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19 unusual facts about Hindu


1950 Barisal Riots

Three Bengali Hindu ministers - Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and Kshitish Chandra Niyogi of India and Jogendra Nath Mandal of Pakistan resigned in protest of the government failure in protecting the Bengali Hindu minority in Pakistan.

1997 Sangrampora massacre

1997 Sangrampora massacre was the killing of seven Kashmiri Pandit Hindu villagers in Sangrampora village of Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on 21 March 1997 by alleged Islamic militants.

2001 Kishtwar massacre

2001 Kishtwar massacre was the killing of 17 Hindu villagers in village Ladder near Kishtwar in Doda District of Jammu and Kashmir by alleged militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba on 3 August 2001 .

2005 Delhi bombings

The bombings came only two days before the important festival of Diwali, which is celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains.

Adil Shahi dynasty

He studied this system under Hakim-e-Misri and other Hindu physicians.

Anuradhapura Veddas

They are also ethnically related to Tamil speaking Veddas who live in the minority Sri Lankan Tamil dominant Northern Province of Sri Lanka who have adopted Tamil and Hindu cultural norms of their neighbors.

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached

The inspirational sloka was Swamiji's message to the Hindus to get out of their hypnotized state of mind.

Asian furniture

Southeast Asian furniture are usually dark brown in color with a lot of Hindu-influence carving.

Haven of Peace Academy

HOPAC brings together a rich blend of students from 30+ different countries and a variety of religious backgrounds including Christian, Muslim and Hindu.

Hindu

Persian Hindu (and hence in Urdu, and ultimately adopted into Hindustani in general) was used of the native, non-Muslim population ruled by the Muslim Mughal Empire.

Jana Hit Sangh

The group was formed by conservative and orthodox Hindu elite elements, who had tried to contest the election as independents but fared badly.

Khalsa Mahima

Guru Gobind Singh explains the role of the Saint Soldiers (Sant Sipahi) to the Hindu Brahmins.

Rudra no Hihō

The plot incorporates flavours from Indian religions, centrally the concept of the wheel of time - every 4000 years the world is destroyed and recreated by a Rudra - the name taken from an aspect of the Hindu god of destruction, Shiva.

Samachar Darpan

Reformist and liberal Hindus, generally found in the Samachar Darpan a valuable ally because of its strong support in favour of social reform and education.

Sambad Kaumudi

Sambad Kaumudi regularly editorialised against Sati, denouncing it as barbaric and un-Hindu.

Shreya

Shreya is a contemporary Hindu Indian name which means 'Auspicious' or 'Lucky' in Sanskrit.

The Treasure of the Ten Avatars

Near the main temple they find some sort of control panel with ten buttons, each featuring a different Hindu Avatar.

Theatre in Bangladesh

Few theatre activities are recorded from this period which were mostly supported by some Hindu feudal lords.

Wedding ring

Some cultures exchange additional rings: In some parts of India, Hindus may use a toe ring or bichiya which is worn instead of a ring on a finger; although this is only for women, and increasingly worn along with a finger ring.


2013 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence

In India, activists of Gairik Bharat burned an effigy of Sheikh Hasina in Silchar, in protest against her failure to protect the Hindu minorities in Bangladesh.

Adinath

Adinath Shiva, a title of the Hindu deity Shiva (sometimes used)

Akali movement

The next day, a Sikh-Hindu conference was organized during the Punjab Congress Provincial Congress at Rawalpindi.

Aouda

The daughter of a Bombay Parsi merchant, she was married against her will to the Hindu ruler of Bundelkhand, an Indian princely state.

Bradford Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple

The temple is unusual in housing most of the major deities revered by the Hindu community, in addition to Lakshmi Narayan, the main deities.

Cadambathur Tiruvenkatacharlu Rajagopal

He showed that the series for tan1x discovered by James Gregory and those for sin x and cos x discovered by Isaac Newton were known to the Hindu mathematicians 150 years earlier.

Caste system in India

Forrester, Duncan B., 'Christian Theology in a Hindu Context,' in South Asian Review 8, no. 4 (1975): 343–358.

Chanda Sahib

After his forces were defeated by Robert Clive and the Maratha Empire he attempted to recuperate his losses but was beheaded in a mutiny by Hindu subjects in the Tanjore army.

Continuity thesis

He sees specific influences in Alhazen's physical optical theory, Chinese mechanical technologies leading to the perception of the world as a machine, the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, which carried implicitly a new mode of mathematical atomic thinking, and the heliocentrism rooted in in ancient Egyptian religious ideas associated with Hermeticism.

Dahba

The tribe claims shoodar ancestry of Hindu caste, and descent from one Khoga, a servant of the Mughal Emperor Akbar.

Dakshineswar Kali Temple

In the year 1847, Rashmoni, prepared to go upon a long pilgrimage to the sacred Hindu city of Kashi to express her devotions to the Divine Mother.

Dambulla cave temple

Hindu deities are also represented here, as are the kings Valagamba and Nissankamalla, and Ananda - the Buddha's most devoted disciple.

Dikhit

The Dikhit, also known as Kinwar, are a Hindu Rajput clan found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Durga Vahini

The Vishva Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal claimed the play depicted Rama, Sita, Laxman and Hanuman in "indecent" way.

Encyclopedia of Hinduism

The idea was conceived by Swami Chidanand Saraswati, president of Parmarth Niketan Ashram, at a Hindu-Jain Temple in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1987.

Eusebeia

The Indian emperor Ashoka in his 250 BCE Edicts used the word "eusebeia" as a Greek translation for the central Buddhist and Hindu concept of "dharma".

Gibraltar Hindu Temple

In 2012, the Mayor of Gibraltar, Anthony Lima, made the news when he announced that he was inviting the Hindu community into Gibraltar City Hall to celebrate the Hindu festival of Deepavali.

