Seminar on Buddhist Literary Heritage in India: Text and Context (2005 Calcutta, India)

Islam is India's second-largest religion, with 14.2% of the country's population, or approximately 172.2 million people, identifying as adherents of Islam in a 2011 census. India has the third-largest number of Muslims in the world. Most of India's Muslims are Sunni, with Shia making up about 15% of the Muslim population. Islam first spread in southern Indian communities along the Arab coastal trade routes in Gujarat and on Malabar Coast shortly after the religion emerged in the Arabian Peninsul…