Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rigorous anti-Communist with progressive policies, Koirala began pushing through land and tax reforms, soon had gathered the reins of government to himself. King Mahendra, who as monarch is regarded by Nepal's pious Hindus as a reincarnation of the god Vishnu, was left little beyond his religious duties...
...religious objections to either contraception or sterilization, but most Indians believe that children are a "gift of God," and well-wishers at wedding ceremonies toast the bride by saying "May you have a hundred sons." The toast is not taken lightly: the average Indian mother has 6.5 children. Orthodox Hindus believe that a son must preside over their funeral rites if they are to enter heaven, and India's high child-mortality rate makes it imprudent for a father to consider sterilization until his children are twelve or older. More important, many Indian children start farm chores and even...
...leave me no choice but to point out that Hindus find the Biblical concept of God as a vengeful, peeking, bumbling fellow who botched his job so badly that he created man imperfect, then cursed the whole race of man for the same imperfection, and could find no better way out of the dilemma than to allow his "son" to die a tortured death even more absurd...
...Chinese, in larger communities for mutual protection. By promising independence in 1957, Britain deprived the rebels of their best talking point. Under able Prime Minister Abdul Rahman, Malaya's Alliance Party accomplished a political miracle by teaching Malayans of different races (Malays. Indians, Chinese) and religions (Moslems, Buddhists, Hindus) to think of themselves for the first time as a nation. The party had its reward when it swept last year's parliamentary elections...
...most Christian (24%) of India's 14 states, priests warned of the dire consequences if the Reds returned to power with their plan to give half of the teaching posts in church schools to Communists. Both sides plastered mud walls with gory posters. Red posters showed rich Hindus sucking blood and money out of starving peasants. Their opponents splashed a gaudy re-creation of an incident last summer showing Communist cops shooting to death a pregnant fisherwoman...