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    Hindu law in its current usage refers to the system of personal laws (i.e.‚ marriage‚ adoption‚ inheritance) applied to Hindus‚ especially in India.[1] Modern Hindu law is thus a part of the law of India established by the Constitution of India (1950). Prior to Indian Independence in 1947‚ Hindu law formed part of the British colonial legal system and was formally established as such in 1722 by Governor-General Warren Hastings who declared in his Plan for the Administration of Justice that "in all

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    INTRODUCTION: The Islamic and Hindu religions have an array of similarities and differences regarding their customs and laws in relation to the ‘wedding ceremony’. Within Islam‚ the wedding ceremony is believed to be both a religious and social obligation to get married. As a result‚ there is a great weight placed on religious‚ social and cultural dimensions of the ceremony which tends to be simple in nature‚ paralleling Islamic beliefs. Hindus also place a lot of importance on marriage ceremonies

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    insignificant due to the minute Hindu population up until the 1970’s and 80’s‚ thanks primarily to the dot com boom‚ coupled with a formal Immigration Services Act. Indians‚ who are predominantly Hindus‚ migrated in the thousands to take up available jobs within the IT‚ medical and other industries‚ bringing together with them a faith that is both‚ intriguing and bizarre with its various gods and goddesses. One of the biggest and most prominent examples of Hindu influences in America is the fact

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    McDonalds & Hindu Culture Presentation of Facts: McDonald’s Corporation of the United States opens 4.2 new McDonald’s restaurants daily and by 2003 had 30‚000 restaurants in 121 countries that collectively served 46 million customers each day. While expanding into new regions‚ McDonald’s entered a new country for expansion‚ India. India offered a large customer base but also a cultural challenge to McDonalds. The local Hindu culture has revered cows for thousands of years and McDonalds is

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    Writing about Literature Reading literature like Beowulf and Emerson’s "Heroism" is just one stop along the way to becoming an English scholar. Writing about literature is a third essential element. In the assignment for this lesson‚ you will synthesize the texts you have read to write a short essay; this means you will combine details from Beowulf and "Heroism" to show your understanding. When writing about what you’ve read‚ you need to consider the general idea of the text and the specific

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    Case Analysis: McDonald’s and Hindu Culture Julia Evans Misericordia University Case Analysis: McDonald’s and Hindu Culture The case study discusses the struggles that McDonalds faced when it began to do business in India. The Hindu culture prohibits the consumption of beef because they look at the cow as being a sacred animal. In addition‚ India has a large Muslim population whose religion prohibits the consumption of pork products. These limitations completely contradict the traditional

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    INTRODUCTION A Hindu joint family consists of all persons lineally descended from a common ancestor and includes their wives and unmarried daughters. But a Hindu coparcenary is a much narrower body than the joint family. It includes only those persons who acquire by birth an interest in the joint or coparcenery property. These are the sons‚ grandsons and the great grandsons of the holder of joint property for time being‚ in other words the holder in unbroken male descent. The essence of coparcenary

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    one of the leading causes of death in the 16th and 17th centuries. It was brought to the Americas many times during that period‚ first by the Spanish conquerors and later by African slaves‚ where it wiped out many native American populations. The Hindu god Krishna is believed to have loved milkmaids because of their beautiful‚ unscarred‚ complexions. Milkmaids‚ of course‚ spent a lot of time around cows‚ which are carriers of cowpox‚ a virus similar to the smallpox virus. In 1796 the British physician

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    Narasimhachary‚ Senior Associate Fellow‚ Oxford Centre for Vaishnava and Hindu Studies Preamble The phenomenon of Caste has aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Some see India’s caste system as the defining feature of Indian culture and some have dismissed it as a colonial artefact. Since the days of the British rule‚ both historians and anthropologists referred to India as a ‘caste society’. Obviously this is an overstatement of the importance of caste. But for

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    Ekadasi is a Sanskrit word‚ which means ’the eleventh’. It refers to the eleventh day of a fortnight belonging to a lunar month. There are two fortnights in a lunar month—the bright and the dark. So‚ Ekadasi occurs twice in a month‚ in the bright fortnight and the dark fortnight. The special feature of Ekadasi‚ as most people know it‚ is a fast‚ abstinence from diet. This is how it is usually understood. ’We do not eat on Ekadasi’‚ is what people understand. In this country (India) it has become

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