Lakshadweep, union territory of India that is a group of some three dozen islands scattered over some 30,000 square miles of the Arabian Sea off the southwestern coast of India. The principal islands in the territory are Minicoy and those in the Amindivi
The cultural, ethnic, and linguisticcompositionof Jammu and Kashmir varies across the region. About two-thirds of the population adheres toIslam, a greater proportion than in any other Indian state orunion territoryapart fromLakshadweep; Hindusconstitutemost of the remaining third. There also are ...