The current study attempted to examine the religious maturity of Hindu (N=1050), Christian (N=1073) and Muslim (N=1394) adolescents studying at secondary level in Pakistan. This research is based on the theory of religious orientations presented by Allpport (1950). Age universal I-E scale (revised version of ROS – Religious Orientation Scale) developed by Kirkpatrick (1988) and Maltby (1999) wa...

This study explored an advocacy of Muslim majority on Hindu Minority in Sidoarjo. The group maintained and protected the minority Krembung community. has very little adherents but they could grow to have a house worship with large land area East Java region. Most followers came from outside area. phenomenon looked unique since people living temple are few even dominated by immigrants Bali. Ther...

Status of women is the mirror of cultural and socio – economic development of our country. Women’s status and fertility are interrelated. Various factorsenvironmental, socioeconomic, biological, psychological or cultural factors affect fertility. There is a positive correlation between women’s status and their fertility. Educated women have low birth rate in comparison to uneducated women. The ...

The present article is on a short-term longitudinal growth study, conducted for a period of one year, on squatter children of two social groups (Hindu and Muslim), belonging to age groups 3, 4 and 5 years. Here attempts have been made to observe the similarities and differences in growth pattern of children of each age group belonging to two social groups and to see the effect of social group a...

BACKGROUND Significant disparities in the incidence of polio existed during its eradication campaign in India. In 2006, Muslims, who comprise 16% of the population in affected states, comprised 70% of paralytic polio cases. This disparity was initially blamed on the Muslims and a rumor that the vaccination program was a plot to sterilize their children. Using the framework of structural violenc...

This paper examines the relationship between nationalism, state formation, and the marginalisation of national minorities through an historical focus on Pakistani state’s relationship with the Ahmadiyya community, a self-defined minority sect of Islam. In 1974, a constitutional amendment was enacted that effectively rendered the Ahmadiyya community a non-Muslim minority, in spite of claims by t...

A matrilineal descent system practiced In and around the city of Calicut In southern India has had far-reaching Implications for the structure of the local built environment. The tarawad system, practiced by the Moplah Muslim, Hindu Nayar and Nambudrl Brahmin communities, has created a residential pattern of clan houses, also called tarawads, that sometimes contain as many as one hundred reside...