(n.) A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda.
(n.) Same as Hindoo.
Example Sentences:
(1) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(2) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
(3) It claims, with no factual basis, that Muslim men seek relationships with Hindu women in order to convert them and increase the Muslim population as a result of this.
(4) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(5) The former tea seller who started his political career with a far right Hindu revivalist organisation promised "good times ahead".
(6) Ultimately, it suggests the question: had he actually been Muslim, or instead been Hindu, Jewish or atheist, would he be any less American?
(7) India’s caste system is alive and kicking – and maiming and killing | Mari Marcel Thekaekara Read more India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi , belongs to a party that is explicitly Hindu in character, while other parties exist to further the interests of, among others, India’s Muslims population as well as members of socially disempowered Dalit caste.
(8) On involvement with the guru and a new 'family,' the experienced increased well-being and periods of bliss, and their acceptance of mystic Hindu beliefs was solidified.
(9) The reason was that Hindu traditions were oraly transmitted and the records, written exclusively in Sanskrit, were incomplete.
(10) Narendra Modi , the Hindu nationalist politician who won power in India in May in a landslide election, arrives in New York on Friday for a gruelling schedule of more than 50 speeches, rallies, interviews, meetings and business breakfasts aimed at rebooting an often troubled relationship with the US.
(11) The recovery pulse and respiration were analysed to determine the level of physical fitness among the physical education and medical students of Banaras Hindu University.
(12) Many analysts believe Gandhi will struggle to confront Narendra Modi, the conservative, Hindu nationalist who is the candidate of the opposition Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) .
(13) The chapel is identified by the school as a Christian church but also hosts Hindu services and has been used for Buddhist meditations.
(14) Over the summer, Hindu nationalists in India performed ceremonial rituals for Trump in the hopes that their worship would help him get elected, so he can “ put an end to Islamic terrorism ”.
(15) Sitting in a side street listening to the sound of loud blasts and gunfire emanating from Nariman House, Rakash Bhaud, the local leader of the far-right Hindu party Shiv Sena, blamed the central government for the failures that, he said, had left them at the mercy of Pakistan-backed terrorists.
(16) But the riots appear to have done permanent damage to Hindu-Muslim relations in India, a country with 140 million Muslims.
(17) Small political parties have fared poorly in national elections, which have been dominated for the last two decades by the Hindu-nationalist BJP and the Congress party.
(18) It has been twinned with London’s St Pancras Old church – close to the St Pancras Eurostar terminal – since 2007 • 5 rue de Belzunce, paroissesvp.fr Secrets Temple Ganesh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy At the north end of the Gare du Nord, just past the elevated metro line, is a colourful Hindu temple dedicated to the god Ganesh.
(19) Adoptions in India are currently governed by provisions or the 1956 Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act.
(20) His Hindu nationalist rhetoric and failure to swiftly curb the 2002 deadly anti-Muslim riots that swept Gujarat state when he was chief minister have stirred worries among critics about his ability to maintain secular peace.
Indian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
(a.) Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of India.
(n.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(2) Overall length of stay found in this study (14.02 days) is considerably higher than Indian optimum.
(3) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(4) Abnormal albuminuria at levels not reliably detected by the usual dipstick methods was commonly observed in Pima Indians with diabetes, even those with diabetes of recent onset.
(5) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
(6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(7) The relationships of birth weight and maternal diabetes to the development of obesity were examined at 5-19 yr of age in the offspring of Pima Indian women.
(8) The papilla incisiva of the Japanese children were a little larger than those of the Indians.
(9) n. from the body cavity of Scomber scombrus from the Indian ocean is described.
(10) The majority of the patients were Chinese (78.0%), followed by Malays (11.5%), Indians (8.1%) and other minority races (2.4%).
(11) According to the International Energy Agency, 147m Indians will remain without electricity into 2030 under a business as usual scenario emphasising coal.
(12) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(13) Indian women are aware of our tenuous grip on our rights.
(14) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(15) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(16) Theresa May to visit India in signal of trading priorities post-Brexit Read more Cable said India had been keen to expand “ Mode 4 ” market access: the ability to bring in staff – Indian IT experts, for example – as part of trading in services.
(17) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
(18) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(19) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(20) Fifty-six (92%) of patients dying from pulmonary embolism were of African descent while 5 (8%) were of East Indian descent.