At the beginning of October each year, the Dussehra Hindu Festival is also held on Calton Hill.

Hindu temple of Jyeshteswara ( Shankaracharya ), on the Shankaracharya Hill, near Srinagar.

Today, Richmond Hill is a multicultural town, with a Hebrew school, a Hindu temple, Chinese language churches, Italian Community Club, Italian language church services and other facilities serving the needs of the communities.

While the Muslim majority districts of Murshidabad and Malda were given to India, the Hindu majority district of Khulna and the majority Buddhist, but sparsely populated Chittagong Hill Tracts was given to Pakistan by the award.

The Chairman nominates members of the Rajya Sabha on various bodies such as Courts of Banaras Hindu University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, North-Eastern Hill University, Pondicherry University, University of Hyderabad, Anjuman ( Court ) of Jamia Millia Islamia University, Haj Committee, Press Council of India, Samsad ( Court ) of Visva Bharati, National Council for Teachers Education, etc.

The Dussehra Hindu Festival also takes place on Calton Hill near the beginning of October each year.

Walkeshwar Temple ( Marathi: व ा ळक े श ् वर म ं द ि र ), also known as the Baan Ganga Temple, is a temple dedicated to the Hindu god, Shiva located in Walkeshwar, near Malabar Hill neighborhood, in South Mumbai precinct of the city of Mumbai, India.

The place is a hill known as " Nakkara Kunnu " in the regional language Malayalam. There is a Hindu temple located on the hill and the hill is considered to be a Sacred hill by Hindus hence the name " Thiru " + " Nakkara " meaning " Sacred Nakkara Hill ".

iii ) The army column, detailed to rescue a group of besieged Muslims in Antop Hill jurisdiction is attacked by a violent Hindu mob, resorts to firing to disperse the mob.

The Third Battle of Panipat ( January 1761 ), fought between largely Muslim and largely Hindu armies was waged along a twelve-kilometer front.

* 1565 – Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.

The diamond has belonged to various Hindu, Rajput, Mughal, Iranian, Afghan, Sikh and British rulers who fought bitterly over it and seized it as a spoil of war time and time again.

He fought for the protection of Hindu Dharma, and freed central and western India from Mughals.

Jinnah also fought hard for the annexation of Kashmir, a Muslim majority state with Hindu ruler ; and the accession of Hyderabad and Junagadh, Hindu-majority states with Muslim rulers.

Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb though tried for many years to suppress the Hindu Revolt however he failed to do so, in the end Maratha Empire power remained intact after 27 year wars which Hindu Maratha fought from Shivaji death ( 1680 ) to 1707 ( Aurangzeb Death ).

The Second Battle of Panipat was fought between the forces of Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, popularly called Hemu, the Hindu king who was ruling North India from Delhi, and the army of Akbar, on November 5, 1556.

His strong advocacy for Muslims rights had brought him into national prominence and significant respect was also gained from Hindu communities whom he also fought for them at higher hierarchy of the government.

The Battle of the Hydaspes River was fought by Alexander the Great in 326 BC against King Porus of the Hindu Paurava kingdom on the banks of the Hydaspes River ( Jhelum River ) in the Punjab near Bhera in what is now modern-day Pakistan.

The Valmiki Ramayana also attests that the Sakas, Kambojas, Pahlavas and Yavanas fought together against the Vedic, Hindu king Vishwamitra of Kanauj.

During the Sikh-Afghan war of 1879 B. Samvat ( 1822 ), the Nepalis in the Sikh Military had fought bravely, but was also in which Balabhadra Kunwar was killed by Afghan artilery in Naushera, Peshwar region, Afghanistan on Chaitra 3 ( March / April in the Roman calendar and is the first month in the Hindu Lunar calendar ).

Ruled by the Zamorin, the small Hindu Nair kingdom of Calicut ( Malabar ) welcomed the Portuguese in 1498 as traders but then fought several naval wars with Portugal in the 1500s.

