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The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It was founded as a weekly publication in 1878 by the Triplicane Six, becoming a daily in 1889. [3] It is one of the Indian newspapers of record. [4] [5] As of March 2018, The Hindu is published from 21 locations across 11 ...
Hindu texts or Hindu scriptures are manuscripts and voluminous historical literature which are related to any of the diverse traditions within Hinduism. Some of the major Hindu texts include the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Itihasa. Scholars hesitate in defining the term "Hindu scriptures" given the diverse nature of Hinduism, [1] [2] but ...
9-788-188-38825-7. OCLC. 0670049905. Essentials of Hindutva [1] [2] is an ideological epigraph written by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 1922. [3] [4] The book was published in 1923 while Savarkar was still in jail. [5] It was retitled Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu? (with the second phrase as a subtitle) when reprinted in 1928.
The Hidden Hindu [2] Akshat Gupta is an Indian writer, screenwriter, motivational speaker, lyricist, poet and restaurateur. [3] He is best known for his national best selling [4] mythological, science fiction [5] and adventurous The Hidden Hindu trilogy series. [6]
Encyclopedia of Hinduism, 1st ed., 2012, is a comprehensive, multi-volume, English language encyclopedia of Hinduism, comprising Sanātana Dharma, a Sanskrit phrase, meaning "the eternal law ", or the "eternal way", that is used to refer to Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. [1] It is a 7,184 page, 11-volume publication with full-color ...
Principles of Hindu Reckoning ( Kitab fi usul hisab al-hind) is a mathematics book written by the 10th- and 11th-century Persian mathematician Kushyar ibn Labban. It is the second-oldest book extant in Arabic about Hindu arithmetic using Hindu-Arabic numerals ( ० ۱ ۲ ۳ ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ ۹), preceded by Kibab al-Fusul fi al-Hisub al-Hindi by ...
Roots of Hinduism. Periodisation. Pre-Vedic religions (until c. 1750 BCE) Vedic period (c. 1750–500 BCE) Second Urbanisation and decline of Brahmanism (c. 600–200 BCE) Hindu synthesis and Classical Hinduism (c. 200 BCE – 1200 CE) Medieval and early modern periods (c. 1200–1850 CE) Modern Hinduism (after c. 1850 CE) Contemporary Hinduism.
Hinduism is the world's third-largest religion, with approximately 1.20 billion followers, or around 15% of the global population, known as Hindus. [16] [web 2] [web 3] It is the most widely professed faith in India, [17] Nepal, Mauritius, and in Bali, Indonesia. [18]