Essay Archive - Hinduism
Hinduism
Introduction Hinduism is a religion that originated in India and is still
practiced by most of the Natives as well as the people who have migrated from
India to other parts of the world. Statistically there are over seven hundred
million Hindus, mainly in Bharat, India and Nepal. Eighty five percent of the
population in India is Hindu. The word Hindu comes from an ancient Sanskrit term
meaning "dwellers by the Indus River," referring to the location of India's
earliest know civilization, the Pakistan. There is not much organization and
hierarchy is nonexistent. The religion s....
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