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Books on: buddhists and muslims and india

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Muslims in India since 1947: Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations

Book by Yoginder Sikand; RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

Subjects:

Hinduism--Relations--Islam, India--Ethnic Relations, India--Politics And Government--1947-, Islam--Relations--Hinduism, Muslims--India--Political Activity

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...dialoguing with Buddhists and Christians, then, Muslims can gain new insights...Bhakti saints of India who attempted to...in the hands of Muslims in India and when Hindus...state, either, as in India, where Muslims are a minority or...
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The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the Coming of the Muslims

Book by A. L. Basham; Grove Press, 1954

Subjects:

India--Civilization, India--History--324 B.C.-1000 A.D, India--History--To 324 B.C

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...popular, as in present-day India. Women loved jewellery, and...which is specially honoured by Buddhists as the species under which...wild hill-tribes of modern India. A single skull of Mongolian...Proto-Australoid. Then as now, N.-W. India was the meeting-place of many...
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Riots and Victims: Violence and the Construction of Communal Identity among Bengali Muslims, 1905-1947

Book by Patricia A. Gossman; Westview Press, 1999

Subjects:

Communalism--India--Bengal, India--History--20th Century, Muslims--India--Bengal, Riots--India--Bengal, Violence--India--Bengal

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Communalism -- India -- Bengal. 2. Muslims -- India -- Bengal. 3. India -- History...India. 15 In fact, the Muslims of India never constituted a homogenous...certainly have been divisions among Muslims in India, they have a primordial identification...
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Legacy of a Divided Nation: India's Muslims since Independence

Book by Mushirul Hasan; Westview Press, 1997

Subjects:

India--Politics And Government--1857-1919, India--Politics And Government--1919-1947, Islam And Politics--India, Muslims--India--Politics And Government

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

In the opening chapters of Legacy of a Divided Nation, Mushirul Hasan examines the origins of Muslim separatism under the British, the making of the partition of India, & the meaning of partition for a host of Muslim communities, individuals, & families. Next, Hasan examines the Nehruvian consensus ...
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In the opening chapters of Legacy of a Divided Nation, Mushirul Hasan examines the origins of Muslim separatism under the British, the making of the partition of India, & the meaning of partition for a host of Muslim communities, individuals, & families. Next, Hasan examines the Nehruvian consensus from the 1940s to the 1990s, looking in particular at the reasons for the growth of communalism & the retreat of both Muslims & Hindus into communal political camps. The final section of the book surveys the state of India's Muslims in the period after December 6, 1992, when the Babri Mosque was demolished.
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Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Indentity in Narratives from Village India

Book by Peter Gottschalk; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Ethnicity--India, Group Identity--India, Hindus--India, India--Ethnic Relations, Muslims--India, Narration (Rhetoric)

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Questioning the conventional depiction of India as a nation divided between religious communities, Gottschalk shows that individuals living in India have multiple identities, some of which cut across religious boundaries. The stories narrated by villagers living in the northern state of Bihar depict ...
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Questioning the conventional depiction of India as a nation divided between religious communities, Gottschalk shows that individuals living in India have multiple identities, some of which cut across religious boundaries. The stories narrated by villagers living in the northern state of Bihar depict everyday social interactions that transcend the simple divide of Hindu and Muslim.
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Journal Articles on: buddhists and muslims and india

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Demography and Communalism in India

Journal article by Neil Devotta; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 56, 2002

Subjects:

Hindus--Demographic aspects, Hindus--Political aspects, Hindus--Social aspects, India--Demographic aspects, India--Political aspects, India--Social aspects, Multiculturalism--Demographic aspects, Multiculturalism--Political aspects, Multiculturalism--Religious aspects, Multiculturalism--Social aspects, Muslims--Demographic aspects, Muslims--Political aspects, Muslims--Social aspects, Pakistan--Demographic aspects, Pakistan--Foreign relations, Pakistan--Political aspects, Pakistan--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...allowed the various religious communities (Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs and Parsis) to compare their gains...increased interreligious tensions. Thus the census in India attained power in its own right by accentuating...
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Muslims and Democracy: An Empirical Critique of Fukuyama's Culturalist Approach

