INDIA
(See also Caste System; Gandhi, Mohandas K. [Mahatma]; Hinduism; Sadhus; Vedas)
abortions: g80 5/22 11; w78 7/1 7; g75 8/22 4; g66 8/8 29
archaeology: g69 1/8 21-24; w64 346; bf 33
Aryans came to: dt 23-26
astrology: g82 5/22 12-13; g69 12/8 4-6; g66 9/8 30; w65 582
influence on government decisions: g81 3/8 31
prominent people involved in: g83 4/8 29-30
automobiles: g61 4/8 29
average income: w84 6/15 3
battlefield of Kurukshetra: ku 3-5
beggars: g82 5/8 30; g61 6/8 23
Bengal tigers: g76 11/22 31
Bhopal gas disaster:
first-person account: g85 3/22 20-23
Bible:
distribution: g61 1/22 30
translating in: g79 6/8 24-26
birth statistics: g62 7/22 31
blindness: g72 6/22 16; g66 8/22 26; g62 5/22 30
blood donors: g77 6/8 29
blood racket: g74 2/22 30
Bombay: g59 1/22 16; g55 1/8 24; g50 11/22 13-15
eunuchs in: g82 8/8 31
books on communism: g61 1/22 30
bullock carts: g77 6/22 30-31
burial rites: g68 5/22 16-19
caste system: g84 4/8 5-7; g84 8/8 28; yb77 83; g61 9/22 6; g59 1/22 18-19; w57 709-710; w53 678-679; rm 201-202; g51 3/22 18-20; g47 2/8 4; g47 11/8 4-5; g32 1/6 210-211
conflicts: g81 5/22 30; g80 4/22 29; g73 9/8 30
source in Hinduism: g85 2/22 24
Untouchables: g85 2/22 24-25; g84 4/8 6, 12
Catholic Church: w79 4/15 11; w76 231
feuding between two “Christian” sects: w78 12/15 15
Kannada- and Tamil-speaking Catholics clash: g81 6/8 30
child labor: g83 8/8 30
child marriages: g85 8/22 30
clothing: yb77 75; g60 11/22 10; g59 9/8 11-12; g55 1/8 24; g49 2/22 17-18
compulsory sterilization: g76 4/22 30
crime and violence: g84 4/8 7-8; g80 4/22 29-30; g74 11/8 29; w61 630
bandit queen and her gang surrender to police: g83 5/22 30
customs: yb77 118-119; g74 7/22 8-11
cyclone:
warnings unheeded: w78 2/15 7
dancing: g71 12/8 25; g62 6/22 20-23
death from snakebites: g62 5/22 20
description: g84 4/8 7-9; yb77 34; g67 8/8 16-19; g59 1/22 16-20; g51 3/22 16-20; g46 8/22 9-10
disasters: g69 7/8 30-31; g68 1/22 29; g68 5/8 30; g68 9/22 29; g68 11/22 30; g66 10/22 16; g65 2/22 30; g64 11/22 31; g63 6/8 29; g62 10/22 29; g61 11/8 20-23
Bhopal: g85 3/22 20-23
earthquakes: g65 10/8 16; g60 12/22 14; w51 201-202
train: g81 9/8 30
discussion (Bible times): ad 829
disease: g74 12/22 30
malaria: g77 3/22 29
Spanish influenza: g77 2/22 29
divorce: w60 686
dowries:
“bride burning” (“dowry death”): g82 10/22 29-30
disputes: g84 3/8 30
economy: w75 68; g74 1/22 7; g74 12/8 10; g72 11/8 29; g69 10/8 20; g67 5/8 9-11; g67 9/8 12-14; g64 10/22 24-26; g61 9/8 29; g61 9/22 6; g59 1/22 18-20; g59 6/22 3; w53 678-679; g51 3/22 16-20; g39 5/17 27
education: g59 1/22 20; w53 679
famines: g75 2/22 9-11; g74 7/22 4-5, 7; g73 6/22 3-4, 7-9; g72 7/22 3; w68 35; ev 165; g67 8/8 30; g67 9/8 8-9; g66 6/22 31; g66 7/8 29; w65 236; g64 5/8 30; g52 3/8 9-11; g51 3/22 17; g46 1/30 11-12; g34 10/24 41
farmers appeal to rain god: g80 2/8 31
fire walking:
by atheists: g81 2/8 30
food: g75 1/8 29; g74 3/22 31; g73 2/22 31; g73 5/8 29; g73 5/22 30; g72 7/22 4, 8-11; g69 9/8 31; g67 5/8 9-11; g67 9/22 29; g67 12/8 31; g65 6/8 29; g65 7/22 30; g65 10/8 30; g64 10/22 24-26; g62 12/8 21
percent of personal spending on: g81 3/8 30
spices used in cooking: g83 6/22 22-23
foreign aid: g59 1/22 17; w53 680
frogs valuable in insect control: g85 5/8 30
fuel: g75 11/22 30
Gandhi’s view of a world based on nonviolence: g84 4/8 3-8
Ganges River: g82 1/22 25-27
