Throughout Sunday, millions of pilgrims and holy men (sadhus) belonging to various Hindu monastic orders bathed at Sangam.

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In the end, the revolutionaries won, and wrote an anti-clerical constitution, forbidding religious education, denying the church legal recognition, reiterating the ban on monastic orders and church ownership of land, even denying clergymen the vote.

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Sharpton, who according to the manager orders the same monastic meal every morning whole-wheat toast and black tea.

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