The major influences and major types of urban morphology in South Asia
1. List and describe the major influences and major types of urban morphology in South Asia? Which are dominant? What was the Mughals' influence there? How did the British change cities?
2. 2. What is GNH and why was this concept created, by whom and when? What are the four components of Bhutan’s GNH? What are Bhutan’s specifities that have made it one of the happiest countries in the world? Can it be used as a model to replicate elsewhere? If so, under what conditions?
3. In India Awakes (2015), describe each of the three stories. What triggered the changes? What does having a business license means and provides? How has socialism impacted India differently than China, the Soviet Union? Why so? What happened to the tribal peoples and their land, why? What is the Forest Rights Act? What resulted?
4. Why is it difficult to assess the economy of this region? What are these economies’ largest problems (be sure to discuss fully)?
5. What is globalization and how has it shaped South Asian economies and India in particular? Why did India have to make a momentous decision in 1991? What did it choose to do? With what positive and negative consequences?
6. Based on Anatol Lieven’s chapter on Pakistan, how is that country both a weak state but a strong society? Explain. What is key over all other factors in the country’s cohesion? How? In what ways is that a problem?
7. Explain the support given to shariah law and the Taliban in Pakistan. How is the rampant corruption not due to a lack of honesty for example? Why is our understanding of Pakistan usually so shallow? Why is it important that we ‘get it right’?
8. How did the British assert themselves politically across India? Who was Gandhi and how did he move India to independence from the British? Discuss the impacts of colonialism on India.
9. How did India become partitioned – by whom, how and why? What resulted in this division? Discuss the impacts of independence on India and on Pakistan?
10. How did West and East Pakistan become two countries and when? With what consequences? Discuss fully.
11. Who are the Tamil Tigers? The Maoist Naxalites? Where were/are they active, what did/do they want, what actions have they employed to achieve their goals? How successful were/are they?