Journal article by Fares Al-Braizat; International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2002

Subjects:

Democracy--Religious aspects, Fukuyama, Francis--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Islam and politics, Islamic countries--Political aspects, Muslims--Attitudes, Muslims--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...2001. (22.) In India, 82.4 percent of...population are Hindu, Muslims: 12.7 percent...Sikhs: 2.0 percent, Buddhists: .7 percent, Jams...dos01Pages/irf_india.php3). (23.) Sunni Muslims constitute 88 percent...Misperceptions between Muslims and Americans not...
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Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs in the New Religious Landscape of England*

Journal article by Ceri Peach, Richard Gale; The Geographical Review, Vol. 93, 2003

Subjects:

Emigration and immigration--Research, Hindus--Research, Muslims--Research, Sikhs--Research

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and a wide variety...the Gujarat in India from white Romanian...by the flight of Muslims from India to Pakistan and...partition of British India (Spate 1963, 118-121). Pakistani Muslims had also been uprooted...
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Islamic Revivalism and Political Opposition among Minority Muslims in Mauritius

Journal article by Oddvar Hollup; Ethnology, Vol. 35, 1996

Subjects:

Islamic fundamentalism--Social aspects, Mauritius--Social aspects, Muslims in non-Muslim countries--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...in Northern Ireland and among Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka, for example), and that religious...of otherness, evident in the new ways Muslims try to distinguish themselves from Hindus...linguistic origin (and port of embarkation) in India. In the Mauritian context Hindus are...
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Religious Fundamentalism in India and Beyond

Journal article by Krishna Kumar; Parameters, Vol. 32, 2002

Subjects:

Fundamentalism--Analysis, India--Religious aspects, Religion--Analysis, Social evolution--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...from the bulge of Africa to Central Asia. Violence also occurs between Muslims, on the one hand, and Orthodox Serbs in the Balkans, Jews in Israel, Hindus in India, Buddhists in Burma, and Catholics in the Philippines. Islam has bloody borders...

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Magazine Articles on: buddhists and muslims and india

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Minority Report: India's 150 Million Muslims Face Poverty, Illiteracy and Attacks from the Hindu Right, but Their Identity and Traditions Are Inseparable from the Rest of the Country

Magazine article by Mahmood Farooqui; New Statesman, Vol. 136, August 6, 2007

Subjects:

India--Demographic aspects, India--Religious aspects, India--Social aspects, Indian Muslims--Social aspects, Indian foreign relations--Religious aspects, Indian foreign relations--Social aspects, Pakistani foreign relations--Religious aspects, Pakistani foreign relations--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...to shake off its image of poverty, its Muslims, like other minorities, will wrestle to...the many disparate dishes that make up India. Mahmood Farooqui is a Delhi-based scholar...Hindu 80.5% Muslim 13.4% Christian 2.3% Buddhists 1.1% Sikh 1.9% Jains 0.4% Life expectancy...
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How the British Invented Hinduism: By "Reviving" the Hindu Religion, the Middle Classes of India Hope to Turn Their Country into a World Power. Yet before the 19th Century, No Such Religion Existed

Magazine article by Pankaj Mishra; New Statesman, Vol. 131, August 26, 2002

Subjects:

Hinduism--Analysis, India--Religious aspects, Vivekananda--Conduct of life

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Religion rarely demanded, as it did with many Muslims or Christians, adherence to a set of theological...pastoralists from central Asia who settled north India in the second millennium BC. It was primarily...religion was also far from the minds of the Buddhists, the Jains, and other philosophical and...
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The Mughal Dynasties: Francis Robinson Looks for the Distinctively Tolerant and Worldly Features of Mughal Rule in India and That of the Related Islamic Dynasties of Iran and Central Asia

Magazine article by Francis Robinson; History Today, Vol. 57, June 2007

Subjects:

