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  2. Handbook of South American Indians - Wikipedia

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    Ultimately, over a hundred scholars from Latin America, the United States, and Europe contributed and provided advice for the series. [ 1 ] This six-volume series, with an additional index volume, documents information about Indigenous peoples of South America , including cultural and physical aspects of the people, language family , history ...

  3. Hinduism in South America - Wikipedia

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    The first ‘Indian Indians’ to have arrived in Peru were businessmen who had gone there in the early 1960s. [10] Later on, the community grew in number marginally until the early 80s, after which many of its members left due to the severe local economic crises and the prevailing terrorism. Those with relatives in other Latin countries joined ...

  4. Roman Catholic Kshatriya - Wikipedia

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    The precise etymology of the word Chardo is unclear. Two most probable explanations are as follows: [13] The roots of this Konkani word is said to lie in the Prakrit word Chavda, which is the name of a dynasty who are said to have migrated to Old Goa from Saurashtra in the 7th and 8th centuries, after their kingdom was destroyed by the Sunni Caliphate's conquest in around 740 AD.

  5. File:The history of caste in India.pdf - Wikipedia

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    This file is in PDF format. Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems for document exchange.PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.

  6. Folk Catholicism - Wikipedia

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    Folk Catholic practices occur where Catholicism is a major religion, not only in the oft-cited cases of Latin America and the West Indies. Folk accommodations between Catholicism and local beliefs can be found in Gaelic Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Poland, Germany, Austria, the Philippines, and southern India. [citation ...

  7. Latin Catholics of Malabar - Wikipedia

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    The Nadar Latin Catholics form a significant part of the Malabarese Latin Catholics. The Latin Nadars prefer maritial alliances with Hindu Nadars instead of other Latin subgroups. They are concentrated in the southern and eastern regions of the Trivandrum district like Parassala, Neyyantinkara, Vellarada, Kattakkada, Kovalam and Malayinkeezhu.

  8. Brahmic scripts - Wikipedia

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    They are used throughout the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and parts of East Asia. They are descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India and are used by various languages in several language families in South , East and Southeast Asia : Indo-Aryan , Dravidian , Tibeto-Burman , Mongolic , Austroasiatic , Austronesian , and Tai .

  9. The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians - Wikipedia

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    To realise Medieval India there is no better way than to dive into the eight volumes of the priceless History of India as Told by its Own Historians which Sir H. M. Elliot conceived and began and which Professor Dowson edited and completed with infinite labour and learning. It is a revelation of Indian life as seen through the eyes of the ...