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the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India

Hindu/Muslim discord resulted in partitioning and violence in post-colonial India.

Hindu = the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India

...the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions. This, in a holy nutshell, is Hinduism,
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

Hinduism = the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India

Hinduism, so solid from a distance, is riven into sects and clans, which radiate and join, and change their names according to the aspect from which they are approached.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India

Hinduism = the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India

"Next year, assuming my lungs hold out, we'll study Taoism, Hinduism, and Judaism together—"
John Green -- Looking for Alaska
He knows that, if the gods were no longer present to enforce Hinduism as they do, then he would gain converts.
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
File on file of people, black, white, Hindu, stood in an agitated cue a block long, ten deep, waiting dumbly, as for death.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
Six hundred million Hindus stay home from work if the signs are not favorable that morning.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
Lots of section hands went back and forth, Mexicans, some Hindus.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
Lourdes eats, eats, eats, like a Hindu goddess with eight arms, eats, eats, eats, as if famine were imminent.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
I don't know where Clyde Tammany got his name; I'd take him for a Hindu.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
The group I ate lunch with included a Jew, a Mormon, a Hindu, a Catholic, and a Lutheran.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
But the unstated purpose of each and every one was to outwit death, and trustworthy Hindus who had come to Italy grew rich.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
M ICHAEL Dr. Vijay Choudhary's office was filled with statues of Ganesha, the Hindu deity with a potbellied human body and an elephant's head.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
Could just as easily be Oppenheimer and Teller, their bodies greased with suntan oil as they quote Hindu scriptures to each other.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
They're all over the world, in their different forms—Greek daemons, Persian daevas, Hindu asuras, Japanese oni.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
A Hindu, a Buddhist and a lion-tamer chanced to meet, in a circus on the Indo-Chinese border.
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
For the wedding ceremony she had two marriage chairs decorated in a Hindu style and laughed all through the ceremony.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family
On this Indian shore, professor, there are roads and railways, English, French, and Hindu villages.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
For every housewife and every longshoreman and every Hindu nationalist and every teacher.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
My kingdom is bounded only by the world, for I am not an Italian, or a Frenchman, or a Hindu, or an American, or a Spaniard—I am a cosmopolite.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

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