Some Buddhists have also demanded the removal of a Hindu temple in the area.
Alexandra even takes Indian dance classes and the family lives next door to a Hindu temple.
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In the southern city of Hyderabad, a Hindu woman is also running for election.
These are the Dhobis, a Hindu caste, born into the job of doing laundry.
Police reported that a Hindu temple and houses belonging to Hindu families had been attacked in Noakhali.
Brilliant's guru was a Hindu who had his students study the New and Old Testaments, plus the Koran.
"In 1947, Hindus constituted around 30% of the population, " says Subroto Chowdhury, a Hindu community leader in Dhaka.
Last year another department store had to apologise for selling toilet seats with images of a Hindu deity.
The first of these was Muhammad Ghauri, who established himself by beating a Hindu ruler, Prithvi Raj Chauhan.
Religion didn't come up much, says Mr. Juriasingani, a Hindu who works for a semiconductor company in Chaska, Minn.
Recently right wing campaigners were furious over some nude paintings of a Hindu goddess by prominent Indian painter, MF Hussain.
Cottonseed farmer Talari Babu is a slim, wiry man dressed, when a reporter visited him, in black for a Hindu fast.
Just last month, depositing passengers in a Hindu district, he was recognised as a Muslim and locals threw stones at him.
There's a grim precedent: one of India's greatest painters, MF Husain, was literally hounded into exile for drawing a Hindu goddess naked.
And in New Delhi, India, a Hindu ritual was performed near the Parliament House in memory of those who died in the attacks.
The state's last coalition government fell after it announced it would transfer forest land to a Hindu shrine board that manages an annual pilgrimage.
On May 10, 2011, her birthday, they met in Haridwar, a Hindu pilgrimage center on the Ganga river, about an hour's drive from where she studied.
After years studying under a Hindu divine in the late 1950s, he had pronounced himself a maharishi (great seer) and set up the Spiritual Regeneration Movement.
Mr Halappanaver, who like his wife is a Hindu, has said that several times over a three-day period the family asked for the pregnancy to be terminated.
As the leader of a Hindu-nationalist party that governs through a fractious 23-party coalition, he faces political and electoral constraints from which General Musharraf is much freer.
They are reinforced by a Hindu caste-system perhaps even more entrenched than that in India, and by the discrimination long suffered by the Madhesi people of the lowland plains neighbouring India.
The chain plans to open another vegetarian outlet in north-western India, near the Vaishno Devi cave shrine in Kashmir, which is a Hindu pilgrimage site that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.
The 90-minute opener is a four-pronged prelude to "I do, " which in the gay Blair and Jeff's case means a California-approved civil union, and for Tarz and Tina a Hindu wedding processional down their Columbia, S.C.
MI5 and the police diverted their manpower into another, even bigger investigation in which one suspect, Dhiren Barot, a Hindu convert to Islam, pleaded guilty last November to planning several possible attacks and received a 40-year prison sentence.
India's polarities killed both protagonists: the Mahatma was shot by a Hindu fanatic enraged by his solicitude towards Muslims, Indira by her Sikh bodyguards, provoked by an attack she authorised on Punjabi separatists who had seized Sikhism's holiest site.
The main exception to that has been the events of the summer of 2008, when the government of Indian-administered Kashmir decided to transfer to a Hindu religious trust 100 acres of land on a mountain route leading to an important shrine.
And what that means is that if you could build a church on a site, you could build a synagogue on a site, if you could build a Hindu temple on a site, then you should be able to build a mosque on the site.
The island state has witnessed a violent insurgency for 25 years by the Tamil Tigers, a largely Hindu minority amid a mostly Buddhist Sinhalese majority.
Though outlawed in India for nearly two centuries, some Hindu communities practiced the ritual of sati -- in which a widowed Hindu woman would throw herself, or be thrown, on her husband's funeral pyre.
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