This source names India directly: "itself the only Jain tirtha outside India."
Source About Siddhachalam (Siddhachalam.org)
This source names India directly: "American Jains describe it as the first Jain tirtha outside India and the only Jain monastery outside the country."
Source About Siddhachalam (Siddhachalam.org)
Its own cited description places the Sarna complex among Adivasi peoples of eastern and central India.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
This source names India directly: "centres, a 158 bed hospital in India, the largest not for profit private healthcare system in Pakistan, and 14 million people cared for annually across the wider AKDN Health network."
Source Aga Khan Health Services (AKDN Official Agency Page)Aga Khan Development Network
This source names India directly: "at nearly one hundred locations across India."
Source American Archive of Public Broadcasting, "Ahimsa: Non-Violence" Catalog Record
This source names India directly: "River in present-day Maharashtra, India."
Source Ajanta Caves, Paintings (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "ascetic religious tradition of ancient India, contemporary with the earliest generations of Buddhism and Jainism and drawn from the same wandering sramana milieu of the Ganges basin."
Source History of Indian Buddhism: From the Origins to the Saka EraEtienne Lamotte, translated by Sara Webb-Boin
This source names India directly: "as a leading British historian of India in his period and the book's long-standing status as a foundational English language biography of Akbar."
Source Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605Vincent A. Smith
This source names India directly: "Alberuni's India, Edward C."
Source Alberuni's IndiaAbu Rayhan al-Biruni, translated by Edward C. Sachau
The Indian west coast carries the Mappila and Konkani Muslim communities, the Parsi landing site and the basilica at Goa.
Source The Indian OceanMichael Pearson
This source names India directly: "The Archaeological Survey of India is cited here from its own institutional record as the government body responsible for archaeological research and protection of monuments across India, a role it..."
Source Archaeological Survey of India (institutional record)the holders' own account
This source names India directly: "A further appeal to the Supreme Court of India was pending as of late June 2026, which had refused to suspend the sentence."
Source Al Jazeera: High-Profile Guru Asaram Bapu Sentenced to Life for Rape
This source names India directly: "Union of India, the lead petition filed in 2020 challenging the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, before the Supreme Court of India, is the primary litigation document confirmed as..."
Source Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay v. Union of India, petition challenging the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991Supreme Court of India
This source names India directly: "the Archaeological Survey of India's survey findings at the Gyanvapi Mosque site, a currently contested and actively litigated matter in India."
Source ASI Survey Report on Gyanvapi MosqueDrishti IAS
This source names India directly: "Thapar is among the most influential historians of ancient India, and this early work established the critical, epigraphy first approach to Ashoka that later scholarship in the field has generally..."
Source Asoka and the Decline of the MauryasRomila Thapar
This source names India directly: "Melothesia in Ancient Rome and India, Tejas Aralere's 2023 dissertation in Classics, co-advised across Classics and Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, confirmed..."
Source Astrological Melothesia in Ancient Rome and India: Intercultural Conversations in Religion, Medicine, and Technical ScienceTejas Subramanya Aralere
This source names India directly: "Bharati, Ladnun-341306, Rajasthan, India..."
Source Ayaro = Acaranga Sutra (Internet Archive)Internet Archive (digitized catalogue record)
This source names India directly: "distinct from Hinduism as practised in India, and its temple festivals remain widely and publicly observed today."
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
This source names India directly: "It is inscribed on the emblem of the Life Insurance Corporation of India, which is an unusually literal application of scripture."
Source Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita, English translation and commentarySwami Swarupananda
This source names India directly: "operating fitment centres across India and holding fitment camps in dozens of countries."
Source 50 Years of BMVSS: How the Jaipur Limb Parent Company Rehabilitated 2.3 Million Since Inception (The Federal)The Federal (staff report)
Its own cited description places the Bhil peoples in western India.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
This source names India directly: "Bodo people of Assam in northeastern India, worshipped without an image at an altar built around the sijou, a species of Euphorbia planted in the courtyard."
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
India was governed by the Company until 1858 and then by the Crown, under a promise of religious non-interference and a system of personal law by community.
Source Religion Versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914Andrew Porter
This source names India directly: "Emperor Ming's dream and an embassy to India, conventionally dated to 67 CE, is a later legendary elaboration rather than an independently verifiable event."
Source The Buddhist Conquest of China: The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval ChinaErik Zurcher
This source names India directly: "early routes: possibly directly from India as early as the third or second century BCE, and separately from China from around the first century CE onward."
Source Buddhism in Vietnam (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "Buddhist Sects in India, Nalinaksha Dutt's 1970 survey from Firma K."
