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Hindus

[ hin-duhs ]

noun

  1. Maurice Ger·schon [gur, -sh, uh, n], 1891–1969, U.S. writer, born in Russia.


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When Christians and Hindus are accused of insulting Islam in Pakistan, the punishment is harsh.

A growing economy is a calming influence—for Hindus as much as for Muslims.

There was a smattering of clean-cut sensation seekers and a few actual Hindus as well.

In response, mobs of Hindus enacted widespread revenge throughout Delhi.

“If today someone stands up and says the exact same things about Jews, Hindus or Buddhists, I would be equally upset,” says Raza.

And yet thousands of Hindus would rather die of thirst than drink water from a Mahomedan household.

For Hindus and Japanese and Chinamen and what-nots from the southern seas were every-day affairs.

The cobra was a sacred beast to the Hindus, and a seven-headed one was peculiarly so, seven being a mystic number.

The cow is taboo to the Hindus, the pig is taboo to the Mohammedans and to the Jews.

Of striking natural features—self-created objects of veneration, as the Hindus call them—many kinds are found.

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