Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influence that is often confused with views he does not represent. In Nehru's name it is argued that Asians possess a spirituality of nature that is superior to Western materialism. But Nehru himself, admired as he is by many Hindus and Buddhists, holds to no spiritual beliefs, and only last week in West Germany said: "As for myself, I believe in no religion or dogma or faith." He berates the world for its use of force, but he holds Kashmir by force; he talks of the rights of people, but he denies Kashmir a plebiscite; he resents...
...well-being and gives out serenity "as a flower gives its scent." Trouble begins when a group of Vaishnavas start to build a religious establishment on one of the islands. After years of privation the holy man has shed the "creed of any religion but he believed as the Hindus do that God is in all things, animate and inanimate, that all things are in God." Because he knows the religious project will destroy the living creatures on the islands, he declares war on the interlopers. But in the course of three assaults, in which he enlists the help...
...Hindus themselves passed a law permitting a widow to live on in her late husband's house, though not to sell it. In 1949 Prime Minister Nehru sponsored a bill calling for vast and sweeping reforms of the whole Hindu social code, but the bill was too sweeping to get by. Since then Nehru has been picking away at his reforms piecemeal. Last year he eased the lot of India's wives in a reformed marriage act. Last week he introduced a Hindu inheritance act designed to give wives, widows and daughters the right to inherit family property...
Most who came were Indian Christians. But there were also huge crowds of Hindus, whose flexible faith allows them to enshrine Christ alongside Buddha...
...information about the Scandinavian countries. This can be acquired with no knowledge of the Scandinavian languages. Returning after a year's absence, Robert Chapman brings with him drama from Ibsen to Helman. The stage is Emerson D. History of Religions 101b offers a unique opportunity. Interested students can become Hindus, Brahmins, Buddhists, and Moslems--for about a week or two apiece. For those who prefer, there are also selected Christian heretical doctrines...