Most other Hindus celebrate the New Year in early spring.

They celebrate individual and community life of Hindus without distinction of caste, gender or class.

It's a festival that Sikhs, Hindus and Jains celebrate.

Most other Hindus celebrate the New Year in early spring.

In Britain, Hindus celebrate Diwali with great enthusiasm.

Cleanliness is an important virtue, and all Hindus clean their homes particularly well in preparing to celebrate Diwali each year.

Hindus of Bali and Indonesia also celebrate their new year on the same day as Nyepi.

Hindus in Malaysia celebrate Diwali / Deepavali, the festival of light, while Thaipusam is a celebration in which pilgrims from all over the country meet at the Batu Caves.

The Osings share a similar culture and spirit with the Balinese, and the Hindus celebrate ceremonies like Nyepi.

While Hindus celebrate it in the honour of the great sage Vyasa, who is seen as one of the greatest gurus in ancient Hindu traditions, and a symbol of the Guru-shishya tradition.

Zorastrians, Parsis, Bahais, Nestorians, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Christians in Pakistan also celebrate their own festivals and holidays.

Hindus in Malaysia celebrate Diwali ( or Deepavali ), the festival of light, while Thaipusam is a celebration in which pilgrims from all over the country meet at the Batu Caves.

Religious minorities of Afghanistan, such as the Hindus, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, and others celebrate holidays unique to their respective religion.

Guyanese Hindus continue to observe holidays such as Holi ( burning of Holika ) and Diwali ( festival of lights ) among others while Muslims celebrate the holidays Eid and Kurbani ( sacrifice of the sheep ).

Hindus in Nepal have their own legends surrounding Nagas, which lead them to celebrate Nāga Panchamī on a large scale.

Anxious to bring about reforms from within in the Hindu society and to provide a forum for bringing the Hindus of the world together, Vishwa Hindu Parishad was founded on the Krishna Janmashtami day in 1964 under his guidance.

Air is represented in the Aztec religion by a snake to the Scythians, a yoke to the Hindus and for Greeks as a sword and in Christian iconography as mankind.

Earth is represented in the Aztec religion by a house ; to the Hindus, a lotus ; to the Scythians, a plough ; to the Greeks, a wheel ; and in Christian iconography by a bull.

The Saraiki community diffused when Saraiki-speaking Hindus migrated to the neighboring Indian states of Bikaner and Jaisalmer during Partition and were replaced by Urdu-speaking Muslim refugees from India.

Devanāgarī is also employed for Bhojpuri, Gujari, Pahari, ( Garhwali and Kumaoni ), Konkani, Magahi, Maithili, Marwari, Bhili, Newari, Santhali, Tharu, and sometimes Sindhi, Dogri, Sherpa and by Kashmiri-speaking Hindus.

Many Bengali Hindus left for Calcutta after partition, and their place, particularly in commerce, was taken mostly by Muslims who had migrated from the Indian state of Bihar or by West Pakistanis from different provinces.

It was internally divided by conflicting loyalties to Islam, the British, and India, and by distrust of Hindus.

* 1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.

Some Indian regions, such as Rajasthan, Gujarat and Karnataka, have been strongly influenced by Jains and often the majority of the local Hindus of every denomination have also become vegetarian.

It is unclear that Jahangir even understood what a Sikh was, referring to Guru Arjun as a Hindu, who had " captured many of the simple-hearted of the Hindus, and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners ... for three or four generations ( of spiritual successors ) they had kept this shop warm.

In ancient Indian vedic society, the law or Dharma, as followed by Hindus was interpreted by use of " Manu Smrti "-a set of poems which defined sin and the remedies.

In addition to shrardha ( the ritual Hindu offerings by the son of deceased ), we find among Hindus widespread adherence to the notion of divine intervention in ones fate, while Buddhists eventually came to propound such theories like boon-granting bodhisattvas, transfer of merit and like.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

The Shaikhs, who are by far the most numerous, are the descendants of Hindus, but have retained none of the caste rules of their forefathers.

The Kashmiri Pandits, the only Hindus of the Kashmir valley, who had stably constituted approximately 4 to 5 % of the population of the valley during Dogra rule ( 1846 – 1947 ), and 20 % of whom had left the Kashmir valley by 1950, began to leave in much greater numbers in the 1990s.

After independence, almost all the prime ministers elected by the population have been Hindus.

For example, gatka is a weapon-based Indian martial art created by the Sikhs of the Punjab region of India and the Kshatriya caste of Hindus have another ancient martial art named Shastra vidhya.

The gulal and abir ( colored powders ) used by North Indian Hindus during the festive season of Holi contain fine, small crystals of mica to create a sparkling effect.

The numeral system and the zero concept, developed by the Hindus in India slowly spread to other surrounding countries due to their commercial and military activities with India.

Just as Hindus worshiping Ganesh is seen as valid by those worshiping Vishnu, so someone worshiping Jesus or Allah is accepted.

This is illustrated by the fact that all the potentials and capabilities ( Prophets ) which have been granted to the Aryans ( Hindus ) have also been granted to the races inhabiting Arabia, Persia, Syria, China, Japan, Europe and America .”

It is commonly used as a Khichdi preparation during fasting, popularly called Sabudana Khichadi, among Hindus in Western and Central part of India ( Gujarat and Maharashtra region ).

Godse later rejected Gandhi, after he saw Gandhi's repeated sabotage against the interests of Hindus by using the " fasting unto death " tactic on many issues.

He refused to tonsure his head when his father died and more famously, ate food during a solar eclipse to show it does not cause indigestion, a reason for which some Hindus go on fasting.

Thread ceremony is a ritual, same as the fasting, wearing turban ( head band ), not cutting hair and beard as in Sikhs, having shaved head as in Jainism and some sects of Hindus.

Many South Indians Saivite Hindus also follow a similar practice of abstaining from meat, but also fish and eggs, on Fridays while similar meatless and fishless fasting is commonly practiced on other days of the week across India.