* The Rajas of Kangra fought against the Hindu deity lord Rama

As regent, he consolidated Mughal authority in northern India and most notably led Mughal forces at the Second Battle of Panipat, which was fought between Akbar and the Hindu king Hemu in Nov. 1556.

The Battle of Talikota (, ) ( January 26, 1565 ), a watershed battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultanates, resulted in a rout of Vijayanagara, and ended the last great Hindu kingdom in South India.

Hazi Khan, a great warrior, played an important role in Battle for Delhi in 1556, in which he fought along with Hindu King Hemu against the Mughals at Tughlaqabad Fort area in Delhi and defeated Akbar's army on 7 October 1556, to establish a Hindu rule in Delhi after 350 years.

The Battles of Tarain, also known as the Battles of Taraori, were fought in 1191 and 1192 near the town of Tarain ( Taraori ), near Thanesar in present-day Haryana, approximately 150 kilometres north of Delhi, India, between the Muslim Ghurid army led by Sultan Shahabuddin Muhammad Ghauri and the Hindu Rajput army led by Prithviraj Chauhan.

One popular legend of his death, which is even taught in schools in India ( although in more of a moral context than a historical one ), says that after his death his Muslim and Hindu devotees fought over his proper burial rites.

In Hindu mythology, ritual, and art, the power of the combined man / woman, or androgyne, is a frequent and significant theme.

Some of the oldest known references of incense appear within the Vedas ( ancient Hindu texts ) themselves, with frequent mention within the Atharva Veda, indicating that the use of incense is quite old, dating back at least 3500 years and more likely closer to 6000 to 8500 years old at a minimum.

The close association of Narayana with water explains the frequent depiction of Narayana in Hindu art as standing or sitting on an ocean.

As such, during Swati rule, the Dard people were dominantly Hindu and frequent small scale jihad against Dard might have been a routine.

In modern times, such mythical aetiologies in nationalist constructions of history were replaced by the frequent attempt to link one's own ethnic group to a source as ancient as possible, often known not from tradition but only from archaeology or philology, such as Armenians claiming as their origin the Urartians, the Albanians claiming as their origin the Illyrians, the Georgians claiming as their origin the Mushki, or Hindu nationalists claiming as the origin of their religion the Indus Valley Civilization ( see Indigenous Aryans ( India )) — all of the mentioned groups being known only from either ancient historiographers or archaeology.

According to Robert Vane Russell, Meos called themselves by Hindu names with the exception of Ram, and Singh is a frequent affix, though not so common as Khan.

After Sher Shah's death, his son Islam Shah Suri and the Hindu king Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, who had won 22 battles against Afghan rebels and forces of Akbar, from Punjab to Bengal and had established a secular Hindu rule in North India from Delhi till 1556.

These include the epic battle of Mahabharata at Kurukshetra mentioned in the Hindu mythology ( including the recital of the Bhagavad Gita by Krishna ), and the three battles of Panipat.

One of the famous battles was the 1761 Battle of Panipat in which the Afghans invaded and decisively defeated the Hindu Maratha Empire.

On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul to continue anti-Taliban resistance in the Hindu Kush mountains instead of engaging in street battles in Kabul.

This patronage was appreciated by local Christians who actively supported the devout Hindu Marthanda Varma during the Tranvancore-Dutch battles against a Christian power, and by the Muslims who joined his army.

Its bas-reliefs, later additions of Jayavarman VIII, are in stark contrast to those of the outer: rather than set-piece battles and processions, the smaller canvases offered by the inner gallery are decorated for the most part with scenes from Hindu mythology.

After it had been defeated in several battles, the last Hindu kingdom in Java fell under the rising power of the Islamized Sultanate of Demak in 1520.

Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the last Hindu emperor of North India ( 1556 ), winner of 22 battles from Punjab region | Punjab to Bengal

Dead and wounded after the ' Direct Action Day ' which developed into pitched battles as Muslim and Hindu mobs rioted across Calcutta in 1946, the year before independence