Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even then, the territory was an exotic ethnic mix that included Indo-Aryan Assamese, Assamese-speaking Hindus in the Brahmaputra valley, dozens of hill tribes of Mongoloid stock, and indigenous plains tribes. Then came successive waves of Bengalis, both Hindus and Muslims, who were first brought in by the British to run the tea plantations and the civil service of the British raj. Bengali immigration intensified during partition in 1947 and again after the creation of Bangladesh. Although its population is one of the fastest growing on the subcontinent, Assam has only 254 people per sq. km. West Bengal...
Hostages in Iran; mendicants trampled near the Ganges; Hindus and Muslims arguing and imploring in a post-Sanskrit Babel of belief. This is the ominous Oriental setting of Don DeLillo's (End Zone, Ratner's Star) seventh and most accomplished novel. There, in prose as vivid and densely knotted as a prayer rug, his characters find freshly printed petrodollars competing with ancient formality. This, in DeLillo's phrase, is the world of "plastic sandals and public beheadings...
...happens, the High Commissioner's remarks contain large elements of truth. Problems that have plagued Mrs. Gandhi's government since her return to office last January continue to elude solution. One of them is communal tension that has led to a series of bloody battles between Hindus and Muslims. In Moradabad, 95 miles east of New Delhi, 133 people have been killed in these clashes since August...
Originally, the indigenous tribes had welcomed the Bengali Hindus when they fled across the border from predominantly Muslim Bangladesh in 1971. But they soon clashed. The tribals traditionally farm the land for a few seasons, then move on. The Bengalis stake out an area and work it continuously. Thus with 1.3 million Bengalis in Tripura, there was simply no longer enough land to go around. Moreover, while the Bengalis acquired increasing political and economic power, the tribesmen, outnumbered 2 to 1, seethed with frustration at becoming a minority in their own state...
...world by snowy mountain ramparts and hidden from the eyes of strange men by the veil, Afghan women knew the sure way to their husbands' hearts. They were wonderful cooks and prolific mothers." By 1966, however, women could explore a range of careers as vast as the Hindus Kish--"The majority of girls still become teachers but they have also begun to branch off into other directions such as nursing, midwifery, dress-making and secretarial work in various organizations...