This article is about the people from India. For Other uses, see Indian (disambiguation). Demographics of India Population of India, 1961 2003 Population: 1,210,193,422 (2011 est.) (2nd) Growth rate
Tantrism, as practiced by the elite, represented the conversion of a widespread folk religion into a sophisticated one. The emphasis on the mother goddess, related to that expressed in the Shakti (Śakti) cult, strengthened the status of the female deities. The erotic aspect also was related ...
Lepcha (n=48) seems like an odd match. Yet what is minor and almost unique in Oaxaca is common in this isolated northeast Indian population, who regard themselves as the original people of Sikkim and practice the pre-Buddhist religion of Bon.[3]What constitutes a rare gene for the Mixtec...
Religion is one of the most integral parts of the population composition of India. More than 80 percent of the population comprises of Hindus followed by Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, and Jains.Print Page Previous Next Advertisements...
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India - Indo-European, Languages, Dialects: The Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family is the largest language group in the subcontinent, with nearly three-fourths of the population speaking a language of that family as a mother tongue. It can b
century. Though Eugenius was tolerant toward pagans, he was a Christian. The norm of a Christian ruler of the Roman Empire had already been established by the 390s, even though Christians were only a minority of the population at this time. The Emperor was a Christian ruler of a pagan ...
The religion of the overwhelming majority of the population (more than 83 percent) is Hinduism. Islam (chiefly the Sunnite teaching) is practiced by more than 10 percent of the entire population, Christianity by 2.4 percent, Sikhism by approximately 1.8 percent, Buddhism by more than 1.7 percent...
By the end of the 19th century a larger proportion of India’s population (perhaps more than three-fourths) depended directly on agriculture for support than at the century’s start, and the pressure of population on arable land increased throughout that period. Railroads also provided the ...
India, the second-most populous country in the world with a 1211 million population and 426 million population aged 6–22 years, has made significant progress in school and technical education (Chandramouli and General,2011). The overall literacy level had increased from 52.21% in 1991 to 74.04...