INDIA
(See also Assamese [Language]; Bengali [Language]; Gandhi, Mohandas K.; Gujarati [Language]; Hindi [Language]; Hinduism; Kannada [Language]; Malayalam [Language]; Marathi [Language]; Mizo [Language]; Punjabi [Language]; Sanskrit [Language]; Tamil [Language]; Telugu [Language])
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
abortion:
female babies: g 5/12 29; g 2/09 30; g92 7/8 6, 29
agriculture:
artificial glaciers: g01 4/8 31
lantana weed: g02 4/22 29
Lathyrus pulse: g89 10/22 26-27
milk production: g01 12/22 29
soil loss: g86 9/22 10
Amritsar:
Sikh holy city: sh 100
animals:
animal fair: g92 10/22 22-24
bullocks generate electricity: g00 1/8 29
camel market (Pushkar): g95 12/22 29
chiru (Tibetan antelope): g04 10/22 27
cobra: g96 3/22 16-20
cows: g00 7/8 29
crocodile: g05 3/8 11-13; g05 4/8 28
elephant: g 4/09 16-18; g04 10/22 26; g99 4/8 29; g96 2/8 29
monkey: g97 8/22 28
poaching: g94 4/8 30-31; g93 12/8 29
rat: g99 12/22 28; g95 2/8 29; g91 5/8 29
rhinoceros: g04 10/22 26-27; g93 12/8 29; g88 9/22 26-27
tiger: g04 10/22 27; g97 9/8 28; g96 8/8 3; g96 11/22 15-18; g93 1/8 28; g90 2/22 29; g87 3/8 30
turtle: g00 12/22 29
archaeological finds:
ancient Roman artifacts: w09 1/1 22
Aryan civilization: g00 7/8 14-15
astronomy:
Jantar Mantar observatory: g05 7/8 18-20
bamboo: g99 12/22 28
Banaras: g94 3/8 22-23
beggars: g99 10/8 28
Bhopal gas disaster (1984): w94 4/1 14; g89 4/8 29; g89 6/22 28; g87 7/22 5; g86 8/8 3
corruption in connection with relief efforts: w97 5/1 3
Witness family escapes: w94 4/1 15
Bible reference to: it-1 1198; wj 20-21
birds:
forest owlet rediscovered: g98 8/8 29
homing pigeons: g99 8/8 28
peacock: g03 6/22 15-17
bridge corroded by spit: g 3/11 29
Calcutta: g98 7/8 15-19; g94 1/8 10, 12; w87 2/15 26-30
caste system: g98 3/8 22-25; g91 8/22 28; sh 108-109, 111
Christendom: g98 3/8 23-25
four primary castes: g89 4/8 24
Mushars (Untouchables): g96 11/8 28; g93 4/8 28
origin: g98 3/8 22; g89 4/8 24
Catholic Church:
baptisms by Jesuit (1545): w93 4/1 3; w89 1/15 17
blend with Hinduism: g87 9/22 14-15
effect of castes: g96 11/8 28
history: w87 11/1 29; g87 9/22 13
missionaries: g94 11/8 21
Third General Assembly of the World Catholic Federation for the Biblical Apostolate: g86 6/8 7-9
visit of Pope John Paul II: g87 9/22 13-15
Cherrapunji: g01 5/8 22-23
childbirth:
90-year-old mother: g86 12/8 31
children: g 2/14 7
child labor: g95 7/22 29
epilepsy from too much TV viewing: g96 10/22 29
girls unwanted: g 2/09 30; g92 7/8 6, 9, 29
malnutrition: g95 10/22 29
prostitution: g00 10/22 29
sexual abuse: g00 10/22 29
smokers: g00 11/8 29
coir fibers: g92 8/22 16
commerce:
ancient trade: w09 1/1 20-23
construction:
unfinished: g90 5/8 29
courts:
children not obligated to sing national anthem (supreme court, 1986): re 43; w88 2/1 19-20; w87 11/1 21-23; yb87 20-21; g86 12/8 29
credit cards: g91 4/22 29
crime: w91 5/1 3
customs:
ads for brides: w92 12/1 3
funerals: g92 7/22 4
suttees: g01 10/22 3; sh 115, 118
cycle rickshas: g00 6/22 29
dating (social): g91 9/8 29
Delhi:
missing people: g95 4/8 28
driving:
bad drivers required to direct traffic: g 8/12 29
