Global Hindu Footprint - Spread Beyond India

[dhu]

It's a typical Indian Verandah arrangement with Gopuram on top. Even Gothics when they hollowed out the walls to let in the light would not have placed any overlying steeples without the hint of architectural column support. Westerners do not have Verandahs, instead they have appended balconies.

[Guest]

Honsol,

Interesting structures. Provoked my curiosity. Please provide some background information on the video/photos, if you can. For example I take it the neighborhood is in Romania(?); is the whole neighborhood Gypsy settlement; any information on why they might have built the houses in that particular fashion, and what might the specific architecture symbolize, etc. Thanks.
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This style is common among rich gipsy comunites in Balkan region.As nomads ,the gipsy didnt have an arhitectural tradition.As i heard ,this style was inspire from indian movies in the years 60-70.An aditional influence is the discovery of their indian roots which make some gipsy interested in indian traditions.
The number of roofs show the status of the owner.The more roofs he have the more important or rich it is in the comunity.
This style was in regresion in recent years because is expensive and because criticism ,as it is consider a non-european style.
The funny thing is that many families live in a small house next to the palace,and is not uncommon to find the palace uninhabited.Also, to finish the house is consider bad luck,so usualy a small part of the house is let unfinished.

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Indian arhitecture influenced also other styles of est-european arhitecture especialy after 15 century.
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[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-dhu+Jun 25 2007, 12:08 AM-->QUOTE(dhu @ Jun 25 2007, 12:08 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->It's a typical Indian Verandah arrangement with Gopuram on top.  Even Gothics when they hollowed out the walls to let in the light would not have placed any overlying steeples without the hint of architectural column support. Westerners do not have Verandahs, instead they have appended balconies.
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Yes, the roofs do look very much like the Gopurams. The lower part, the large spacious 'verandahs,' could be a house in a neighbourhood in Delhi. I couldn't help smiling when Honsol said that the designs might have been lifted straight out of the Indian movies from the sixties-seventies. Yes, those large, over-sized verandahs could easily be the set from a 1960s movie of a zamindar's house. I can just picture a scene where the villainous father of the heroine contemptuously looks down from the huge balcony on the hero, swirling his glass, or sucking at a pipe - Pran style.

So, the roofs have been modeled after temples, and the verandahs possibly after a 'zamindar's' house - resulting in a most interesting and unique style.


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The number of roofs show the status of the owner.The more roofs he have the more important or rich it is in the comunity.
This style was in regresion in recent years because is expensive and because criticism ,as it is consider a non-european style.
The funny thing is that many families live in a small house next to the palace,and is not uncommon to find the palace uninhabited.Also, to finish the house is consider bad luck,so usualy a small part of the house is let unfinished.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I was curious about the many roofs per house - now I understand. I can also understand the concerns over the costs - pretty lavish, impressive constructions! But what a pity if they had to abandon these styles because they have to conform with the regular (uninspiring) contemporary European designs. These unique styles are what makes a neighbourhood most interesting - clearly a tourist attraction.

It is interesting that they consider it bad luck to finish a house. I wonder from where that belief originated - most certainly has nothing to do with the ancient Indian study of building construction -vastu shastra.

All in all, interesting information - never knew before such dwellments existed in eastern europe. Nice.

[Guest]

What is their main trade? How much is their population? What is their practiced religion and howmuch %age christianism?

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I dont know from were they have the money.Some are sons of boyars and inherited some whealt from them.In the rest i dont see any trade among .My father ask a rich gipsy from were he had the money but he didnt want to answer.
The population is estimated at 1,5 milion.Oficial only 0,5 milion declare them selfs gipsy,the others declare hungarian of romanian.Most of them are metisos and you can see even so call scandinavian type(light hair and eyes).
The religion is the same as for majority of population.Gipsy from city are more secular,and thoose from rural side are more religios.From all ethnic groups around ,gipsy seem to have the most traditional christian customes.
Are huge numbers of conversions in traditional gipsy comunites to neoprotestants and evangelical churches,in recent 15 years.


You can see gipsy dance and costume here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPOl7pRpyRM

[Guest]

Tamil insciptions in Canton, China - and ancient Shiva temple - Thiru Khan-eswaram. (Khan - the surname of the then kings of chin)

http://www.hindu.com/mp/2007/08/06/stories...80650280800.htm

Another story of how far-going merchants took Hindu culture to distant lands.

