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Country Delhi - capital the present Babylon in which various languages and races have mixed up. This the first, that is evident, as soon as appear in Delhi street. Here you will meet enough constrained kashmirtsa, soft by the nature, acute tamiltsa, ingenuous and resolute radzhasthantsa, imposing sikha, the refined Bengalese, and as differing an external originality malajali, a buzzing-zharattsa, andhrtsa, maratha, assamtsa. Many of them carry picturesque national clothes which they reluctantly change for the European suit. It in the past was carried basically by officials of the British administration. Nowadays it is preferred by young men and many townspeople from northern areas.

Quite often in streets Delhi and it is very frequent in the south of the country you will meet men with longitudinal or cross-section white strips on a forehead. These are orthodox induisty, belonging to two basic sects induizma: shivaistam and vishnuistam. You can Sometimes see the people, closing a bandage a nose and a mouth. Those who professes dzhajnizm, do it that, having inhaled, involuntarily not to ruin small insects. Quite often you see men in hats from black silk or brown astrakhan fur and occasionally - women in a yashmak. It, of course, Moslems. Sometimes it is possible to meet men in bright orange uniforms - Buddhist monks. If you see indianku in the European dress with a dagger on a neck, doubts are not present - before you hristianka. The man in the high accurately tied turban, with carefully twirled and tied up grid a beard, with a massive steel bracelet on a wrist is sikh.

Having appeared in Delhi, you on a number of external signs see, that India - the country of many religions. Really, approximately 580 million persons, or 85 percent of its population, profess induizm. Here about 70 million Moslems, more than 14 million Christians, over 13 million sikhov, about 4 million Buddhists, about 3 million dzhajnov.