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"Popular" doesn't seem like the appropriate word for a religion. Ref for India's religious composition added.
'''Hinduism''' is the fourth largest religion in the world<ref>The largest being Christianity, Islam, Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist, and Hinduism, in that order[http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html]</ref>. It can be called "the religion of India;" about 800 of the world's 1000 million Hindus live in India, and about 80 percent of Indians are Hindus.<ref>[http://www.censusindia.net/religiondata/Brief_analysis.pdf Census of India, religion data, brief analysis (PDF)]; "At the national level, of 1028 million population, 828 million (80.5 percent) have returned their religion as Hindus followed by 138 million (13.4 percent) as Muslims and 24 millions (2.3 percent) Christians. 19 million (1.9 percent) persons follow Sikh religion; 8 million (0.8 percent) are Buddhists and 4.2 million (0.4 percent) are Jains as per the 2001 Census. In addition to these, 6.6 million belong to ‘Other Religions and Persuasions’ including tribal religions which are not part of the six main religions stated above. About seven lakh (or 0.7 million) persons have not stated their
religion."</ref>
It dates back to the ancient days. Hindus believe in reincarnation and eventual unity with what is known as [[Brahman]] as well as respect for all life forms. Their holy writings are known as the [[Vedas]]. The goal of Hindus is to advance to higher caste in next life through "[[karma]]" and achieve unity with Brahma. Hinduism is a [[polytheistic]] religion containing hundreds of millions of Gods.
In 1966, the Supreme Court of India defined what Hinduism is for legal purposes:
In 1966, the Supreme Court of India defined what Hinduism is for legal purposes:
For more on Hinduism, see [[World History Lecture Three]].
For more on Hinduism, see [[World History Lecture Three]].
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