Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comments reflected not the old-style resentment against European whites but a growing animosity through out East Africa toward the 400,000 Asians whose ancestral roots trace back to the Indian subcontinent. Hindus, Sikhs or Moslems, the Asians are almost always aggressive businessmen. In Tanzania alone, 100,000 of them control more than 75% of the country's retail trade. Some own factories, department stores and small shops; others are just about the only carpenters, plumbers or tradesmen around; still others have become millionaires with large plantations. From the incense-reeking shops of Nairobi's bazaar street...
...Butcher. No other problem plagues Indira so badly as the agitation for a nationwide ban on cattle slaughter. Revered by Hindus, some 175 million cattle roam the country, competing for India's limited food supply and finally being sent to "convalescent homes" to die. The country's meat-eating Moslems, on the other hand, slaughter some 1,000,000 cattle each year. Nehru had no patience with the wastefulness of the Hindu reverence for cows but never dared to thin out the uneconomic herds. Indira has also been ambivalent about the matter, and the sadhus (Hindu holy...
Indians must have loved the gods: they made so many of them. Shanta Durga is a ten-handed goddess revered by the 400,000 Hindus in the former Portuguese enclave of Goa. Bhaväni is a ten-handed goddess considered to be the source of all power in the neighboring Indian state of Maharashtra. Last week Bhaväni and Shanta Durgá tried to join hands. Carried by Hindu nationalists, images of the two goddesses were paraded through the streets of scores of Goan villages, together with posters proclaiming: "After 450 years, Bhaväni wills...
Behind the purely religious battle lay factors less obvious but no less persuasive. Goan Catholics were fighting to hold on to the preferential status accorded them by the Portuguese and continued by the Indian government after "union." Many Goan Hindus, on the other hand, have relatives in Maharashtra, and most speak a dialect of the Marathi language. But the determining question was whether Goa should cease to exist. In exchange for the territory's own legislature, established three years ago by New Delhi, all the promerger forces could offer were four seats in the Maharashtra state assembly, a pitiful...
Thus, despite the Hindus' numerical superiority, Goans rejected the merger with Maharashtra by a vote of 172,191 to 138,170. In the territorial capital of Panjim, the results were cheered by a crowd of 10,000, who danced in the streets carrying branches symbolic of victory, set off firecrackers, and created such a joyous disturbance that the government had to call in police with tear gas to restore order. Goa is not yet gone...