Among his friends there were top actors and directors of that age — many of them Hindus — who were trying to prevail upon him to forget about migrating.

The adverse effects of the inquisition were tempered somewhat by the fact that Hindus were able to escape Portuguese hegemony by migrating to other parts of the subcontinent including to Muslim territory.

There is a general belief amongst Hindus that no pilgrimage to the four principal pilgrim centres ( Char Dham ) namely, Badrināth, Jagannāth, Rāmeshwaram and Dwarka, would be complete without a blessing that comes from bathing in the holy Pushkar Lake.

Hindus do not substantially differentiate the soul within a human body from that of an animal.

He expelled the Hindus from Gandhara.

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.

As many as 12 million people Muslims leaving India for Pakistan, and Hindus and Sikhs opting to move to India from the new state of Pakistan which had been involved in the mass transfer of population between the two countries, and perhaps two million refugees had died in the violence that had accompanied the migrations in the borders of West Pakistan.

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.

The few Hindus who are not vegetarians don't mind gelatin from all the sources but cow, which is considered sacred.

Hinduism has some common concepts and practices that nowadays some Hindus tend to consider Jainism to have derived its roots from Hinduism.

The Kabul Turks and Hindus built a huge defensive wall around the city to protect it from future invaders.

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.

there is also a sizable community of Marathi Hindus and Malayali Muslims in Karachi ( the Mappila ), originally from Kerala in South India.

In border areas some 10 — 12 million people moved from one side to another and upwards of a half million were killed in communal riots pitting Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.

The martyrdom of Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Ji 9th Guru to protect Hindus from religious persecution, in Delhi, on 11 November 1675 AD, is another example of upholding minority religious freedom ; he gave his life to protect the right of Kashmiri Hindus to practice their own religion when they were being forced to convert to Islam by Aurangzeb, the Mughal emperor at the time.

The effect was the religious migration of Punjabi Sikhs and Hindus from West Punjab, mirroring a similar religious migration of Punjabi Muslims in East Punjab.

The highest civilization and culture, apart from the ancient Hindus and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races ; and even with many dark peoples, the ruling caste or race is fairer in colour than the rest and has, therefore, evidently immigrated, for example, the Brahmans, the Incas, and the rulers of the South Sea Islands.

* Guangzhou, China, becomes a major international seaport, hosting maritime travelers from Egypt, East Africa, Arabia, Persia, India, Sri Lanka, and South East Asia, including Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and Nestorian Christians.

More than 5 million Hindus and Sikhs moved from present-day Pakistan into present-day India, and more than 6 million Muslims moved in the other direction.

During these travels he made acquaintance and stayed with Indians from all walks of life and religions — scholars, dewans, rajas, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, pariahs ( low caste workers ) and government officials.

Professor Agehananda Bharati explained that, "... modern Hindus derive their knowledge of Hinduism from Vivekananda, directly or indirectly.

Many of the Muslim clergy of India considered Hindus as people of the book, and from Muhhammad-bin-Kasim to Aurangzib, Muslim rulers were willing to consider Hindus as people of the book.

In terms of religion, most of the population was Protestant, with significant numbers of Catholics and some Hindus and Muslims ( both almost exclusively from the East Indian population ).

This divide of Bengal was along communal lines — East Bengal had a majority of Muslims, while West Bengal had a majority of Hindus.

About 11. 2 million or 78 % of the population transfer took place in the west, with Punjab accounting for most of it ; 5. 3 million Muslims moved from India to West Punjab in Pakistan, potentially 3. 8 million Hindus and Sikhs could have moved from West Pakistan to East Punjab in India but 500, 000 had already migrated before the Radcliffe award was announced ; elsewhere in the west 1. 2 million moved in each direction to and from Sind.

India suspected Pakistan of ethnic cleansing when millions of Hindus fled its province of East Pakistan in 1971.

* Foreword to: The Prolonged Partition and Its Pogroms Testimonies on Violence against Hindus in East Bengal ( 1946 – 1964 ) by A. J. Kamra.

Prominent Hindus ( e. g., Swami Sadananda Maharaj ) from India have visited South East Asia for the purpose of exploring the Hinduism of these places.

His views were strongly affected by the Noakhali genocide in East Bengal, where mobs belonging to the Muslim league massacred Hindus in large numbers.

Most of the Brazilian Hindus are ethnic East Indians.

Following the independence of Pakistan and the subsequent partition of British India, a process of population exchange took place in 1947 as Muslims left East Punjab and headed to the newly created Pakistan, and Hindus and Sikhs left West Punjab for the newly created state of India.

Most of the Brazilian Hindus are ethnic East Indians.

About 84 % of the East Indian immigrants were Hindus, and their dominant sect was the Vaishnavite Hinduism of Bihar and North India.

Following the Partition of India, a major wave of Bengali Hindus migrated to Tripura from East Pakistan.

These recruits fought for the East India Company during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, against the mutineers and other opponents ( mostly high-caste Hindus from Eastern provinces, and forces or loyalists of Shia, Maratha and Mughal rulers ).

It needs further analysis whether the Hindu officials of the Bengal Nawwabs conspired with the East India Company because they were Hindus or because, like Muslim officials, they were simply greedy.

But this custom is prevalent mainly among the Bengali Hindus of former East Bengal many of whom now live in West Bengal, Barak Valley in Assam and Tripura in India after the Partition of India.

Scores of Hindus had to flee the newly created East Pakistan for India and Muslims fled Assam for East Pakistan.

The entire eastern India was swept by violence just after India's partition and independence on 15 August 1947, scores of Hindus fled the newly created East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) for India, and Muslims fled Assam for East Pakistan.

The entire eastern India was swept by violence just after India's partition and independence on 15 August 1947, scores of Hindus fled the newly created East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) for India, and Muslims fled Assam for East Pakistan.

Also, this period saw one of the largest mass migrations ever recorded in modern history, with a total of 12 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims moving between the newly created nations of India and Pakistan ( which gained independence on 15 and 14 August 1947 respectively ).

Before the departure of British colonial rule and the subsequent independence of Pakistan, the population of the city included Hindus and Sikhs, but the community is still present numbering around 250, 000 residents.

In his last year, unhappy at the partition of India, Gandhi worked to stop the carnage between Muslims on the one hand and Hindus and Sikhs that raged in the border area between India and Pakistan.

* 1971 – The Pakistan Army massacres at least 71 Hindus in Burunga, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

He suppressed from the press reports of atrocities in Pakistan against Hindus and Sikhs to prevent retaliatory violence.

Arguing that attacking helpless people was cowardly and dishonourable, Patel emphasised that Sikh actions would result in further attacks against Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan.

* Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims from India and Pakistan.

In Pakistan some temples were burned while across Bangladesh hundreds of shops, homes and temples of Hindus were destroyed.

In modern times, Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh have also suffered persecution.

Most recently, thousands of Hindus from Sindh province in Pakistan have been fleeing to India voicing fear for their safety.

* Puri ( Family Name ), a Kshatriya family name ( surname ) among Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims originating from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan

Based on 1951 Census of displaced persons, 7, 226, 000 Muslims went to Pakistan from India while 7, 250, 000 Sikhs and Hindus moved to India from Pakistan immediately after partition.

Unlike the Punjabi Hindus and Sikhs, Sindhi Hindus did not have to witness any massive scale rioting ; however, their entire province had gone to Pakistan thus they felt like a homeless community.

About 14. 5 million people crossed the borders, including 8, 226, 000 Muslims came to Pakistan from India while 7, 249, 000 Hindus and Sikhs moved to India from Pakistan.