Central Asia--History, Indian history--Analysis, Islamic Empire, 622-1517--History, Mughal Empire, 1526-1857--History, Shahjahan, Emperor of India--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...these regions of India, Iran and Central...Christians, Buddhists, Jews and Muslims. When Ghazan...towards non-Muslims of the Delhi...warrior nobles of India, most of whom...governors with Muslims; and the jizya...Muslim rule in India that they are...
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Privilege and Resentment: Religious Conflict in India

Magazine article by Vatsala Vedantam; The Christian Century, Vol. 116, April 14, 1999

Subjects:

Christians in India--Crimes against, Freedom of religion--India, India--Religion, Persecution--India

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...major cause of communal hostility in India is the countrys mind-boggling cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversity. Muslims, who form its largest religious minority...religious groups, including Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs, Parsis and Jews, make up a...
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Ceremonies in India

Magazine article by Babu R.R. Gogineni; Free Inquiry, Vol. 13, Fall 1993

Subjects:

Hinduism--Rites and ceremonies, India--Religious aspects, Rites and ceremonies--India

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...troubled the Hindus and the Buddhists and the Jains with their...was an exciting time in India. Back in Andhra Pradesh...symbol Om for the Hindus. Muslims too have a similar way...any such activity. In India, where mate selection...priority of humanists in India as things stand. Was...

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Newspaper Articles on: buddhists and muslims and india

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A Cautiously Hopeful Look at Modern India

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, August 10, 1997

Subjects:

India

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...make up a class sufficiently numerous and important to India today that Mr. Tharoor gives them a chapter in his...another, be it ethnic, religious or linguistic. Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Jews and more speak from 15 to 17 official...
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The India-Pakistan War Machine

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 5, 2002

Subjects:

India, Pakistan, Putin, Vladimir

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of terrorists from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir into India. Mr. Bush should step up his mediation efforts by addressing...region, which is the unprotected homeland of Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Sikhs who want to control their own destiny...
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A Passage from India

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 9, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...regiment incorporating Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Sikhs that also featured in...Michael Ward, 46, was also born in India, on a tea plantation in Assam...recalls Michael. She told me that as India had been my childhood home as well...
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Our Middle-Age Gap Year; at a Time When Most People Are Dreaming of a Comfortable Retirement, a Wirral Couple Are Leaving Home to Help Poor People in India and Sri Lanka

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 23, 2004

Subjects:

Hill, John

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the Hills to continue their project in India. Whatever happens, conditions will be...mostly Hindus) and the majority Sinhalese (Buddhists). Problems have been heightened by persecution of the Muslims, who form about seven per cent of the...
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Pope Benedict and Muslim Hostility

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 18, 2006

Subjects:

Muslims

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...scurrilous lies about Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and all others they term "infidels," and...is the existence of more than 1 billion Muslims today is due mostly to spreading the Muslim...happened in all of North Africa, the Balkans, India and the Middle East, and today the Muslim...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: buddhists and muslims and india

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India

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...India began to argue for special safeguards for Muslims. World War II found India by no means unified behind Great Britain. There...minorities of Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan and Muslims in India. Widespread hostilities erupted among the communities...
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Buddhism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...actual religious goal for lay and monastic Buddhists, as well as the name for a class of celestial...initiated the gradual decline of Buddhism in India. The invasions of the White Huns (6th cent.) and the Muslims (11th cent.) were also significant factors...
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Uttaranchal

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...20,650 sq mi (53,483 sq km), N India; created from the northern portion...significant minorities of Sikhs, Muslims, and Buddhists (including immigrant Tibetans...state to more developed parts of India has been an ongoing problem...
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Nepal

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...connecting with lines in India, do not reach the valley...minorities of Tibetan Buddhists (see Tibetan Buddhism ) and Muslims. Tribal and caste distinctions...the 8th 11th cent. many Buddhists fled to Nepal from India, and a group of Hindu...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...from the West Indies, India, Pakistan, Africa...smaller minorities of Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Jews, and Buddhists. There are 88 universities...British predominance in India and North America...Victorias reign, while in India conquest and expansion...

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