India has a large Muslim population. Statistics reveal that there are approximately 172 million people in India who identify themselves as followers of Islam. A majority of Muslims in India belong to the Sunni sect of Islam and others belong to the Shia sect of Islam. For thousands of years coastal communities of India, particularly…
Reasons Why Hinduism Has Millions Of Gods
How many Hindu Gods are there? Are there millions of Hindu Gods? By some estimates there are 33 million Hindu Gods!!. The overall count is totally not an issue for the people of India. India for the most part is a polytheistic society and is very comfortable with the notion that there can be more…
Which Are The Most Spoken Languages In India?
Is Hindi the most spoken language in India? Is there a difference between the spoken languages of Hindi and Urdu (the script might be different)? Why does India count Hindi and Urdu as different languages? According to the 2011 Census, there are 121 languages in India (there are hundreds of dialects). Each one of these…