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Re: OT: Bob Dylan news and more
Posted by: hopkins ()
Date: October 28, 2018 15:26
[www.theguardian.com]
"The raw, painful birth of Blood on the Tracks
Recorded, scrapped, then hastily revised, the mercurial creativity of Bob Dylan's most personal and honest album is laid bare in a six-CD set, More Blood, More Tracks..."
please excuse if this link has been posted; i'm just on=site here for a quick flash as this came up on my "News Feed" in USA this Sunday morning.
running thru it now; seems informed and sensitive presentation so far...
Posted by: Elmo Lewis ()
I had the surreal experience of seeing Bob Dylan last night. Let me first state that I am proud to say I have now seen Bob - the epitome of a living legend. I am slightly more than a casual fan, but not a fanatic. I have a number of albums and enjoy them very much. The live show was a different matter. That said, I won't bother to see him again.
I had read the reviews and knew the setlists, but was hoping for some magic. There was none. In this case, more warhorses would have been welcome. His voice was as good as I have ever heard - based on albums. I was pleasantly surprised. The highlight (of course) was Like A Rolling Stone. Also, Ballad Of A Thin Man for the final song. This could have been such a great show, but wasn't.
Bob never said a word to the crowd - in fact, treating the crowd with disdain at best. I got the feeling that he was honoring us with his presence and we should be proud of anything we got. What an @#$%& and weirdo!
What could have been better?
1. A few more recognizable songs - Does anyone really think Early Roman Kings is better than Watchtower (not played)? Every female I spoke to wanted to hear Lay Lady Lay. Hell, why not play Tweeter as a tribute to Petty?
2. His smug attitude - hell, I'm old and tired too - I wasn't expecting Mick Jagger, but a few "thank yous" wouldn't have hurt. A mention of Macon's musical heritage? Ain't happening.
3. Why change ALL of the arrangements?
Again. I am a fan and admirer of his vast and very impressive body of work, but I will not waste my hard earned money on seeing him again. 90% of the people I spoke to felt the same way.
Dream setlist
Subterranean Homesick Blues
Lay Lady Lay
Seven Days!
Lily, Rosemary, etc.
Tweeter And The Monkey Man
Mighty Quinn
I'm sure I left out some great ones.
Okay, give me hell,,,,,,,,,,,
Posted by: sanQ ()
As a casual fan, you want the same performance that you heard on the album. So just listen to your albums.
I have heard the albums a million times that's why going to see Bob live is great because I get to hear him sing his songs performed differently. He's never boring if you understand his MO and he never sings the same way twice. That takes real skill. Unfortunately not enough people appreciate that. That's the same quality I used to love about the Stones when it was never the same way twice. Now its pretty close to the same all the time.
Posted by: RollingFreak ()
It seems wrong to say someone doesn't get it if they see Dylan and don't like him. By all accounts, he's not perfect, but the thing about it with him is thats what makes him special. I wish for a lot of the same things as you. I wish he talked more. He used to all the time in the 60s, he was a GREAT performer. I don't know what happened to that. I would love if he changed the setlist around a bit more. He does fine but the man has one of the most impressive song catalogues in history. Its amazing what never gets touched. I just heard Hurricane the other day and remember that I used to think the only way that might get touched again is when Hurricane dies. It did not.
But again, that is why Dylan is Dylan. Is it a pass? Probably, but its what many love about him. And I don't think they are wrong. I'd love to see the Dylan of the Last Waltz, putting on one of the greatest guest sets I've ever heard from anyone. But he's just not like that, and hasn't been for awhile. You go to the show, you know what to expect (and know what not to expect) and you kinda gotta roll with it. Its either for you or its not. But it just feels weird criticizing his shows. Maybe because he doesn't even have to be doing them at all? I don't know. Its not for everyone and yes I hear the old live stuff and wish he was more a storyteller nowadays but that just ain't him (babe). Again, you aren't wrong, but precisely those things you wished he'd do is exactly why most love him. A @#$%& you attitude from a performer is annoying, but there's a lot of guys it works for and is usually more rewarding than detrimental. Lou Reed and Neil Young are guys who said @#$%& you a lot to their fans and in the end, they were usually right. It was more interesting that way, its what we liked about them.
Posted by: Doxa ()
RollingFreak
But it just feels weird criticizing his shows. Maybe because he doesn't even have to be doing them at all? I don't know.
I guess financially he doesn't need to do them (and if he really would maximise the profits he might follow the hopes of Elmo Lewis, pretty much manifested by the example of The Rolling Stones), but I always get the impression that he actually needs to do them. That's what he is and what he does. Some sort of 'elixir of life' for him.
Sometimes I get the feeling that it must be exhausting for him to always re-live, re-think and re-imagine the songs than 'just' perform them, almost like re-creating the art in the front of audience, but I guess that's the muse in him speaking, and making no compromises. He is an unique performer.
- Doxa
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Posted by: Chris Fountain ()
Well I don't know exactly when Dylan let You Tube play his music, but the Along the Watch Tower version from the live album Before the Flood rocks!!!
Posted by: slewan ()
Dylan has played all these songs during the NET (except for: Lily, Rosemary etc, Sweetheart and Tweeter) - most of them far too often
Wow! Even Seven Days and Quinn?
Seven Days - played a good amount in 1996
Mighty Quinn - played a handful of times in 2002
Of course, they were both probably in unrecognizable forms . Again, the beauty of Dylan. He might not play stuff alot, but he's played most and you never know when its gonna show back up.
Posted by: Cristiano Radtke ()
For those living in Spain, the El Pais website has a preview of More Blood, More Tracks. I don't know if it has the same contents as the version posted by NPR, though. For those who can give it a try, here's the link: [elpais.com]
EDIT: It turns out it's the same tracks posted by NPR.
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Posted by: dcba ()
Of course, they were both probably in unrecognizable forms
Not "7 Days" it was as straightforward and bland as Ron wrote it...
Posted by: sundevil ()
every artist tries to built an audience and a following. muddy, elvis, chuck berry, the beatles, the rolling stones, neil young, bruce springsteen.
bob dylan is the only one who goes out and does what he wants and makes the audience catch up. his appearance on the scene in 1961. going electric, americana, the gospel tours, ect, ect. he's always out ahead and he's always right because bob dylan has something to say.
Posted by: mrjones ()
reviews A couple reviews from Orlando Oct 26
Posted by: Hairball ()
mrjones
Clearly written from the perspective and positive outlook of fanatical diehards, but nice to read them nevertheless.
"Rip this joint, gonna save your soul..."
On 'More Blood, More Tracks,' Familiar Bob Dylan Songs Cut Closer to the Bone
The 14th release in Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series unearths the original sessions for his 1975 album "Blood on the Tracks." Credit: Barry Feinstein
By Jon Pareles
Bob Dylan had crucial second thoughts just as he was about to release "Blood on the Tracks," the indelible 1975 album filled with songs of separation, heartache, sorrow, rage and regret. Now it's getting a revealing close-up. "More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14," due Friday, unveils all of the initial sessions: the solo, duo and small-group versions of songs that Dylan replaced, for half of the album, with more extroverted full-band recordings. There are an exhaustive deluxe six-CD version with every surviving take and a one-CD compilation of alternate versions of the album's 10 songs plus one that was omitted, "Up to Me."
