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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.
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 ...
The culture (tehzeeb) that has evolved in the Great Plains is called Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb. The idea of the two rivers joining to form one great entity, Ganga, symbolises how two disparate cultures coming together to form a seamless single culture that draws richly from both traditional Hindu and Islamic influences.
Two-nation theory. 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 ...
According to the 2011 census of India, about 7.9 million out of 1.21 billion people did not adhere to any of the subcontinent's main religious communities of Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, or Jainism. The census listed atheists, Zoroastrians, Jews, and various specified and unspecified tribal religions separately under the ...
Kabir (8 June 1398–1518 CE) [ 2]: 14–15 was a well-known Indian mystic poet and sant. His verses are found in Sikhism's scripture Guru Granth Sahib, the Satguru Granth Sahib of Saint Garib Das, [ 3] and Kabir Sagar of Dharamdas. [ 4][ 5][ 6] Today, Kabir is an important figure in Hinduism, Sikhism and Islam, especially in Sufism. [ 7]
Hinduism mostly shares common terms with the other Indian religions, including Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Islam shares common characteristics with Abrahamic religions –those religions claiming descent from the prophet Abraham –being, from oldest to youngest, Judaism, Christianity, Islam. The Qur'an is the primary Islamic scripture.