The Bangali are a caste found in India, and the Hindu branch have scheduled caste status in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

In Haryana, the Bangali are entirely Hindu, and have a village deity called Khera.

The Bangali of Punjab are entirely Hindu, and worship Guru Gorakh Nath and Guga Pir.

Linguists trace the origin of the term “ diwata ” to Hindu word Devata which also means deity.

For example during seventh month of pregnancy there is a prenatal ritual called " Nujuh Bulanan " the very same as Naloni Mitoni in Javanese tradition, which can trace its origin to Hindu ritual.

Nearly every Goan Christian can trace ancestral roots to Hindu ancestors about five centuries ago.

Chitrapur Saraswats are a small Konkani-speaking community of Hindu Brahmins in India who trace their genealogy to the Kashmiri Pandits.

He is generally considered a world conquest military genius, given his successful strategy: he attempted to close all the Indian Ocean naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific, transforming it into a Portuguese mare clausum established over the Ottoman power and their Muslim and Hindu allies .< ref >

Arabs, on the other hand, call the system " Hindu numerals ", referring to their origin in India.

Many Sadhus ( Hindu monks ) are also celibate as part of their ascetic discipline.

In 2002, the McDonald's Corporation agreed to donate $ 10 million to Hindu and other groups to settle lawsuits filed against the chain for mislabeling French fries and hash browns as vegetarian, because their French fries and hash browns were found to contain beef extract added during production.

The schools of Hindu philosophy differ in their recommended methods to cultivate faith, including selfless action ( karma-yoga ), renunciation ( jnana-yoga ) and devotion ( bhakti-yoga ).

During Hindu marriage ceremonies the following slokas are uttered by the grooms but, these days, their import little understood or ever attempted to understand.

After several wars including the Battle of Rajasthan, where the Hindu Rajput clans defeated the Umayyad Arabs, their expansion was checked and contained to Sindh in Pakistan, many short-lived Islamic kingdoms ( sultanates ) under foreign rulers were established across the north western subcontinent over a period of a few centuries.

More recently, Hindu nationalists have created a version of history for the schools to support their demands for " Hindutva " (" Hinduness ") in Indian society.

The Indian Independence Movement drew inspiration from the numerous goddesses of the Hindu pantheon, to the point that many Indians refer to their country as " Bharat Mata ".

Hindu monotheist notions of Brahman likewise reached their classical form with the teaching of Adi Shankara.

Although majority Hindu and minority Muslim political leaders were able to collaborate closely in their criticism of British policy into the 1920s, British support for a distinct Muslim political organisation, the Muslim League from 1906 and insistence from the 1920s on separate electorates for religious minorities, is seen by many in India as having contributed to Hindu-Muslim discord and the country's eventual Partition.

Hindu ascetics like Jadrup were treated with respect, and it was only those who upset the order of the state that were seen as a threat to the state, with their popularity making them even more dangerous.

With Jahangir himself occasionally taking part in Hindu ceremonies, the aforementioned example was probably one way of showing support for the idea that Muslim and Hindus should not mix their rituals.

Buddhist ( and Hindu ) temples were Mandala shaped, they are oriented according to the four cardinal points, the main gate being towards the east. Since building space and materials were scarce, Maldivians constructed their places of worship on the foundations of previous buildings.

Such renunciates are accorded high respect in Hindu society, because their outward renunciation of selfishness and worldliness serves as an inspiration to householders who strive for mental renunciation.

The final stage is Samādhi — Union with the All, it is considered to be the utmost level of awareness that one could possibly achieve, according to Hindu mythology, one of their main three deities, Shiva, had mastered this and thus was bestowed upon with stupendous power and control.

The Arabs translated Hindu texts on numerology and spread it to the western world due to their trade links with them.

The Gorkhali take their name from the legendary 8th-century Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath.

Although Nyepi is a primarily Hindu holiday, non-Hindu residents of Bali observe the day of silence as well, out of respect for their fellow citizens.

Most of the 15 Sikh Bhagats who are mentioned in their holy book were non-Sikhs and belonged to Hindu and Muslim faiths, which were the most prevalent religions of this region.

Hindu merchants from Surat and Southeast African merchants from Pate, seeking to bypass both the Portuguese blockade and Omani meddling, used the Somali ports of Merca and Barawa ( which were out of the two powers ' jurisdiction ) to conduct their trade in safety and without interference.