The songs from "Blood on the Tracks" are artfully multifaceted: romances, travelogues, tall tales, parables and possibly memories, all at once. Although it was written and recorded while Dylan's marriage to the former Sara Lownds was disintegrating — she filed for divorce in 1977 — he later insisted that its songs, including "Tangled Up in Blue," "Idiot Wind" and "Shelter from the Storm," were by no means confessional. In "Chronicles: Volume One," his elliptical 2004 memoir, he claimed that the lyrics had been inspired by Anton Chekhov short stories.
Pages from a Dylan notebook appear in the hardcover book that accompanies the deluxe six-CD version of the set. Credit: Graham S. Haber/The Morgan Library & Museum, via Sony
While making the album and tinkering with lyrics, Dylan pared away obvious references to his own career. He set aside "Up to Me," a song about artistic ambition versus small-mindedness, and he replaced lines from an early take of "Idiot Wind" that complained, "Imitators steal me blind." Regardless of its origins, listeners through the decades have been riveted by the album's pain and longing; it's one of Dylan's masterpieces.
The album Dylan had initially planned to release was recorded in four days in September 1974, in the New York City studio where he had made his first albums: A&R Studios, formerly Columbia Studio A. In that familiar setting he recorded solo, with his acoustic guitar and harmonica, and for one session with a band of folk-rooted sidemen, Eric Weissberg and Deliverance. They finished only one song that satisfied Dylan, "Meet Me in the Morning."
He whittled the band down to just its bassist, Tony Brown, who shadowed Dylan's idiosyncratic timing with uncanny grace through the remaining sessions, yielding the reflective, almost conspiratorial performances of "Simple Twist of Fate" and "Buckets of Rain" on the original album, along with the busker's bounce of "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go," a song about blissful love that can't help envisioning its end. Dylan brought in two other studio musicians, Paul Griffin on keyboards and Buddy Cage on pedal steel guitar, to add ghostly overlays.
While the lyrics on "Blood on the Tracks" are among Dylan's most emotional, he has insisted that they are not confessional. Credit: Barry Feinstein
Almost all of the songs were in the same key and performed with a bare minimum of backup. So the original "Blood on the Tracks" would have been nearly as sparse as Dylan's early 1960s solo recordings and his lean, pointedly ascetic 1967 "John Wesley Harding."
But while LP jackets were being printed and advance vinyl pressings were sent out, Dylan decided to revisit the songs with a pickup band of local Minneapolis musicians who were hastily assembled during the last week of December 1974. He had rewritten (and improved) some lyrics, and with more musicians in the room and, perhaps, more distance on the songwriting, he delivered the songs more forcefully, facing them outward rather than inward.
When "Blood on the Tracks" was released in January 1975, half of the New York City recordings were replaced with the Minneapolis sessions (although with album covers already printed, that studio band went uncredited). Meanwhile, to give the music a subliminal edge, Dylan had the tracks sped up by 2 to 3 percent, shortening the running times by a few seconds and very slightly raising the pitch. Insiders who had heard the original album mourned what they considered to be a push toward pop. A handful of songs from the New York sessions that trickled out on Dylan's first Bootleg Series compilations suggested they had a point.
"More Blood, More Tracks," strips away any gloss. In the six-CD package, the takes that appeared on the original album are returned to accurate speed and mixed more austerely, with considerably less reverb around Dylan's voice and guitar and different balances on band tracks. (The six CDs include all the takes recorded in New York; there are no surviving outtakes from the Minneapolis sessions, but the master tapes are remixed.) The pricey full package also includes a hardcover volume featuring a trove of Dylan lore: a page-by-page reproduction of a spiral notebook of lyrics, full of cross-outs and alternatives. The one-CD version is a well-chosen playlist among many that could traverse the New York sessions.
From the beginning, none of the performances on the complete set is tentative or demo-like. Dylan had clearly thought through the songs beforehand, chosen his guitar strategies and decided where the dramatic peaks were. His first performances in the studio were apparently so incandescent that the engineers didn't pay attention to the sound of his vest buttons clacking against his guitar — the only distraction in his very first take of "Simple Twist of Fate," which rises from and falls back to a stoic near-whisper, like a startling rumor being passed along.
The New York recordings, solo or close to it, bring out the solitude in the songs: The singer endlessly wandering, bereft of the woman he loved, wondering what could have been different, coming to terms with it all. Stripped of arrangements that have been familiar for decades, Dylan's voice comes through as more insistent, while the lyrics land more sharply. The complicated storyline of "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" becomes more immediately comprehensible in a solo performance. And without the Minneapolis band's organ crescendos, "Idiot Wind" becomes a more private attack, as much plaint as indictment: "You'll never know the hurt I suffered nor the pain I rise above/And I'll never know the same about you, your holiness or your kind of love."
The "Blood on the Tracks" that Dylan had initially planned to release was recorded in four days in September 1974. Credit: Ken Regan
But in the end, Dylan knew best. The Minneapolis versions unleashed the suppressed anger in "Idiot Wind" and brought the momentum of a band to the long quasi-narratives of songs like "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts." The New York versions of the songs were monochromatic and slightly forbidding, and they played down Dylan's dry humor: "She was married when they first met, soon to be divorced/He helped her out of a jam, I guess, But he used a little too much force," he sang in early versions of "Tangled Up in Blue," a song in which he continues to juggle pronouns (I/he) and personae.
The Minneapolis arrangement of "Tangled Up in Blue" that opens "Blood on the Tracks" — switched to first-person, transposed to a higher key and ornamented with glimmering guitar strumming — doesn't telegraph the troubles to come. Instead, it entices an unsuspecting listener into the album's emotional labyrinths.
Dylan was right the first time about his decision to re-record half of "Blood on the Tracks." But years later, it's fascinating and illuminating to hear what might have been.
[www.nytimes.com]
Bob's a performer not an entertainer. He doesn't need to jerk the audience off with some "hello [insert name of town] how are you?".
dcba
He doesn't, although it would be nice if he said anything. Just to make each night unique, to actually engage with an audience. If he never did it, that would be one thing, but he did used to love talking to the audience. I don't mind that he doesn't, but I can't pretend to not understand the arguments that he's just there to sing his songs and leave. There's no way to truly no whether he's actually interested in being up there or not.
Shares your personality , I guess
"No Anchovies, Please"
For 3000+ people paying at least $100 a ticket, a "thanks for coming" would have been nice.
He won't get me again.
Posted by: mosthigh ()
Bob will be Bob. He likes to f%ck with people, and when you're on a 'never ending tour', some nights you'll feel more outgoing than others.
I've seen him a few times since 1988. Some nights he's all smiles and sunshine, dancing around, and making eye contact with the audience. Other times, he's been totally aloof, scowling at his band, and never cracking a smile or glancing at the crowd.
Usually, he at least introduces the band, but he's the master of inconsistent.
I've even seen videos from the 90's, where he allows people from the audience to come up on stage, one by one, to give him a hug or whatnot while he's playing. Kid you not.
That Bob...
Posted by: loog droog ()
You shouldn't take it so hard.
It's not all about you.
