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Hinduism. 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 ...
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]
The historical Vedic religion, also called Vedicism or Vedism, and sometimes ancient Hinduism or Vedic Hinduism, [a] constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE).
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Hinduism: Hinduism – predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent. [ 1] Its followers are called Hindus, who refer to it as Sanātana Dharma[ 2] ( Sanskrit: सनातनधर्मः, lit. 'the eternal law that sustains/upholds/surely ...
Hinduism is the largest and most practised religion in India. [ 2][ 3] According to the 2011 Census of India, 966.3 million people identify as Hindu, [ 4] representing 79.8% (nearly 80%) of the country's population. India contains 94% of the global Hindu population. [ 5][ 6] The vast majority of Indian Hindus belong to Shaivite, Vaishnavite and ...
Hindu culture is a term used to describe the culture and identity of Hindus and Hinduism, including the historic Vedic people. [218] Hindu culture can be intensively seen in the form of art, architecture, history, diet, clothing, astrology and other forms.
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.
The Bhagavad Gita ( IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd 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.