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21 unusual facts about Hindu


1950 Barisal Riots

The Hindu jewellery shops were looted in the presence of police officers.

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.

2005 Delhi bombings

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

2006 Mumbai train bombings

29 October 2005 Delhi bombings: a series of three blasts in crowded markets in Delhi, two days before the Hindu festival Diwali

Annie Rix Militz

At the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, she met the Hindu teacher Swami Vivekananda, an event that influenced her to turn away from her formerly Christian view of New Thought to become inclusively interfaith.

Asian furniture

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

Bite the cartridge

One of the alleged causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 were rumours that the grease on these cartridges designed to keep them dry was, variously, pork or beef fat (pork being abhorrent to Muslims, cows being sacred to Hindus), thus their refusal to bite them.

Charitar 266

This tale is fierce verbal dialogue between Hindu Pundit and Daughter of King Sumati i.e Sri Rann Khamb Kala on different religious principles like Idolatry, Pilgrimage, Trimurti, Charity, Salvation, Enlightenment, Human Worship, Avtarvaad, where Hindu Pundit lost the verbal battle and later accepted the thoughts of Sumati's Daughter after punishment by her.

Gordon Hall

He evangelized the souls of Bombay Presidency and provided medical services, especially in Hindu temples and in bazaars.

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.

Indravarman VI

The next time Annam would attack, Champa would not receive help from its former Buddhist and Hindu allies.

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.

Mathematics and architecture

For example, in Hindu temples such as the Virupaksha temple at Hampi, the parts and the whole have the same character.

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.

Shreya

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

Teachings and philosophy of Swami Vivekananda

Vivekananda was a Hindu monk from India who played significant role in introducing Vedanta to the Western world and also reviving and redefining certain aspect of the religion within India.

Toe ring

It is worn as a symbol of the married state by Hindu women and is called bichiya (pronounced: bee-chee-ya) in Hindi, jodavi(जोडवी) in Marathi, Mettelu (మెట్టెలు) in Telugu, Metti in Tamil (மெட்டி), Kaalungura in Kannada.

Tourism in Uttarakhand

The state is popular as Devbhumi(land of Gods) for the presence of numerous Hindu pilgrimage sites in the state.As a result religious forms a major portion of the tourists in the state.

Transgenderism and religion

Hindu philosophy has the concept of a third sex or third gender (tritiya-prakriti – literally, "third nature").


1981 Meenakshipuram conversion

1981 Meenakshipuram conversion was a 1981 Indian controversy regarding the conversion of hundreds of Hindu Pallars to Islam in the village of Meenakshipuram in Tamilnadu state.

2004 Khobar massacre

They then returned to the first floor with the intention of killing Hindus.

Abdul Rashid Khan

Khan has participated in many national and regional conferences like Sadarang Conference, Godrej Conference, Lucknow Mahotsav, Dover Lance Conference, ITC Sangeet Sammelan, Prayag Sangeet Samiti Sangeet Sammelan all over India and has been felicited by Critics, fellow artists and many reputed recognized institutions like Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy, (1981), Banaras Hindu University (1993), Eastern Zone cultural center and Press club Kolkata.

Abdul Subhan Qureshi

Police sources told The Hindu that he participated in the October,1999 SIMI conference where Sheikh Yasin, the head of the Hamas and the Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad, were among those who delivered speeches through a telephone network.

Adinath

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

Ahichatra

Nairs and Bunts of Kerala and Tulu Nadu who claim Kshatriya descent from the nagas as well as Namputhiri and Tuluva Brahmins(Hindu philosophers Adi Shankara and Madhvacharya belonging to these communities) trace their origins to this place.

Akali movement

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

Akilandeswari

Akilandeswari or Akhilāṇḑeśvarī is one of the main forms of the Hindu goddess, Parvati.

