Hinduism in Sri Lanka
Hinduism has a long tradition in Sri Lanka. Hindus currently make up for 12.60% of the Sri Lankan population, and are almost exclusively Tamils apart from small immigrant communities from India and Pakistan such as the Sindhis, Telugus, Kannadigas and Malayalees. In the 1915 census they made up almost 25% of the population, which included the indentured labourers the British had brought. Due to assimilation, emigration (over 1 million Sri Lankan tamils have left the country since independence), today they are a smaller and still dwindling minority. Hinduism is dominant in the Northeastern province, where there is a significant number of Tamil people. Hinduism is also practised in the central regions (where there are significant numbers of people of Indian Tamil descent) as well as in the c
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Hinduism in Sri Lanka
Hinduism has a long tradition in Sri Lanka. Hindus currently make up for 12.60% of the Sri Lankan population, and are almost exclusively Tamils apart from small immigrant communities from India and Pakistan such as the Sindhis, Telugus, Kannadigas and Malayalees. In the 1915 census they made up almost 25% of the population, which included the indentured labourers the British had brought. Due to assimilation, emigration (over 1 million Sri Lankan tamils have left the country since independence), today they are a smaller and still dwindling minority. Hinduism is dominant in the Northeastern province, where there is a significant number of Tamil people. Hinduism is also practised in the central regions (where there are significant numbers of people of Indian Tamil descent) as well as in the c
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Hinduism has a long tradition ...... nhalese and aboriginal Veddas.
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Индуизм на Шри-Ланке исповедуе ...... их по национальности — тамилы.
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印度教在斯里蘭卡是主要傳統的宗教之一,現時佔斯里蘭卡人口約1 ...... 卡人的生活中,故印度教在斯里蘭卡只局限於泰米爾人聚居的地方。
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Hinduism has a long tradition ...... l descent) as well as in the c
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Индуизм на Шри-Ланке исповедуе ...... их по национальности — тамилы.
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印度教在斯里蘭卡是主要傳統的宗教之一,現時佔斯里蘭卡人口約1 ...... 卡人的生活中,故印度教在斯里蘭卡只局限於泰米爾人聚居的地方。
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Hinduism in Sri Lanka
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Индуизм на Шри-Ланке
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斯里蘭卡印度教
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