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  2. Indian people - Wikipedia

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    Indian people. Countries with a significant population with Chinese ancestry. Indian people or Indians are the citizens and nationals of the Republic of India. In 2022, the population of India stood at 1.4 billion people, of various ethnic groups. According to UN forecasts, India overtook China as the world's most populous country by the end of ...

  3. Culture of India - Wikipedia

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    Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, [4] are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well-known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin ...

  4. Historical definitions of races in India - Wikipedia

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    In 1899, Science summarised Ratzel's findings over India with, "India is for the author [of the History of Mankind, Ratzel], a region where races have been broken up pulverized, kneaded by conquerors. Doubtless a pre-Dravidian negroid type came first, of low stature and mean physique, though these same are, in India, the result of poor social ...

  5. Category:Ethnic groups in India - Wikipedia

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    K. Kashmiri Pandits ‎ (167 P) Kashmiri people ‎ (8 C, 350 P) Khas people ‎ (7 C, 180 P) Khasi people ‎ (24 P) Kiranti ‎ (7 C, 7 P) Ethnic groups in Kolkata ‎ (1 C, 2 P)

  6. Ethnic groups in South Asia - Wikipedia

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    The people of the Hunza Valley in Pakistan are another distinct population; they speak Burushaski, a language isolate. The traditions of different ethnic groups in South Asia have diverged, influenced by external cultures, especially in the northwestern parts of South Asia and also in the border regions and busy ports, where there are greater ...

  7. Hindus - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Hindus ( Hindustani: [ˈɦɪndu] ⓘ; / ˈhɪnduːz /; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. 67 68 69 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent. [ 70 ][ 71 ...

  8. Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Dravidian peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Dravidian peoples are an ethnolinguistic supraethnicity composed of many distinct ethnolinguistic groups native to South Asia (predominantly India ). They speak the Dravidian languages, which have a combined total of about 250 million native speakers. [ 1] Dravidians form the majority of the population of South India and Northern Sri Lanka.