Hindus and Muslims are all brothers.

and rest of the population belongs to Hindus.

Several well known professors, both Hindu and Muslim, were murdered.

And, of course there are hundreds of millions of Hindus and still solid numbers of Sikhs and Jews.

Most Indonesian Hindus are Balinese, and most Buddhists in modern day Indonesia are ethnic Chinese.

But the Hindus who attacked the mosque had little faith in the institutions of Indian democracy.

Local political and Islamic militia groups who opposed the secession of Bangladesh from Pakistan participated in the killing, particularly targeting Hindus.

The population of what is now Pakistan was about two thirds Muslim the remainder were mostly Hindus and Sikhs.

Over 80 of the Republic of India population is Hindu, accounting for about 90 of Hindus worldwide.

Condemns the forced and illegal entry of Hindu militants into the site of the Babri Masjid on 17th October 2001.

Hindus, Ahmadiyyas, and tribal people in the Chittagong hills, fearful for their safety, have been leaving the country in droves.

In Sri Lanka, Hindus as well as Buddhists revere the sacred historical Nallur Kandaswamy temple in Jaffna and Kataragama Temple situated deep south.

Hindus, Christians, or Buddhists lack such a cause, which is why political terrorism is largely confined to Muslims.

They claim that Western countries object to whaling because, for them, whales are a special kind of animal, as cows are for Hindus.

It has fought off Muslim terrorists in Kashmir, Sikh terrorists in Punjab, Christian terrorists in Nagaland, and Hindu terrorists in Assam and across the country.

India suffered caste conflicts, clashes over the rights of different linguistic groups, religious riots (mainly between Hindus and Muslims), and separatist threats.

This is followed by those of no religion (19.2 ), Muslims (1.0 ), Sikhs (0.6 ), Hindus (0.6 ), other (0.2 ) and Jews (0.1 ).

Many Hindus claim that the Babri Masjid stood on the precise spot of Ram s birth and had been placed there by Babur to remind a conquered people of their subjugation.

It is entirely fitting that the Indian team has been led by captains from each of its major faiths Hindus, Muslims, Parsis, Christians, and a colorful Sikh.

He even went to the border town of Amritsar and pleaded with Hindu and Sikh mobs to stop victimizing Muslim refugees fleeing to the new Islamic state of Pakistan.

The use and abuse of religious fervor, whether jihadi or Hindu fundamentalist, are striking at the roots of communal harmony across South Asia.

Muslims were not enthusiastic about calls for democratic institutions in British India, as they constituted a quarter to a third of the population, outnumbered by the Hindus.

Calls on India to resolve all the disputes over water, including Baglihar and Kishanganga Hydro electric Projects, in accordance with the letter and spirit of the Indus Waters Treaty.

They are determined to limit Hindu Tamil power in Sri Lankan affairs and encourage the country's leaders to make few concessions to Tamil autonomy.

But many historians most of them Hindu argue that there is no proof that Ram ever existed in human form, let alone that he was born where believers claim.

However, when Draupadi silently pleads to Krishna (a major Hindu deity), he aids her with an endless supply of sari cloth which the enemy is unable to strip away from her, and this act ultimately saves Draupadi from her public humiliation.

In addition, there are more than 200,000 followers of faiths originating in the Indian subcontinent with some 70,000 Sikhs with 22 gurdwaras across the country, 70,000 Hindus, and 50,000 Buddhists.

Approximately 61.3 of the population practice Islam, 19.8 practice Buddhism, 9.2 Christianity, 6.3 Hinduism and 1.3 practice Confucianism, Taoism and other traditional Chinese religions.

Three years ago, India, a country that is 81 Hindu, saw a Roman Catholic political leader (Sonia Gandhi) make way for a Sikh (Manmohan Singh), who was sworn in by a Muslim (President Abdul Kalam).

Only those who understand the pain of the partition of British India in 1947 will appreciate the powerful symbolism of a child of Hindu parents being welcomed back warmly to Muslim Pakistan.

Indeed, Hindus, Christians, and Buddhists have been targeted as well, and religious extremists more recently have attacked Sufi shrines deemed to be idolatrous, and even Bengali cultural events that unite all religions in a common identity.

Hindu fundamentalists are, instead, chauvinists, whose religious faith is rooted not in any of Hinduism s profound philosophical and spiritual underpinnings, but in its role as an alternative source of collective, if not national, identity.

The galloping chauvinism has known no bounds. Modi himself made the embarrassing declaration in a speech at a new hospital, no less that the figure of the Hindu god Ganesh, with its elephant s head on a human body, attested to the ancient Hindus knowledge of plastic surgery.

Even in Europe, the numbers confessing to a belief in God remain high. And, of course there are hundreds of millions of Hindus and still solid numbers of Sikhs and Jews.

They claim that Western countries object to whaling because, for them, whales are a special kind of animal, as cows are for Hindus. Western nations, the Japanese say, should not try to impose their cultural beliefs on them.

God, Bokh, whatever name you want to call him with, Allah, Ram, Om, whatever the name might be through which you name or access the presence of divinity, it is the locus of absolute being, absolute love and mercy and compassion, and absolute knowledge and wisdom, what Hindus call satchidananda.

Since independence in 1947, a majority of India s prime ministers have been Brahmins, the highest Hindu caste.