India

Muslims speak Urdu

States

• Southern (Dravidian) very rich, also very religious

  • Used to control all the southern island countries in the past, very rich costal cities. Used to exert a lot of influence in the india sea -- malaysia, singapore, a bit of indonesia

  • Tamil Nadu (Tamil)

    • Chennai -- hot climate. India's chess capital

    • Andhra Pradesh (Telugu)

    • Telangana (Telugu) -- used to be under AP

      • Hyderabad (majority muslim) -- speaks Hindi+Telugu+Urdu

    • Karnataka (Kannada)

      • Bengaluru (SF of India)

    • Kerala (Malayalam) -- d

    • Goa (but is Christian because it's Portugese legacy -- party place, lots of foreigners permanently settled in Goa)

• Middle

  • Maharashtra speak Marathi

    • (Mumbai -- business capital)

    • Pune

  • Gujurat (Gujarathi)

    • they are good businessmen (rich people, the Patel people)

    • most prevalent, diamond merchants

  • Jharkhand (Hindu, and speaks randomly)

    • Odisha -- one of poorest states (along with Jharkand, Chhattisgarh)

  • Chhattisgarh

• North/Middle

  • West Bengal -- tigers,

    • similar related to Bangladesh

    • Kolkata is here

• North (Aryan) Hindu

  • Rajasthan (dessert)

  • Punjab -- agriculture and love to go to canada. the turban people, sihks

    • speaks punjabi

  • Haryana (Haryanvi)

  • Jammu & Kashmir (fight between pakistan and India)

  • Ladakh (fight between China and India)

  • Himachal Pradesh (himalayas)

  • Chandigarah (special administration region like New Delhi)

  • Uttarakhand

  • Uttarpradesh (UP) -- gun violence

    • Ganjes

    • very industrial

  • Bihar -- gun violence

• Northeastern (looks like East asians), Bhuddism (the connected portion east of Bangledesh)

  • Sikkim (north wedged between Nepal and Bhutan

  • Meghalaya

  • ...

• Island States

  • Lakshadweep (arabian sea side)

  • Andaman & Nicobar (all the way to Indonesia

    • Lakshadweep

Modi is Gujarati

Pradesh means state

Utta - North, Khand - part