1. India

13. Religion and Language Stats
Religions: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.8%, Buddhists 0.8%, Jains 0.4%, others 0.7%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 Census).
Languages: 216 languages with more than 10,000 native speakers in India. The largest of these is Hindi with some 337 million (the second largest being Bengali with some 207 million). 22 languages are recognized as official languages. In India, there are 1,652 languages and dialects in total.

16. Rama & Shiva

17. Ganesh, The remover of obstacles

25. What is Hinduism?
Polytheistic
Caste system
Reincarnation
Vegetarianism?
Rituals of purification
The Rig Veda tells the Hindu origin story
Hinduism is a diverse religion found primarily in India. There is variation in local practices and the worship of particular deities. However, there are central tenants that unify it as one religion. The core of Hinduism is the belief in Brahman, the underlying universal life force that encompasses and embodies existence. According to Hindu scriptures, one's ignorance of the true nature of the self (atman) as one with Brahman is what traps one in the cycle of endless death and reincarnation (samsara). Thus, the highest goal of Hinduism is liberation (moksha) from the karmic cycle of death and rebirth.

26. Brahmins, the highest caste

27. Rabari Cattle caste

32. Ghats are mountains east and west of the Deccan Plateau, but ghats are also steps that go down to rivers, such as the Ganges.

33. Ghats at Varanasi

46. Shakti, the Mother Goddess

50. Border Closing YouTube

51. Jainism Followers of the Dharma as taught by the Jinas, ~500 BC
Contemplative to the extreme
Offshoot of Hinduism (Dharma & Karma)
Extreme vegetarianism
Gujarat in NW India, near the Ran of Kutch, Sind, Thar Desert
Rigorous lifestyle=small number, ~4 million

52. Jain Temple, NW India

55. Sikhism
Sikhs web page
1500s synthesis of Islam and Hindi, no castes, egalitarian
Punjab at Amritsar
Every Sikh's last name is Singh
15th century Guru Nanak
Sikhs assassinated Indira Gandhi.
Speak Punjabi, never cut their hair or beard, must carry a dagger
They're great farmers and own a lot of land in the Sacramento valley and elsewhere
During floods in the 1980s, warnings were broadcast in English, Spanish, and Punjabi

56. Akali Phooh Singh Ji, 1762-1823, Sikh leader

57. Sikh’s Golden Temple at Amritsar

63. Indira Gandhi, Neru’s daughter, who, in her second term as prime minister of India, was assassinated by the Sikhs for her suppression of a Sikh rebellion, which desecrated the Golden Temple. In 1988, her son, Rajiv was assassinated by a Tamil suicide bomber. His widow, Sonia, an Italian by birth, now wields considerable power in Indian politics.

65. Mohandas K. Gandhi, the Mahatma. Father of non-violent resistance
Mohandas K. Gandhi, the Mahatma. Father of non-violent resistance. Assassinated by a Hindu extremist in 1948.
Reporter to Mr. Gandhi: “What do you think of western civilization?”
Mr. Gandhi: “I think it would be a good idea.”

66. Buddhism in India
Buddhism is an Indian religion founded in northern India and based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gatauma, who is known as the Buddha (literally the Enlightened One or Awakened One). Buddhism arose in India and flourished during the reign of emperor Ashoka and others. It was then introduced and incorporated into the religious structure of other countries, including China, Korea, and Japan, largely due to the efforts of missionaries.
Buddhism declined and disappeared from most regions of India around the 13th century, but not without leaving a significant impact. Buddhist practice continued in Himalayan areas like Bhutan, Sikkim, Ladakh, and Arunachal Pradesh. It has reemerged as a major faith in India in the past century.

67. Spread of Buddhism

68. Islam in India
Established under Mughal Rule as Islam spread eastward in the 1700s
Many Muslims removed to Pakistans at Partition in 1948
Still 100 million Muslims in India today
Most famous site is the Taj Mahal, the tomb of the beloved wife of the Mughal Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz
Islam appealed to Hindus of low caste

73. Kumbh Mela: The world’s largest festival
Kumbh Mela (कुम्भ मेला) is a Hindu pilgrimage that occurs four times every twelve years and rotates among four locations: Prayag (Allahabad), Haridwar, Ujjain, and Nashik. Each twelve-year cycle includes one Maha Kumbh Mela (Great Kumbh Mela) at Prayag (at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers), which is attended by millions of people, making it the largest gathering anywhere in the world. It was actually started by King Harshvardhana of Ujjain. He used all his wealth to donate during this Mela to poor, learned people of all religions.
After visiting the Kumbh Mela of 1895, Mark Twain wrote:
"It is wonderful, the power of a faith like that, that can make multitudes upon multitudes of the old and weak and the young and frail enter without hesitation or complaint upon such incredible journeys and endure the resultant miseries without repining. It is done in love, or it is done in fear; I do not know which it is. No matter what the impulse is, the act born of it is beyond imagination marvelous to our kind of people, the cold whites."

74. Kumbh Mela site Jan. 2007, 70,000,000 attended
Kumbh Mela site Jan. 2007, 70,000,000 attended? Kumbh Mela: Shortcut to Nirvana trailer