drought: g88 4/8 9
monsoon rains inadequate: g88 3/8 7
rain gods supplicated: g94 3/22 28
earthquake (1993): g96 3/22 20; g94 4/8 30
earthquake (2001): g02 3/22 8
ecology:
earthworms process garbage: g95 8/8 29
endangered species: g04 10/22 26-27; g98 1/8 28; g94 4/8 30-31
glaciers melting: g04 1/22 28-29
family life: g 8/13 3
Flood legend: wj 14; w92 1/15 6
food production: g 5/13 3
forests:
depletion due to illegal resin-tapping: g89 5/22 28-29
rain forests: g01 10/8 28
Ganges River (Ganga): g00 7/8 14-15, 17; g97 11/22 29; g89 3/22 14-17
corpses: g99 11/8 28
crocodiles to clear corpses: g88 3/22 29
sacred: sh 121-124
turtles to clear corpses: g99 11/8 28; g90 8/22 28
gardens: g97 4/8 5-6
Gir Wild Life Sanctuary: g89 6/22 4
government:
ruler Aśoka (third century B.C.E.): w90 4/1 4-5
growth of communications media: g03 5/8 28-29
health and disease:
AIDS: g04 11/22 3; g97 3/8 29; g95 3/8 28; g90 6/8 28-29
blindness: g03 1/8 28
buffalo pox: g96 12/8 29
chewing pan: g96 10/8 31
chickens with AIDS-like disease: g93 12/22 28
child epilepsy from too much TV viewing: g96 10/22 29
children with lead poisoning: g99 9/8 28-29
diabetes: g03 5/8 4; g03 7/22 28
indoor air pollution: g97 11/8 29
kidney stones: g98 3/8 29
lathyrism: g89 10/22 27
malnutrition: g00 6/8 29
oral cancer: g99 10/22 29
tobacco-related disease: g02 9/22 28-29; g99 11/8 32
tuberculosis: g97 12/8 29; g96 6/22 29
homeless people: g88 3/8 3, 7-8, 11
illiteracy: g90 9/22 29
Indus civilization: g02 7/8 13-14; g00 7/8 14-15
Indus River: g00 7/8 14-16
insects:
hoplo: g01 3/8 29
iron furnaces (ancient): it-2 764
Jarawa people (Andaman Islands): g90 2/22 22-24
Kerala: g 4/08 22-25
Chinese fishing nets: g 4/08 22-23; g00 4/22 31
snake boats: g 4/08 23-24; g92 6/22 18-19
languages: w95 9/15 24; jv 497; w86 4/15 24
law:
neglect of aging parents: g 10/08 30
maps: yb10 21; w06 3/1 15; g05 7/8 19; g02 7/8 13, 15-18; g01 5/8 22; w00 5/15 30; g00 7/8 16-17; g98 7/8 15
Calcutta: g98 7/8 15
Ganges River: sh 123
Kerala: g 4/08 22-23
marriage:
arranged marriages: g 8/13 3
dowry deaths: g 10/14 7; g88 4/8 30; g88 6/22 29
mix-up of partners: g90 11/22 29
problems: g95 5/8 29
medicine:
ban on export of human skeletons: g86 5/8 31
blood banks: g91 4/8 29
blood sale by poor: g90 10/22 6
bone-fracture diagnosis by tuning fork: g87 6/8 29-30
eggs may yield antivenin: g04 1/8 29
hospital train: g94 3/22 29
selling one’s own organs: g91 3/8 29
Mesopotamian origin of culture: it-1 1198
Mumbai (Bombay): g94 2/8 24
air pollution: g00 11/8 29
dabbawalas (business of delivering meals): g 11/10 10-12
gang wars: g89 4/22 29
New Delhi: g23.1 13
parks:
Corbett National Park: g96 11/22 17-18
partition of (1947):
bloodshed during: w05 1/1 3; w89 5/15 5; g86 2/8 6
population: g00 1/22 28; g00 12/22 28-29; w95 9/15 24; g91 11/8 6
demography: g95 7/22 16
effect on daily life: g91 11/8 6-7
increase: g89 9/22 22; g88 10/8 30
prejudice:
skin color: w92 12/1 3
Punjab:
Sikh concentration: sh 100
railways: g02 7/8 13-18
trains for women only: g 8/10 30
religion: w00 5/15 30; w95 9/15 24
Bible translations: ba 12; g89 10/22 17-18
Buddhism: g00 7/8 15; sh 140-143; g89 4/22 15-18
