In what ways do the sacred texts of Hinduism continue to inform Hindu ritual and practice? How does Hinduism shape daily lives in the large population...

Hinduism
and its sacred texts are still a major influence on the cultural and political nature of India
and its surrounding nations. First, much of the political tension between India and Pakistan
resides in religious differences, with Pakistan having been created in the Partition of India:
the division of British India in 1947 into India, as a majority Hindu nation, and Pakistan, as a
majority Muslim nation. In India, Muslims remain a minority and often face religious
discrimination and persecution. In Sri Lanka, the Tamils are a minority Hindu group oppressed by
the majority Sinhalese Buddhists; the two religious groups have engaged in a bloody civil
war.

In India, Hindu nationalism, as espoused by the Bharatiya Janata Party,
is a dominant political ideology. Its philosophy of hindutva (Hindu-ness)
includes such ideological moves as renaming Allahabad to Prayagraj and protecting cattle
(criminalizing the act of killing cows). It opposes the secularism of the Congress Party
and...

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