Dylan lets the music do the talking. While his re-arrangements of songs at shows can feel like "Name That Tune," I think that the Brian Wilson take on some of songs during this current tour is unexpected and exhilarating.
He's very much alive and still taking chances. Still an artist, and not a Bob Dylan tribute band.
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video: [www.youtube.com] Here's Bob with a little audience participation-notably the girl in the short red jumper.
Having seen Bob many times since '79, at this point in time I would find it odd and peculiar if he acted jovial and happy-go-lucky, greeting the audience with a smile - I might even question his sanity.
Like mosthigh said above, Bob will be Bob, and occasionally he'll do a little jig or smile at a band member. But more often than not, he's dead serious with a scowl focusing on the music he's presenting.
I guess it might be off putting if you're not familiar with seeing him live, but he's not your typical clown-like frontman - he's Bob Dylan - take it or leave it.
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Posted by: MadMetaphoricalMax ()
Here's a link to my review feature on More Blood More Tracks for The Arts Desk, and it's one of the most compelling sets, even if it is just one album across six long discs. If you like more blood with your tracks, this one's for you.
[www.theartsdesk.com]
MadMetaphoricalMax
Nice review, congratulations and thanks for sharing!
Tangled Up in Blue (take 1) can be listened here: [www.newyorker.com]
The story goes like this: "At The Last Waltz, Neil Diamond came off stage and Bob Dylan is just about to go on. As he came off, Diamond said, 'you're really gonna have to go some to follow me, man, I was so great.'
And Bob says, 'What do you want me to do, go on stage and fall asleep?'" That is from a Ron Wood interview in Q Magazine 1992.
okay, that's a great fable but a fabricated quote. is this true, then?
During the mid-'70s, Ian McLagan finds himself in a room with Dylan and Led Zeppelin's infamously brutish manager Peter Grant, where he witnesses the following exchange: "Hello, Bob. I'm Peter Grant, I manage Led Zeppelin." After a short silence, Dylan replies: "I don't come to you with my problems."
I adore both of those quotes. I genuinely hope they're true.
Date: November 1, 2018 02:14
Cristiano Radtke
Thanks Christiano.
Tim, it's Super Great to read you, ty!
Posted by: Glam Descendant ()
I witnessed a riveting, magnificent performance in Huntsville last night -- astonishing even. I sure hope somebody recorded it.
Glam Descendant
I sure hope somebody recorded it.
If it pops up on Dime I'll send the FLACs to you.
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Former Major at Angola Prison Convicted of Beating a Handcuffed and Shackled Inmate
Officer Was Previously Convicted of Related Obstruction Offenses
Daniel Davis, 44, a former major at Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) in Angola, Louisiana, was found guilty by a jury yesterday in federal court for his participation in the beating of an inmate who was handcuffed, shackled, and not resisting and for failing to intervene to stop his subordinates from participating in the same beating. In a previous trial in January 2018, Davis was convicted of conspiring with other officers to cover up the beating by devising a false cover story, submitting false reports documenting that cover story, tampering with witnesses, and lying under oath. Davis was also previously convicted of this beating in November 2018, but was granted a new trial based on juror misconduct.
Four other officers—former LSP Captains James Savoy, John Sanders, and Scotty Kennedy, and former Sergeant Willie Thomas—have all previously pleaded guilty for their roles in the beating and cover up. At Davis's trial, Captains Sanders and Kennedy testified for the government and described the abuse and the extensive cover up.
After hearing testimony over the course of three days, the jury convicted Davis of willfully depriving the inmate of his right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. The evidence showed that Davis initiated the beating by yanking the inmate's leg chains, causing the inmate to fall face-first onto the concrete breezeway. At that point, Davis and the other officers punched, kicked, and stomped on the inmate, leaving the inmate with a dislocated shoulder, a hematoma, a collapsed lung, and broken ribs.
"The Constitution and its Bill of Rights protect all people in our nation from unlawful abuse by the government, and the Department of Justice will continue to prosecute officers who willfully violate the Constitution by abusing their power over those in custody," said Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Civil Rights Division. "This officer violated his oath and the law, and the Department of Justice will not tolerate this kind of criminal misconduct by correctional officers."
U.S. Attorney Brandon Fremin stated, ""Corrections officers are charged with the duty of protecting the public, not abusing those who have been lawfully incarcerated. This district contains several penal institutions, and this should serve as a warning to those who would abuse their power that federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies will relentlessly pursue those who violate the public trust. I commend all of the agencies responsible for this conviction, and want to thank them for their partnership in this important matter."
"Correctional officers have an obligation to protect inmates serving their sentences as ordered by the court," said Bryan A. Vorndran, FBI New Orleans Special Agent in Charge. "Daniel Davis abused his authority by inflicting physical harm upon an inmate that was restrained and non-combative. His actions are a disgrace to all correctional officers who serve ethically and continue to maintain high moral standards throughout our correctional facilities. I commend the men and women of the FBI's Baton Rouge Resident Agency Office, Louisiana Office of the State Inspector General, and the Department of Justice Civil Rights trial attorneys for their commitment to uphold the constitution and protect all Americans."
"This is a just verdict," said Louisiana Inspector General Stephen Street. "We cannot and will not tolerate the abuse of the considerable power afforded corrections officers. Whenever it does occur, it is critical to hold offenders criminally accountable in order to protect the integrity of the system. The jury did exactly that with Mr. Davis, and it was worth the time and effort to obtain this result. Thanks again to our federal partners at the FBI and DOJ."
No date has been set for Davis's sentencing. He faces a maximum penalty of five years of imprisonment on the conspiracy and perjury counts, 10 years of imprisonment on the excessive force count, and 20 years of imprisonment on each of the remaining obstruction counts.
This case was investigated by the FBI's Baton Rouge Resident Agency Office and the Louisiana Office of the State Inspector General. It was prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Zachary Dembo and Anita Channapti of the Civil Rights Division's Criminal Section. Trial Attorney Christopher J. Perras of the Civil Rights Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Frederick A. Menner Jr., of the Middle District of Louisiana also assisted in the case.
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test@testauto:~$

But what I want is "test@testauto:~$" not "[\e]0;\u@\h: \w\a]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w$"
How can I get it?

A: For Bash
echo "${PS1@P}"

For ZSH
echo "${(%%)PS1}"

You can find more about this in this thread: How to print current bash prompt?

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Souf Asia or Soudern Asia, is a term used to represent de soudern region of de Asian continent, which comprises de sub-Himawayan SAARC countries and, for some audorities, adjoining countries to de west and east. Topographicawwy, it is dominated by de Indian Pwate, which rises above sea wevew as Nepaw and nordern parts of India situated souf of de Himawayas and de Hindu Kush. Souf Asia is bounded on de souf by de Indian Ocean and on wand (cwockwise, from west) by West Asia, Centraw Asia, East Asia, and Soudeast Asia.
The current territories of Afghanistan, Bangwadesh, Bhutan, Mawdives, Nepaw, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka form Souf Asia. The Souf Asian Association for Regionaw Cooperation (SAARC) is an economic cooperation organisation in de region which was estabwished in 1985 and incwudes aww eight nations comprising Souf Asia.
