Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traditionally the place where they buried the bodies of the drowned. The 14 survivors were given jobs by a Hindu oil merchant, who put them to work pressing seeds for oil (still a traditional occupation of some Bene Israel villagers). Because they refused to work on the Sabbath, the Hindus called them Shanwar Telis-Saturday's Oilmen...
...little community of Indian Israelites knew nothing of their Scriptures until 1819, when U.S. Christian missionaries published a translation of the Book of Genesis into Marathi, the language of the Hindus among whom the Jews lived. And it was only in the 19th century that the British recognized them as a separate community...
...Bene Israelites, most of them in the Bombay area, are the largest single group in India's small (25,400) Jewish community. There are 28 Bene Israel synagogues, whose congregations will hold their first assembly in Bombay this month. After living and intermarrying for centuries with the Hindus, Bene Israelites practice many Hindu customs. Most of them eat no beef, in observance of the Hindu prohibition against slaughtering cattle. They break the bangles of a widow when her husband dies, and remove from her neck the mangal sutra (auspicious thread) of black beads that a Hindu wife wears while...
...live (or so he says) for 237 years: "Copulate every day of your life." Most of the book's exuberant humor arises from the collision of Quakers, who (in the words of one of them) regard the body as "needed for the reproduction of Friends," and Hindus, who. Author Berry suggests, recoil in shock at the sight of a naked hide but manage nevertheless to be thoroughly friendly. In the end. as Peter stalks the python, Berry's account of the hunt entwines the reader like a jungle creeper. The death of the book's villain...
...India's biggest problems in creating more food is the population of 203 million cattle, most of which are regarded with religious reverence by Hindus. The sacred cows wander freely through Indian fields eating as they please, proliferating without restraint, dying at a ripe old age (in many Indian states it is illegal to kill a cow). Since they may not be eaten as food, they contribute little to the Indian food supply, of which they consume a great deal. If they cannot be killed, they might be sterilized, the Ford experts suggest...