Location Rural 898 (96.7) 50 (92.6) 445 (97.4) 403 (96.4) Social/individual Education: mother Up to primary 458 (49.3) 23 (42.6) 273 (59.7) 162 (38.8) Primary 173 (18.6) 13 (24.1) 78 (17.1) 82 (19.6) Middle school 206 (22.2) 12 (22.2) 84 (18.4) 110 (26.3) ≥ High school 92 (9.9) 6 (11.1) 22 (4.8) 64 (15.3) Education: household head Up to primary 557 (60.0) 33 (61.1) 302 (66.1) 222 (53.1) Primary...

Two major religious groups of India were studied, viz. Hindu and Muslim. The survey was confined to 1059 individuals of Aligarh city (UP). Households were selected on random a priori basis during day time by door to door contact. Muslims populations were Syed, Sheikh, Pathan, Ansari and Hindus were Brahmin, Bania, Rajput, Jatav. Gene frequency, allele frequency, heterozygosity, genetic identity...

Th is article presents a theoretical framework for religiocentrism that is suited to cross-religious comparisons between Christians, Muslims and Hindus. Religiocentrism is defined as the combination of positive attitudes toward the religious ingroup and negative attitudes toward religious outgroup(s). Empirical research proves the relevance of the construct ‘religiocentrism’ among Christian, Mu...

While communal violence has been an ongoing and unfortunate reality for post-colonial post-partition India, there’s no sidestepping the fact that attacks hate crime incidences against country’s Muslim minority by members of Hindu majority have occurred in greater frequency ferocity years since Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), came to power 2014 –on back a natio...

This chapter seeks to explain our preliminary reflections on how different religious communities might use their texts and traditions to respond to and assess the ethics of oncofertility research and technologies. Specifically, this chapter will briefly explore the Catholic, Evangelical Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions and their anticipated or potential contributions to...

Secularism seems to require separation between religion and State. Regarding India, it would be better to speak of ‘equidistance’ between State and religious denominations. Nonetheless a ‘balanced treatment’ towards the religions leaves the question open as to what form that equidistance should take. This is the reason of some contradictions in today’s Indian social and political life. It is li...

The great classics of Indian medicine are generally considered to be the compendia composed two thousand years ago, and their study dominates Indian medical history. However, manuscripts of these classic works are relatively rare: for all their fame, they were not widely copied or read. By contrast, Indian manuscript libraries contain thousands of copies of a small Sanskrit medical work entitle...

The aim of the present research was to determine whether religion moderates the relationship between women’s domestic power and the use of family planning methods in India. It has been suggested that contraception is less extensively used by the Muslim minority than the Hindu population because domestic power is weaker among Muslim women. An analysis of women’s responses in the 2005-06 India Na...

Khilafat Movement was started in British India immediately after the end of First World War (1914-18). Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar and Shaukat Ali, graduates Sir Syed Muslim Anglo-Oriental (MAO) College, were its founding leaders. It got mass recognition when Indian National Congress, under leadership Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, joined Movement. also provided a solid platform for propagating hi...