This article examines how Indian Americans’ religious organizations send not only financial remittances to India, but also social remittances that shape development ideologies. Comparing Indian-American Hindu and Muslim organizations, I find both groups draw from their socioeconomic experiences in India and use their position as elite immigrants in the United States to identify and empower thei...

the ability to taste phenylthiocarbamide (ptc), a bitter organic compound, described as a bimodal autosomal trait is widely used to know the heritable trait in both genetic and anthropological studies. the present study was carried out to analyze the prevalence of ptc taste sensitivity and to determine the gene frequencies among some muslim populations of uttar pradesh, india. this study has so...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the association between religiosity and overweight or obese body mass index among a multi-religious group of Asian Indian immigrants residing in California. METHODS We examined cross-sectional survey data obtained from in-language telephone interviews with 3228 mostly immigrant Asian Indians in the 2004 California Asian Indian Tobacco Survey usin...

BACKGROUND The Death Adjustment Hypothesis (DAH) postulates two key themes. Its first part postulates that death should not be considered the end of existence and the second part emphasizes that the belief in immortal pattern of human existence can only be adopted in a morally rich life with the attitude towards morality and materialism balanced mutually. We wanted to explore Death Adjustment i...

Millions of Muslims across the Indian Ocean littoral have been following matrilineal systems for several centuries. Both in past and present, Minangkabau Indonesia, Negeri Sem...