What is the leading religion in india?
It is Hinduism undoubtedly. Most of the present day christians and moslems in India are converts from Hinduism due to the influence of missionaries pre and post the British rule and the Mughals who ruled India for several centuries. The invading portuguese also converted lot of Hindu families to Christianity either by force or coersion. Politically India Today is a multi religion country with equal opportunities to all religions as per the constitution of the biggest democratic system which is working very well with some problems or pinpricks every now and then.This is despite the fact that the minority religions are given lot of economic concessions due to political reasons.
Hinduism is the predominant religion[1] of the Indian subcontinent. Hinduism is often referred to as Sanātana Dharma, a Sanskrit phrase meaning “the eternal law”, by its adherents.[2] Generic “types” of Hinduism that attempt to accommodate a variety of complex views span folk and Vedic Hinduism to bhakti tradition, as in Vaishnavism. Hinduism also includes yogic traditions and a wide spectrum of “daily morality” based on the notion of karma and societal norms such as Hindu marriage customs. Among its roots is the historical Vedic religion of Iron Age India, and as such Hinduism is often stated to be the “oldest living religion”[3] or the “oldest living major tradition”.[4][5][6][7] Hinduism is formed of diverse traditions and has no single founder.[8] Hinduism is the world’s third largest religion after Christianity and Islam, with approximately a billion adherents, of whom approximately 905 million live in India.[9] Other countries with large Hindu populations can be found across sout
