Sentence examples for hindu settlement from inspiring English sources

Kashmir's separatist politicians portrayed it as a loss of territory to Hindu outsiders, and raised the spectre of Hindu settlement that would erode the Muslims' demographic majority in the state.

In addition to these, there were smaller hamlets like Cavel, Colaba, Naigaon and Dongri, which had existed from the epoch of indigenous Hindu settlement.

Muslim leaders have been staging large daily protests against the plan, which they say is intended to build Hindu settlements in the region.

Protesters accuse the Indian government of planning to build Hindu settlements in India's only Muslim-majority state in an effort to change the demographic balance in the region.

Following independence and the partition of India in 1947, the city was scarred by the intense communal violence that broke out between Hindus and Muslims in 1947, Ahmedabad was the focus for settlement by Hindu migrants from Pakistan, who expanded the city's population and transformed its demographics and economy.

The protest was over what demonstrators say is a plan to build a settlement for Hindu pilgrims on forest land.

On April 24, Kamal, a 35-year-old unemployed Kashmiri Hindu, died in the Jagti refugee settlement on the outskirts of the city of Jammu, the winter capital of the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

These days it was stagnant, lined with settlements of Hindus who'd fled from Dhaka, from Rajshahi, from Chittagong.

The Jagti settlement is home to about 4,000 Kashmiri Hindu families, who have been living there since 2011 after the state government dismantled their old camps scattered around Jammu, which had served as their homes since 1990.

Their settlements have often been outside higher-caste Hindu villages.

For Mr Modi, a Hindu nationalist who is feared by many Indian Muslims, a settlement with Pakistan should be a special priority.