[Guest]

good job Bodhi. need to spend more time on this thread to absorb everything

[Bharatvarsh]

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October 1, 2007

Rediff columnist Francois Gautier, a French writer and journalist based in India for the last 33 years, visited Indonesia recently and made a special journey to the island of Bali.

He offers his unusual impressions of this island, one of the country's 33 provinces, and famous for its temples and performing arts. Bali is a majority Hindu island in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

For a lover of India's spirituality, Hinduism in Bali represents a refreshing and wonderful experience. Balinese Hinduism is a Puranic one that came peacefully from India in the fourth century AD.

Because there was no real connection with India after the eighth century, it remained pure and was not diluted by the ritualism of the later Vedantic Indian period.

Balinese Hindus worship one Supreme Divinity, although you do find many of the Hindu Gods -- Ganesh, Vishnu (called Wishnu), Shiva etc. There are women priests, something that is missing in modern Indian Hinduism. Homes are temples in themselves, which create strong family bonding.

When Balinese do go to temples, twice or three times a year, it is a marvellous informal, non-ritualistic ceremony, which has Buddhist (when Buddhism was not dissociated from Hinduism) and Tibetan similarities. Like the way women raise their hands over their heads, a flower in it, or how they stack food offerings (Tibet must have received some of the same influences as Bali from an ancient non self-centred Buddhism).

A dance to remember

October 1, 2007

True there are still some animal sacrifices in some parts of Bali -- but they happen too in remote villages of the Kumaon Himalayas -- and you find a lot of daemons and a few elements of tantrism. But so do you in modern Tibetan Buddhism, which is today so fashionable amongst western intellectuals and their media.

What Balinese practice in effect is a form of Vaishnava Tantra, whereas the guest is God, hence their openness to outsiders.

There are Brahmins in Bali, but no real castes, only caste names. The quality of the Hindu tradition transmitted orally in Bali from generation to generation, is amazing.

The Kecak Ramayana, sometimes known as the 'Monkey dance', for instance, is an extraordinary ballet, which reflects faithfully the ideals of the Ramayana, with a touch of Buddhism and Tantrism. It is a dance, which may be performed for the benefits of the tourists, but watching it, one feels that the Balinese still practice it for themselves and get caught up in the trance-like ethereal beauty of the women dancers who incarnate feminity at its best.

Yet, Balinese Hinduism is facing multiple threats.

From Islam, of course, firstly. Although Indonesia is a secular country and there is, and has been, genuine attempts at giving the country's multiple provinces some kind of federalism, two hundred thousand Hindus were massacred in terrible pogroms in 1965 by the Indonesian army. Bali's extremely deadly Islamic bombings in 2002, which targeted Westerners, as well as Hindus, have also given a serious jolt to Balinese Hindus.

Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world and the three million Hindus of Bali stand fragile and vulnerable in the face of this huge majority, which allowed Abu Bakar Bashir, the so called 'spiritual leader' of the 2002 bombers to receive a very light sentence and be released in 2006.

As the Chinese did in Tibet, the Indonesian government is also quietly encouraging immigration of Muslims to Bali, particularly from Java. Today, Hindus comprise only 60 per cent of the population of Denpasar, Bali's capital, whereas they were 91 per cent in 1990. Mosques, which were a rarity in Bali, are now springing up everywhere.

Tourism is also a threat to Bali.

With it has come paedophilia, crime, drinking, drugs, without mentioning the fact that most big hotels are owned by outsiders and not Balinese.

There has been a sudden drop in arrival of Western tourism after the bombings -- some say up to 70 per cent -- and the Indonesian government has been promoting 'domestic' tourism.

That sounds fine, except that Indonesians, mostly Muslims, do not have the same respect for Bali's cultural and ecological beauty that Westerners have, and may even be hostile to Hindus.

Tourism kills the soul of a country and Bali, such a small country, is already showing signs of the decay in its culture and ethos: in Sanur or Kutti, Denpasar's most famous beaches, every shop is devoted to cheap tourist artefacts and every other person hassles you for a massage, a souvenir, or a restaurant. Luckily, as soon as you move a little bit inland, Hindus there seem to have retained much of their culture and innocence. But time presses as Bali is so defenceless because of that very innocence.

The third threat, which Bali faces -- and that is really paradoxical -- is from Hindus.

Visiting Hindus scholars from India have thought that Balinese Hinduism is 'unorthodox' and needs to realign itself to a Vedantic mode.

This has created the beginning of a split amongst Balinese Hindus.