Source Buddhist Sects in IndiaNalinaksha Dutt
This source names India directly: "A Press Trust of India (PTI) wire report, carried by Business Standard on 26 April 2019, on a Surat sessions court's conviction of Narayan Sai, son of the Hindu guru Asaram Bapu, in a case brought..."
Source Business Standard (PTI): Gujarat Court Convicts Asaram's Son Narayan Sai in Rape CasePress Trust of India (PTI)
This source names India directly: "West Bengal and Odisha in eastern India, also called Chal-it Parab."
Source Chaitra Parva and Seraikela Chhau (Sahapedia)Sahapedia
This source names India directly: "and martial dance tradition of eastern India, performed in three regional styles: Seraikella in Jharkhand and Purulia in West Bengal, both danced in mask, and Mayurbhanj in Odisha, danced bare faced."
Source Chhau Dance (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "List record for Chhau dance of eastern India, inscribed 2010, consulted 2026-08-13."
Source Chhau Dance, UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of HumanityUNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
This source names India directly: "of the printed devotional image in India, centered on Ravi Varma's press and its role in the political and cultural life of the images it produced."
Source Christopher Pinney, Photos of the Gods: The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India, Reaktion Books, 2004Christopher Pinney
This source names India directly: "pilgrimage networks in Maharashtra, India."
Source Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in IndiaAnne Feldhaus
This source names India directly: "Explanation I, of the Constitution of India, adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India in 1950, is the primary constitutional text providing that the wearing and carrying of kirpans is deemed..."
Source Constitution of India, Article 25, Explanation IConstituent Assembly of India
This source names India directly: "95 percent of all Hindus living in India."
Source Countries with the Most Hindus & Global Hindu Population Change, 2010-2020
This source names India directly: "Crime in India, the annual report of India's National Crime Records Bureau, is an official government statistical series, cited here without a single edition year since it is an ongoing annual..."
Source Crime in India, annual reportNational Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India
This source names India directly: "Contemporary reporting from India Today, one of India's largest national English language news magazines, published within weeks of the film's June 1986 Mumbai premiere, covering the objections..."
Source Dawar, "On Wings of Fire: Cyrus H. Bharucha's Film on Zoroastrianism Generates Heat Among Orthodoxy," India Today, 1986Rati Dawar
This source names India directly: "death ritual as practiced elsewhere in India needs a source addressing that different local context directly."
Source Death in BanarasJonathan P. Parry
This source names India directly: "This is the Government of India's own Press Information Bureau briefing, issued through the Ministry of Culture in 2024, on the Kapilavastu Relics, recovered by K."
Source Exposition of the Sacred Relics of Lord Buddha, The Holy Buddha Relics (Government of India)Ministry of Culture, Government of Indiathe holders' own account
This source names India directly: "material for the first time in India since the collection left the country more than a century earlier, following the relics' 2025 repatriation."
Source Famed Piprahwa Gems On Display in India After More Than 120 Years AbroadBuddhistdoor
This source names India directly: "Souls, Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India, An Exploration of the Kolam, published by Oxford University Press in 2018, is a scholarly study of the kolam, the rice flour threshold designs drawn daily..."
Source Feeding a Thousand Souls: Women, Ritual, and Ecology in India, An Exploration of the KolamVijaya Nagarajan
This source names India directly: "purpose of letting Sikh pilgrims from India visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur without a visa, and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres's visit describing it as a Corridor of Hope."
Source First Anniversary of the Opening of the Kartarpur Corridor (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan)
This source names India directly: "Bhaktipada), reporting his death in India at 74."
Source Former US Krishna Leader Swami Bhaktipada Dies (CBS News)CBS News (wire report)
This source names India directly: "Bharat's carriage of a Press Trust of India report on the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board's Right to Information disclosure of five years of pilgrim donation and precious metal offering figures."
Source From Rs 63 Crore to Rs 171 Crore: Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in J&K Records Massive Increase in Donations in 5 Years (ETV Bharat/PTI, 2025)PTI (Press Trust of India)
The river crosses the northern Indian plain, and in 2017 a state high court declared it a legal person, a ruling stayed within months.
Source Banaras: City of LightDiana L. Eck
This source names India directly: "the Garo of Meghalaya in northeastern India, among them Tatara Rabuga, the creator, and Misi Saljong, the sun god associated with fertility and the harvest."
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
This source names India directly: "article on the gaushala movement in India, consulted 2026-08-11."
Source Gaushala (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Its own cited description places the religion of the Gond peoples in central India.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
This source names India directly: "Golden Temple, in Amritsar, Punjab, India, is a broadcasting practice controlled by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the elected body that has governed Sikh gurdwaras under the..."
