india Major Religions
India has a great number of different people from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds. As a result of this, India’s religions are just as numerous. Besides having nearly all the world’s great religions represented, India was the birthplace of Hinduism and Buddhism. The ratio of the religions in India are: five in six Indians practice Hinduism, one in nine practice Islam, one in forty practice Christianity, one in fifty practice Sikhism, one in one hundred forty five practice Buddhism, and one in two hundred fifty practice some other religion. Hinduism was started from the Indo-Aryan invasion of India approximately two thousands years before Christ. Hinduism grew from Vedism, the religion of the ancient Indo-European people who settled India. ... Hinduism is the oldest of our world’s religions, being over 3000 years old. In all religions there are similarities and differences. ... The books that the religions use are also different in many ways, but in some they hold the same values.