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- 7. - The world's oldest religion, according to many scholars, with roots and customs dating back more than 4,000 years. Today, with about 900 million followers, Hinduism is the third-largest religion behind Christianity and Islam. Roughly 95 percent of the world's Hindus live in India.
- 9. - the paradigmatic ethnographic example of classification of castes. It has its origins in ancient India, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern India, especially the Mughal Empire and the British Raj.
- 10. - obtain (goods or a service) from an outside or foreign supplier, especially in place of an internal source.
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- 1. - A store or small settlement established for trading, typically in a remote place.
- 2. -the crime of killing a child within a year of birth.
- 3. -an office set up to handle a large volume of phone calls, especially for taking orders and providing customer service.
- 4. -the religious or philosophical belief that the soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body that may be human, animal or spiritual depending on the moral quality of the previous life's actions.
- 5. -the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
- 6. - A member of the lowest-caste Hindu group or a person outside the caste system. Contact with untouchables is traditionally held to defile members of higher castes.
- 8. -is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.