Source History of Gurbani Broadcast (The Tribune)
This source names India directly: "headquarters to Adyar, near Madras in India, where he worked to connect Theosophy with a revival of Buddhism and Hinduism, formally converting to Buddhism in Sri Lanka in 1880 and campaigning for..."
Source The Theosophical EnlightenmentJoscelyn Godwin
About 79 to 80% of the population is Hindu, the largest religious group by a wide margin.
Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
This source names India directly: "around the first century CE, adopting Indian religious and legal custom over the following centuries; by the fifth century, the ruler Kaundinya II is recorded as having changed all the kingdom's..."
Source Funan (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "Akal Takht Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab, India, the highest seat of Sikh temporal-religious (miri-piri) authority for interpreting Sikh teachings, issued an edict denouncing same-sex marriages, and..."
Source Homosexuality and Sikhism (Wikipedia)
This source names India directly: "departed Calcutta in 1834 carrying 36 Indian labourers under a trial indenture scheme bound for Mauritius, the first of what became a system that carried more than 1.6 million Indian workers, most..."
Source Indian Indenture System (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "On 8 and 9 November 2019, India and Pakistan opened the Kartarpur Corridor, a roughly four kilometer visa-free passage linking the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Punjab state to Gurdwara Darbar..."
Source First Anniversary of the Opening of the Kartarpur Corridor (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan)
This source names India directly: "India wants Buddha begging bowl from Kabul; ASI experts to check authenticity, an India TV news report from 2016, covers Indian interest in a bowl held in Kabul and the Archaeological Survey of..."
Source India wants Buddha begging bowl from Kabul; ASI experts to check authenticity (India TV)India TV
This source names India directly: "literature, describing a wild ass of India with a single horn."
Source IndicaCtesias of Cnidus
This source names India directly: "a leading specialist in Tibetan and Indian Buddhist studies, and this is his major scholarly survey tracing how Buddhism actually transmitted from India into Tibet, working directly from the Indian..."
Source Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and Their Tibetan SuccessorsDavid L. Snellgrove
This source names India directly: "schools in the United States and India from 1972, when the first US gurukula opened in Dallas, to around 1990."
Source ISKCON Abuse Cases Settled for USD 9.5 MillionThe Pluralism Project
This source names India directly: "or gurukulas, in the United States and India, alleged to have occurred between 1972, when the first US gurukula opened in Dallas, and around 1990."
Source ISKCON Abuse Cases Settled for USD 9.5 MillionThe Pluralism Project
About 14 to 15% Muslim, one of the largest Muslim populations in the world by absolute number.
Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center
This source names India directly: "Wikipedia's article on Islam in India, community-edited."
Source Islam in India (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "founded in 1991 in Mumbai, India by Zakir Naik, devoted to comparative religious outreach and best known as the parent organization of the Peace TV satellite network."
Source Centre Extends UAPA Ban on Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation for 5 Years (India TV News)
This source names India directly: "of a larger multi volume history of India that situates Sikh history within its wider regional context rather than treating it in isolation."
Source J.S. Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (New Cambridge History of India II.3)J. S. Grewal
Jainism originated in and remains centered in India.
Source The JainsPaul Dundas
This source names India directly: "Reliable for the standard account that Jains first emigrated from India to Kenya in the late nineteenth century and then to Uganda, Sudan and Tanzania, and for the 1972 exodus of Asians from Uganda..."
Source Jainism In Africa (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "a longstanding gateway between India and East Africa, built the Shri Zanzibar Katcchi Jain Temple in 1905 and consecrated murtis of Parsvanath, Shantinath and Mahaveerswami there, the first Jain..."
Source Zanzibar Derasar (Jain Treasures)Jain Treasures
This source names India directly: "fieldwork among Jain communities in India, documenting lived religious practice at sites such as Palitana and Shatrunjaya and the roles Jain religious specialists actually occupy, rather than..."
Source Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in IndiaJohn E. Cort
This source names India directly: "Hope in 1652, the year the Dutch East India Company founded its refreshment station there."
Source Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) (South African History Online)South African History Online
This source names India directly: "Jinvani Channel is an Indian television channel launched on December 9, 2011 by Jain Telemedia Services Ltd, a subsidiary of the commercial broadcaster Sea TV Network Ltd, based in Agra, India."
Source Jinvani Channel (Wikipedia)
This source names India directly: "of the monk Xuanzang's pilgrimage to India accompanied by the trickster figure Sun Wukong, drawing on and elaborating Buddhist, Daoist and popular religious material."
Source Journey to the WestWu Cheng'en (attributed)
This source names India directly: "the Khasi of Meghalaya in northeastern India."
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
This source names India directly: "1950s, and his flight into exile in India in 1959 at age twenty-three."