Souf Asia covers about 5.2 miwwion km2 (2 miwwion mi2), which is 11.71% of de Asian continent or 3.5% of de worwd's wand surface area. The popuwation of Souf Asia is about 1.891 biwwion or about one fourf of de worwd's popuwation, making it bof de most popuwous and de most densewy popuwated geographicaw region in de worwd. Overaww, it accounts for about 39.49% of Asia's popuwation, over 24% of de worwd's popuwation, and is home to a vast array of peopwe.
In 2010, Souf Asia had de worwd's wargest popuwation of Hindus, Jains and Sikhs. It awso has de wargest popuwation of Muswims in de Asia-Pacific region, as weww as over 35 miwwion Christians and 25 miwwion Buddhists.
The totaw area of Souf Asia and its geographicaw extent is not cwear cut as systemic and foreign powicy orientations of its constituents are qwite asymmetricaw. Aside from de centraw region of Souf Asia, formerwy part of de British Empire, dere is a high degree of variation as to which oder countries are incwuded in Souf Asia.
Modern definitions of Souf Asia are consistent in incwuding Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangwadesh, Sri Lanka, Nepaw, Bhutan and Mawdives as de constituent countries. Myanmar is incwuded by some schowars in Souf Asia, but in Soudeast Asia by oders. Some do not incwude Afghanistan, oders qwestion wheder Afghanistan shouwd be considered a part of Souf Asia or de Middwe East.
The current territories of Bangwadesh, India, and Pakistan, which were de core of de British Empire from 1857 to 1947, form de centraw region of Souf Asia, in addition to Afghanistan, which was a British protectorate untiw 1919, after de Afghans wost to de British in de Second Angwo-Afghan war. The mountain countries of Nepaw and Bhutan, and de iswand countries of Sri Lanka and Mawdives are generawwy incwuded as weww. Myanmar (formerwy Burma) is often added, and by various deviating definitions based on often substantiawwy different reasons, de British Indian Ocean Territory and de Tibet Autonomous Region are incwuded as weww.
The Souf Asian Association for Regionaw Cooperation (SAARC), a contiguous bwock of countries, started in 1985 wif seven countries – Bangwadesh, Bhutan, India, de Mawdives, Nepaw, Pakistan and Sri Lanka – and added Afghanistan as an eighf member in 2007. China and Myanmar have awso appwied for de status of fuww members of SAARC. This bwoc of countries incwude two independent countries dat were not part of de British Raj – Nepaw, and Bhutan, uh-hah-hah-hah. Afghanistan was a British protectorate from 1878 untiw 1919, after de Afghans wost to de British in de Second Angwo-Afghan war. The Worwd Factbook, based on geo-powitics, peopwe, and economy defines Souf Asia as comprising Afghanistan, Bangwadesh, Bhutan, British Indian Ocean Territory, India, Mawdives, Nepaw, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The Souf Asia Free Trade Agreement incorporated Afghanistan in 2011, and de Worwd Bank grouping of countries in de region awso incwudes aww eight members comprising Souf Asia and SAARC as weww, and de same goes for de United Nations Chiwdren's Fund (UNICEF).
When de Centre for Souf Asian Studies at de University of Cambridge was estabwished, in 1964, it promoted de study of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangwadesh, Afghanistan, de Himawayan Kingdoms (Nepaw, Bhutan, and Sikkim), and Burma (now Myanmar). It has since incwuded Thaiwand, Mawaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, de Phiwippines and Hong Kong.
The Centres for Souf Asian Studies at bof de University of Michigan and de University of Virginia incwude Tibet awong wif de eight members of SAARC in deir research programs, but excwude de Mawdives. The Souf Asian Studies Program of Rutgers University and de University of Cawifornia, Berkewey Centre for Souf Asia Studies awso incwude de Mawdives.
The Souf Asian Studies Program of Brandeis University defines de region as comprising "India, Pakistan, Bangwadesh, Sri Lanka, Nepaw, Bhutan, and in certain contexts Afghanistan, Burma, Mawdives and Tibet". The simiwar program of Cowumbia University incwudes Afghanistan, Bangwadesh, India, de Mawdives, Nepaw, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka in deir study and excwudes Burma.
The United Nations Statistics Division's scheme of sub-regions incwude aww eight members of de SAARC as part of Soudern Asia, awong wif Iran onwy for statisticaw purposes. Popuwation Information Network (POPIN) incwudes Afghanistan, Bangwadesh, Burma, India, Nepaw, Pakistan and Sri Lanka as part of Souf Asia. Mawdives, in view of its characteristics, was admitted as a member Pacific POPIN subregionaw network onwy in principwe. The Hirschman–Herfindahw index of de United Nations Economic and Sociaw Commission for Asia and de Pacific for de region incwudes onwy de originaw seven signatories of SAARC.
The British Indian Ocean Territory is connected to de region by a pubwication of Jane's for security considerations. The region may awso incwude de disputed territory of Aksai Chin, which was part of de British Indian princewy state of Jammu and Kashmir, but is now administered as part of de Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang.
The incwusion of Myanmar in Souf Asia is widout consensus, wif many considering it a part of Soudeast Asia and oders incwuding it widin Souf Asia. Afghanistan was of importance to de British cowoniaw empire, especiawwy after de Second Angwo-Afghan War over 1878–1880. Afghanistan remained a British protectorate untiw 1919, when a treaty wif Vwadimir Lenin incwuded de granting of independence to Afghanistan, uh-hah-hah-hah. Fowwowing India's partition, Afghanistan has generawwy been incwuded in Souf Asia, wif some considering it a part of Soudwest Asia. During de Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) American foreign powicy considered Pakistan and Afghanistan in Soudwest Asia, whiwe oders incwuded it as a part of Souf Asia. There is no universaw agreement among schowars on which countries shouwd be incwuded widin Souf Asia.
In de past, a wack of a coherent definition for Souf Asia resuwted in not onwy a wack of academic studies, but awso in a wack interest for such studies. The confusion existed awso because of de wack of a cwear boundary – geographicawwy, geopowiticaw, socio-cuwturawwy, economicawwy or historicawwy – between Souf Asia and oder parts of Asia, especiawwy de Middwe East and Soudeast Asia. Identification wif a Souf Asian identity was awso found to be significantwy wow among respondents in an owder two-year survey across Bangwadesh, India, Nepaw, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. However, modern definitions of Souf Asia are very consistent in incwuding Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangwadesh, Sri Lanka, Nepaw, Bhutan and Mawdives as de constituent countries.
According to de Oxford Engwish Dictionary, de term "subcontinent" signifies a "subdivision of a continent which has a distinct geographicaw, powiticaw, or cuwturaw identity" and awso a "warge wand mass somewhat smawwer dan a continent". Historians Caderine Asher and Cyndia Tawbot state dat de term "Indian subcontinent" describes a naturaw physicaw wandmass in Souf Asia dat has been rewativewy isowated from de rest of Eurasia. The Indian subcontinent is awso a geowogicaw term referring to de wand mass dat drifted nordeastwards from ancient Gondwana, cowwiding wif de Eurasian pwate nearwy 55 miwwion years ago, towards de end of Pawaeocene. This geowogicaw region wargewy incwudes Bangwadesh, Bhutan, India, Mawdives, Nepaw, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
The use of de term Indian subcontinent began in de British Empire, and has been a term particuwarwy common in its successors. This region has awso been wabewwed as "India" (in its cwassicaw and pre-modern sense), "Greater India", or as Souf Asia.
