saws of stone and bone were used to perform amputations. Nearly all major operations were performed by the ancient Hindus nearly a thousand years before the advent of Greek medicine. Knowledge of the use of soporific potions to alleviate the pain caused by surgery can be traced to remote ...
a. Over the last three decades, a movement toward Hinduizing India--advancing the status of Hindus toward political and social primacy in India-- has continued to gain ground in South Asia and diasporic communities. The Sangh Parivar (the Sangh "family"), the network of groups at the forefr...
It is not quite over and done, however. We know that we are still in transition because of how the debates can run: 1. “We can no longer tolerate hatred, however much it might be decked out in the language of traditional values. Either that traditional view must be eradicated or the ...
in modern times occurred after the partition of india in 1947, when 7 million muslims fled india for the new state of pakistan and 7 million hindus fled in the opposite direction. as individuals, not merely as members of races or religions in flight, people have always traveled in search ...