Source Kundun (1997 film) (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "article on Jainism's legal status in India, community edited, giving the exact legal basis for the January 2014 minority notification, Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities Act..."
Source Legal Status of Jainism as a Distinct Religion in India (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "30 June 2026, on the Supreme Court of India issuing notice to the State of Rajasthan on Asaram's petition challenging the Rajasthan High Court's May 2026 judgment, while refusing for now to suspend..."
Source LiveLaw: Supreme Court Issues Notice on Asaram Bapu's Plea Against Rape ConvictionDebby Jain
This source names India directly: "suit decided by the Supreme Court of India in 2019, is a primary legal source of the first order, the Court's own unanimous judgment resolving decades of litigation over the disputed site claimed by..."
Source M Siddiq v Mahant Suresh Das (Ayodhya title suit)Supreme Court of India
This source names India directly: "to half a million, the largest outside India itself."
Source British Sikhs (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "after a journey that included India."
Source Manichaeism (New Catholic Encyclopedia, via Encyclopedia.com)J. Ries
This source names India directly: "community of Manipur, in northeastern India, performed to mark religious occasions and the major stages of an individual life."
Source Sankirtana, Ritual Singing, Drumming and Dancing of Manipur, UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of HumanityUNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
This source names India directly: "most concentrated in Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq)."
Source Mapping the Global Muslim Population
This source names India directly: "and iconographic treatise from South Indian temple-building tradition, one of the vastu-shastra texts prescribing proportion, orientation and iconographic detail for temple and house construction."
Source Mayamata: An Indian Treatise on Housing, Architecture and IconographyTranslated by Bruno Dagens
This source names India directly: "people of Manipur in northeastern India."
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
This source names India directly: "of the Archaeological Survey of India who led the original dig."
Source Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus CivilizationJohn Marshall
This source names India directly: "session, held in New Delhi, India, from 21 to 31 July 2024, as a transnational serial property spanning Bethlehem in the United States, Herrnhut in Germany and Gracehill in the United Kingdom..."
Source Moravian Church Settlements (UNESCO World Heritage Centre)
This source names India directly: "ascetic Nilkanth made across India between June 1792 and July 1799, before he became known to followers as Swaminarayan."
Source Mystic India (Wikipedia)
This source names India directly: "film database entry for Mystic India, listing its large-format theatrical distribution and confirming Giant Screen Films as distributor, corroborating the film's commercial theatrical release..."
Source Mystic India (Giant Screen Cinema Association)
This source names India directly: "Wikipedia's Mystic India article, confirming director Keith Melton, that the film was "financed and produced by BAPS Charities," the plot (Nilkanth's 12,000 km, seven year barefoot journey across..."
Source Mystic India (Wikipedia)
This source names India directly: "news release announcing that Mystic India won the Audience's Choice Prize at the 10th International Large Format Film Festival in Paris, France, direct institutional confirmation that BAPS itself..."
Source Mystic India Wins the Audience's Choice Prize (BAPS News, 2005)
This source names India directly: "Buddhist monastic university in Bihar, India, maintained through Wikipedia's ordinary community editing process rather than a fixed editorial board."
Source Nalanda Mahavihara (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "in August 2026 the Supreme Court of India declined to suspend his sentence and directed the High Court to decide the appeal within three months."
Source Business Standard (PTI): Gujarat Court Convicts Asaram's Son Narayan Sai in Rape CasePress Trust of India (PTI)
This source names India directly: "Union of India, the Supreme Court of India's own 2014 judgment, recognized a third gender legal category and affirmed the constitutional rights of transgender persons in India."
Source National Legal Services Authority v. Union of IndiaSupreme Court of India
This source names India directly: "ethnographic study of the hijras of India, based on Nanda's own fieldwork and interviews documenting their social organization, religious roles and place within Indian society."
Source Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of IndiaSerena Nanda
This source names India directly: "hill town of Panchgani, Maharashtra, India, founded on 1 August 1945 as a Baha'i children's hostel by the decision of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of India, Burma and Ceylon..."
Source The Baha'i World, Volume XVI (1973-1976): The History of New Era High SchoolThe Baha'i World Centre, under the supervision of the Universal House of Justice
This source names India directly: "The Indian Army assaulted the Golden Temple complex at Amritsar, Sikhism's holiest site, between 1 and 10 June 1984, aiming to remove an armed militant group that had fortified itself inside."
Source Operation Blue Star (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "Maneck's 1702 appointment as the East India Company's first broker there and the 1728 founding of the Bombay Parsi Panchayet; explicit that the earlier migration from Persia to Gujarat itself has no..."
Source Parsis (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "India's 1947 partition split the Punjab along religious lines, and the western half became part of the new state of Pakistan."
