Muslims make up nearly 90% of the country's population with the rest mostly Hindus.
This image of responsibility is aimed not only at Muslims but at liberal-minded Hindus.
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and nonbelievers.
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers.
It also sharpened the growing divide between Hindus and Sikhs, which remains a source of conflict.
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, Sikhs and non-believers.
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He said he had gone into sanyas, a time elderly Hindus renounce the world.
Cows are considered sacred by Hindus in India and many even worship the animal.
It is the morning of Akshaya Tritiya, an auspicious day when many Hindus buy jewelry.
Gujarathi businesses owned by Muslims have done as well as others owned by Hindus.
"The Hindus are law abiding people and we would not want public health fears, " he said.
Hindus by 43% and Buddhists rose most of all in percentage terms, up by 74%.
Many private schools only admit Catholics, some only take Protestants, and others only accept Muslims and Hindus.
Some Hindus have been appalled at the pope's open call, on Indian soil, for conversions in Asia.
According to them, the partition of India took place on the basis of religion - Hindus and Muslims.
There are more atheists in this country than there are Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists combined and doubled.
"In 1947, Hindus constituted around 30% of the population, " says Subroto Chowdhury, a Hindu community leader in Dhaka.
The shrine is popular with both Hindus and Muslims who visit it in large numbers to offer prayers.
The poll also says only Baptists, Muslims and Hindus do not have a majority in favour of a change.
Most of them are Hindus who fled the rising Muslim militancy in 1990.
Mr Gadkari said both Hindus and Muslims in India "share a common heritage".
Mr Vajpayee realises that stirring up communalism would merely drive minorities and secular-minded Hindus swiftly into Congress's ready embrace.
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It is not that Hindus reject Hindutva, the notion that India is defined by its Hindu way of life.
Hindus and Muslims have long been afraid to move into each other's areas.
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In India, Hindus make up more than 80 percent of its billion-plus population.
The United States of America is a nation of Christians and Jews, and Muslims and Buddhists, and Hindus and non-believers.
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This is India's largest state and has a population of nearly 170m, dominated by Hindus but including a significant Muslim minority.
She said a group made up of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs had reflected the same diversity of opinion as other groups.
For British Hindus this was only one advance in their campaign to be free to practise their religion's full funereal rites.
Even within violence-prone states such as Gujarat some areas erupt while others with similar mixes of Muslims and Hindus remain peaceful.
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