In a climate of rising religious fundamentalism, it is relevant and pertinent to examine the processes by which a " religious " site is created. My general premise is that historical narratives are negotiations, rather than simple renditions of fact, and thus are always reflective of their authors' contemporary politics. Within this framework, this essay explores the processes through which the...

From 1972 to 1979, a total of 3392 patients with endoscopically proven ulcers were seen, in six ethnic groups. The distribution was as follows: Africans 456 males, 182 females; Muslim Gujerati Indians 206 males, 60 females; Hindu Hindi 433 males; total North Indians 639 males, 195 females; Hindu Tamils 593 males, 184 females; Hindu Telegu 179 males, 46 females; total South Indians 872 males, 23...

A large number of countries worldwide have legalized homosexual rights. But for 147 years, since when India was a British colony, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code defines homosexuality as a crime, punishable by imprisonment. This outdated law violates the fundamental rights of homosexuals in India. Despite the fact that literature drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, and modern fiction testi...

Many frameworks for the writing of urban history in South Asia have interpreted the city as aspace of socio-political organisation, rather than an object of thought itself. By contrast, thisarticle examines how a mythologised version of Lucknow’s illustrious pre-colonial history,particularly its supposed cultural refinement (tehzib), was evoked in the colonial-era city.Examining...

The sacred values of a community are critical in understanding cultural conflict. When an attempt is made to trade a sacred value with a secular good, it evokes feelings of anger (tabootradeoff) but less so when that sacred value is traded off with another sacred value (tragic). Previous work has shown that participants who expressed sacred values for an issue were more resistant to taboo than ...

having relations with the muslim countries are very important for israel. many of these countries had avoided of establishing an open relation with it, because of their muslims opposite population against israel existence. the majority of them have considered israel as an enemy which had created by the efforts of the colonialists. so they considered it as an aggressive state and so they denied ...

BACKGROUND The ability to taste phenylthiocarbamide (PTC), a bitter chemical has long been known to be a heritable trait, which is being widely used for both genetic and anthropological studies. The frequency of taster and non-taster allele is found to vary in different populations. AIMS AND OBJECTIVE To investigate the frequency of taster trait in Mysore, South India. MATERIALS AND METHODS...