South Asia

By rg06

  • India gains independence from Britain (political)

  • Pakistan becomes independent (political)

  • First Indo-Pakistani war ends (cultural)

  • Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka) gained independence (political)

  • India adopted a constitution and became a democratic republic (political)

  • India gave every adult the right to vote (political)

  • Railway network was nationalized (economic)

  • Loss of Tibet's independence (political/social)

  • India goes through the "Green revolution" and a series of famines (social)

  • Maldives declared itself a republic (political)

  • India saw the "White Revolution" (cultural)

  • Civil war broke out, separating East and West Pakistan (social)

  • Bangladesh becomes independent (political)

  • Ceylon changed it's name to Sri Lanka and became a republic (political)

  • India tests nuclear bomb (political/social)

  • Civil war broke out, government VS rebels (political/social)

  • Maldives' tourism industry collapsed (economic)

  • Sikhs assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (political)

  • Pakistan and Bangladesh had women Prime Ministers (political)

  • Tamil extremists assassinated Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (political)

  • Bangladesh publicly acquired the bomb (political/social)

  • Two thirds of Bangladesh devastated by floods (social)

  • India's population reaches 1 billion (social)

  • India's first gold medal in the Olympics (cultural)

  • India passed the National Food Security Act (economic)

  • Brunei becomes first in East Asia to implement the Sharia Law (political)

  • Sri Lanka’s leopards are endangered (cultural)

  • Omicron variant threatens to overwhelm health systems (social/economic)

  • Philippines raises legal consent age from 12 to 16 (social)

  • Sirajuddin Haqqani makes his first public appearance (political)

  • ‘Hijab marches’ compete with Pakistan’s International Women’s Day rallies (cultural/social)