Christendom’s missionaries: g94 11/8 21-22
eunuch cult: g96 2/8 14; g95 1/8 29
Ganges River: g98 10/22 29; sh 76; g89 3/22 14-17; g89 4/8 25
gods: w89 2/15 5; g89 4/8 25-27; g88 12/22 21
guru’s followers deny his death: g94 1/8 28
Hindu idols immersed: g00 7/22 28-29
Hinduism: g00 7/8 15; wj 3-29; sh 95-128; g89 4/8 24-27
Hindu sacred writings: wj 8-17; g89 3/22 10-13; g89 4/8 25-26; g88 12/22 19
influence of Babylon: it-1 240
Jainism: g95 2/8 29; sh 104-105, 108; g89 4/8 26-27
Muslim, Hindu, Sikh conflicts: w05 1/1 3; w89 5/15 5; g88 12/22 20; g86 2/8 6
rat worship: g93 11/8 29
Reformation’s effects: w87 11/1 29
religiously motivated killing: w89 5/15 5
Sankhya (Samkhya): wj 9
Sikhism: lfs article 19; sh 100-101; g89 4/8 27; g87 12/22 19-21
spiritism: w89 5/15 5
triad: sh 115, 118-120; ti 10-12; w88 6/1 18
Vedism: g89 4/8 24-26
rice: g95 1/22 24-27
sari: g88 7/8 22-24
smoking: g02 9/22 28-29; g99 11/8 32
bidi cigarettes: g96 1/22 28
spices: g93 2/22 22-24
suicide:
youths: g 3/12 28; g92 8/22 31
Taj Mahal: g89 11/8 31
taxes:
drummers at homes of property-tax evaders: g05 10/22 28
tea: g89 9/8 16-18
telephones:
services to international firms: g03 12/22 28-29
tobacco: g97 1/22 28
users: g94 8/22 29
trees:
banyan: g96 5/22 14-16
neem: g98 2/22 22-23
unemployment:
youths: g90 9/8 6
violence:
gang wars: g89 4/22 29
war:
Hindu-Muslim conflict: w05 1/1 3; w89 5/15 5; g86 2/8 6
water: g05 4/8 18-19
harvesting rainwater: g 1/09 6-7; g05 4/8 19-21
witch-hunts: g93 7/22 29
women: g96 3/22 30; g95 7/22 16-19
writing:
root script Brahmi: wj 8
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Assembly Halls: g 3/08 14
ban (1941-1944): w97 6/1 20-21; w93 8/1 23-25; w90 1/1 30-31
Bethel family: w06 3/1 16; w01 4/1 8
blood issue:
elder’s integrity rewarded: w95 9/15 24
Branch Committee: yb00 241; w91 2/1 28; w90 1/1 31
branch office: jv 393; w90 1/1 31
Bangalore (2003): w06 3/1 16; yb05 12, 28-29
Lonavla (1985): jv 393; w86 4/15 22, 24-25
translation: w11 12/1 29; jv 393
circuit work: jv 540; w90 1/1 31
clergy opposition:
throws dung: jv 421
commendation:
columnist praises Awake!: g95 10/22 32
congregations: g 4/08 25
Bible Students: jv 239
conventions: w06 3/1 16; w95 9/15 25; w90 1/1 30
court cases:
children not obligated to sing national anthem (supreme court, 1986): re 43; w88 2/1 19-20; w87 11/1 21-23; yb87 20-21; g86 12/8 29
district work: w06 3/1 15-16; w90 1/1 31
early witnessing: jv 239, 419-421, 430; w86 4/15 22
family handles financial reversal: g 1/10 30
field ministry: w95 9/15 25
house cars: w13 11/15 32; jv 286; w86 4/15 22-23
film The New World Society in Action: w06 3/1 15
Gilead Extension School: jv 545
gold chain turned in to police: w09 9/15 22
growth: w14 12/15 8; w06 3/1 16; yb97 53; jv 512; w90 1/1 30-31; w86 4/15 24-25
chart: jv 513
Kingdom Halls: hdu article 30; yb01 51-52; yb88 18, 20
Kingdom Ministry School: w06 3/1 16
legal matters:
human rights upheld after mob attack: yb15 32-33
meetings: jv 430
Ministerial Training School: yb96 17
missionaries: jv 529, 540, 546; w90 1/1 31; w87 12/1 23-24; w86 4/15 22-23
modern history: w86 4/15 22-25
newspapers:
