Typically moves in with grooms family
• Bottom of family hierarchy
• Must listen to mother-in-law
• Status rises once a son is born

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Women Rituals

• Bonula
• Andhra Pradesh region
• Women carry a series of pots filled with specific
  foods to take to temple for the Mother Goddess
  (fertility rite)
• Henna
• Hand and feet decorations for weddings
• Diwali (festival of lights)
• Oil lamps lit everywhere
• Special meals
• Mother Earth sent light as a symbol of her
  sacrifice when her tyrant son was killed

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BOLLYWOOD

• Indias movie industry
• Mix of Bombay and Hollywood
• Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
• Over 1000 movies a year
• Hollywood 600
• Why Popular?
• Culturally appealing
• HUGE international audience
• Wholesome
• Musicals are popular
• Popular films
• Bride and Prejudice
• Monsoon Wedding
• Lagaan

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Bollywood

• Themes and characteristics
• Romance/Love conquers all
• Romeo Juliet like (why?)
• Impossible dreams
• Exotic locations
• Multiple costumes
• Extravagant and melodramatic
• India-Pakistan conflict
• Loss of family/home
• Avoids sexual content
• Dance scenes

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Famous Bollywood actors
Director Yash Chopra
Shah Rukh Khan
Aishwarya Rai
Amir Khan
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Conflict in SRI LANKA

• Tamil-Sinhalese Conflict
• post-colonial conflict
• Sinhalese (language)
• majority (74 pop.)
• control govt
• better land
• govt preference
• university preference
• Buddhist
• Tamils (language)
• Minority (18 pop.)
• Hindu
• Mid-1980s
• Pogroms against Tamils erupted

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Tamil-Sinhalese Conflict

• 1987-89 Civil War
• Tamil Tigers (LTTE)
• Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
• guerilla warfare
• 1989 mini-state i/t north
• JVP (People Liberation Front)
• Janatha Virmukthi Peramuna
• Sinhala militia that fought the Sri Lankan Army
• Communists
• Sri Lankan Army
• created secret death squads against JVP and
  LTTE members
• Indians
• Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF)
• captured LTTE headquarters
• 1991 RAJIV GANDHI assassinated