| Benares | | persons who do not belong to any class |
| sudras | | it is really a subcontinent facing this on the south |
| Rajiv Gandhi | | majority origin of the people of India |
| Aryan | | reflects the life and culture of the ancient Aryans of India |
| Hinduism | | part of where India is located in Asia |
| untouchables | | the ____south includes coastal plains on both sides |
| arable | | Hindunistan in the north lies on the slope of the |
| Himalayas | | men who wear long beards and turban |
| karma | | Portuguese explorer |
| China | | the _____Plateau in the center is bounded by the Gnats (mountains) on the east and west |
| Indira Gandhi | | was elected president in July 2007, becoming the country's first woman to hold the post |
| zero | | destiny |
| Gandhi | | the caste system began as a race prejudice of the fair Aryans against these dark people |
| Vedic literature | | the capital |
| Dravidians | | India invented the ____and numeral in mathematics |
| caste system | | dominant religion - oldest organized religion |
| New Delhi | | rulers or warriors |
| Buddhism | | believes in the sacredness of all life |
| Brahmanas | | won the sympathy vote of the Indian people |
| triangular | | workers and slaves |
| Vasco de Gama | | a good soul is reborn after death into a higher status; a bad soul into a lower status or animal |
| Ganges | | farmers, artists, and merchants |
| Rao | | World's Largest Democracy |
| Indus River | | Aryan origin |
| kshatriyas | | "Father of Indian Independence" |
| sikh | | class system of India |
| Ravi Shankar | | founder Siddharta Gautama |
| reincarnation | | priests and scholars |
| vaishyas | | Prime Minister that was assassinated by Tamil rebels |
| India | | only 57% of the land is this |
| Deccan | | prose texts containing overservation on religious rites |
| Hindi | | shape of India's peninsula |
| Brahma | | official language |
| Europe | | most famous river in India |
| Pratibha Patil | | India's name came from |
| Brahmans | | mother of the assassinated prime minister |
| South Asia | | modern Indian musician |
| Jainism | | chief Hindu God - the creator and world soul |
| caucasian | | The huge area (3,185,019 sq,km.) makes it larger than this continent, without the USSR |
| Indian Ocean | | Hindu holy city |
| Tamil | | second to only this country in population |