journalist who visited headquarters in New York: g99 6/8 31
opposition: yb14 35
persecution: yb13 34-36; yb10 19
printing shut down: jv 585
persons:
Abraham, Annama: g94 1/22 21-24
Arthur, Lily: w91 2/1 25-29
Barber, Norman: jv 546
Chakranarayan, Elizabeth: w11 12/1 28-29
Cotterill, Richard: jv 540; w90 1/1 31
Davey, S. P.: w86 4/15 22
Davidsson, Håkan and Helene: lfs article 17
Deo, Balbir Singh: g87 12/22 19-23
Emmanuel, V. J.: w87 11/1 21-23
Goodman, Claude: jv 287-288, 585
Hollister, Robert R.: jv 421
James, Fredrick: w90 9/1 11
Joseph, A. J.: w23.10 4; jv 420-421; w90 1/1 29; w86 4/15 22
Joseph, Gracie: jv 421
King, Fay: w04 2/1 24-26
Lachmuth, Tillie and Leona: g91 2/22 18-20
McKay, Ruth: jv 529
Sanderson, Hadyn and Melody: w06 3/1 13-16
Schiller, Frank and Helen: g 3/08 14-15
Skinner, F. Edwin: yb00 71, 73; jv 430-431, 521; w90 1/1 28-31; w90 10/15 25; w87 12/1 23-24; w86 4/15 22-23
Soans, Joanna: w11 12/1 27-29
Tippin, Ronald: jv 287-288
Tsatos, Basil: w93 8/1 23-25
Wright, George: jv 430; w90 1/1 28-29
pioneers: w11 12/1 28-29; jv 430
Calcutta: w87 2/15 26-30
special pioneers: w91 2/1 28; w90 1/1 31
places:
Aurangabad: w11 12/1 28-29
Kerala: g 4/08 25
Mumbai (Bombay): w11 12/1 27-29
northeastern India: yb16 63-65
publications: w86 4/15 24
book Deliverance: w90 1/1 30
booklet Peace—Can It Last?: w97 6/1 20-21
booklet World Distress: w90 1/1 30
languages: w23.10 4; yb97 53; jv 393; w90 1/1 31
magazine Awake! helps win contest: g03 10/8 31; yb90 46-47
service experiences: g 4/08 25; yb94 46; yb93 46-47; w92 8/1 25; yb90 46; w88 1/1 5-6; w87 2/15 27-29; yb87 53-54; w86 4/15 23
93-year-old believer in reincarnation: w10 2/15 12-14
appreciation for Awake!: g02 3/22 32; g01 7/22 32; g98 1/22 32; g97 6/22 32
awaits Witnesses two years after convention: yb06 46
bad temper overcome: g 11/07 24
bedridden sister: w25.05 4-5
boy helps neighbor boy: yb99 51
broadcast Witness video: yb03 47
Catholic charismatics: w00 5/15 30
crippled Hindu girl: w95 9/15 24
deaf: w05 2/1 17-18
doctor appreciates book Mankind’s Search for God: g97 1/8 32
elderly woman who lost contact with Witnesses: yb16 63-65
families united: w86 8/1 21
imprisoned Witnesses preach: yb12 72-73
journalist recounts conversation: yb10 55-56
kindness melts opposition of son of Witness: w17.10 31
Kingdom News No. 36: g03 1/22 32
man who lost legs: w00 5/15 30-31
nine-year-old firm despite parental opposition: yb13 61-63
prison wardens: yb08 54-55
singer who visited Canada: yb07 7-8
street work: w90 1/1 30
teacher impressed by firm stand of girl: w95 9/15 24
widow about to kill self and daughter: ijwex article 28
woman about to kill self and children: yb04 57
serving where need is greater: lfs article 19; jv 430
sister endures despite hardship and ridicule: w22.11 18-19
survivors of railway terror bombings (2006): g 6/07 22-23
translation work:
Punjabi: lfs article 19
tsunami (2004): yb06 21-22
Andaman and Nicobar Islands: yb06 22-23
visits by—
Henschel, M. G.: jv 98
Knorr, N. H.: jv 98
Künz, G.: w86 4/15 25
Lett, M. S.: yb05 29
Russell, C. T.: jv 419-420; w90 1/1 29; w86 4/15 22
Watchtower Bible School: w86 4/15 23