Hinduism in India: Difference between revisions

The [[Indus Valley Civilisation]] was seen as the [[Roots of Hinduism|rise of Hinduism]], though there have been numerous of [[Vedas|sacred books and texts]] calling [[Hinduism]] in the [[Indian subcontinent]] from [[Pre-historic]] times (or [[Puranic chronology|Puranic times]]).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kitagawa|first=Joseph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9fyzAAAAQBAJ|title=The Religious Traditions of Asia: Religion, History, and Culture|date=2013-09-05|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-87590-8|pages=12|language=en}}</ref>{{Sfn|Long ed|2021|pp=74-76}} Among its roots are the historical Vedic religion,{{Sfn|Flood|1996|p=16}} itself already the product of "a composite of the Indo-Aryan and Harappan cultures and civilizations", which evolved into the Brahmanical religion and ideology of the [[Kuru Kingdom]] of Iron Age northern India; but also the [[Sramana]] or renouncer traditions of [[Maurya Empire|northeast India]], and mesolithic and neolithic cultures of India, such as the religions of the [[Indus Valley Civilisation]], [[Dravidian peoples|Dravidian]] traditions, and the [[Adivasi|local traditions]] and [[Tribal religions in India|tribal religions]].{{Sfn|Long ed|2021|p=78}} India has been home to many [[Hindu saints]] and birthplace of [[Hindu Gods|Hindu gods]] like [[Rama|Lord Rama]] and [[Lord Krishna]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hindu Rama and Indian Krishna - Mainstream|url=https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article7679.html#:~:text=Both%20of%20them%20were%20born,a%20cow%20and%20buffalo%20grazer.|access-date=2021-04-09|website=www.mainstreamweekly.net}}</ref> Though there are many claims that the [[Hinduism]] originated in [[India]] due to the migration of [[Indo-Aryan migrations|Indo-Aryan people]].{{Sfn|Nicholson|2013|p=cxii}} The period of that time was also known to be the rise and rule of [[Brahmanism]].

{{QuoteRquote|left|I find no parallel in history for a body of converts and their descendants claiming to be a nation apart from the parent stock.|[[Mahatma Gandhi]], opposing the division of India on the basis of religion in 1944.<ref name="Prasoon2010">{{cite book|author=Prof. Prasoon|title=My Letters.... M.K.Gandhi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-qfEbNpv7ggC&pg=PA120|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Pustak Mahal|isbn=978-81-223-1109-9|pages=120}}</ref>}}In the year 1947, after
Aafter the [[partition of India]] into two parts on the basis of religion in which a separate state of [[Pakistan]] was created by the [[Britishers]] for the muslims and [[India]] for [[Hindus]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Visaria|first=Pravin M.|date=1969-08-01|title=Migration between India and Pakistan, 1951–61|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2060400|journal=Demography|volume=6|issue=3|pages=323–334|doi=10.2307/2060400|issn=0070-3370|pmid=21331852|S2CID=23272586}}</ref> While the [[Pakistan]] was announced as an [[Islamic republic]], [[India]] remained a [[secular state]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Talbot|first=Ian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNg_CwAAQBAJ|title=A History of Modern South Asia: Politics, States, Diasporas|date=2016-01-01|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-19694-8|language=en}}</ref> At that time there was also a large society of [[Hindus]] who want to declare [[India]] as a ''Hindu nation'', while it was opposed by [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and [[List of prime ministers of India|first]] [[Prime Minister of India|prime minister of India]], [[J. L. Nehru]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-05-28|title=‘Nehru was the most determined fighter against creation of Hindu Rashtra’|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/nehru-was-the-most-determined-fighter-against-creation-of-hindu-rashtra-4677162/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-09|website=[[The Indian Express]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-05|title=The Taste With Vir: What if India had become a Hindu Rashtra?|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/the-taste-with-vir-what-if-india-had-become-a-hindu-rashtra/story-hij3WYhsLLbtMuKwYi4MeK.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-09|website=[[Hindustan Times]]|language=en}}</ref> The [[Hindu nationalism]] in [[India]] was at the decline after the [[assassination of Mahatma Gandhi]].{{Refn|[[Mahatma Gandhi]] was [[Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi|assassinated]] by a [[Hindu nationalism|Hindu nationalist]], [[Nathuram Godse]] after which [[Hindu nationalism]] declined in [[India]] until 1990 till the dawn of [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].{{Sfn|Hindu nationalism|2019|pp=89-97}}|group=note}}