A small group, led by some of the teachers of the Bali Hindu University, which has more than a thousand students, are trying to bring into line Balinese Hinduism with its sister Indian concern, encouraging Balinese Hindus to go for tirtha yatras to India and visit Varanasi, Haridwar, Badrinath, Kurukshetra etc. They say that Balinese Hinduism missed the reforms introduced by Shankaracharya and that it should reconnect with Vedantic Hinduism -- rather than a Puranic one -- and they want to abolish castes, even though castes do not play an important role on the island.

There is another school of thought which wants to preserve Balinese culture; its individuality, its worship of one single divinity, its home temples and unique ways of worship. And thank god, at the moment, it is still in majority.

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[acharya]

Today, Hindus comprise only 60 per cent of the population of Denpasar, Bali's capital, whereas they were 91 per cent in 1990. Mosques, which were a rarity in Bali, are now springing up everywhere.



Looks like lot of things started in 1990

We have the Kashmir, Maoists movement in Nepal, Radical Islam south asia all went into overdrive in 1990s

[Guest]

<b>Hindu Religion and Hindustan's global trading empire in the ancient times</b>
October 25, 2007
Shri. Milind Gadgil, Senior war journalist, Mumbai.

In the era when modern comforts and means were yet to be discovered, Hindustan had the major share of 40% of the world’s international trade. Hence, even today we come across glimpses of Hindu culture in various parts of the world. A study of trade and economics will show that the Hindu religion and culture held sway over the world. Senior war journalist Shri. Milind Gadgil spoke on this subject at the 7th anniversary of the Mumbai edition of ‘ Daily Sanatan Prabhat '. The remaining part of the speech is being published below.

Hindustan’s trading practices were just, thus, the Hindu Culture survived without any obstruction all over the world!

80 kilometers north of Bangkok is a city called Ayodhya. A river called 'Shaufry' flows near the city. The original name of the river is Sharayu. The local people believe that the Ramayana took place in Thailand, and not in India. A remarkable fact is that the personal bank account of Thailand’s Royal Family is in the reputed bank called ’Bank of Ayodhya’. Thailand has branches of all major global reputed banks; hence, it is not as if the Royal Family has no other option. Added to this is the fact that the Thai currency is basically convertible (no restriction on conversion of local currency to foreign currency), and hence, the Royal Family could have chosen any other bank. Yet, the Royal Family continues to bank with the ‘Bank of Ayodhya’!

In Thailand there is a theatre, which conducts performances of ‘Ramkiyan’, similarly to the ‘Ramleela’, 365 days of the year, and it attracts many viewers. What is the reason for this cultural effect being preserved? It is the just trade practices of the Hindus. Had Hindus resorted to unjust practices, then from the moment new traders from Hindustan stopped visiting Thailand, the local people would have thrown away the practices they had inculcated from Hindu culture and revived their local culture. But they did not do this. They accepted the Hindu culture as their own. This drives home the greatness of our culture.

The trading continued even during war time!

There were many kings in Hindustan; and at that time these kings used to often be at war with each other. All of them did not have friendly relations with each other, but in spite of being at war, there was never a break in their trade. Trading and movement of goods from one part of India to the other continued without restriction and break throughout Hindustan. The pilgrims too could travel without restriction. Never was there a thought of who was ruling in a particular place. This proves the falsehood of the misleading propaganda by the communists that ‘Bharat became united because of the British’. The country was united in the context of trade for thousands of years before the British came. Similarly, it was united in and through religion. Although it is true that during the British rule there was political unification of Bharat, the propaganda of the communists and socialists that ‘there was no nation called Bharat and it comprised of separate kingdoms’ is completely false. Secondly, even though these kingdoms were separate, they accepted each others currency and exchange of mutual currencies was freely accepted. That is why the port of Surat was a port of 80 flags. That means the ships of every country flew the flags of their country. Here the ships of at least 50 -60 countries with perhaps 10 -20 local ships were docked. And each conducted business in their own currencies. There were many people involved in the profession of money exchange. In Gujarati they were called ‘Nanavati’. Later on, this became a surname. Presently there are numerous families who have this name, proving the magnitude of this trade.

The proud accomplishment of the People’s protector Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj!

