(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.
Rajput
Definition:
(n.) A Hindoo of the second, or royal and military, caste; a Kshatriya; especially, an inhabitant of the country of Rajpootana, in northern central India.
Example Sentences:
(1) Long Y chromosome were observed 5% of the Rajputs and 3% of the Punjabis.
(2) On my visit, pieces included a Keralan teak canoe upended to form a bookcase, and a Rajput palace window frame with a mirror inserted.
(3) Minor chromosome variants were observed in 18% of the Rajputs and 19% of the Punjabis.
(4) Rajput women have the highest age at marriage regardless of cohort, then followed by the Brahmans, who also have the lowest age of marriage among the oldest and youngest cohorts.
(5) Growth in the thoracic region and its adaptation to higher altitude was investigated in boys between 5 to 18 years of Rajput origin at two altitudes, i. e. Rampur Bushahr (800 m above sea level) and Kinnaur (3,000 m above sea level).
(6) The Y indices of Rajputs were consistently higher than those of Punjabis.
(7) Sea-level performance of 120 subjects equally drawn from Gorkha, Madrasi, and Rajput groups was compared with that at an altitude of 4,000 m after 10 months' stay.
(8) Significant differences were noted between Rajputs and Punjabis with respect to the 5 Y indices.
(9) The lowest age at marriage is among the Sudra women, who are poor and dependent on the Rajputs and Brahmans and marry off daughters early for the bride price.
(10) However, a month after Chaudhury’s statement, his coalition colleague Maneka Gandhi, the women and children’s development minister, went against her party’s stand, saying: “Marital rape is not always about a man’s need for sex; it is only about his need for power and subjugation.” In July, the government-appointed panel on the status of women in India, the Pam Rajput committee , said marital rape must be considered an offence irrespective of the age of the wife and the relationship between the perpetrator and survivor.
(11) The calm waters and Rajput palaces of this pretty lakeside city hide a murky secret: Udaipur is one of the Rajasthan districts which "lost" girls between the 2001 and 2011 censuses: there are now just 920 girls per 1,000 boys; 28 fewer than 10 years ago.
(12) Rh negative frequency was much higher in Baluchs, Awans and Gujjars than Rajputs, Jats and Arains.
(13) The genetic affinities of the Hindu Gujjars with the Jats and Rajputs provide strong evidence for their common ethnic origin and probably their recent fissioning owing to biosocial practices and occupational patterns.
(14) Karotypic evaluation of 100 Rajputs and 100 Punjabis revealed different frequencies of Y chromosome polymorphism and minor chromosome variants.
(15) So far, there has been no response from the government on the Pam Rajput panel recommendations.
(16) Frequency distributions of colour blindness, midphalangeal hair, ear lobe attachment, hand clasping, arm folding, leg folding and handedness are reported for different population groups from Himachal Pradesh, North India, namely Pangwalas, Transhumant Gaddis (Brahmans, Rajputs and Scheduled Castes) and Settled Gaddis (Brahmans, Rajputs and Schedules Castes).
(17) However, the frequency distribution of dermatoglyphics of the Hindu Gujjars resembles those of the Rajputs, Jats, and Ahirs, suggesting an infrequent inflow of genes from neighboring populations and probably their recent isolation.
(18) Venous blood samples of 2922 apparently healthy individuals (both male and female) belonging to four scheduled tribes (408 Bhil, 340 Damor, 190 Garasia, and 186 Mina), five scheduled castes (108 Meghwal, 93 Labana, 86 Mochi, 76 Garg, and 58 Yadaw) and eleven general castes (215 Baniya, 156 Brahmin, 153 Muslim, 130 Patel, 128 Bohra-Muslim, 122 Suthar, 115 Patidar, 112 Rajput, 92 Bhoi, 92 Sompura, and 62 Panchal) of the Dungarpur district of Rajasthan state were investigated by standard techniques for evidence of erythrocyte genetic disorders, abnormal haemoglobins, thalassaemia syndromes, and G-6-PD enzyme deficiency (Gd).