Asian Politics - POSC 353 Resource Guide: India

The Republic of India - the world's seventh largest country - extends from high in the Himalayas, through the Tropic of Cancer, to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean at Cape Comorin.

The Republic of India - the world's seventh largest country - extends from high in the Himalayas, through the Tropic of Cancer, to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean at Cape Comorin. India is the world's second most populous nation after China, and the largest democracy.

The period encompassing the two world wars marked more than the worldwide conflict between Fascism and democracy or socialism/Communism. This was also the period in which imperial powers were profoundly challenged by colonized areas demanding to become nation-states in their own right. British India, as the first locus of a full-blown nationalist movement, created a model - the Indian National Congress - soon to be followed across the colonized world, from Southeast Asia to Africa.

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