subcontinent, a large landmass that is part of a continent, alluvial plain, an area built up by rich fertile soil left by river floods, delta, an area where sand, silt, clay, or gravel is dropped at the mouth of a river, atoll, a circular shaped island made of coral, monsoon, a seasonal wind that blows steadily from the same direction for several months at a time but changes directions at other times of the year, cyclone, a storm with high winds and heavy rains; hurricane, jati, social system that emerged out of the varna system, reincarnation, the belief in Hinduism that after a person dies, his or her soul is reborn into another body, Raj, the period of time in which Great Britain controlled India as a part of the British Empire, boycott, to refuse to buy items from a particular country or company, civil disobedience, the use of nonviolent protests to challenge a government or its laws, nuclear proliferation, the spread of control of nuclear power, particularly the knowledge of how to construct nuclear weapons, sitar, stringed instrument, green revolution, the effort to use modern techniques and science to increase food production in poorer countries, cottage industry, a home- or village-based industry in which people make simple goods using their own equipment, ecotourism, a type of tourism in which people visit a country to enjoy its natural wonders, outsourcing, hiring workers in other countries to do a set of jobs, dalit, group outside India's social system; also called the "untouchables"

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