The following list contains links to descriptions and contact information for a number of international student associations. Many of these organizations also invite international scholars to join. For more student organizations, visit Maize Pages [1], the University of Michigan's Directory of Student Organizations. Browsing categories such as Cultural/Ethnic or Religious/Spiritual (Hindu Stude...

The following list contains links to descriptions and contact information for a number of international student associations. Many of these organizations also invite international scholars to join. For more student organizations, visit Maize Pages [1], the University of Michigan's Directory of Student Organizations. Browsing categories such as Cultural/Ethnic or Religious/Spiritual (Hindu Stude...

Chaudhary, Latika, and Rubin, Jared—Reading, writing, and religion: Institutions and human capital formation In this paper, we empirically test the role that religious and political institutions play in the accumulation of human capital. Using a new data set on literacy in colonial India, we find that Muslim literacy is negatively correlated with the proportion of Muslims in the district, altho...

Religious communities from Mauritius still rely on traditional therapies (TT) for primary healthcare. Nonetheless, there is still a dearth of scientific information on TT used by the different religious groups to manage diabetes and related complications (DRC). This study aimed to gather ethnomedicinal knowledge on TT used by the different religious groups against DRC. Diabetic patients (n = 95...

INTRODUCTION Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in India and the numbers of the patients are increasing every day. The prevalence of glaucoma depends upon various factors like racial and ethnic factors, the socioeconomic status, etc. AIM To study the pattern of glaucoma distribution among the patients in a tertiary care hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective analysis of 150...

This paper argues that Vidya (education), Veda (religion) and Varna (caste) are inter-linked in India. It examines whether, and to what extent, the enrolment of children at school in India is influenced by community norms such those of religion (Hindu or Muslim) or caste (Scheduled or nonScheduled). The econometric estimates are based on unit record data from a survey of 33,000 rural households...

Abstract The 1930s Hindi short story “Mugaloṃ ne saltanat bakhś dī” (“The Mughals Gave the Sultanate Away”) by self-proclaimed apolitical author Bhagavatīcaraṇ Varmā offers an alternative version of how British Crown took rule India away from Mughal Empire. An in-depth analysis this written during buildup to decolonization evaluates two different kinds what is often referred as “outside rulers”...

We examine the impact of religious identity and village-level religious fragmentation on behavior in Tullock contests. We report on a series of two-player Tullock contest experiments conducted on a sample of 516 Hindu and Muslim participants in rural West Bengal, India. Our treatments are the identity of the two players and the degree of religious fragmentation in the village where subjects res...

Theories that explain the origins of communal violence in South Asia often point to the discursive creation of the perception of distinct and adversarial Hindu and Muslim identity categories at the beginning of the twentieth century. This paper argues that these theories overemphasize imagined social differences without adequately considering how these boundaries were territorialized in everyda...