Aouda

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

Babi ngepet

The association of boar or pig with magic concerning fortune probably originated from Javanese pre-Islamic and pre-Hindu-Buddhist beliefs that associate the boar or pig with domestic richness, fortune and prosperity, similar to its connections with ancient Javanese piggy bank.

Bhujakhia Pir

The shrine of Baba Bhujakhira Pir of Balasore stands as a symbol of harmony between Muslim and Hindu.

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.

Brixton, Gauteng

Laid out in 1912, Brixton Cemetery has a historic Hindu crematorium which was organised by Mahatma Gandhi shortly before his departure from South Africa in 1914.

C. R. Pattabhi Raman

As Pattabhiraman was born after a Naga Prathistha yagna or a sacrifice to the Hindu god Nāga by Seethamma who had earlier suffered two miscarriages, Pattabhiraman was initially named Nagaraj.

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.

Dahba

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

Dakshinavarti Shankh

Dakshinavarti Shankh, Valampuri Sanggu; Tamil: வலம்புரி சங்கு or Sri Lakshmi Shankh, is a sacred Hindu object otherwise known in English as a conch shell.

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".

Glaciers of Bhutan

The study, conducted by the Universities of California and Potsdam and published in the journal Nature Geoscience, was based on 286 glaciers along the Himalaya and Hindu Kush from Bhutan to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Hindu Higher Secondary School

The schools roots are in two boys' schools in the Triplicane area of Madras, the Dravida Pathasala (Pathasala means school in Sanskrit) for Tamil boys and the Hindu Balura Pathsala for Telugu boys.

Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh

Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh is an organisation that promotes the unity of Hindus worldwide and helps them in "maintaining their Hinduness".

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 China

However, there previously existed a Tamil Hindu community in the city who, in the late 13th century, built a temple dedicated to Lord Shiva.

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.

Kamwala Secondary School

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

Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala

The case originated in February 1970 when Swami HH Sri Kesavananda Bharati, Senior Pontiff and head of "Edneer Mutt" - a Hindu Mutt situated in Edneer, a village in Kasaragod District of Kerala, challenged the Kerala government's attempts, under two state land reform acts, to impose restrictions on the management of its property.

Mangilal Arya

Arya devoted his career to Arya Samaj, the Hindu reform movement of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, working as a freedom fighter and social reformer.

Mind of Mencia

Before going on his tirades, he begs for forgiveness from various Hindu gods such as Shiva and Vishnu.

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.

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.

Religious war

In the late tenth century, a story spread that before Muhammad destroyed the idols at the Kaaba, that of Manāt was secretly sent to a Hindu temple in India; and the place was renamed as So-Manāt or Somnath.

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

Siddhivinayak Temple, Siddhatek

The Ganesh Chaturthi festival is celebrated from the first to the fifth day of the Hindu month of Bhadrapada, where Ganesh Chaturthi is the fourth day.

Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Kuala Lumpur

Once every 12 years, in keeping with Hindu tradition, the temple is reconsecrated.

Surai Sasai

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

The Hindu Friday Review Music Festival

The Hindu Friday Review Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Chennai, India.

Vaddukoddai

An Amman temple at Sangarathai, a Murugan temples at Adaikalam Thottam and Panguru are three of the main Hindu temples found here.

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.

Vish

Vishwanath, the presiding Hindu deity of Varanasi, India, representing Shiva.

Visvanatha Sastriyar

Notable among them were a Chola-era mythological Mavaikuruvanji and Kurunathar Killividudutu a panegyric on the Hindu god Skanda.

Waheguru

Bhai Gurdas at one place in his Varan (I.49) construes "vahiguru" as an acrostic using the first consonants of the names of four divine incarnations of the Hindu tradition appearing in four successive eons.

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.

Youth Day

This is observed in various centres of Ramakrishna Math and Mission in a traditional Hindu manner which includes mangalarati, special worship, homa (fire-ritual), meditation, devotional songs, religious discourses, sandhyarati (versper service in the evenings), and so on.