HRP: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
IRF: Annual Reports to Congress on International Religious Freedom
FREEDOM OF RELIGION
IRF 2000-01
The Constitution provides for secular government and the protection of
religious freedom, and the central Government generally respects these
provisions in practice; however, it sometimes does not act effectively
to counter societal attacks against religious minorities and attempts by
state and local governments to limit that freedom.
BAHÁ'Í COMMUNITY
IRF 2000-01
HRP 2000
According to 1999 government statistics (based on the 1991 national census),
Hindus constitute 82.4 percent of the population, Muslims 12.7 percent,Christians
2.3 percent, Sikhs 2 percent, Buddhists 0.7 percent, Jains 0.4 percent,
and others, including Parsis, Jews, and Baha'is, 0.4 percent.