girl bites cobra: g78 12/22 29
government: g74 1/22 7; g67 4/22 30; g66 2/22 29; g66 3/8 30; g64 7/8 29; g64 10/22 25-26; g62 6/8 11
state reorganization: yb77 102-103
gurus: g73 7/8 18, 20
heart surgery without blood transfusion: g78 3/22 29
Hindi word for “radio”: g79 6/8 26
Hinduism: ku 3-31; dt 3-31; yb77 104; g77 2/8 16-23; g74 7/22 8-11
Krita Yuga (golden age): ku 25
illiteracy: g85 7/8 30
Jehovah’s Witnesses: yb85 12-13; w77 24; yb75 13; km 4/75 1; yb74 20-21; g74 7/22 11; w73 761-764; yb73 16-17, 111; g72 8/8 22-23; w71 15; w71 667-668; yb71 17, 167-168; yb70 182-183; yb69 158-159; yb68 158-159; yb67 177-178; g67 7/22 23; yb66 157-160; yb65 138-140; w64 57-59, 509-510; yb64 57-60, 175-177; g64 11/8 17; w63 636; yb63 162-164; mg63 2, 104-110, 189; g63 9/22 29; g63 10/22 25-26; w62 638; yb62 164-166; w61 313-318; yb61 162-164
Barrett, Frank: yb77 47-48
Bhutan: yb79 23
branch office: yb86 17; w85 1/1 27; yb79 37; go 145; yb77 46-47, 49, 63, 66-68, 109-110, 133-134; w71 15
burial of dead: yb77 97
Carmichael, Hendry: yb77 81-82, 84-88, 100
Chacko, K. C.: yb77 41
circuit assemblies: yb77 86, 107-108
circuit work: yb77 81-82, 84-86
college student learns truth: yb85 12-13; w72 327
conventions: w85 1/1 27; w79 12/1 10; g79 4/8 23-25; yb77 89-90, 104-106, 112-113, 115-120, 127, 129-130, 132-133; w57 334-335, 412-413, 441-442; w52 365-367; w47 239-240
Cotterill, Dick: yb77 77-79, 96, 98-99
experience with Bible Stories book: yb85 13
former Hindu: g77 2/8 16-23
Gandhi witnessed to: yb77 52
Garrard, Gerald: yb77 57, 61-62, 69-70, 73
Gillett, Stephen: yb77 51
Goodman, Claude S.: yb77 51-52, 58-60, 63, 65; w73 761-764
Hart, A. A.: yb77 39-41
Hoffman, Margrit: yb77 71-72, 90-91
Hollister, R. R.: yb77 38-39
honesty: g78 10/8 11
Hopley, Randall: yb77 57-58, 62, 69-70
house-cars: yb77 52-54, 59-61
Hurst, Fred: yb77 69
Ipe, K. K.: yb77 41
James, Frederick: yb77 42-43
Joseph, A. J.: yb77 35-39, 41-46, 70, 81, 94, 111, 119
Joseph, Gracie: yb77 94
Kingdom Halls: yb77 126; w72 327
Kingdom Ministry School: yb77 111-112
Lewis, Ruzario J.: yb77 97
life story “How I Cope With Poverty”: w83 4/15 22-24
life story of a former prostitute: g83 6/22 24-27
MacGillivray, Alex: yb77 62-63
Mall, Nasreen: yb77 90, 94-95, 99
Masilamani, R. J.: yb77 112, 115
McKay, Homer: yb77 79-80
Mergler, Kate: yb77 67
missionaries: yb77 75, 79-80, 82-83, 90-95, 98-101, 123, 136; w71 15; w60 342-343; w59 669; w55 318; w54 302; w52 364, 366-367; g47 11/22 26-27
modern history: yb77 35-139
Nathan, Jack: yb77 43
neutrality: yb77 121-122
Newland, Edith: yb77 69
obstacles to obtaining vernacular publications: yb77 113
Palliser, Peter: yb77 68-69
persecution: yb77 96-97; w59 670; jp 154
printing: yb77 136-137
Richardson, S. J.: yb77 39
Sanderson, Hadyn: yb77 108
service experiences: yb86 17; yb77 103, 106-107, 110, 117-118; g77 4/8 20-22; w76 55; w72 327; w60 342-343; w59 669-670; g56 6/22 27-28; w54 302; w52 367; w49 80; g47 11/22 26-27; w46 96; w42 48; g42 3/4 29-30; w40 176; g40 3/20 12-13; g39 1/11 8; w31 30
service reports: yb77 84, 87, 90, 107, 111, 120, 138
Sikh accepts truth: yb77 95
Skinner, F. Edwin: yb77 45-50, 53-57, 61, 71-72, 86-88, 110; w55 317-318
Taylor, Clarence: yb77 57-58, 67, 69-70
Tippin, Ron: yb77 51-52, 58-60, 70
Untouchable learns truth: g84 4/8 12
witnessing to Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay: yb77 98-99
