Muslim Sufi Poet Jalaluddin Rigi : The Imagination Of South Asia

The community of south Asians comprises a heterogeneous group of people from Indian subcontinent which consists of Indians, Pakistanis, Sri Lankans and Bangladeshi. According to the 2011 UK Census, there were approximately 3.3 million South Asians in UK representing around 5.3% of total population Those of the Indian origin

astound 1,379,302,771 and India comes at a close second place at 1,281,935,911. Some additional information I found compelling under components of population change is that on average every 8 seconds one birth occurs. One death tends to occur every 12 seconds, which is truly sad. One international migrant every 33 seconds and we net gain one person every 14 seconds. From my perspective,

Population in the world is not evenly distributed thanks to myriads of factors. Take Eurasian Plate and Antarctic Plate as example, the Eurasian Plate is much more densely populated than the Antarctic Plate. Even in a country, population is not evenly distributed too. The factors which influence population at both a local and global scale will be elucidated as follow.

Asia accounts for 59.78% of the total world population. In fact, China and India alone constitute about 37% of the world population. The total number of Asian countries is 48, including three of the most powerful forces in the global market, China, India, and Indonesia. Those three countries make up more than 40 percent of the earth’s inhabitants (Moran, Harris, & Moran, 2011, p. 323).

India is located in South Asia. It borders the Arabian sea. It is slightly more than one-third of the United States (CIA, 2015). According to the central intelligence website India has a total area of 3,287,263 sq. km. 2,973,193 sq. km of which

India is a country located in South Asia bordered by the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. Since India is located in the southern part of Asia, they racially can identify as Asian; however, Asia as a whole consists of a wide variety of ethnicities. The U.S. Census Bureau

They tell a kind of Indian folklore which is not of India, but constructed by Kipling himself. This is not to suggest that what The Jungle Book depicts is a work of complete imagination; ‘essentially an idea’ with no corresponding reality, but rather that there are ‘regular constellations of ideas which become the pre-eminent thing about the Orient’. The Orient is conceptualised by strict and rigid lines of thinking which can never do justice to the ‘lives, histories and customs’ of the ‘cultures and nations whose location is in the East’. It is the pre-supposed authority of what ‘is said about them (the Orient) in the West’ which establishes the relationship between the Occident and the Orient as one of ‘power, of domination, of varying degrees of cultural hegemony.’5

In the west of the Continent, countries are more populous than Central Asia. Asia is the most populous Continent in the world. Countries increasing exponentially with the number of people. Asia is home to most diverse and most population in the world due to the difference in economic and social aspects. Although population is increasing people in Central Asia is unevenly distributed. There is a difference between the people in the dry areas as well as the mountains.

The first region to have the most population concentration is East Asia. Almost a quarter of the world’s population live in East Asia. Most of the population in East Asia is concentrated in East China, Japan, Korea Peninsula and the Island of Taiwan. According to the textbook, page 47, it states, “Although China has 25 urban area with more than 2 million inhabitants and 61 with more than 1 million, more than one-half of the people live in rural area where they work as farmers.” This shows how China is the most populated country in East Asia, by showing that half of their population live in rural areas for farming. In contrast to China, more than three-fourths of the East Asia population live in Japan and Korea “in urban areas and work at industrial or service jobs.” As you can see, East Asia is considered one of the most concentrated population regions because of how big the population is.

The chart/ graph that I found the most surprising was the first one which was a map. The first map shows a circle on the map encompassing the countries, China, India. Indonesia, Bangladesh, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Burma, Thailand, South Korea, Nepal, Malaysia, North Korea, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia Laos, Mongolia, and Bhutan. According to the data alongside the map, it explains that the circle encompassing the countries presents the location of where over 50% of the world’s population occupation. That means that there are an abundance of people living in Asia. I already knew that Asia had a mass of people living there, but I was exceedingly surprised on the number/ percentage of people there were living in what seems like such a

India is engulfed by its geographical features. Mountains ranges, flourishing valleys and prominent rivers. Today India’s subcontinent is a barren plateau, but it once wasn’t. It once contained even more life on its land. Those were the days when the Indian civilization first began. Depending on the region of India you could be surrounded by dry air and hills, particularly in the middle section of India. Looking on the eastern and western coastlines, the land contains more life. The eastern and western plains are more habitable than the dry hilly land, therefore the eastern and western plains are where more of India's populations have lingered.

Throughout time, Westerners have more or less oppressed Eastern culture, creating the west as the metaphysical head of the world. The west’s ethnocentric tendencies, have acted as a suppressant to the spread of non-western thought. Even though Eastern ideologies tend to differ greatly from thoughts of the western world, there is some level of unity between the two. Unlike the ecclesiastical influences, seen in the west, Confucianism and Sikhi present thoughts about the individual and humankind’s natural goodness. In many cases of political and social order, Eastern and Western philosophy have found themselves parallel in thought.

Art was largely used to express traditions in the Himalayan region. The use of paintings was vital in reflecting a great deal of narratives as indicated by exhibit ‘Once Upon Many Times’ literary works. Works of art, especially paintings, can also be used to analyze and comprehensively describe a picture of the lifestyle of a people from different times in history from their social organizations, economic life and religious views and practices. Thus, this analytical research paper attempts to compare two works of art of Shantarakshita and scenes of his life in Tibet on cloth from Rubin Museum and Drowa Sangmo picture of the elephant on the facets of color, shape, form, cultural, and historical dimensions as an exemplification of different

It is expected that by 2021, India’s projected population of 1.3 billion will constitute 64.2% of people in between the age group of 15 and 59.

Though the South Asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan) have common, history, heritage , cultural ,linguistic and social practices, South Asia has emerged as the least integrated region in the world. . South Asia is exclusively numbered by complicated security disclosures, numerous inter-state disputes and yet a high unimproved economic potential. The challenges faced by the region are appeared deep rooted and historic differences. Back to back political disclosures and disputes have not permitted economic and strategic interests to take advantage in terms of policy and development. While the regional trade off is 67% in European Union, it is about 4% in South Asia.