What are the largest religions in India : India is one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world, and although it is secular, Hinduism is the largest religion in the country. This religion is practiced by about 80 percent of the country's total population, or nearly 1 billion citizens.
Hinduism is a religion practiced mainly in the continent of Asia, and it is a set of beliefs and traditions that were formed over a long march from the fifteenth century BC to the present time. Unlike other religions, Hinduism does not have a specific founder to which it is affiliated.
Hinduism in India
Islam in India
Islam is the second largest religion in India in terms of followers, amounting to about 195 million Muslims, which is greater than the number of Muslims in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania combined. Islam entered India in the eighth century AD, and has historically contributed to Indian culture, as well as stimulating an important tradition of the Arabic and Persian languages. The largest number of Muslims live in the state of Uttar Pradesh in the north of the country, and some statistics indicate that the number of Muslims in that state is 38 million.
Christianity in India
Christianity is India's third-largest religion after Hinduism and Islam, just ahead of Sikhism and Buddhism with about 27.8 million adherents, making up 2.3 percent of the population as per the 2011 Census of India. The written records of St Thomas Christians have it that Christianity was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by Thomas the Apostle, who sailed to the Malabar region in 52 AD, the present-day Kerala state. There is a general scholarly consensus that Christian communes were firmly established on the coast of Kerala by the 6th century AD, these were Eastern Christians of the Church of the East in India, who worshipped in Syriac. As a result Malankara Nasranis (Thomasine Christians) have a unique Syro-Malabarese culture which includes Christianised Jewish elements with some Hindu customs and values as well. Following the discovery of the Cape route by the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in the 15th century, Western Christian communities of Latin Christians and Protestants formed in the cities of Portuguese Goa and Damaon, British Bombay, French Pondicherry etc.
The biggest religions in India
# religions population ratio
1 Hinduism 79.8 percent
2 Islam 14.2 percent
3 Christianity 2.3 percent
4 Sikhism 1.7 percent
5 Buddhism 0.7 percent
6 Jainism 0.4 percent
7 Zoroastrianism 0.1 percent
8 other religions 0.7 percent
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