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Hindu Kush (هندوکش)
Hindu Kush (هندوکش), an Afghan-Pakistani mountain range named "Hindu-killer" by Ibn Battuta; highest peak Tirich Mir (7,706 m), deep earthquakes at ~200 km, and rapidly melting glaciers feeding ten Asian rivers.
Hindu Mahasabha (अखिल भारत हिन्दू महासभा)
Hindu Mahasabha (अखिल भारत हिन्दू महासभा), founded 1915, is a Hindu nationalist organization that became a separate party under Savarkar in 1937, stood apart from the freedom struggle, and declined after Gandhi's 1948 assassination, its line passing to Jan Sangh and BJP.
Hindu mythological wars
Hindu mythological wars: the Kurukshetra War of the Mahabharata and Rama's war in the Ramayana, governed by dharma-yuddha rules of combat, with debated historicity and ongoing retellings.
Hindu mythology
Hindu mythology (Hindu Lore, Hindu mythos): the Vedas, Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Puranas' narratives of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and Devi, studied as a living religion's evolving, worshipped tradition.
Hindu nationalism
Hindu nationalism, or Hindutva, is the ideology defining India as a Hindu nation, rooted in Savarkar's 1923 Hindutva and the RSS, now driving BJP policy under Modi, including the 2019 Kashmir revocation and the Ayodhya temple.
Hindu philosophy
Hindu philosophy (Brahmanical philosophy, darśanas): the Veda-connected philosophical traditions of India, chiefly the six āstika schools Nyāya, Vaiśeṣika, Sāṃkhya, Yoga, Mīmāṃsā, and Vedānta, distinguished from nāstika schools by Vedic authority.
Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (हिन्दू उत्तराधिकार अधिनियम, 1956)
The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (हिन्दू उत्तराधिकार अधिनियम, 1956), Act 30 of 1956, codifies intestate succession for Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs; amended in 2005 to give daughters equal coparcenary rights, later upheld in Vineeta Sharma (2020).
Hindu temple
A Hindu temple, often called a mandir, is a sacred structure built as the earthly seat of a deity, where worshipers connect with the gods through worship and offering.
Hindu temple architecture
Hindu temple architecture: South Asian sacred building tradition centered on the garbhagriha sanctum and shikhara or vimana tower, in Nagara, Dravida, and Vesara styles, planned on the Vastupurushamandala grid since the Gupta age.
Hindu texts
Hindu texts, also known as Hindu scriptures, are the sacred literature of Hinduism, divided into śruti, the Vedas and Upanishads, and smṛti, including the epics and Bhagavad Gita.
Hindu units of time
Hindu units of time, also called Vedic timekeeping, are the traditional Indian measures of duration, from the nimeṣa blink up to the yuga and kalpa.
Hindu wedding
Hindu wedding (vivaha): Hindu marriage ceremony centered on the sacred fire (Agni) and saptapadi, seven steps with vows from the Gṛhya Sūtras; legally complete at the seventh step under India's Hindu Marriage Act 1955, with wide regional variation.
Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856
Act XV of 1856, the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, legalized remarriage of Hindu widows in British India, legitimized their children, but forfeited their husband's-property rights; Vidyasagar campaigned for it, and the Law Commission recommended repeal in 1979.
Hindu–Arabic numeral system
Hindu-Arabic numeral system, also called Arabic numerals: decimal positional notation with ten digits including zero, developed in 5th-century India, transmitted through the Arabic world to Europe via Spain, and adopted in European commerce by the late 16th century.
Hindu–German Conspiracy
Hindu–German Conspiracy (Indo-German Conspiracy): WWI plot by the Ghadar Party and Berlin Committee with German agents to smuggle arms to India and overthrow British rule; ended in the 1917–18 San Francisco trial.
Hindu–Islamic relations
Hindu–Islamic relations, also called Islam and Hinduism, are the religious, historical, and political interactions between Hinduism and Islam on the Indian subcontinent, spanning a millennium of shared devotional movements and modern disputes over sacred sites.
Hinduism
Hinduism, known to its adherents as sanatana dharma, is the family of religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent, with no single founder and nearly 1.2 billion adherents in 2020.
Hinduism and LGBTQ topics
Hinduism and LGBTQ topics covers how Hindu texts and communities have treated same-sex desire and gender variance, from the Vedas to India's 2018 Section 377 ruling.
Hinduism and Sikhism
Hinduism and Sikhism are two Indian religions deeply entangled in Punjab: the Guru Granth Sahib includes Hindu and Muslim mystics, yet Sikhs claim a distinct identity.
Hinduism by country
Hinduism by country describes the distribution of Hindus worldwide, about 1.1 billion people, 95% of whom live in India; only India, Nepal, and Mauritius are Hindu-majority.
Hinduism in Afghanistan
Hinduism in Afghanistan is the nearly vanished tradition of Afghan Hindus, who lived from pre-Islamic times under the Hindu Shahi kings and numbered about 150 by 2021.
Hinduism in Arab States
Hinduism in Arab States, also called Hinduism in the Arab world, is practiced chiefly by South Asian migrant workers, with roughly 3 million India-born Hindus in the Gulf.
Hinduism in Bangladesh
Hinduism in Bangladesh describes the Hindu minority, about 13.1 million people or 8% in 2022, down from 22% in 1951 through emigration and land loss.
Hinduism in India
Hinduism in India is the majority religion, practiced by 79.8% of the population, or 966.3 million people, per the 2011 census, as a family of traditions.
Hinduism in Indonesia
Hinduism in Indonesia, officially Agama Hindu Dharma, is one of six state-recognized religions, centered on Bali, where most of Indonesia's four million Hindus live, and recognized in the late 1950s.
Hinduism in Java
Hinduism in Java is the Hindu tradition on Indonesia's Java island, a Śaiva center for a millennium, now a minority concentrated in East Java alongside Bali's Hindu majority.
Hinduism in Pakistan
Hinduism in Pakistan, also called Pakistani Hinduism, is a minority religion of about 5.2 million people, 2.17% of the 2023 census population, concentrated overwhelmingly in Sindh province, especially Umerkot district.
Hinduism in Russia
Hinduism in Russia is a minority religion of Indian migrants and Russian converts, under one percent of the population, with the Krishna movement ISKCON as its largest organization.
Hinduism in the United States
Hinduism in the United States, also called Hinduism in America, is the practice of Hinduism by a mostly immigrant community grown after the 1965 immigration act.
Hinduja Group
The Hinduja Group is a privately held multinational conglomerate founded in 1914 by Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja, with businesses in automotive manufacturing, banking and finance, energy, lubricants, healthcare, and real estate.