Source Sikhs In Pakistan (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
India was created as the partition's Hindu-majority-successor, religiously plural successor state to British India.
Source Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh, The Partition of India (2009)Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh
This source names India directly: "Press's Murty Classical Library of India, 2015, is a scholarly translation."
Source Poems of the First Buddhist WomenTranslated by Charles Hallisey
This source names India directly: "to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India is the British Crown's own instrument transferring rule of India from the East India Company to the Crown and stating its policy toward Indian religions."
Source Proclamation by the Queen in Council to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of IndiaQueen Victoria in Council
This source names India directly: "his outlook after traveling to India with the campaign of Alexander the Great and encountering practitioners who lived without fixed dogmatic belief."
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEdward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman (eds.)
This source names India directly: "at institutions in Jammu and Kashmir, India."
Source Qadri and Mufti, "Films and Religion: An Analysis of Aamir Khan's PK," Journal of Religion & Film, 2016Monisa Qadri and Sabeha Mufti
This source names India directly: "foundational account of its arrival in India, preserved and transmitted within Parsi tradition itself."
Source Qissa-i SanjanBahman Kaikobad (attributed)
This source names India directly: "Games, an independent studio in Pune, India, and published by super.com."
Source Raji: An Ancient Epic (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "in the Deccan region of South India."
Source Ramanuja, accession IM.33-1936 (Victoria and Albert Museum)Victoria and Albert Museum, catalogue entry
This source names India directly: "tradition of the Braj region of North India, most active in Vrindavan and Mathura, that stages the rasa dance Krishna is said to have performed with the gopis, the cowherd women of Braj, in a circle..."
Source Raslila (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "January 2016 Centre for Policy Studies India blog post compiling the Census of India's Jain population figures for 2001 (4,225,053, 0.41 percent of the population) and 2011 (4,451,753, 0.37..."
Source Religion Data of Census 2011: Jains
This source names India directly: "Rizvi was a historian of Mughal India, and this book, published by Munshiram Manoharlal, is his academic study of the religious and intellectual life of Muslims during the reign of the Mughal..."
Source Religious and Intellectual History of the Muslims in Akbar's Reign, with Special Reference to Abu'l Fazl (1556-1605)S. A. A. Rizvi
This source names India directly: "among Hindus and Muslims in India, examining how religious identity and nationalist politics have shaped each other."
Source Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in IndiaPeter van der Veer
This source names India directly: "Nanavati Commission of Inquiry, published by the Government of India in 2005, is the official inquiry's own findings into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots that followed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's..."
Source Report of the Justice G. T. Nanavati Commission of Inquiry (1984 anti-Sikh riots)Justice G. T. Nanavati
This source names India directly: "potato and mild spices, eaten across India by Hindus observing a vrata (religious vow fast), most prominently during the nine nights of Navratri."
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
This source names India directly: "and, by its own account, the first Indian satellite channel to bring social and spiritual leaders onto a single platform."
Source Satellite TV Channel, Sadhna TV (Sadhna.com Official Website)
This source names India directly: "At the request of King Devanampiya Tissa, she sailed from India carrying a sapling of the Bodhi tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, together with eleven companion..."
Source The Mahavamsa, or the Great Chronicle of CeylonWilhelm Geiger (trans.)
This source names India directly: "June 2000 from Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, carrying spiritual discourses, bhajans, kirtans and pilgrimage-site coverage."
Source Sanskar TV (Wikipedia)
This source names India directly: "in 1973 near Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, by Asaram Bapu (born Ashumal Sirumalani, also known as Asha Ram), teaching a devotional blend of Vedanta and yoga emphasizing celibacy, meditation and..."
Source Al Jazeera: High-Profile Guru Asaram Bapu Sentenced to Life for Rape
This source names India directly: "fusing European academic realism with Indian religious subject matter."
Source Wikipedia, "Raja Ravi Varma"Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "An Indian umbrella network of Hindu volunteer-service organizations founded in 1989 as the service wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), created on the birth centenary of RSS founder Keshav..."
Source Seva Bharati (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "Cast in South India, in the Tamil Nadu region, during the Chola dynasty's twelfth century, it combines in one four-armed figure Shiva's roles as creator, preserver and destroyer of the universe..."
Source God Shiva, Lord of the Dance (Nataraja), accession 1947.2 (Denver Art Museum)Denver Art Museum, catalogue entry
This source names India directly: "or pilgrimage site, located outside India; for its two temples representing both the Digambara and Svetambara traditions and its status as the only Jain monastery outside India; and for the 2012..."
Source Siddhachalam (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "in 1801, and its end, the British East India Company's annexation proclaimed 30 March and completed 2 April 1849 after the Second Anglo-Sikh War; not the right source for a claim about the religious..."