According to andropowogist John R. Lukacs, "de Indian Subcontinent occupies de major wandmass of Souf Asia", whiwe de powiticaw science professor Tatu Vanhanen states, "de seven countries of Souf Asia constitute geographicawwy a compact region around de Indian Subcontinent". According to Chris Brewster, India, Pakistan, Bangwadesh, Sri Lanka, Nepaw and Bhutan constitute de Indian subcontinent; wif Afghanistan and Mawdives incwuded it is more commonwy referred to as Souf Asia. The geopowiticaw boundaries of Indian subcontinent, according to Dhavendra Kumar, incwude "India, Pakistan, Bangwadesh, Sri Lanka, Nepaw, Bhutan and oder smaww iswands of de Indian Ocean". Mawdives, de country consisting of a smaww archipewago soudwest of de peninsuwa, is considered part of de Indian subcontinent.
The terms "Indian subcontinent" and "Souf Asia" are sometimes used interchangeabwy. The Souf Asia term is particuwarwy common when schowars or officiaws seek to differentiate dis region from East Asia. According to historians Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jawaw, de Indian subcontinent has come to be known as Souf Asia "in more recent and neutraw parwance." This "neutraw" notion refers to de concerns of Pakistan and Bangwadesh, particuwarwy given de recurring confwicts between India and Pakistan, wherein de dominant pwacement of "India" as a prefix before de subcontinent might offend some powiticaw sentiments.
There is no gwobawwy accepted definition on which countries are a part of Souf Asia or Indian subcontinent. Whiwe Afghanistan is not considered as a part of de Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan is often incwuded in Souf Asia. Simiwarwy, Myanmar is incwuded by some schowars in Souf Asia but not in Indian subcontinent.
The history of core Souf Asia begins wif evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens, as wong as 75,000 years ago, or wif earwier hominids incwuding Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago. The Indus Vawwey Civiwization, which spread and fwourished in de nordwestern part of Souf Asia from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day Nordern India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, was de first major civiwization in Souf Asia. A sophisticated and technowogicawwy advanced urban cuwture devewoped in de Mature Harappan period, from 2600 to 1900 BCE.
The earwiest prehistoric cuwture have roots in de mesowidic sites as evidenced by de rock paintings of Bhimbetka rock shewters dating to a period of 30,000 BCE or owder,[note 2] as weww as neowidic times.[note 3] According to andropowogist Possehw, de Indus Vawwey Civiwization provides a wogicaw, if somewhat arbitrary, starting point for Souf Asian rewigions, but dese winks from de Indus rewigion to water-day Souf Asian traditions are subject to schowarwy dispute.
The Vedic period, named after de Vedic rewigion of de Indo-Aryans,[note 4] wasted from c. 1900 to 500 BCE. The Indo-Aryans were pastorawists who migrated into norf-western India after de cowwapse of de Indus Vawwey Civiwization, Linguistic and archaeowogicaw data show a cuwturaw change after 1500 BCE, wif de winguistic and rewigious data cwearwy showing winks wif Indo-European wanguages and rewigion, uh-hah-hah-hah. By about 1200 BCE, de Vedic cuwture and agrarian wifestywe was estabwished in de nordwest and nordern Gangetic pwain of Souf Asia. Rudimentary state-forms appeared, of which de Kuru-Pañcāwa union was de most infwuentiaw. The first recorded state-wevew society in Souf Asia existed around 1000 BCE. In dis period, states Samuew, emerged de Brahmana and Aranyaka wayers of Vedic texts, which merged into de earwiest Upanishads. These texts began to ask de meaning of a rituaw, adding increasing wevews of phiwosophicaw and metaphysicaw specuwation, or "Hindu syndesis".
Increasing urbanisation of India between 800 and 400 BCE, and possibwy de spread of urban diseases, contributed to de rise of ascetic movements and of new ideas which chawwenged de ordodox Brahmanism. These ideas wed to Sramana movements, of which Mahavira (c. 549–477 BCE), proponent of Jainism, and Buddha (c. 563-483), founder of Buddhism, were de most prominent icons.
The Greek army wed by Awexander de Great stayed in de Hindu Kush region of Souf Asia for severaw years and den water moved into de Indus vawwey region, uh-hah-hah-hah. Later, de Maurya Empire extended over much of Souf Asia in de 3rd century BCE. Buddhism spread beyond souf Asia, drough nordwest into Centraw Asia. The Bamiyan Buddhas of Afghanistan and de edicts of Aśoka suggest dat de Buddhist monks spread Buddhism (Dharma) in eastern provinces of de Seweucid Empire, and possibwy even farder into West Asia. The Theravada schoow spread souf from India in de 3rd century BCE, to Sri Lanka, water to Soudeast Asia. Buddhism, by de wast centuries of de 1st miwwennium BCE, was prominent in de Himawayan region, Gandhara, Hindu Kush region and Bactria.
From about 500 BCE drough about 300 CE, de Vedic-Brahmanic syndesis or "Hindu syndesis" continued. Cwassicaw Hindu and Sramanic (particuwarwy Buddhist) ideas spread widin Souf Asia, as weww outside Souf Asia. The Gupta Empire ruwed over a warge part of de region between 4f and 7f centuries, a period dat saw de construction of major tempwes, monasteries and universities such as de Nawanda. During dis era, and drough de 10f century, numerous cave monasteries and tempwes such as de Ajanta Caves, Badami cave tempwes and Ewwora Caves were buiwt in Souf Asia.
Iswam came as a powiticaw power in de fringe of Souf Asia in 8f century CE when de Arab generaw Muhammad bin Qasim conqwered Sindh and Muwtan in soudern Punjab in modern-day Pakistan, uh-hah-hah-hah. By 962 CE, Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms in Souf Asia were under a wave of raids from Muswim armies from Centraw Asia. Among dem was Mahmud of Ghazni, who raided and pwundered kingdoms in norf India from east of de Indus river to west of Yamuna river seventeen times between 997 and 1030. Mahmud of Ghazni raided de treasuries but retracted each time, onwy extending Iswamic ruwe into western Punjab.
The wave of raids on norf Indian and western Indian kingdoms by Muswim warwords continued after Mahmud of Ghazni, pwundering and wooting dese kingdoms. The raids did not estabwish or extend permanent boundaries of deir Iswamic kingdoms. The Ghurid Suwtan Mu'izz aw-Din Muhammad began a systematic war of expansion into norf India in 1173. He sought to carve out a principawity for himsewf by expanding de Iswamic worwd. Mu'izz sought a Sunni Iswamic kingdom of his own extending east of de Indus river, and he dus waid de foundation for de Muswim kingdom dat became de Dewhi Suwtanate. Some historians chronicwe de Dewhi Suwtanate from 1192 due to de presence and geographicaw cwaims of Mu'izz aw-Din in Souf Asia by dat time. The Dewhi Suwtanate covered varying parts of Souf Asia, and was ruwed by a series of dynasties, cawwed Mamwuk, Khawji, Tughwaq, Sayyid and Lodi dynasties. Muhammad bin Tughwaq came to power in 1325, waunched a war of expansion and de Dewhi Suwtanate reached it wargest geographicaw reach over de Souf Asian region during his 26-year ruwe. A Sunni Suwtan, Muhammad bin Tughwaq persecuted non-Muswims such as Hindus, as weww as non-Sunni Muswims such as Shia and Mahdi sects.