Some things would surprise you even today. Of all the varieties of desiccated coconut (copra) being traded throughout the world, that of Rajapur has a special importance. In the list of goods traded in the international market, under the various types of copra, ‘Rajapur Copra’ is separately listed. This Rajapur Copra would not have enjoyed this independent status in the international market for all these years unless it had some special quality. The British had a warehouse at Rajapur. They bribed the local traders and through them acquired the copra from the farmers at extremely low prices. At that time there were no communication facilities. The farmers did not have the financial capacity to send the produce to a different market place to get a better price. Therefore they were helpless, and had to bear terrible losses. They wrote to Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj about this. Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj immediately imposed a penal import duty of 200 % on the goods the British were sending through his kingdom, increasing its price, so that the goods could not be sold. This hurt the British, and the sale of their goods declined. So the English wrote a letter to Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, asking him for mercy, and reduction in import duty. Chattrapati immediately wrote back saying that he was prepared to lift the tax on the one condition that they would make good the harm done to the farmers of Rajapur. He promised to lift the import tax only after receiving confirmation from the farmers about having received adequate compensation. The British had to withdraw. Next day onwards they contacted the traders and through them gave the appropriate price for the goods and adequate compensation for the damage caused to the farmers. Thereafter the farmers informed Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj that they were satisfied with the compensation received for the loss. Only then did Maharaj lift the import duty.

Anti-Hindu propaganda of the Hindu - hating Communists!

Thus, Indian products were in such great demand. From 1410 to 1428, that is even before the arrival of Vasco Da Gama, a Chinese ‘chacha’ named ‘Fung Wah’ roamed the Arabian Sea so that he could catch the traders trading in these goods and collect ransom; he used to collect 5% ransom from these traders. The Hindustani traders could afford to pay Fung Wah 5% and still do business. There is no reference of anyone filing a complaint against him either. This Fung Wah finally died in Calicut. His grave is in Calicut; although there appears to be some dispute about it. In the period 1410 to 1428, the businessmen found it profitable to do business even after giving 5% tax to the Chinese Fung Wah. This fact showcases the level of supremacy of our business export. When this was so, in the middle period when the rate of development was slightly lowered, the communists in a parody called it ‘the Hindu Rate of Growth’, as if there was no movement in the Hindu economy. As against this, I presented my thesis at the ‘Indian Economy Congress’, where, on the basis of certain historical references, I convincingly proposed that the ‘Hindu Rate of Growth’ means a development rate of greater than 10%, not a meager 3% or 3.5%. This is the ‘Communist Rate of Growth’; because this was Russia’s rate of growth then. I had to fight for some years but now this sarcastic vocabulary has been dropped. All this is entirely the grace of God, that the debasement of the Hindu religion could thus be stopped.

The world trade was far from economic depression until Hindustan was its focal point!

The Hindu religion is being often attacked in various ways, with conversion on one hand and distortion of its history on the other. Hindu religion is being continuously attacked through denigration of our deities, misinterpreting the teachings of our religious books. But in reality, if Hindustan once again becomes the centre of world trade, a just atmosphere would prevail in the business world as before. Even in that, we were being cautious. When there is a period of prosperity, then after some time there is inflation, then remedies are found to prevent inflation because of which the time of prosperity is over. This, in economic language is known as the cycle of depression, prosperity and depression. When this cycle of business happens’ at that time to prevent the world economy from collapsing, the Indian rupee should not get inflated. And for that to happen, foreign currency has to come into India and if it comes in the form of currency coins (metal) then the currency stocks increase and so there is no inflation of currency. Due to the enormous reserve stock in foreign trade, when foreign currency enters in the form of coins, the coin stocks increase and there is inflation. Presently, due to the large inflow of foreign currency, the Reserve Bank of India has had to impose various restraints on this inflow. Similarly, it has to encourage Indian companies and Indian nationals to spend money outside India? This exercise being done by the Reserve Bank is often reported in the daily newspapers. In the ancient times, Indians had found an easy way of handling this problem. The income from the foreign trade was imported into the country in the form of Gold and silver. As local currency was used to buy this gold and silver the currency stock increase was controlled automatically. And so there was no need to devise ways and means of controlling inflation, thus avoiding the danger of the vicious cycle of depression and surplus production. In this manner, for thousands of years, the Hindus ably handled financial administration of the world economy.

Source: ' Daily Sanatan Prabhat '

http://www.hindujagruti.org/news/3281.html

[Guest]

What about calculation that India and China in 2050 will have the same standard of living as americans ,we gona need resurces 2 aditional planets Earth .In other words ,the actual rate of growth cant be sustain for long simply because the Earth dont have the necesary recurces.

