In Central Kalimantan there is also a small Hindu minority.

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.

Almost the whole brunt of official corruption is borne by the Muslim masses .” For almost a century until the census, a small Hindu elite had ruled over a vast and impoverished Muslim peasantry.

His father, Karamchand Gandhi ( 1822 – 1885 ), who belonged to the Hindu Modh community, served as the diwan ( a high official ) of Porbander state, a small princely state in the Kathiawar Agency of British India.

There is a small, autonomous, and commercially important Hindu community present in Melilla, as well.

While passing through the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh it touches a small village called Dharmapuri which is a pilgrimage village with many ancient Hindu temples and river Godavari serving as spiritual place in true sense for bathing in Godavari river spread over rocks and sand.

* Pattiseema-A village where a Hindu temple is located on a small hill on an island in the river.

There are also small Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish and Sikh communities.

* Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, a small town in Guntur District, on the river Krishna, noted for an early Buddhist stupa and a major Hindu temple

In addition to a small Hindu Temple in addition to a growing Neo-Pagan community.

The Archdeacon was more of a secular ruler, having sanction of local Hindu rulers and he is said to have carried around a small army of few hundred Syrian Christian soldiers.

The title of Maharaja was not as common before the gradual British colonization of India, upon and after which many Rajas and otherwise styled Hindu rulers were elevated to Maharajas, regardless of the fact that scores of these new Maharajas ruled small states, sometimes for some reason unrelated to the eminence of the state, for example support in World War I or World War II.

While the term Peranakan is most commonly used among the ethnic Chinese for those of Chinese descent also known as Straits Chinese (; named after the Straits Settlements ), there are also other, comparatively small Peranakan communities, such as Indian Hindu Peranakans ( Chitty ), Indian Muslim Peranakans ( Jawi Pekan ) ( Jawi being the Javanised Arabic script, Pekan a colloquial contraction of Peranakan ) and Eurasian Peranakans ( Kristang ) ( Kristang = Christians ).

A small enclave of Hindu communities still remain in Tengger mountain range.

There was a small Hindu shrine built in 1890 joining the well with a statue of Lord Rama.

There is also a Catholic church, a United Reformed church, a small mosque and a Hindu temple.

From a historical perspective, image worship ( Murti-PujA ) is an ancient tradition as a small part within the overall Hindu tradition, with the oldest extant images of the classical Pauranik deities allegedly dating to Ramayana when Rama worshipped Lord Shiva at Rameswaram.

In contrast to their successor, Chandragupta I, who is mentioned as Maharajadhiraja, he and his son Ghatotkacha are referred to in inscriptions as Maharaja At the beginning of the 5th century the Guptas established and ruled a few small Hindu kingdoms in Magadha and around modern-day Bihar.

The temple is to be dedicated to Gajah Mada, the man attributed with transforming the small Hindu kingdom of Majapahit into an empire.

* Pan Pan, an ancient small Hindu Kingdom

There was a small Hindu community in China, mostly situated in southeastern China.

Passing along the face of the eastern hill to the north of Sitabai's cave is a small Hindu excavation with a veranda, which was probably to be three cells, but was abandoned following the discovery of a flaw in the rock.

" It 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 controversy in this issue is caused by the relatively small population of Muslims in Oadby compared to Sikh and Hindu communities which are relatively large yet denied a place of worship.

Baksei Chamkrong () is a small Hindu temple located in the Angkor complex ( Siem Reap, Cambodia ).

Hindu texts used the term shunya ( zero ) to indicate the empty column on the abacus.

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

Indian ( Hindu ) thought had great influence on Weil.

Hindu astrology relies on the sidereal zodiac in which the signs of the zodiac are aligned to the position of the corresponding constellations in the sky.

Sri Lankan astrology is largely based on Hindu astrology with some modifications to bring it in line with Buddhist teachings.

Adhāī Din Kā Jhonpdā, a Vaishnava Hindu temple built in 1153 and converted into a mosque by Quṭbuddīn Aybak in 1193, is situated on the lower slope of Tārāgarh hill.

The whole territory, from the junction of the Kokcha river with the Amu Darya on the north-east to the province of Herat on the south-west, was some in length, with an average width from the Russian frontier to the Hindu Kush of 114 miles ( 183 km ).

Theosophy is a nonsectarian organization based on Buddhist and Hindu teachings, and it promotes the view of the world as an interconnected whole and the unity and brotherhood of humankind " without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or color ".

The earliest known detailed discussion of binomial coefficients is in a tenth-century commentary, due to Halayudha, on an ancient Hindu classic, Pingala's chandaḥśāstra.

* A " luni-solar calendar " is based on a combination of both solar and lunar reckonings ; examples are the traditional calendar of China, the Hindu Calendar in India or the Hebrew calendar.

Based on Dravidian architecture, it was designed as a pyramid representing the structure of the universe: the highest level at the center of the temple represented Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu gods, with the five towers on the highest level representing the five peaks of the mountain.

These civilizations are delineated along cultural lines, for example, Western, Islamic, Sinic, Hindu and so on.

Brahma | Brahmā, the Hinduism | Hindu Deva ( Hinduism ) | deva of creation, emerges from a Nelumbo nucifera | lotus risen from the navel of Vishnu | Viṣņu, who lies with Lakshmi on the serpent Ananta Shesha

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

The natural forests in Afghanistan are mainly of two types: dense forests of oak, walnut, and other species of nuts that grow in the southeast, and on the northern and northeastern slopes of the Sulaiman ranges ; and sparsely distributed short trees and shrubs on all other slopes of the Hindu Kush.

Until 1947, the East Wing of Pakistan, separated from the West Wing by 1, 600 km of Indian territory, had been heavily dependent on Hindu management.

The Bengal was divided into two provinces on July 3, 1946 in preparation for the Partition of India, the Hindu majority of West Bengal and the Muslim majority of the East Bengal.

Therefore, Hindu faith is based on the premise that logic and reason are not conclusive methods of epistemic knowing.

The Hindu, Thai, Hebrew, Islamic, Tibetan, Mayan, Ani-yvnwiya ( Cherokee ), Neo-pagan, Germanic, Celtic, and the traditional Chinese calendars are all based on the phases of the Moon.

Sitting on many trade and migration routes, Afghanistan may be called the ' Central Asian roundabout ' since routes converge from the Middle East, from the Indus Valley through the passes over the Hindu Kush, from the Far East via the Tarim Basin, and from the adjacent Eurasian Steppe.

The Hindu Vijayanagar Empire came into conflict with the Islamic Bahmani Sultanate, and the clashing of the two systems caused a mingling of the indigenous and foreign cultures that left lasting cultural influences on each other.

It was the erosion of this tradition coupled with increased brutality and centralization that played a large part in the dynasty's downfall after Aurangzeb, who unlike previous emperors, imposed relatively non-pluralistic policies on the general population, which often inflamed the majority Hindu population.