The citizen and the state; industrial and social life and the empire . BUKMESE GENTLEMAN AND LADY Which of the many peoples of India do you mean,for the \vords by themselves have no meaning. 8. Religion.—The people who inhabit the greatcontinent which we call India have five main religions :Hinduism or ]>rahminism, Mohammedanism, Buddh-ism, the religion of the Sikhs, and Christianity. There o 194 THE BRITISH EMPIRE are, besides, a good many different forms of Paganism,professed by ten millions of people, but these neednot be named separately. In 1911 it was reckonedthat, of the five chief r
The citizen and the state; industrial and social life and the empire . BUKMESE GENTLEMAN AND LADY Which of the many peoples of India do you mean,for the \vords by themselves have no meaning. 8. Religion.—The people who inhabit the greatcontinent which we call India have five main religions :Hinduism or ]>rahminism, Mohammedanism, Buddh-ism, the religion of the Sikhs, and Christianity. There o 194 THE BRITISH EMPIRE are, besides, a good many different forms of Paganism,professed by ten millions of people, but these neednot be named separately. In 1911 it was reckonedthat, of the five chief religions, the Hindus. number about 2172- ^nillions, the Mohammedans about661 millions, the Buddhists about 10^- millions, theJains (Primitive Buddhists) 1^ millions, the Sikhsabout 3 millions, and the Christians almost 4 religions number about 10 millions. TheBuddhists chiefly live in Burmah, to the east of India, XI INDIA 195 and the Sikhs in the north-west. The rest of India is occupied in common by the other religions we have named, the Mohammedans being strongest in the north. 9. As a rule the mass of the ordinary Indian popula-
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