(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.
Vedanta
Definition:
(n.) A system of philosophy among the Hindus, founded on scattered texts of the Vedas, and thence termed the "Anta," or end or substance.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes two years after the BSC stripped another Vedanta subsidiary of a safety award after the Observer drew its attention to the firm's involvement in one of the worst industrial tragedies in India's recent history.
(2) The Church of England last week said it had sold its £3.8m stake in Vedanta after mounting pressure to disinvest.
(3) Multinational mining group Vedanta Resources has had two British safety awards – including one endorsed by the UK's Health and Safety Executive – suspended after campaigners drew attention to controversies including a fatality at the group's operations in Orissa, India.
(4) The immediate crisis facing Vedanta however, is the setback to its plans for expansion in the aluminium sector.
(5) Awards to Vedanta have been immediately withdrawn by the British Safety Council (BSC) in response to findings thrown up by a broader Observer analysis of deaths of workers at all FTSE 100 mining groups.
(6) But the long-drawn-out controversy over Vedanta's mining project also reflects Delhi's failure to devise an effective development policy for millions of forest-dwelling tribes in central and eastern India.
(7) Vedanta was accused of rushing ahead with the mining project without obtaining the consent of the tribal groups, a charge denied by the company.
(8) He was now reading Zen and Mahayana Buddhism, Taoism, and Advaita Vedanta, and putting in long hours of meditation.
(9) Among the other campaign groups attacking the company was Survival International which continued to highlight Vedanta's efforts to mine bauxite in India's Niyamgiri hill , which an indigenous tribe considers to be sacred.
(10) In addition, Martin Currie Investment Management sold its £2.3m stake last year, and BP's pension fund reduced its holdings in Vedanta because of "concerns about the way the company operates".
(11) Vedanta had the highest death toll, with 67, followed by Anglo American with 20, Kazakhmys with 17 and ENRC with 12.
(12) N C Saxena, who headed the government's inquiry committee, was emphatic in his condemnation of Vedanta's mining project.
(13) Aviva added that those concerns had depressed the share price of Vedanta, which mines predominantly in India , Zambia and Australia.
(14) "Our effort is to bring the poor tribal people into the mainstream," Vedanta Aluminium's chief operating officer, Mukesh Kumar, said.
(15) Amnesty International published a report last year claiming that a Vedanta refinery in the same area had polluted rivers, damaged crops and disrupted the lives of the Dongria Kondh tribe in the Niyamgiri Hills.
(16) Like the Na'vi tribe in Cameron's blockbuster Avatar , who are desperately trying to stop humans from mining under their sacred 'home tree' in Pandora, the Dongria Kondh are trying to stop Vedanta from opening its mine on the mountain they worship.
(17) In the case of Vedanta's Lanjigarh aluminium refinery, the fatality occurred after the application had been processed, but the BSC had not been informed.
(18) In October, a government agency charged with promoting guidelines on ethical corporate behaviour for multinational companies adopted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that Vedanta had "failed to engage the Dongria Kondh in adequate and timely consultations about construction of the mine".
(19) I hope that the Church's decision helps Vedanta to make the right choice and drop plans to mine."
(20) On the same day as a protest march in Zambia we launched a supporter action and secured UK media coverage to put pressure on Vedanta.