The effect of ethnic violence on electoral results provides useful insights into voter behaviour and the incentives for political parties in democratic societies. Religious riots have claimed more than 14,000 lives in India since 1950. We study the effect of Hindu-Muslim riots on election results in India. We combine data on riots with electoral data on state legislature elections and control v...

BACKGROUND Genome wide linkage studies (GWLS) have provided evidence for loci controlling visceral leishmaniasis on Chromosomes 1p22, 6q27, 22q12 in Sudan and 6q27, 9p21, 17q11-q21 in Brazil. Genome wide studies from the major focus of disease in India have not previously been reported. METHODS AND FINDINGS We undertook a GWLS in India in which a primary ∼10 cM (515 microsatellites) scan was ...

Prior research on fundamentalist religious movements has focused attention on the complicated relationship among gender, family, and religion. Using data from a nationally representative survey of 30,000 Hindu and Muslim women, this study compares the daily public and private behaviors of women in India to examine how gender and family norms are shaped in the context of communalized identity po...

Heights and weights of five subgroups of Asian (545) and European children (685) were recorded after birth, at 1 year, 2 years, and at 5 years. Asian children were divided into Muslim Gujarati, Muslim Pakistani, Muslim Bangladeshi, Hindu, and Sikh. Although the Europeans were significantly the heaviest at birth (3.42 kg boys and 3.26 kg girls) when compared with any of the other groups, it was ...

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...