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The application of the Hindu Code Bills have been controversial in determining who is to be called a Hindu and who is entitled to be exempted from certain rules of Hindu law. [7] They are also still contentious among many communities, including women's, nationalist and religious groups.
The Rajput ceremony of Jauhar, 1567, as depicted by Ambrose Dudley in Hutchinsons History of the Nations, c.1910. Jauhar, sometimes spelled Jowhar or Juhar, [1] [2] was a Hindu Rajput practice of mass self-immolation by women and girls [3] in the Indian subcontinent to avoid capture, enslavement, [4] and rape when facing certain defeat during a war.
Others estimate that more Hindu and Sikh women were victims of violence as compared to Muslim women, for instance Urvashi Butalia, who specializes in Partition violence against women, says that anywhere from 25,000 to 29,000 Hindu and Sikh women were concerned as compared to 12,000 to 15,000 Muslim women, [36] numbers which have been endorsed ...
The violence included the looting of Hindu properties and businesses, the burning of Hindu homes, rape of Hindu women and desecration and destruction of Hindu temples. [ 153 ] On 28 February 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal sentenced Delwar Hossain Sayeedi , the Vice President of the Jamaat-e-Islami to death for the war crimes committed ...
In the resulting conflagration, 59 people, including women and children, burned to death. [ 40 ] The government of Gujarat set up Gujarat High Court judge K. G. Shah as a one-man commission to look into the incident, [ 41 ] but following outrage among families of victims and in the media over Shah's alleged closeness to Modi, retired Supreme ...
A new piece of legislation introduced in the House of Representatives aims to condemn “Hinduphobia,” a term used by some Hindu Americans to describe what they say are burgeoning anti-Hindu ...
Hindu passengers (mostly women and children) burnt alive and pelted with rocks. Different commissions were set up; one was by the Government of Gujarat to investigate the train burning spent 6 years going over the details of the case, and concluded that the fire was arson committed by a mob of 1000–2000 people.
Furore revolves around a scene involving one of Hinduism’s holiest scriptures, ... For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in. Subscriptions; Entertainment;