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2. Wedding - Wikipedia

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   A black wedding, also known as "shvartse khasene" in Yiddish, or a plague wedding, referred to as "mageyfe khasene" in Yiddish, is a Jewish tradition where a wedding takes place in times of crisis, particularly during epidemics. In this custom, the bride and groom, often impoverished orphans, beggars, or individuals with disabilities, are ...

3. Indian art - Wikipedia

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   Indian art consists of a variety of art forms, including painting, sculpture, pottery, and textile arts such as woven silk. Geographically, it spans the entire Indian subcontinent, including what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan , and at times eastern Afghanistan. A strong sense of design is characteristic of Indian ...

4. Sati (practice) - Wikipedia

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   Sati (practice) A 19th-century painting depicting the act of sati. Sati or suttee was a Hindu historical practice in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband 's funeral pyre. It has been linked to related Hindu practices in regions of India. Greek sources from around c. 300 BCE make isolated mention of sati, but it ...

5. British Indians - Wikipedia

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   A traditional Indian wedding in Nottingham, 2006. A study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2007 found that British Indians have among the lowest poverty rates among different ethnic groups in Britain, second only to white British. Of the different ethnic groups, Bangladeshis (65%), Pakistanis (55%) and black Africans (45%) had the highest ...

6. Culture of India - Wikipedia

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   Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, [4] are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well-known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin ...

7. Indian people - Wikipedia

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   Indian people. Countries with a significant population with Indian ancestry. Indian people or Indians are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of India. In 2022, the population of India stood at 1.4 billion people, of various ethnic groups. According to United Nations forecasts, India overtook China as the world's most populous country by ...