Wednesday, December 1, 2010

What We Did in Class Today Wednesday December 1, 2010

Today in class, we continued to watch the movie Slumdog Millionaire. I took the following notes on what we talked about in class:

18.56% of people in India are Muslim
about 67% of the people in India are Hindu
Mumbai is the richest city in India
The literacy rate for women in India is  82% and for men it is 90%

For homework, we had to find information on the Bombay riots.

On February 18, 1929, there was a conflict between Hindus and Moham-medans that resulted in people stoning, slashing, and disemboweling each other.   106 people died and 600 were wounded over a seven day period.  The riot began because some Hindus believed a group of Moham-medan from Afghanistan had kidnapped Hindu babies to sacrifice them to Allah.  The local police were unable to control the violence because people were so out of control.

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