[smedley64]

Wow, ten years to get a business permit? That IS a lot of bureaucracy.

India is moslty Hindu, isn't it? Do you know what % of the population is muslim? I know I've seen some stories about muslims causing problems in India with some isolated terror incidents, but they're fairly outnumbered there, aren't they?

[bruinbirdman]

India:

Ethnic groups: Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)

Religions: Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified

yitbos

[Cronos]

India's religion diversity is:

• 81% Hindu --> approx. 850 million
• 12% Muslim (Sunni, Shia, Ismaili, Sufi, Ismaili, Bohri, Ahmaddiyya, etc.) --> approx. 130 million
• 2.5% Christian (Mostly Catholic, but also Syrian Orthodox, Syro-Malankar, Syro-Malabar, some small Protestant groups and large numbers of Baptists in the north-east of India) --> approx. 30 million Christians (and that doesn't include the large numbers of Christians who migrate as they have a higher literacy rate)
• 1% Sikh (like the Indian Prime Minister),
• 1% Jain (a religion that may have influenced Buddhism)
• <1% Buddhist (despite Buddha having been born and lived and preached in India -- depictions of him as Chinese to the contrary)
• 70,000 Zoroastrians (the religion of Cyrus the Great of Persia) -- the largest community left in the world after the Islamic conquest of Persia