Word: jains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sarangi is played to accompany dancing prostitutes, and painting is an illustrator's skill. At first, Samant clerked for a British oil company, but at 20 he began five years of study at Bombay's Sir J. J. School of Art. He copied Bashaivali and Jain miniatures to learn design and color, but, says he, "they all looked alike. I was just copying the 17th century." On a fellowship in Rome and later in London, Samant set his sights on all the centuries...
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Most frequently, however, the foreigners observe that U.S. exports last year were only 4% of the gross national product. "The way to make the U.S. economy healthier is to export more capital goods," says Indian Industrialist Shanti Prasad Jain. Agrees a Belgian banker: "The saturation of the U.S. internal market has not inspired a sufficiently aggressive drive to find markets abroad...
Hard-Boiled Self-Sacrifice. Gandhi, who grew up in Jain-strong western India, was particularly influenced by Jainism. But in perfecting the strategy that peacefully defeated Britain in India, Gandhi drew heavily on the New Testament, which awakened him to "the Tightness and value of passive resistance." Gandhi's conviction was further bolstered by Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You and Thoreau's famed essay Civil Disobedience, both written by men who made celebrated attempts to carry out nonviolence. What emerged in Gandhi was a hard-boiled idea that sacrificing oneself is ultimately more...