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Hindus in the UK
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Hindus have migrated to the U.K from all over the world – India, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Trinidad and from the 1950's onwards, East Africa. The mass migration of East African Hindus in the 1960s and 1970s was due to the ‘Exodus’ in Kenya in the 1960s when Kenya gained independence from British rule, and the expulsion of all Asians from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972. Most Hindus who came to the U.K initially worked in factories, grocery stores etc. as laborers and settled in cities and urban areas. The majority of the Hindu community in the U.K. was and still remains Gujarati.
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Hinduism and the Mediterranean
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Greek writers who traveled with Alexander the Great during his campaigns in India around 326 BC left much detail concerning their impressions and the conditions in South Asia. Architecture, art, and even the coinage expressed the blend of Indian and Hellenic culture that occurred over the next several hundred years. Pythagorean and Platonic philosophy owe their origin to Indian thought and spirituality. The Samkhya-Vendanta thought of India is known to have influenced Orphic religion, Pythagorean philosophy, and Neo-Platonism. Persia was the central area or middle ground for India and Greece in the pre-Christian era.
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Hinduism and the World
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Dr. Arnold Joseph Toynbee, the great British historian, said, "India is not only the heir of her own religious traditions; she is also the residuary legatee of the Ancient Mediterranean World's religious traditions. Religion cuts far deeper, and at the religious level, India has not been a recipient. She has been a giver. About half of the total number of the living higher religions are of Indian origin." Such is the respect that Hinduism has received from many notable figures throughout history. Though Hinduism primarily dominates India, Nepal, Mauritas and the Tamils in Sri Lanka, there are one billion Hindus in the world today. Hinduism is among the world's most tolerant religions and is generally regarded as the oldest.
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Hinduism and Christianity: Poles Apart or Parallel
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Christianity has a rather sketchy reputation amongst most Hindus I know. Many of us have heard about the underhanded proselytizing tactics used by zealous missionaries in India, or perhaps we've come across rather explicit declarations made by the Pope and other prominent Christians (read: Pat Robertson) publicly asserting the need to ‘save’ India's Hindu population. Over time it begins to sound like a broken record, but the appalling language and assumptions underlying evangelist propaganda can rattle even the most tolerant among us.
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Hinduism in Southeast Asia
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One of Hinduism's central tenets is the belief that Truth is one, but different people find different ways to realize that Truth. This belief is the source of its tolerance and pluralism and the reason why Hindus never ventured out of India to conquer and convert people to their faith. However, despite the lack of any proselytizing spirit in Hinduism, it has still been able to attract, in the past as well as the present, people from so many different ethnicities, races and nationalities that it's no longer appropriate to call it an Indian religion. The amorphous and evolutionary nature of Hinduism has helped facilitate the smooth assimilation of its beliefs and practices into the indigenous cultures of the civilizations it has influenced and vice versa.
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Welcome Mr. President
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Accomplishments in my tenure as the President of HSC would be to simply provide current and future members the opportunity to grow. I believe a few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in one year than a mob in a century. Our organization is not just an organization but an institution of learning. And with that, we have President, HSC, Mr. Samir Rawal.
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