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Historic Beginnings of Ratha-yatra in South Africa

The Hare Krishna Movement launched its first Ratha-yatra festival in Chatsworth Durban. The procession began at the proposed site for the Sri Sri Radha Radhanath temple and continued to the Unit 2B sports ground.

Historic Beginnings of Ratha-yatra in South Africa

The Hare Krishna Movement launched its first Ratha-yatra festival in Chatsworth Durban. The procession be-gan at the proposed site for the Sri Sri Radha Radhanath temple and continued to the Unit 2B sports ground.

Chariot Festival

The “Festival of the Chariots,” known throughout India as the “Ratha Yatra” festival, has been performed for thousands of years in Puri, India and today it is ...

Buddhist sculpture

Gandharan Buddhist sculpture displays Hellenistic artistic influence in the forms of human figures and ornament. Figures were much larger than any known from ...

Temple

Every temple has a unique history and legend attached to it. During the ancient times, the Indian rulers would patronize artists and sculptures for ...

Sadhus holy men

Sadhus (Hindu holy men) dominate the melas. They arrive from all over India and set up camps near the Ganges, where they pray ...

Kathiawad Hindu Indian High School

School Brochure

Souvenir...All Africa...Hindu Conference - 7-9 August 1998 Nairobi, Kenya

Souvenir...All Africa...Hindu Conference - 7-9 August 1998 Nairobi, Kenya

A CATECHISM OF THE ELEMENTARY TEACHINGS OF HINDUISM
Newspaper cuttings related to Hindu dowry

Waging wart on the dowry burning of Hindu brides.

SA Indians free of Evil customs

An Abhorrent custom

Paramhansa Yogananda Ashram

Paramhansa Yogananda Ashram

The History of the South African Hindu Maha Saba

FOR information about the early history of the South African Hindu Maha Sabha we have to rely on uncertain records and memories of many old people connected with this institution when it was established. The early Indian settlers in South Africa were mostly Hindus.

Arya Pratinidhi Sabha

WHENEVER there is decay of righteousness and the path of truth forgotten, there is born a great soul to bring deliverance to mankind. One such great soul was Rishi Dayanand who was born in India in 1824.

The Hindu heritage in South Africa

The end of the first hundred years of !he history of the Hindus in South Africa marks the beginnings of a greater awareness among them of the glorious cultural and religious heritage which belongs to them.

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE HINDU RELIGIOUS TRADITION AMONG A SELECTED GROUP OF TAMIL SPEAKING HINDUS IN DURBAN AND TONGAAT, WITH PARTICULAR INTEREST FOCUSSED ON BETROTHAL AND MARRIAGE

I am a Tamil speaking Hindu and I would like to find out more about my religion, in particular, the impact of Western Culture on the religion of the Indians in South Africa. I will focus my observations on a small number of families living in the city of Durban.

Hindu Religion and the Family

Despite the intrusions by way of education, the secularization process and socio-economic advances, traditional Hinduism over the last century and a quarter in South Africa has retained its subjective conservatism.

An ‘Imagined Community’ in Diaspora: Gujaratis in South Africa

Increasing attention is being paid to the heterogeneous identity of Indian South Africans. This article contributes to this literature by highlighting the distinct migratory history of Gujarati South Africans and the importance these histories have in perceptions of community identity.

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