- in India the woman live for their husbands and children they do everything for their man and children.
Not very long ago their was a use in India that was called Sati (or Sutti).
If the man died the wive followed him in his death by volunteerly or not volunteerly being burned with her husband. This use is abolished but there are still places in India where wives still are being burned with their man.
- in India the woman live for their husbands and children they do everything for their man and children.
Not very long ago their was a use in India that was called Sati (or Sutti).
If the man died the wive followed him in his death by volunteerly or not volunteerly being burned with her husband. This use is abolished but there are still places in India where wives still are being burned with their man.
- Officially there are no longer castes and people should possibly be able to get married with a woman from a higher caste. But in general use this doesn't happen.
In North India the Ladakhi may not get married to family till the night grade muslims however can. Muslims are expanding have built a mosque in the capital of India and the Buddhist people dont like the mosque in their capital.
- A common punishment for children in India hitting them with stringing nettles
- The Dalai Lama was born in the suburb Talister on the 6 of July 1935
with the name Thamo Thondup. He was called Dalai Lama from 3 years of age but on 17 March 1959 he fled out of Tibet and ever since he lived in India in exile. In 1989 the Dalai Lama got the Nobel prize for Peace as an acknowledgement of his non violent search for Peace for his people and for his unique message a politic and religious leader (If you want to know more about the Dalai Lama i advice you to watch Seven Years in Tibet wit Brad Pitt) .
- The Taz mahal was built by a Iranian man called Isa Khan in an order by the emperor Shah Jahan. the Taz Mahal was built when his beloved wive Mumtaz Mahal died in 1629 after a marriage of 17 years. She gave birth to 14 children of the emperor. It took 22 years to built the Taz Mahal and Shah Jahan never saw the end result.
(Source India in een rugzak by Dolf de Vries, a very interesting book from an actor writer that has written more interesting travel stories)
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