[dhu]

Actually, China and India should embrace growth commensurate with their world stature - Any Excess Population should be shipped to the West. The so-called United States should be given back to the native American-Mexicans and Europe should be reintroduced to the dynamic of Middle Eastern settlers. The gluttonous west is consuming too much and should be brought down to size, through internal wars if need be.

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Agree fully. The west - esp USA - is master at <b>hiding</b> its own impact on the food market (5 times the population of the world could be fed with the grain the US feeds its slaughter anmals), on the environment (slaughter animal is the number 1 cause of global warming), on the use of unnecessary plastics etc. and then <b>blaming</b> countries like India (where people come to your door to pick up recycle-ready stuff).

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The Earth can suport 10 bilion people(in 2050) each whit an income of 500$ on month.But the west countries have an least 2000-3000$ on month.Their well being is assured as long as most of the other countries are poor.Do you realy think they gona sacrifice this for the sake of others? However,the oil already become expensive and at its peak.
Thats why they are happy whit indian people having 50-100$ on month.

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Thats why they are happy whit indian people having 50-100$ on month.
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Recently an author whose book talks about Rise of India and China lamented that US and west cannot have anymore fat salaries and income. She works for Forbes in HK

They dont want the rise of the third world

[Guest]

Honsol, you'd probabily find this interesting.
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Agreed that gypies were the first Bharatiya expatriates, But, I disagree with Valery Novoselsky that Roma are a 'racial' group. They are the lineage of Bharatiya people who had lived on the banks of River Sarasvati. It is unfortunate that the 'race' term surfaces again and again while some try to stereotype communities. Ancestors of gysies were mleccha-speakers.

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Q&A: 'Gypsies were the first Indian expatriates'
12 Nov 2007, 0000 hrs IST , Meenakshi Kumar


Valery Novoselsky has been active in international Roma movement. As the editor of Roma Virtual Network, an organisation that provides helpful information on Roma issues through the internet, he is trying to change perceptions about his people. Novoselsky was recently in the capital for a talk on the Roma (commonly referred to as Gypsies) in Europe and their ancestral relations with India . He spoke to Meenakshi Kumar:

<b>Has the condition of the European Roma changed? </b>
After the fall of the Iron Curtain, there has been an improvement. But some problems continue. Lack of education and unemployment still plague most European Roma. Across Central Europe, from Czech Republic to Macedonia, 70-80 per cent of working-age Roma are unemployed. When it comes to education, 90 per cent students are placed in schools meant for the disabled and one-third of Roma children don't study at all. But things are improving, even though the pace is slow. Many Roma, moreover, live in deprived and segregated areas with poor-quality housing, a lack of basic services and limited access to good quality health care.

<b>The Roma have been looked at with suspicion over the years. Under the communists they got a raw deal. Does the discrimination still exist? </b>
Discrimination is less visible today, but it is there. Changing ethnic stereotypes is not easy. There are countries which try to stop the Roma from entering their boundaries. Even some members of the European parliament have anti-Roma attitudes.

They talk about a Europe for the Europeans. Now, where will the Roma people go? They don't have a country of their own; they adopt the country they are born into. That's one of the reasons why many Roma people refuse to register their ethnic identity in official censuses for fear of discrimination. And that's why we still don't have their true numbers. The communists were against the Roma style of life, which is basically against totalitarianism.

<b>It's believed that the Roma have an origin in India? How true is that? </b>
Yes, it's true. Our roots are here. It were circumstances which forced us to move and spread out. Mahmud Ghazni took our ancestors from different parts of north India to Afghanistan and Iran. Later, with every successive invasion, they were forced to move out and seek refuge in different parts of the world.

Over centuries we have become a part of the country we adopted as our motherland. Roma were the first Indian expatriates. And now after years, many of us realise that we need a connection with our real homeland. We have to return to our forgotten motherland and it has to be a two-way process. As far as our connection with the banjaras is concerned, we believe that the latter are just a social group. On the other hand, Roma is a racial group. http://tinyurl.com/2cbpx7  <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<b>Tamil Brahmi Script in Egypt</b>

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[Guest]

That scandinavian church you'v show there is part of a larger area arhitecture of east europe tradition.
From were you have thoose informations that are a influence from south east asia?

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[dhu]

Yes, the style is from East Asia/SEA/Tibet/Arunachal. The dragon finial encapsulates the essence of this style. There have been more than enough incursions from the East to account for the influence.