Source Sikh Empire (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "travelling as part of a British Indian Army contingent for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee arrived in Vancouver aboard the Empress of India in 1897, the earliest documented Sikh presence in Canada."
Source Sikhs In Canada (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Sikhism originated in the Punjab region of India and remains centered there.
Source SikhismW. H. McLeod
This source names India directly: "The Wikipedia entry on Sikhism in India, giving the Sikh population recorded at the 2001 Census of India (19,215,730, or 1.87 percent of India's population) and the 2011 Census of India (20,833,116..."
Source Sikhism in India
This source names India directly: "Vancouver aboard the Empress of India in 1897 for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident, in which 376 passengers were refused entry under exclusionary immigration..."
Source Sikhs In Canada (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Its own cited description places these deities among devotees in Sri Lanka and southern India.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
This source names India directly: "of ancient and early medieval India, and this Verso, originally Penguin India, book is her historiographical study of the Somnath temple, examining not just the temple's history but the competing..."
Source Somanatha: The Many Voices of a HistoryRomila Thapar
This source names India directly: "ancient Buddhist gem collection to India after legal pressure, published by The Art Newspaper in 2025, reports the halted May 2025 Sotheby's Hong Kong sale of the Piprahwa gems consigned by..."
Source Sotheby's returns ancient Buddhist gem collection to India after legal pressureThe Art Newspaper
This source names India directly: "with the Archaeological Survey of India under Alexander Cunningham in 1861."
Source Frascati Manual 2015: Guidelines for Collecting and Reporting Data on Research and Experimental DevelopmentOECD
This source names India directly: "Star of India: The Log of an Iron Ship, Jerry MacMullen's 1957 institutional history from the Maritime Museum Association of San Diego, by the San Diego waterfront reporter who led the 1926 purchase..."
Source Star of India: The Log of an Iron ShipJerry MacMullen
This source names India directly: "article on the State Emblem of India, consulted 2026-08-12."
Source State Emblem of India (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "Peace University (MIT WPU) in Pune, India, jointly organized with Zoroastrian College."
Source Grand Installation of Prophet Zarathustra's Statue (zoroastrians.net)zoroastrians.net editorial staff
This source names India directly: "for Legal Policy that live-covers Indian Supreme Court hearings, recording that the nine-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant concluded sixteen days of hearings in..."
Source Supreme Court Observer, "Sabarimala Reference: Day 16, Supreme Court Reserves Judgement" (14 May 2026)Supreme Court Observer editorial staff
This source names India directly: "Union of India is the Supreme Court of India's own 2023 judgment declining to extend legal recognition to same sex marriage under existing law, a split decision delivered on 17 October 2023..."
Source Supriyo alias Supriya Chakraborty v. Union of IndiaSupreme Court of India
Its own cited description places the Tani peoples in Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
This source names India directly: "wanting the movement's wider all India context should pair it with broader histories of the anti-caste temple entry campaigns."
Source Temple-Entry Movement in Travancore, 1860-1940Robin Jeffrey
This source names India directly: "generic account of Hindu festivals in India."
Source Thaipusam in Malaysia: A Hindu Festival in the Tamil DiasporaCarl Vadivella Belle
This source names India directly: "communities across Delhi and other Indian cities that broke out on 31 October 1984, immediately after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards in apparent..."
Source Report of the Justice G. T. Nanavati Commission of Inquiry (1984 anti-Sikh riots)Justice G. T. Nanavati
Point of origin, spreading from a Delhi temple.
This source names India directly: "to government school children across India to fight hunger and encourage school attendance."
Source The Akshaya Patra Foundation (USA): Financial Statements, Years Ended December 31, 2023 and 2022The Akshaya Patra Foundation (USA); audited by KellyVitaleRaffol, LLC
This source names India directly: "Dioceses multiplied across British India, Africa, Australia and the Pacific through the nineteenth century, and by 1867 the communion of churches this growth had produced was substantial enough that..."
Source A History of Global AnglicanismKevin Ward
The demolition took place at Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, and the riots that followed spread to cities across India.
Source Report of the Liberhan Ayodhya Commission of InquiryJustice Manmohan Singh Liberhan (Commission of Inquiry)
This source names India directly: "popular historian of British India and its archaeology."
Source The Buddha and Dr Fuhrer: An Archaeological ScandalCharles Allen
This source names India directly: "pilgrimage route across northern India and southern Nepal connecting the four principal sites of the Buddha's life: Lumbini, his birthplace; Bodh Gaya, where he attained enlightenment beneath the..."
Source The Princeton Dictionary of BuddhismRobert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr.