Revowts against de Dewhi Suwtanate sprang up in many parts of Souf Asia during de 14f century. After de deaf of Muhammad bin Tughwaq, de Bengaw Suwtanate came to power in 1352 CE, as de Dewhi Suwtanate began disintegrating. The Bengaw Suwtanate remained in power drough de earwy 16f century. It was reconqwered by de armies of de Mughaw Empire. The state rewigion of de Bengaw Suwtanate was Iswam, and de region under its ruwe, a region dat uwtimatewy emerged as de modern nation of Bangwadesh, saw a growf of a syncretic form of Iswam. In de Deccan region, de Hindu kingdom Vijayanagara Empire came to power in 1336 and remained in power drough de 16f century, after which it too was reconqwered and absorbed into de Mughaw Empire.
About 1526, de Punjab governor Dawwat Khan Lodī reached out to de Mughaw Babur and invited him to attack Dewhi Suwtanate. Babur defeated and kiwwed Ibrahim Lodi in de Battwe of Panipat in 1526. The deaf of Ibrahim Lodi ended de Dewhi Suwtanate, and de Mughaw Empire repwaced it.
The modern history period of Souf Asia, dat is 16f-century onwards, witnessed de start of de Centraw Asian dynasty named de Mughaws, wif Turkish-Mongow roots and Sunni Iswam deowogy. The first ruwer was Babur, whose empire extended de nordwest and Indo-Gangetic Pwain regions of Souf Asia. The Deccan and nordeastern region of de Souf Asia was wargewy under Hindu kings such as dose of Vijayanagara Empire and Ahom kingdom, wif some regions such as parts of modern Tewangana and Andhra Pradesh under wocaw Suwtanates such as de Shia Iswamic ruwers of Gowconda Suwtanate.
British Indian Empire in 1909. British India is shaded pink, de princewy states yewwow.
The Mughaw Empire continued its wars of expansion after Babur's deaf. Wif de faww of de Rajput kingdoms and Vijayanagara, its boundaries encompassed awmost de entirety of de Indian subcontinent. The Mughaw Empire was marked by a period of artistic exchanges and a Centraw Asian and Souf Asian architecture syndesis, wif remarkabwe buiwdings such as de Taj Mahaw. At its height, de empire was de worwd's wargest economy, worf awmost 25% of gwobaw GDP, more dan de entirety of Western Europe. However, dis time awso marked an extended period of rewigious persecution. Two of de rewigious weaders of Sikhism, Guru Arjan and Guru Tegh Bahadur were arrested under orders of de Mughaw emperors, asked to convert to Iswam, and executed when dey refused. Rewigious taxes on non-Muswims cawwed jizya were imposed. Buddhist, Hindu and Sikh tempwes were desecrated. However, not aww Muswim ruwers persecuted non-Muswims. Akbar, a Mughaw ruwer for exampwe, sought rewigious towerance and abowished jizya. After his deaf, de persecution of non-Muswims in Souf Asia returned. The persecution and rewigious viowence in Souf Asia peaked during Aurangzeb's reign, wif him issuing orders in 1669, to aww his governors of provinces to "destroy wif a wiwwing hand de schoows and tempwes of de infidews, and dat dey were strictwy enjoined to put an entire stop to de teaching and practice of idowatrous forms of worship". In Aurangzeb's time, awmost aww of Souf Asia was cwaimed by de Mughaw Empire. However, dis cwaim was viowentwy chawwenged in various regions of Souf Asia, particuwarwy by de Sikh Guru Gobind Singh in de nordwest, and by Shivaji in de Deccan regions.
Maritime trading between Souf Asia and European merchants began after de Portuguese expworer Vasco de Gama returned to Europe. After de deaf of Aurangzeb and de cowwapse of de Mughaw Empire, de region came under de ruwe of many smaww Iswamic suwtanates and Hindu kingdoms. British, French, Portuguese cowoniaw interests struck treaties wif dese ruwers, and estabwished deir trading ports. In nordwest Souf Asia, a warge region was consowidated into de Sikh Empire by Ranjit Singh. After his deaf, de British Empire expanded deir interests tiww de Hindu Kush region, uh-hah-hah-hah. In de east, de Bengaw region was spwit into Muswim East Bengaw and Hindu West Bengaw, by de cowoniaw British empire, in earwy 1900s, a spwit dat was reversed. However, after de Worwd War II, at de eve of India's independence, de region was spwit again into East Pakistan and West Bengaw. East Pakistan became Bangwadesh in 1971.
The Indian peninsuwa, and de Himawayas on de nordeast, is de resuwt of de cowwision of de Indian Pwate wif de Eurasian Pwate drough tectonic activity between 20 and 50 miwwion years ago.
According to Sauw Cohen, earwy cowoniaw era strategists treated Souf Asia wif East Asia, but in reawity de Souf Asia region excwuding Afghanistan is a distinct geopowiticaw region separated from oder nearby geostrategic reawms, one dat is geographicawwy diverse. The region is home to a variety of geographicaw features, such as gwaciers, rainforests, vawweys, deserts, and grasswands dat are typicaw of much warger continents. It is surrounded by dree water bodies – de Bay of Bengaw, de Indian Ocean and de Arabian Sea – and has acutewy varied cwimate zones. The tip of de Indian Peninsuwa had de highest qwawity pearws.
The boundaries of Souf Asia vary based on how de region is defined. Souf Asia's nordern, eastern, and western boundaries vary based on definitions used, whiwe de Indian Ocean is de soudern periphery. Most of dis region rests on de Indian Pwate and is isowated from de rest of Asia by mountain barriers. Much of de region consists of a peninsuwa in souf-centraw Asia, rader resembwing a diamond which is dewineated by de Himawayas on de norf, de Hindu Kush in de west, and de Arakanese in de east, and which extends soudward into de Indian Ocean wif de Arabian Sea to de soudwest and de Bay of Bengaw to de soudeast.
According to Robert M. Cutwer – a schowar of Powiticaw Science at Carweton University, de terms Souf Asia, Soudwest Asia and Centraw Asia are distinct, but de confusion and disagreements have arisen due to de geopowiticaw movement to enwarge dese regions into Greater Souf Asia, Greater Soudwest Asia and Greater Centraw Asia. The frontier of Greater Souf Asia, states Cutwer, between 2001–2006 has been geopowiticawwy extended to eastern Iran and western Afghanistan in de west, and in de norf to nordeastern Iran, nordern Afghanistan, and soudern Uzbekistan.
