The Major Religions of India

India has a great number of different people from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds. As a result of this, India’s religions are just as numerous. Besides having nearly all the world’s great religions represented, India was the birthplace of Hinduism and Buddhism(Finlay et al. 1993). The ratio of the religions in India are: five in six Indians practice Hinduism, one in nine practice Islam, one in forty practice Christianity, one in fifty …

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