This source names India directly: "framework of Carnatic (South Indian classical) music, formalized by the seventeenth century musicologist Venkatamakhin, organizing all possible seven-note ragas by their scale structure into 72..."
Source The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd editionStanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (eds.)
This source names India directly: "a major scholarly account of the South Indian Draupadi cult and its mythology."
Source The Cult of Draupadi, Volume 1: Mythologies from Gingee to KuruksetraAlf Hiltebeitel
This source names India directly: "Tibetan refugee monastery in exile in India, whose scheme to rent a television so the monastery can watch the 1998 FIFA World Cup final between France and Brazil tests the community's patience and..."
Source Wikipedia, "The Cup (1999 film)"
This source names India directly: "The Estado da India was the Portuguese colonial administration governing Goa and other Indian Ocean holdings from the early sixteenth century, operating under the Padroado real, the royal patronage..."
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
This source names India directly: "of Holi as observed in the North Indian village Marriott studied directly, reading the festival's ritualized role reversal and boundary crossing, including the temporary inversion of caste and..."
Source The Feast of Love, in Krishna: Myths, Rites, and AttitudesMcKim Marriott
The tribunal operated at Goa, the Portuguese crown's principal colony on the west coast of India.
Source Goa Inquisition (Wikipedia)
This source names India directly: "evidence for Romani origins in India."
Source The GypsiesAngus Fraser
This source names India directly: "Leslie Brown's The Indian Christians of St."
Source The Indian Christians of St. Thomas: An Account of the Ancient Syrian Church of MalabarLeslie Brown
This source names India directly: "public, especially Jain communities in India and the UK, through education and training and through the relief of poverty, sickness and distress."
Source The Jain Network: Charity Commission Filed Accounts, Year Ended 31 March 2025The Jain Network (trustees' annual report and accounts, filed with the Charity Commission)
This source names India directly: "and continuous passage directly from India, a route that did not exist and made the requirement effectively unmeetable."
Source Sikhs In Canada (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "groups and monastic communities in India between roughly 1500 and 1900."
Source The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500 to 1900Ramya Sreenivasan
This source names India directly: "syllable mantra Om Mani Padme Hum in India around the middle of the first millennium CE, built around a detailed annotated precis of the Karandavyuha Sutra, the text in which the mantra first..."
Source The Origins of Om Manipadme Hum: A Study of the Karandavyuha SutraAlexander Studholme
This source names India directly: "draws thousands of Sikh pilgrims from India and around the world each year, most heavily around Gurpurb, the anniversary of Guru Nanak's birth."
Source J.S. Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (New Cambridge History of India II.3)J. S. Grewal
This source names India directly: "of the Piprahwa stupa in northern India, the stone reliquary coffer, five inner reliquaries, charred bone fragments, roughly 1,800 accompanying gems, and the inscribed vase naming the Sakya clan."
Source The Piprahwa Project (Peppe family research site)Chris Peppe and others
This source names India directly: "Medicinal Uses of Cannabis in China, India and Tibet, published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs in 1981, is a peer reviewed survey of the textual evidence for ritual and medical cannabis use..."
Source The Religious and Medicinal Uses of Cannabis in China, India and TibetMia Touw
This source names India directly: "the Sant devotional tradition of North India, the loosely connected poet-saints, including figures such as Kabir, whose teaching emphasized a formless divine beyond caste and sectarian boundary."
Source The Sants: Studies in a Devotional Tradition of IndiaKarine Schomer and W. H. McLeod (eds.)
This source names India directly: "and two wars with the British East India Company, the empire was formally dissolved by proclamation on 30 March 1849 and annexation completed 2 April 1849, ending Sikh political sovereignty in the..."
Source Sikh Empire (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "monk Xuanzang from Chang'an to India and back, tracing the historical route stage by stage."
Source The Silk Road Journey with XuanzangSally Hovey Wriggins
This source names India directly: "the image's legendary journey through India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and the northern Thai kingdoms, its 1434 discovery at Chiang Rai and its installation in its purpose built Bangkok temple in 1784..."
Source The Temple of the Emerald Buddha (World History Encyclopedia)Kim Martins
This source names India directly: "of Hellenistic Greek astrology into Indian form, with Pingree's extensive commentary tracing exactly how the transmission happened."
Source The Yavanajataka of SphujidhvajaDavid Pingree
This source names India directly: "in Mumbai, Udvada and Navsari, India; the Trust has also periodically issued emergency medical relief appeals for members of the Zoroastrian community."
Source The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe: Trustees' Annual Report and Financial Statements, Year Ended 31 March 2025The Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe (Incorporated), Trustees, with an independent auditor's report by Brian Paul Limited
This source names India directly: "Society headquartered near Chennai, India, tracing its history from the society's 1875 founding in New York through Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Blavatsky's move of its headquarters to Adyar in 1882."
