Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twelve Moslems were killed by Hindus in the Mochi district last week "for insulting a Hindu sacred cow," and Hindu-Moslem feeling began to run so high that St. Gandhi threatened to go on "hunger strike" until both communities calmed down...
...Sant Ram Pande, 32, engineering student at the University of California. The method of his identification was remarkable. Only three weeks prior he had insisted that his fingerprints be recorded by the State Bureau of Criminal Identification. He had then set out to find the slayers of 13 Hindus who have been murdered in and about San Francisco within the past five years...
Suspecting a religious feud between Sikhs (dissenters from Brahmanic Hinduism) and Hindus (Sant Ram Pande was of the Brahman caste), police combed East Indian colonies up and down the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. The day following the discovery of the body, three Sikhs were found hiding in a barn near Fairfield, 15 mi. from the scene of the crime. Also in the barn officers discovered a harrow with a wheel similar to that found with Pande's body. At Pande's cremation two Sikhs quarrelled, one was stabbed...
...press pictures of His Holiness seated before the I. T. & T. telephone. Numerical standings of the organized religions: Roman Catholics 331,500,000 Orthodox Catholics 144,000,000 Protestants 206,900,000 Total Christians 682,400,000 Jews 15,630,000 Mohammedans 209,020,000 Buddhists 150,180,000 Hindus 230,150,000 Confucianists, Taoists 350,600,000 Shintoists 25,000,000 Animists 135,650,000 Miscellaneous 50,870,000 Total non-Christians...
...correspondents who know that Brahmans have been for centuries to Untouchables as white men to black, only more so. "The caste system is now rapidly breaking down. In the last three months there have been in Bombay more than 1,000 intermarryings between high castes and low castes, between Hindus and Mohammedans...