Wright, George A.: yb77 45-46, 48-49, 53-55, 61, 69-70
Zavitz, Gerald: yb77 83
Kasi tribe: g74 1/22 20
languages: g79 6/8 24; yb77 35, 110-111; g66 4/22 29; g65 3/8 30; g59 1/22 17
leaning column of Qutab Minar: g76 11/22 30
leprosy: g59 1/22 19; g46 1/30 15
life span: g61 9/8 5; g59 1/22 19; g32 1/6 211
marriage: g72 8/8 20-23; g69 4/8 29; g62 7/22 29-30; g61 6/22 30; g61 8/8 9-11, 29; w60 686; g36 8/12 729; g32 1/6 211-212; g31 9/30 841
marriage mercenaries: g82 10/22 30
missionaries of Christendom: yb77 89
monkeys: g83 7/22 30-31
“sacred” monkeys: g81 6/8 29
morals: g61 4/22 28-29; g60 11/8 31; w53 677
music: g74 8/8 24
Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh conflicts: yb77 77-78; w73 764; w67 299; g66 12/22 29; g65 10/8 12-13; g65 11/8 30; g64 5/8 30; g61 4/22 28; g48 1/22 3-8; g47 1/22 3-8; g32 1/6 211
Naga tribe: g77 4/8 20-21
nuclear power plant: g64 1/22 30
nuclear weapons: w74 550
oil costs: g74 7/22 7
pesticides: g82 5/22 30
political independence: g47 2/8 3-9
population: yb86 36; g78 9/22 30; g76 12/8 29; g74 6/22 8; g72 7/22 10; g67 9/8 5-6; w64 105; g64 10/22 24; g59 1/22 16; g59 6/22 3
efforts to reduce growth rate: g77 4/8 30
growth rate: g83 4/22 29-30
rainfall: g61 11/8 20
rats: g77 4/8 30; w74 624
religion: yb77 35; g73 7/8 16-18, 20; g72 12/22 15-16; w71 101; yb71 167-168; w70 297; w68 335; g68 4/22 21; g67 5/8 6; g67 9/8 12-13; g65 4/22 6, 30; w64 105; g64 4/22 5; g64 9/8 20; bf 33; g63 5/22 15; g61 4/22 15; g61 9/22 6; w60 39-40; g59 1/22 17, 19; w58 741, 743-744; w56 510; g55 1/8 24; w54 302; w53 678-679; g53 9/8 12; rm 191-202; w47 239; g47 1/22 5-8; g47 11/8 3-8; g43 11/10 26; g42 3/4 29; g39 7/12 21-22; g33 1/18 242
animal worship: g79 10/8 30; g75 9/22 30; w74 624; g74 1/22 20; g70 3/8 23; g68 9/8 31; g68 10/22 31; g67 9/8 12; g65 8/8 30; mg63 109; g61 9/22 6; g58 11/8 5-7; w55 517; g52 3/8 9-11; g51 3/22 17-18
Buddhism: g74 1/8 16-19
child sacrifice: g80 11/22 30
gods: w65 671; w64 105; mg63 110; g62 6/22 20-23; g61 4/22 15; w60 39; w58 741, 743-744; g55 5/8 12; rm 191, 202; g47 11/8 3-5
human sacrifices: g82 2/8 29; g80 6/8 30
prostitution in religious temples: g76 1/8 31
reincarnation belief: g83 3/8 25-26
“Saint” Xavier: g75 4/8 30
riot by police constables: g83 1/8 30
“sacred” cows: yb77 75; g67 5/8 10-11; g67 9/8 12; g66 12/22 29; g61 8/8 31; g61 9/22 6
accident due to: g79 2/8 30
satellite put into space: g80 10/22 31
schools: g79 11/22 4
battle with corruption: g85 9/22 9
student demonstrations: g66 10/22 6; g63 5/22 8-9
smoking:
three-year-old boy addicted to tobacco: g81 6/8 29
snake charming: g68 1/22 31
steel: g63 7/22 30
suicides: g72 3/8 30
Supreme Court decision:
Witnesses’ right to desist from nationalistic exercises at secular work: yb81 258
Taj Mahal: g83 10/8 30; g81 10/22 20-22; g79 11/8 30; g68 5/22 17
tigers: g85 4/22 31; g78 3/22 29
trade in snakeskins: g81 8/8 30
trafficking in babies: g83 7/22 29
unrest after World War II: yb77 73-74
visits by—
Franz, F. W.: yb77 103-105, 134; w57 412-413, 440-442
Henschel, M. G.: yb77 75-77, 112-113; w52 364-367; w47 236-240
Knorr, N. H.: yb77 75-77, 105, 124, 134; w57 334-336; w52 364-367; w47 236-240
Russell, C. T.: yb77 37-38; jp 51
war: g65 10/22 30-31; g63 1/8 29; g62 2/8 29; g62 12/8 29; g62 12/22 29
water shortage: g65 7/22 29
wealth: g74 3/22 31
women: g60 11/8 31; g60 11/22 10; g49 2/22 17-18
Yoga: g77 6/22 30