Source Theosophical Society Adyar (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
India hosts the Dalai Lama, the exile administration at Dharamsala and the refounded monasteries.
Source Tibet: A HistorySam van Schaik
This source names India directly: "stretching from the Mediterranean to India and China."
Source The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian ChristianityChristoph Baumer
This source names India directly: "An independent Indian news feature, published 24 May 2021, used only for its plainly documented structural claims: that Sewa Bharati is the RSS's service wing and Sewa International's parent..."
Source Twitter's Sewa International Donation: Image Rehabilitation for RSS-Linked Charity? (TwoCircles.net)Pieter Friedrich, TwoCircles.net
This source names India directly: "of devadasis, temple dancers of South India, and how their history is remembered and contested in modern India."
Source Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South IndiaDavesh Soneji
This source names India directly: "as Moral Protest in Contemporary India, published by Stanford University Press in 2017, is a scholarly study examining Hindu pilgrimage, particularly to Amarnath and other sites, as a form of moral..."
Source Uprising of the Fools: Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary IndiaVikash Singh
This source names India directly: "was a fourth to fifth century CE Indian Buddhist scholar-monk from Purushapura (modern Peshawar) in Gandhara, the younger half-brother of Asanga and, with him, one of the two principal architects of..."
Source Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEdward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman (eds.)
This source names India directly: "1989 founded Sewa Bharati network in India and to disaster response work following the 1993 Latur earthquake, headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas with chapters across the United States."
Source Vision and Mission (Sewa International Official Page)Sewa International Inc.
This source names India directly: "Agitation, issued by the Government of India in 1984, is the government's own official account of the events surrounding Operation Blue Star and the wider Punjab crisis of that year."
Source White Paper on the Punjab AgitationGovernment of India
This source names India directly: "and community in Hyderabad, South India, based on extended fieldwork and published by the University of Chicago Press."
Source With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South IndiaGayatri Reddy
This source names India directly: "different regions and temples of India, and the institution as a whole became the subject of considerable colonial-era moralizing and later reform legislation, so a claim generalizing from the Puri..."
Source Wives of the God-King: The Rituals of the Devadasis of PuriFrederique Apffel-Marglin
This source names India directly: "Destiny: Practicing Astrology in North India, published by the State University of New York Press in 2021 in its Hindu Studies series, is an ethnography of astrological practice in Banaras built on..."
Source Words of Destiny: Practicing Astrology in North IndiaCaterina Guenzi
This source names India directly: "across the UK, Canada, Georgia, India, the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States, with objectives spanning poverty relief, education, sickness relief and the provision of burial grounds for..."
Source The World Zoroastrian Organisation Ltd: Charity Commission Filed Accounts, Year Ended 31 December 2024The World Zoroastrian Organisation Ltd (trustees' annual report and accounts, filed with the Charity Commission)
This source names India directly: "temples in China, Japan, Taiwan and India."
Source Xuanzang Temple, Nanjing (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "October 18, 1965 in Bombay (Mumbai), India, and trained originally in medicine before turning to public speaking on comparative religion."
Source Zakir Naik (Wikipedia)
This source names India directly: "have" the first Jain derasar outside India, with the first murtis ever consecrated outside India, Parsvanath, Shantinath and Mahaveerswami; and that those murtis were relocated to Nairobi in 1964..."
Source Zanzibar Derasar (Jain Treasures)Jain Treasures
This source names India directly: "a first foothold for Jainism outside India, moved on to Kenya."
Source Zanzibar Derasar (Jain Treasures)Jain Treasures
This source names India directly: "around him, tracing its history in India, at Rajneeshpuram in Oregon, and after Rajneesh's death."
Source Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho MovementHugh B. Urban
This source names India directly: "Wikipedia's "Zoroastrianism in India" article, carrying a Census of India population table for the Parsi community: 114,890 in 1941, 91,266 in 1971, 69,601 in 2001, 57,264 in 2011, each figure..."
Source Zoroastrianism in India (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "Zarathushti Existence, with retired Indian Supreme Court Justice Rohinton F."
Source 12th World Zoroastrian Congress 2022 NYC (FEZANA)
This source names India directly: "sailed for the west coast of India and, according to the community's own account, the Qissa-i Sanjan, landed at Sanjan on the coast of Gujarat, where a local ruler granted them refuge on condition..."
Source Parsis (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
This source names India directly: "Zoroastrian communities in Iran and India alongside the historical and textual record, following the tradition from ancient Persia through to the living Parsi and Iranian Zoroastrian communities she..."
Source Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and PracticesMary Boyce