What is the most common religion in India?

Answer 1

The most popular religion in India today is Hinduism. It has always been so since the ancient times.

New religions like Jainism and Buddhism cropped up in around 600 years before Christ. You'll be surprised to know that Christianity touched India's shores in just about 50 AD.

Islam is the next most popular religion, next to Hinduism, in India. It started to make its mark in India by about 1000AD. There are about 170 million Muslims in India, surprisingly India is the third most Muslim-population country behind Indonesia and Pakistan.

However, Hindus (believers and followers of Hinduism) form the majority in India, with a following total of about 960 million people.

Answer 2

Hinduism is the most common religon in India about 82% of the people there pratice Hinduism only 12% practice Islam 2.5% Christianity. About 80% of Indians are Hindus. Hinduism is a colorful religion with a vast gallery of Gods and Goddesses. Hinduism is one of the ancient religions in the world. It is supposed to have developed about 5000 years ago. Later on in ancient period other religions developed in India.

Answer 3

India is a Hindu country .But we have lot of diversity so you will find all the religions in the world here .we have more of Hindu's ,Muslims ,Sikh's, Christian's and further like Jains, Buddhists etc e tc but major religion is Hinduism.

Answer 4

Hinduism is the most common religion in India, with 80.5% of the population being Hindu.

Answer 5

The predominant religion of India is Hinduism.

Answer 6

Hinduism