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India
is a land of religions is the birthplace of several major world
religions. Majority of the people are Hindus, the oldest continuous
faith in the world. Though today Hinduism has spread to all parts
of the world, taken there by Indian migrants, Hinduism has, and
will continue to have, an indelible association with India; and
perhaps in no other case is the association between a faith and
a land so close as it is with Hinduism. This religion produced
a vast corpus of texts: preeminent among them have been the Rig
Veda, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, and the
Bhagvata Purana; and the commentaries of Shankaracharya; modern-day
classics include the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, the Gita-Rahasya
of Tilak, and Conversations with Sri Ramana Maharishi.
India is equally a land of other faiths: the world's second largest
population of Muslims, nearly 130 million in number, is to be
found in India, and there are also some 25 million Christians.
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