Hindus are the most tolerant community in India according to Pew Research on Religion and Religious Freedom

A recent nationwide survey report by the Pew Research Center, a non-profit based in Washington DC, US, used freedom of religion, religious tolerance, Indian national identity, caste, experience and myriad other indicators to measure the making of Indian society. highlighted. and his behaviour. The report, titled “Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation”, is based on nearly 30,000 face-to-face interviews of adults conducted in 17 languages ​​between late 2019 and early 2020 (pre-Covid),

Belongs to six major religious groups (Hindus). Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains 109) maintain that each religious group is free to practice their own beliefs, and most maintain that people of other faiths are also free to practice their own religion. According to the report, with many saying they did not belong to inter-religious marriage, 85 percent of Hindus strongly valued religious tolerance, silencing left-liberals, who often targeted Hindus for being intolerant and unwilling. do not.

The report further states that 84 per cent of the population across the country believes that it is very important to respect all religions to be a “true Indian”. Indians are also united in the idea that respecting other religions is a very important part of being a member of their own religious community.

While two-thirds of Hindus say it is very important to prevent Hindu women (67 per cent) or Hindu men (65 per cent) from marrying in other religious communities, 80 per cent of Muslim men say it is very important to stop it. Muslim women refuse to marry outside their religion, and 76% say it is important to stop Muslim men from doing so.

Meanwhile, when asked whether they support Sharia courts and their existence, three-quarters of Muslims (74 percent) support the current system of Islamic courts. However, adherents of other religions are much less likely to support Muslim access to this separate court system.