The sheer diversity of Hinduism and its inherent contradictions may appear baffling to an outsider. It doesn't tick any of the boxes that would define a religion if we apply the Western definition ...

“The ease and enthusiasm with which Hindus in India were able to appropriate that term [Hinduism] shows that they already had a sense that they had this value. It’s just that the term could be applied ...

Who is a Hindu? This question has bewildered many for centuries. Hinduism has through the years gone through several layers of evolution. As European power grew in the Indian subcontinent in the 16th ...

One example is the term “Hinduism” itself. It was used first by Charles Grant in a pejorative sense, to dismiss “natives’” religion as crude superstition. Yet within a few years that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A book about Hinduism which begins with a maharaja’s cows sounds a little like a Rudyard Kipling tale ...

the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less.” While Venn diagrams may not have solved any long-standing open problems, surely these ...

Robert Wright describes a central scene in The Matrix in his bestselling 2017 book, Why Buddhism Is True: “Morpheus (played by Laurence Fishburne), explains the situation to Neo: 'You are a ...

Visit the homepage for more information. The word Hindu originates from the Persian term for “Indian,” and Hinduism is the religion of the peoples of India. However, an exact definition is not simple.

Nehru felt that Jainism and Buddhism were considered not as a revolt against Hinduism but an attack on polytheism and Brahminism. He concluded that the Upanishad philosophy had produced a powerful ...