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What are the basic tenets of Hindu religion? Is Hinduism based on monotheism or polytheism?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Religion and Society in India

Census 2011 returned 79.8 per cent of Indians as Hindu, yet they share no founder, no single scripture, no church and no creed. Hinduism is orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy — organised around correct practice and life-stage duty, not correct belief. That governs both halves of the question: a tradition indifferent to creed never had to…

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  • The basic tenets
  • Monotheism or polytheism?
  • The critical turn: the category is itself historical
  • Conclusion

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