Indentured laborers from India were transported to Fiji, Jamaica, Trinidad, Martinique, Suriname, and other countries or islands for work.
In this post, we can see about the 3rd largest Hindu population in the world after India and Nepal.
There are 96.63 crore Hindus in India, which is 79 percent of the total population. At the same time, if we look at the percentage of the total population, the percentage of Hindus is higher in neighboring Nepal. More than 80 percent of the total population of Nepal are Hindus.
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, as of the 2021 census, Hindus constituted 81.19 percent of Nepal. In terms of numbers, there are 2 crore 36 lakh 77 thousand 744 Hindus here. Once upon a time, Nepal was a Hindu nation. But in 2006 it was declared a secular state.
Nepal is the largest Hindu country in the world in terms of percentage. Nepal's culture is similar to that of Tibet and India. Religious and caste tolerance is the basic culture of Nepal. Vaishnavism, Saivism, Buddhism, and Sakta are influential here. Nepal consists of 9 percent Buddhists and 4.4 percent Muslims.
Mauritius has the largest number of Hindus after Nepal and India. Hindus now constitute more than 50 percent of Mauritius. According to the 2011 census in Mauritius, 48.5 percent of the total population are Hindus. Now he is believed to have reached 51 percent.
Hinduism began to spread in Mauritius through indentured labor. A large number of Hindus were brought to Mauritius to work under the rule of the East India Company. These workers were brought from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. They worked on British plantations. Mauritius has now become the country with the largest Indian population in the African continent. Hindus are the majority here.
Indians were first taken to Mauritius in 1836. After this, indentured laborers from India were transported to Fiji, Jamaica, Trinidad, Martinique, Suriname, and other countries or islands for work.
Most of the Prime Ministers of the Government of Mauritius are Hindus. Most of the government ministers there are also Hindus. They also dominate the economy and governance of Mauritius.
Fiji is second only to Mauritius with a Hindu population of 27.9 percent. Guyana has 23.3 percent Hindus and India's neighbor Bhutan has 22.5 percent Hindus. Hindus are 18.2 percent in Tobago, 15.1 percent in Qatar, and 12.6 percent in Sri Lanka.