Deng Xiaoping Communist Party leader who re-established his power after Mao's death in 1976 and then enforced liberal economic reforms in China, 1904 - 1997.
devaraja Cult of a god-king in southeast Asia derived from Hinduism.
dhoti Indian clothing for men consisting of one piece of cloth wrapped between the legs and tucked in at the waist.
diaspora The dispersal of peoples; translated from Greek as "scattering of seeds".
Domesday Book Records of a survey of lands and peoples in the conquered British isles commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1086 CE.
