Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their isolation, the Indians developed surprisingly few originalities of dogma. But they did intersperse their religious rites with local Hindu practices. Like Hindus, Indian Christian women have always worn large gold earrings in the upper part of their ears. The Christians preserve Hindu-style observances for birth, marriage and death, e.g., when a child is born, its father pours into its mouth three drops of honey in which gold has been dipped...
Debunking the importance of climate, the authors say: "Some of the highest tuberculosis mortality rates are observed among the Eskimos in the frozen North, the Bantu Negroes in dry, sunny Africa, the Hindus in tropical humid India, the whites in the island of Cyprus or in Latin America. By contrast, very low mortality rates are observed among special groups of the same races living under these very same climates."-The final answer to the menace of tuberculosis must go far beyond treatment of current cases, say Dubos & wife. It is a way of life: "Cleanliness of body and habits...
...passport deadline approached last week, a panic-stricken exodus began. About 6,000 Moslems in India fled eastward into East Pakistan. Out of East Pakistan tramped 70,000 Hindus. They came on foot along dusty roads, carrying young and aged, with household goods loaded in bullock carts or in large bundles balanced on their heads. They crammed into train compartments or perched precariously on undercarriage beams. Thousands fled by steamer to Calcutta or jammed into buses. They clogged the roads and small wayside stations and spread out over adjoining fields. Most of them had no food, and the countryside...
...West Pakistan only a handful of Hindus have remained since partition, but in East Pakistan 28.5% of the inhabitants are Hindus. Since 1950, when fanatical Moslem mobs ran amok killing Hindus and destroying their property, the Hindu minority in East Pakistan has lived in fear. After the 1950 riots, India and Pakistan agreed to protect each other's minority groups and to permit unlimited free travel between East Bengal (East Pakistan) and West Bengal (India). Under cover of this agreement, trade (and smuggling) between the two countries flourished to such an extent that some Hindus unwisely began to speak...
What keeps The Revenge for Love from sharing the same shelf as Darkness at Noon is not lack of skill. It is the moral lint from Lewis' erstwhile infatuation with Hitler. References to Australian aborigines as "Blackboys," Hindus as "Baboos," and the Jews martyred by Nazi Germany as "offending Jews," shows that while Wyndham Lewis was rocking the cradle of humanism with one hand, he was cradling a rock of bigotry in the other...