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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 hardliners are now eyeing two other mosques that they claim were built on the site of demolished Hindu temples, but a law protects monuments built before the British granted independence to ...
Hinduism (/ ˈ h ɪ n d u ˌ ɪ z əm /) is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide. The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, it has also been described as sanātana dharma (Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म, lit.
Hindu culture is a term used to describe the culture and identity of Hindus and Hinduism, including the historic Vedic people. Hindu culture can be intensively seen in the form of art, architecture, history, diet, clothing, astrology and other forms.
The history of Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent. [1] It overlaps or coincides with the development of religion in the Indian subcontinent since the Iron Age, with some of its traditions tracing back to prehistoric religions such as those of the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation.
The Bhagavad Gita ( / ˌbʌɡəvəd ˈɡiːtɑː /; Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, romanized : bhagavad-gītā, lit. '"God's Song"' [a] ), often referred to as the Gita ( IAST: gītā ), is a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata. The Bhagavad Gita is dated to the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Rama ( / ˈrɑːmə /; [4] Sanskrit: राम, IAST: Rāma, Sanskrit: [ˈraːmɐ] ⓘ) is a major deity in Hinduism. He is the seventh and one of the most popular avatars of Vishnu. In Rama-centric traditions of Hinduism, he is considered the Supreme Being. [5] According to the Ramayana, Rama was born to Dasaratha and his first wife Kausalya ...
Buddhism and Hinduism have common origins in the culture of Ancient India. Buddhism arose in the Gangetic plains of Eastern India in the 5th century BCE during the Second Urbanisation (600–200 BCE). [1] Hinduism developed as a fusion [2] [note 1] or synthesis [3] [note 2] of practices and ideas from the ancient Vedic religion and elements and ...