A new religion has the possibility of being added to India’s official roster of existing and practicing religions. The state government of Karnataka has granted a separate religion tag to the ...

Nirendra Dev analyzes how religious identity has superseded development in Indian politics, citing the BJP's recent Bihar ...

According to a December 2024 survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 49% of Adivasis in the state who ...

An important distinguishing and defining factor of India is its plurality, and an important unifying theme is its diversity. In this statement lies a self-evident truth about India; everything in ...

Explore how religion influences India's constitutional identity, revealing a complex interplay between communalism and liberal values in governance.

PUNE, India (RNS) — In the first week of April, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Vichar Manch, a group dedicated to the ideas of Indian freedom fighter Bhaghat Singh, announced its seventh atheism conference ...

GUDUTA, India — The ritual began with a thunderous roll of leather drums, its clamor echoing through the entire village. Women dressed in colorful saris broke into an Indigenous folk dance, tapping ...

The rise in attacks by Hindu radicals against members of minority religions in India, primarily Christians and Muslims, is drawing concern across the country, with many calling for more concrete ...

When JD Vance told a stadium of thousands he hoped his wife would one day be moved “by the Christian gospel” the same way he was, he inadvertently stepped into a contentious dialogue in India and ...

GRAND HISTORIC MASS-CONVERSION CEREMONY, proclaimed posters in a town by the Ganges. Loudspeakers blared that “many Christians tonight will perform a mass return to the religion of their souls.” Only ...

Some say Christianity in India dates back to the earliest followers of Jesus in the first century C.E. Today, there are millions of Christians in the country, although they make up just 2.4% of ...

(UPDATED) Pew surveys 30,000 Indians across 6 faiths and 17 languages and finds support for tolerance yet also segregation. A third of Hindus in India would not be willing to accept a Christian as a ...