Most of dis region is resting on de Indian Pwate, de norderwy portion of de Indo-Austrawian Pwate, separated from de rest of de Eurasian Pwate. The Indian Pwate incwudes most of Souf Asia, forming a wand mass which extends from de Himawayas into a portion of de basin under de Indian Ocean, incwuding parts of Souf China and Eastern Indonesia, as weww as Kunwun and Karakoram ranges, and extending up to but not incwuding Ladakh, Kohistan, de Hindu Kush range and Bawochistan. It may be noted dat geophysicawwy de Yarwung Tsangpo River in Tibet is situated at de outside of de border of de regionaw structure, whiwe de Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan are situated inside dat border.
It was once a smaww continent before cowwiding wif de Eurasian Pwate about 50–55 miwwion years ago and giving birf to de Himawayan range and de Tibetan pwateau. It is de peninsuwar region souf of de Himawayas and Kuen Lun mountain ranges and east of de Indus River and de Iranian Pwateau, extending soudward into de Indian Ocean between de Arabian Sea (to de soudwest) and de Bay of Bengaw (to de soudeast).
Souf Asia's Köppen cwimate cwassification map is based on native vegetation, temperature, precipitation and deir seasonawity.
The cwimate of dis vast region varies considerabwy from area to area from tropicaw monsoon in de souf to temperate in de norf. The variety is infwuenced by not onwy de awtitude, but awso by factors such as proximity to de sea coast and de seasonaw impact of de monsoons. Soudern parts are mostwy hot in summers and receive rain during monsoon periods. The nordern bewt of Indo-Gangetic pwains awso is hot in summer, but coower in winter. The mountainous norf is cowder and receives snowfaww at higher awtitudes of Himawayan ranges.
As de Himawayas bwock de norf-Asian bitter cowd winds, de temperatures are considerabwy moderate in de pwains down bewow. For most part, de cwimate of de region is cawwed de Monsoon cwimate, which keeps de region humid during summer and dry during winter, and favours de cuwtivation of jute, tea, rice, and various vegetabwes in dis region, uh-hah-hah-hah.
The summer monsoon: Wind bwows from soudwest to most of parts of de region, uh-hah-hah-hah. It accounts for 70%–90% of de annuaw precipitation, uh-hah-hah-hah.
The winter monsoon: Wind bwows from nordeast. Dominant in Sri Lanka and Mawdives.
The warmest period of de year precedes de monsoon season (March to mid June). In de summer de wow pressures are centered over de Indus-Gangetic Pwain and high wind from de Indian Ocean bwows towards de center. The monsoons are second coowest season of de year because of high humidity and cwoud covering. But, at de beginning of June de jetstreams vanish above de Tibetan Pwateau, wow pressure over de Indus Vawwey deepens and de Intertropicaw Convergence Zone (ITCZ) moves in, uh-hah-hah-hah. The change is viowent. Moderatewy vigorous monsoon depressions form in de Bay of Bengaw and make wandfaww from June to September.
List of countries by past and future popuwation provide 1950, 2000 and 2050 popuwation whiwe de year 2100 data is from de United Nations.
The popuwation of Souf Asia is about 1.749 biwwion which makes it de most popuwated region in de worwd. It is sociawwy very mixed, consisting of many wanguage groups and rewigions, and sociaw practices in one region dat are vastwy different from dose in anoder.
Souf Asia is home to some of de most popuwated cities in de worwd. Dhaka, Dewhi, Mumbai and Karachi are four of de worwd's wargest megacities.
Edno-winguistic distribution map of Souf Asia.
There are numerous wanguages in Souf Asia. The spoken wanguages of de region are wargewy based on geography and shared across rewigious boundaries, but de written script is sharpwy divided by rewigious boundaries. In particuwar, Muswims of Souf Asia such as in Afghanistan and Pakistan use de Arabic awphabet and Persian Nastawiq. Tiww 1971, Muswim Bangwadesh (den known as East Pakistan) too mandated onwy de Nastawiq script, but dereafter has adopted regionaw scripts and particuwarwy Bengawi. Non-Muswims of Souf Asia, and some Muswims in India, on de oder hand use deir traditionaw ancient heritage scripts such as dose derived from Brahmi script for Indo-European wanguages and non-Brahmi scripts for Dravidian wanguages and oders.
The Nagari script has been de primus inter pares of de traditionaw Souf Asian scripts. The Devanagari script is used for over 120 Souf Asian wanguages, incwuding Hindi, Maradi, Nepawi, Pawi, Konkani, Bodo, Sindhi and Maidiwi among oder wanguages and diawects, making it one of de most used and adopted writing systems in de worwd. The Devanagari script is awso used for cwassicaw Sanskrit texts.
The wargest spoken wanguage in dis region is Hindi, fowwowed by Bengawi, Tamiw, Tewugu, Maradi, Gujarati and Punjabi. In de modern era, new syncretic wanguages devewoped in de region such as Urdu dat is used by Muswim community of nordern souf Asia (particuwarwy Pakistan and nordern states of India). The Punjabi wanguage spans dree rewigions: Iswam, Hinduism and Sikhism. The spoken wanguage is simiwar, but it is written in dree scripts. The Sikh use Gurmukhi awphabet, Muswim Punjabis in Pakistan use de Nastawiq script, whiwe Hindu Punjabis in India use de Gurmukhi or Nāgarī script. The Gurmukhi and Nagari scripts are distinct but cwose in deir structure, but de Persian Nastawiq script is very different.
Engwish, wif British spewwing, is commonwy used in urban areas and is a major economic wingua franca of Souf Asia.
In 2010, Souf Asia had de worwd's wargest popuwation of Hindus, Jains and Sikhs, about 510 miwwion Muswims, as weww as over 25 miwwion Buddhists and 35 miwwion Christians. Hindus make up about 68 percent or about 900 miwwion and Muswims at 31 percent or 510 miwwion of de overaww Souf Asia popuwation, whiwe Buddhists, Jains, Christians and Sikhs constitute most of de rest. The Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs and Christians are concentrated in India, Nepaw, Sri Lanka and Bhutan, whiwe de Muswims are concentrated in Afghanistan (99%), Bangwadesh (90%), Pakistan (96%) and Mawdives (100%).
Indian rewigions are de rewigions dat originated in de India; namewy Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism. The Indian rewigions are distinct yet share terminowogy, concepts, goaws and ideas, and from Souf Asia spread into East Asia and soudeast Asia. Earwy Christianity and Iswam were introduced into coastaw regions of Souf Asia by merchants who settwed among de wocaw popuwations. Later Sindh, Bawochistan, and parts of de Punjab region saw conqwest by de Arab cawiphates awong wif an infwux of Muswims from Persia and Centraw Asia, which resuwted in spread of bof Shia and Sunni Iswam in parts of nordwestern region of Souf Asia. Subseqwentwy, under de infwuence of Muswim ruwers of de Iswamic suwtanates and de Mughaw Empire, Iswam spread in Souf Asia. About one-dird of aww Muswims are from Souf Asia.
Sri Lanka Buddhism (70.19%), Hinduism (12.61%), Iswam (9.71%), Christianity (7.45%).
The Major Market stock exchanges in de region are Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) wif market Capitawization of $2.298 triwwion (11f wargest in de worwd), Nationaw Stock Exchange of India (NSE) wif market capitawization of $2.273 triwwion (12f wargest in de worwd), Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) wif market capitawization of $72 biwwion, uh-hah-hah-hah. Economic data is sourced from de Internationaw Monetary Fund, current as of Apriw 2017, and is given in US dowwars.