H. V. Sheshadri

He was one of the most important leaders of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and devoted his entire life for promoting the Hindu cause.

Harsidhhi

Harsidhhi, a contracted form or, at its very least, a form of "Harshad Amba" - The Happy Mother, is considered one of the aspect of Amba and Kalika, the Hindu Devi.

Hindu–Arabic numeral system

the widespread Western "Arabic numerals" used with the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets in the table below labelled "European", descended from the "West Arabic numerals" which were developed in al-Andalus and the Maghreb (There are two typographic styles for rendering European numerals, known as lining figures and text figures).

Hinduism in Goa

In the 16th century most Hindus fled the Portuguese territories to the territories held by the Hindu rajas of Sonde and the Canara and Malabar Coast where significant communities of Konkani Goan Hindus still survive until today.Very few Hindus continued to exist in the Portuguese held Velha conquistas.

Indian Councils Act 1909

Muslims had expressed serious concern that a ‘first past the post’ British type of electoral system would leave them permanently subject to Hindu majority rule.

Islam in the United Arab Emirates

Unofficial figures estimate that at least 15 percent of the population is Hindu, 5 percent is Buddhist, and 5 percent belong to other religious groups, including Christian, Parsi, Bahá'í, and Sikh.

Jammu–Sialkot Line

The writer of Pakistan's first national anthem, Jagan Nath Azad, a Hindu, was forced to leave Lahore due to the escalating violence between Hindus and Muslims.

Kadavoor Sivadasan

Sivadasan was born in Kadavoor on 11 March 1932, the son of M. Kesavan and Lekshmi, a Hindu Ezhava family.

Kalakala

Kalantaka or Kalakala, aspect of the Hindu god Shiva as destroyer of Death

Kamwala Secondary School

It has since developed into a multiracial, multicultural school, with Christian, Hindu, and Muslim students.

Lakshminarasimha Temple, Haranhalli

The sanctum of the three shrines contain an image of the Hindu god Vishnu; Venugopala, Keshava and Lakshminarasimha.

Monkey Thieves

The series tells the story of the "Galta Gang", a sixty-strong troop that lives in the Galta Temple, a beautiful Hindu temple on the outskirts of Jaipur.

Nihal Silva

The character was a stereotypical Tamil Hindu with a bald head, small moustache, police suit and Vibhuti, three lines of ash, on his forehead.

Ninasam

This group also started producing small plays and in the year 1949, they formed a cultural group Ninasam; the name dedicated to the native Hindu God of Heggodu, Nilakanteshwara.

Palwankar Baloo

The (high-caste) Brahmins in the Hindu side were against it, but some Telugu members argued for his inclusion, as did Captain Greig.

Phalgu

The 15 days of the waning moon during the Hindu month of Ashvin are known as pitrapaksh.

Photo Booth: A Graphic Novel

Within the opening scenes, there are visual symbols connected with the Upanishads: philosophical texts considered to be an early source of Hindu religion.

Phyllanthus emblica

According to Hindu tradition, Adi Shankara of Kerala composed and recited the Kanakadhara stotram in praise of Mahalakshmi to make a poor Brahmin lady get wealth, in return for a single amla presented to him as bhiksha on an auspicious dwadashi day.

Production of Caminho das Índias

Using the cities of Jaipur, Jodhpur and Mumbai as references, the art director built 42 shops and a complete temple in honor of the Hindu god Shiva, in addition to the façades and entries of a movie theater and the terracota-colored households of the four main Indian families of the story.

Ranabai

On the samadhi site at Harnawa village there is an annual grand fair organized every year on the Hindu calendar date bhadva sudi teras, when devotees come from far off places.

Rinchan

The Hindu Brahmin Pandits did not accept Rinchin into Hinduism due to his race and ethnic origin.

Rohini

Rohini Devi, a consort of Vasudeva and mother of Balarama and Subhadra in Hindu mythology

Rudra veena

As Rudra is a name for the Hindu god Shiva, rudra vina literally means "the veena dear to Shiva".

Sacchidananda Bharati III

His spiritual greatness commanded the veneration of the Muslim and Hindu rulers of Mysore, Peshwa Madhava Rao and Peshwa Bajirao, Mahadji Sinde, Nizam Ali Khan and the governors of the East India Company.

Sons of Shiva

Sons of Shiva is a 1985 award-winning American documentary film by ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner and Askos Ostor, about the worship of the God Shiva, features practices of Hindu worship and devotion, a four-day Gajan ceremony, a Sacred Thread ceremony in Bishnupur and Baul singers of Bengal.

Spectrophilia

Arabic, Greek, Hindu, and Celtic are just some of the cultures that have spectrophilia folklore.

Sri Pralayakala Veerabadrar temple

Sri Pralayakala Veerabadrar temple, located in Kavipura, Guddahallii, Bangalore, is a temple dedicated to the Hindu deity Pralayakala Veerabadrar.

Sudra

Shudra, one of the Varnas in the traditional four-section division in the Hindu caste system created by Lord Krishna

Surai Sasai

Sasai is one of the main leaders of the campaign to free the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya from Hindu control.

Trilinga Kshetras

According to a Hindu legend, Shiva descended as linga on three mountains namely, Kaleswaram, Srisailam and Bhimeswaram, which marked the boundaries of the Telugu country.

Vazirani

Vaziranis are basically Hindu-Sindhis and worship Lord Jhulelal, an Avatar born according to divine message depicted to humans through Bhagvad Gita to protect Hindu-Sindhis.

Yankin Township

The township has a large Tamil community, and a rich collection of Hindu temples, (most of which are dedicated to Kali and Ganesh) as well as a large Chinese temple called Fushan Si Temple, believed to be the largest in Yangon.