India

**​​​​** __//India//__
 * BY: Tate & Brady**

**Political:** Current leader**:** **President-** Pratibha Patil ** Type of governtment: ** Federal republic ** Suffrage age: ** 18 years of age; universal
 * Vice president: ** Hamid Ansari
 * Legal system: ** Based on english common law; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations; separate personal law codes apply to muslims, christians, and hindus.

Dravidian 25% Mongoloid and other 3%media type="custom" key="5762413" align="right" Muslim 13.4% Christian 2.3% Sikh 1.9% Other 1.8% Unspecified 0.1% Literacy rate: ** **Total population-** 61%
 * Social: **
 * Population: **1,156,897,766
 * Life expectancy: ****Male-** 49.33 deaths
 * Femal-** 52.4 deaths
 * HIV/AIDS rate: ** 2.4 million (2007)
 * Ethnic and religious groups: ** **Ethnic:** Indo-Aryan 72%
 * Religious: ** Hindu 80.5%
 * Male-** 73.4%
 * Femal**- 47.8%

Tamil 5.9%; Urdu 5%; Gujarati 4.5%; Kannada 3.7%; Malayalam 3.2%; Oriva 3.2%; Punjab 2.8%; Assamese 1.3%; Maithili 1.2%; Other 5.9%
 * Launguages: ** Hindi 41%; Bengali 8.1%; Telugu 7.2%; Marathi 7%;

​ **Economic:** media type="custom" key="5855567" align="right" equiptment, cement, mining, petroleum, marchinery, software pharmaceuticals. titanium ore; chromite; natural gas; diamonds; petroleum; limestone; arable land.
 * Exchange rates: ** Indian rupees (INR) per US dollar 46.78 (2009)
 * Poverty rate: ** 25% below poverty (2007)
 * Industries: **textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation,
 * Imports and Exports: ** **Imports-** $165 billion
 * Exports-** $253.9 billion
 * Natural resources: ** Coal; iron; ore; manganese; mica; bauxite;
 * GDP- per capita: **$3,1000

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 * Current events & Issues:

The video above is about India's stuggle for earning the rights for women. Fifteen years ago, there was a bill introduced that demanded women the right to be seated in the country's federal parliment. The bill has finally been accepted by The Upper House, now it needs to be accepted by India's Lower House, but they dont know how long it is going to take for the bill to be accepted by them. "Hopefully it won't take another fifteen years". I believe after all this time all women deserve the equal rights of men, not only in the Federal Parlemment of India, but nationally as well. India, throough the years has already overcome dramatic changes, politically and economically. So i don't see why they would stop now. They won back their independance from European rule. So i won't be suprized when women are in India's Federal Parliment.

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This video was about young boys learning to climb 70 foot tall trees to get coconuts out of them. They would skip going to school so they could climb the trees, one of the dads told him not to skip school because he will regret it in the long run but the boy didnt listen. they usually put a strap around there body or around there feet so that they dont fall out of the tree and so it make it easier for them to climb. it is much harder now to find people that will climb the trees because there are more modern jobs then there use to be and jobs now you wont get hurt like you do when you climb for coconuts.