This can lead to the opinion that Buddhists have adopted religious elements from Hindu traditions in their religious practices.

The mostly Hindu and Muslim labourers were compelled to work 7 and a half hours a day, six days a week for 3 years, receiving about 13 cents a day for their work.

The destruction of the Koneswaram temple of Trincomalee in 1624 and Ketheeswaram temple accompanied an extensive campaign of destruction of five hundred Hindu shrines, the Saraswathi Mahal Library and forced conversion to Roman Catholicism in the Tamil country conducted by the Portuguese upon their conquest of the Jaffna kingdom.

He further asserts that the Thugs were highly superstitious and that they worshipped the Hindu goddess Kali, but that their faith was not very different from their contemporary non-Thugs.

Raghuwamsa or Raghu race is a legendary lineage of warrior kings tracing its ancestry to the Hindu solar deity Surya.

Fester's known ancestry dates back to his Great-Grandfather Blob ( not to be confused with Gomez's Cousin Blob, a two-headed ghost ), who received the gift of a sacred ruby after he had pried it from the head of a Hindu ( whom it was giving a terrible headache ).

Swami Ghanananda ( born 1937 ) is a prominent swami of the indigenous Hindu community in Ghana, and is the first Hindu swami of African ancestry.

She is a secularist from Muslim origin, who has ethnic Pashtun ancestry through her Nawabs-of-Pataudi lineage from her father's side and Bengali Hindu ancestry from her mother's side.

Rana ( Hindi: र ा ण ा, Urdu: رانا ) is a family name, originally a Hindu ancestry now found in other religions also such as Islam and Sikhism.

* 1931 – Baba Ram Dass, American Hindu spiritual teacher

The Hindu social code was later set up in Gorkha by Ram Shah ( 1603 – 36 ).

* September 27 – Roy, Ram Mohan, Hindu reformer ( b. 1772 )

** Ram Thakur, Hindu saint ( d. 1949 )

* May 22 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu religious and social reformer ( d. 1833 )

Ram Mohun Roy, Ram Mohun also spelled Rammohun, Rammohan, or Ram Mohan (; 14 August 1774 – 27 September 1833 ), was an Indian religious, social, and educational reformer who challenged traditional Hindu culture and indicated the lines of progress for Indian society under British rule.

* Ram, a common Hindu name for males, originating from Hindu Avatar ( incarnation of God ) Rama

The BJP became the political voice of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir Movement, which was led by activists of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP ) and the RSS, and which sought to build a temple dedicated to Lord Rama at the site of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya.

In a public meeting held at the Ram Lila grounds in Delhi, a few days after the ceasefire, he complained against a BBC report which claimed that Shastri's identity as a Hindu meant that he was ready for a war with Pakistan.

The BJP became the political voice of the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir Movement, which was led by activists of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP ) and the RSS, and was seeking to build a temple dedicated to Lord Rama in place of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya.

Ayodhya is a pilgrimage site for Hindus and the annual Ram festival is regularly attended by over 500, 000 people of both the Hindu and Muslim faiths, and many devotees came to drink water from the well in the Babri Mosque's courtyard.

Hindu pilgrims also believed that the Babri water well was the original well in the Ram Temple under the mosque.

In 1984, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad ( VHP ) launched a massive movement for the opening of the locks of the mosque, and in 1985 the Rajiv Gandhi government ordered the locks on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid in Ayodhya to be removed.

* Sita Ram Goel: Hindu Temples-What Happened to Them, Voice of India, Delhi 1991.

For writer Stephen Prothero, many perennialist thinkers ( including Armstrong, Huston Smith and Joseph Campbell ) are influenced by Hindu reformer Ram Mohan Roy and Hindu mystics Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda.

* Ram Sethu campaign by Hindu Organizations

In 1938, she met Hindu dancer Ram Gopal in Hollywood.

Ram Swarup ( र ा म स ्‍ वर ू प ), ( 1920 – December 26, 1998 ), born Ram Swarup Agarwal, was an independent Hindu thinker and prolific author.

Christopher Gerard ( editor of Antaios, Society for Polytheistic Studies ) said: " Ram Swarup was the perfect link between Hindu Renaissance and renascent Paganism in the West and elsewhere.

* Statement by Indian intellectuals on Syed Shahabuddin's attempt to make the authorities impose a ban on the book Hindu View of Christianity and Islam by Ram Swarup