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  Vegetarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In India vegetarianism is usually synonymous with lacto vegetarianism, although lacto-ovo vegetarianism is practiced as well.
India has devised a system of marking any edible product with a green dot in a green square to signify that only vegetarian ingredients were used and that no 'hidden' meat ingredients were used.
Vegetarian societies (apart from India) were first formed in majority meat eating European countries both as a means to promote the diet and to gather together vegetarians for mutual support.
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 Vegetarianism
Some people live in a predominantly vegetarian society (such as India), and so adopt this practice to avoid ostracism, or for the difficulty of buying meat in such a society.
The metaphor by Douglas Dunn is that if one gives a young child an apple and a live chicken, the child would instinctively play with the chicken and eat the apple, whereas if a cat was presented with the same choices, its natural impulse would be the opposite.
India has devised a system (since 2000???) of marking any edible product with a green dot in a green square to signify that only vegetarian ingredients were used and that no 'hidden' meat ingredients were used.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1889   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
March 4 - Grover Cleveland, 24th President of the United States (1885 - 1889) is succeeded by Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893).
March 9 - Yohannes IV is killed in the Battle of Metemma; Sudanese forces, who had been almost defeated, rally and destroy the Ethiopian army.
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 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Return to India - Return to India He returned (1915) to India with a stature equal to that of the nationalist leaders...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: In South Africa - In South Africa Educated in India and in London, he was admitted to the English bar in 1889 and...
India: Rulers - Maurya, ancient Indian dynasty (c.325–c.183 B.C.) Asoka, Indian emperor (c.273–c.232...
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 Vegetarianism - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Vegetarianism has been common in Hindu countries, such as India, since possibly the 2nd millennium BC for spiritual reasons, such as ahimsa (nonviolence) and reducing bad karmic influences.
In the Western world, the popularity of vegetarianism steadily grew over the 20th century as a result of nutritional, ethical, and more recently, environmental concerns.
Most vegetarians in India, as also those in the classical Mediterranean lands, such as Pythagoras, are/were lacto-vegetarian.
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 Materialien zum Neobuddhismus: Buddhismus in Großbritanien bis 1959
In 1845 he returned to India and settled at Darjeeling, where he devoted himself entirely to his favourite pursuits, becoming among the greatest authorities on the Buddhist religion and the flora of the Himalayas.
Accompanied by his daughter be visited Japan in 1889, and was so taken up with the cultural life of Japan that he paid a second visit to the country.
The Treaty of Peking was drafted on the basis of the Treaty of Lhasa, with the addition that British India personnel had the right to deal with foreign affairs in the three commercial ports in Tibet, erect post offices and postal stations between Yadong and Gyangze, and station troops in Yadong and Gyangze.
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 RPO -- Selected Poetry of Adela Florence Nicolson Cory (1865-1904)
Adela Florence Cory was born on April 9, 1865, at Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire, to Colonel Arthur Cory and Fanny Elizabeth Griffin.
She was brought up by relations in England and attended school in Richmond near London while her father, in the Bombay army, was posted in Lahore, India.
Colonel Malcolm Hassels Nicolson, a Bombay army veteran, and Adela (at 23, half his age), wed in 1889; and she accompanied him as he served in the northwest.
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 India - Information from Reference.com
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 Adherents.com
"Ahirs: Location: India (middle Ganges valley; state of Bihar, Orissa, and Uttar Pradesh); Population: About 35-40 million; Religion: Hinduism "; "The majority of Ahirs are Hindu and share in the basic beliefs and practices of Hinduism.
Other notices in this issue of the journal discuss the visit of a missionary from India who converted 200, 650, or 700 of Chicago's citizens, indicating (p.
Ahmad taught that Jesus was taken down from the cross while still alive and lived out his days in Kashmir in northern India.
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