According to WHO, Souf Asia is home to two out of de dree countries in de worwd stiww affected by powio, Pakistan and Afghanistan, wif 306 & 28 powio cases registered in 2014 respectivewy. Attempts to eradicate powio have been badwy hit by opposition from miwitants in bof countries, who say de program is cover to spy on deir operations. Their attacks on immunization teams have cwaimed 78 wives since December 2012.
According to de Worwd Bank's 2011 report, based on 2005 ICP PPP, about 24.6% of de Souf Asian popuwation fawws bewow de internationaw poverty wine of $1.25/day. Afghanistan and Bangwadesh rank de highest, wif 30.6% and 43.3% of deir respective popuwations bewow de poverty wine. Bhutan, Mawdives and Sri Lanka have de wowest number of peopwe bewow de poverty wine, wif 2.4%, 1.5% and 4.1% respectivewy. India has wifted de most peopwe in de region above de poverty wine between 2008 and 2011, around 140 miwwion, uh-hah-hah-hah. As of 2011, 21.9% of India's popuwation wives bewow de poverty wine, compared to 41.6% in 2005.
The Worwd Bank estimates dat India is one of de highest ranking countries in de worwd for de number of chiwdren suffering from mawnutrition. The prevawence of underweight chiwdren in India is among de highest in de worwd, and is nearwy doubwe dat of Sub Saharan Africa wif dire conseqwences for mobiwity, mortawity, productivity and economic growf.
According to de Worwd Bank, 70% of de Souf Asian popuwation and about 75% of Souf Asia's poor wive in ruraw areas and most rewy on agricuwture for deir wivewihood according to de UN's Food and Agricuwturaw Organisation, uh-hah-hah-hah. In 2015, approximatewy 281 miwwion peopwe in de region were mawnourished. The report says dat Nepaw reached bof de WFS target as weww as MDG and is moving towards bringing down de number of undernourished peopwe to wess dan 5% of de popuwation, uh-hah-hah-hah. Bangwadesh reached de MDG target wif de Nationaw Food Powicy framework – wif onwy 16.5% of de popuwation undernourished. In India, de mawnourished comprise just over 15 percent of de popuwation, uh-hah-hah-hah. Whiwe de number of mawnourished peopwe in neighborhood has shown a decwine over de wast 25 years, de number of under-nourished in Pakistan dispways an upward trend.There were 28.7 miwwion hungry in Pakistan in de 1990s – a number dat has steadiwy increased to 41.3 miwwion in 2015 wif 22% of de popuwation mawnourished. Approximatewy 194.6 miwwion peopwe are undernourished in India, which accounts for de highest number of peopwe suffering from hunger in any singwe country.
The 2006 report stated "de wow status of women in Souf Asian countries and deir wack of nutritionaw knowwedge are important determinants of high prevawence of underweight chiwdren in de region". Corruption and de wack of initiative on de part of de government has been one of de major probwems associated wif nutrition in India. Iwwiteracy in viwwages has been found to be one of de major issues dat need more government attention, uh-hah-hah-hah. The report mentioned dat awdough dere has been a reduction in mawnutrition due to de Green Revowution in Souf Asia, dere is concern dat Souf Asia has "inadeqwate feeding and caring practices for young chiwdren".
India and Pakistan are de dominant powiticaw powers in de region, uh-hah-hah-hah. India is by far de wargest country in de area covering around dree-fourds de wand area of de Souf Asian region, uh-hah-hah-hah. India has de wargest popuwation of around dree times de combined popuwation of de 6 oder countries in de region, uh-hah-hah-hah. India is awso de worwd's wargest democracy India's annuaw defence budget for 2013–14 is $39.2 biwwion which is eqwaw to de whowe Pakistan's Federaw budget of $39.3 biwwion for 2014–15.
Bangwadesh is a unitary state and parwiamentary democracy. Bangwadesh awso stands out as one of de few Muswim-majority democracies. "It is a moderate and generawwy secuwar and towerant — dough sometimes dis is getting stretched at de moment — awternative to viowent extremism in a very troubwed part of de worwd", said Dan Mozena, de U.S. ambassador to Bangwadesh. Awdough Bangwadesh's wegaw code is secuwar, more citizens are embracing a conservative version of Iswam, wif some pushing for sharia waw, anawysts say. Experts say dat de rise in conservatism refwects de infwuence of foreign-financed Iswamic charities and de more austere version of Iswam brought home by migrant workers in Persian Guwf countries.
Dipwomacy among de countries of Souf Asia has been mainwy driven by popuwist powitics, wif de centre-stage taken by India-Pakistan confwict ever since deir independence in 1947, and den de creation of Bangwadesh under tense circumstances in 1971. During de height of Cowd war, de ewite powiticaw weaders of Pakistan awigned wif de US, whiwe India pwayed cruciaw rowe in forming de Non-Awigned Movement and whiwe maintaining goodwiww rewations wif de USSR.
Pakistan's governance is one of de most confwicted in de region, uh-hah-hah-hah. The miwitary ruwe and de unstabwe government in Pakistan has become a concern for de Souf Asian region, uh-hah-hah-hah. In Nepaw, de governance has struggwed to come in de side of democracy and it onwy showed signs in de recent past, basicawwy in de 21st century, to support de democratic system. The powiticaw situation in Sri Lanka has been dominated by an increasingwy assertive Sinhawese nationawism, and de emergence of a Tamiw separatist movement under LTTE, which was suppressed in May 2009. Myanmar's powitics is dominated by a miwitary Junta, which has sidewined de democratic forces wed by Aung San Suu Kyi.
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I said to myself that I wasn't going to blog any more progress photos of Vivian's quilt until it was in the quilting frame… so, finally, here it is 🙂 I pieced this quilt in the little, tiny amounts of time that I can fit in between all this kid-ness around me. One early morning at the end of summer, all the children were sleeping in and I got the quilt into the frame and this little corner quilted. And then it sat, for two months. Lately I've been quilting with thick, lustrous perle cotton, but I imagined this quilt was too delicate and sweet to stand up to those heavy threads, so I started out with standard hand quilting thread. After doing this little corner with standard thread and standard background quilting, it seemed so, well, standard. I wasn't excited to work on it anymore, and that is a sad state to be in. So it sat, while I ruminated on it. I have a plan now to include some perle cotton and a pattern that's fun to stitch so I will want to work on it again.
The motion of hand quilting is so satisfying. I said to my husband, I always think my quilt tops are pretty before they are quilted, but once I start hand quilting them, they seem to come to life. Can't wait to get going on this one again!
I got to say, I love quilt tops with the light shining through them, they look so much like a stained glass, only soft. I think I might need to do some pojagi.
Jesse, your quilt is beautiful. It's so unique, and your colors blend so well. I love it, and I know little Vivian will cherish it forever.
Great news to hear your lovely EPP is ready and quilting is underway. I can't wait to see what you do with your pearl cotton threads mixed with the standard quilting. Wishing you lots of free moments between kinder care to quilt as you pass the frame!
This quilt is such a masterpiece and just getting better and better with every stitch you put into it. Please post some more photos as you work on it!
It's stunning! I want to see more of your work!
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