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Religious violence broke out between Hindus and Muslims during September–October 1969, in Gujarat. [52] It was the most deadly Hindu-Muslim violence since the 1947 partition of India. [53] [54] The violence included attacks on Muslim chawls by their Dalit neighbours. [54] The violence continued over a week, then the rioting restarted a month ...
Hinduism, also called sanatana dharma (eternal dharma), is an Indian religion and a way of life primarily practiced in the Indian subcontinent. [ 32] Hinduism is an umbrella-term for the fusion of several Indian religions and traditions. Hinduism does not have a founder or a site-of-origin.
Hindu-Muslim unity is a prerequisite for freedom of India. It is the religious and political duty of the Muslims that they should work for the freedom of India and continue this struggle until the Government accedes to their demand. It is their duty, which they must do with or without companions, it is the order of the Almighty.
Over 10,000 people have been killed in Hindu-Muslim communal violence since 1950. [ 18] According to official figures, there were 6,933 instances of communal violence between 1954 and 1982 and, between 1968 and 1980, there were 530 Hindus and 1,598 Muslims killed in a total of 3,949 instances of mass violence. [ 19]
Further, people in all six major religious groups (Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains) overwhelmingly said they are very free to practice their faiths, and most say that people of other faiths also are very free to practice their own religion. [52] In 2022, the country was scored 2 out of 4 for religious freedom. [53]
Politics portal. v. t. e. The Khilafat movement (1919–22) was a political campaign launched by Indian Muslims in British India over British policy against Turkey and the planned dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire after World War I by Allied forces. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Leaders participating in the movement included Shaukat Ali, Maulana Mohammad Ali ...
The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict over the Kashmir region, primarily between India and Pakistan, and also between China and India in the northeastern portion of the region. [ 1][ 2] The conflict started after the partition of India in 1947 as both India and Pakistan claimed the entirety of the former princely state of Jammu and ...
The two-nation theory was an ideology of religious nationalism that advocated Muslim Indian nationhood, with separate homelands for Indian Muslims and Indian Hindus within a decolonised British India, which ultimately led to the Partition of India in 1947. [ 1] Its various descriptions of religious differences were the main factor in Muslim ...