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Hindu art. Hindu art. Hindu artworks and artifacts from different periods. Hindu art encompasses the artistic traditions and styles culturally connected to Hinduism and have a long history of religious association with Hindu scriptures, rituals and worship.
Caste system in India. Mahatma Gandhi visiting Madras (now Chennai) in 1933 on an India-wide tour for Dalit (he used Harijan) causes. His writings, and speeches during such tours, discussed the discriminated-against castes of India. The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes.
The total number of Tamil Hindus as per 2011 Indian census is 63,188,168 [2] which forms 87.58% of the total population of Tamil Nadu. Hinduism is the largest religion in Tamil Nadu . The religious history of Tamil Nadu is influenced by Hinduism quite notably during the medieval period. The twelve Alvars (poet-saints of the Vaishnava tradition ...
France, mid-13th century. The relationship between religion and science involves discussions that interconnect the study of the natural world, history, philosophy, and theology. Even though the ancient and medieval worlds did not have conceptions resembling the modern understandings of "science" or of "religion", [1] certain elements of modern ...
Hinduism ( / ˈhɪnduˌɪzəm /) is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order or way of life. The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, it has also been described as sanātana dharma ( Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म, lit. ''the eternal dharma''), a modern usage ...
Hinduism is the largest religion in Mauritius, with Hindus representing approximately 48.5% of the population in 2011. [4] [5] Mauritius is the only country in Africa where Hinduism is the most practiced religion and percentage wise ranks third in the world after Nepal and India .
Agama literally means "tradition", [1] and refers to precepts and doctrines that have come down as tradition. [8] Agama, states Dhavamony, is also a "generic name of religious texts which are at the basis of Hinduism". [8] Other terms used for these texts can include saṃhitā (“collection”), sūtra (“aphorism”), or tantra ("system ...
