In the second-most populous country in the world, India, the majority Hindu population scatter the ashes of the dead after cremation - but Muslims and Christians, who bury bodies, are running out of suitable land.
Among India's majority Hindu population, cows are considered to be sacred.
"If the Hindu population is negligible, they won't have to worry about it.
That sentiment, no doubt, brought little comfort to the city's growing Hindu population.
Buddhists and Muslims are sizable minorities among the largely Hindu population.
Some among the country's majority Hindu population also believe the constitution should have restored Nepal as a Hindu nation.
One of the invitations came from Barry Gardiner, Labour MP for Brent North, which has a large Hindu population.
Colonization intensified existing conflicts between the Hindu population and the Muslim population even as it motivated efforts toward linguistic standardization.
For six years, Bhindranwale had been telling Sikhs that they had become slaves of the majority Hindu population in India.
The Ganges (Ganga), considered sacred by the country's Hindu population, is 1,560 miles (2,510 km) long.
The Hindu population of South Asia comprises about 2,000 castes, each of whose members wear distinct clothes and ornaments.
