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Assam was once Hindoo but had long become Buddhist under its Ahom kings, and now became converted to Hindooism, by Brahmins from Bengal.

From My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills by Johnstone, James Johnstone, chevalier de

But the associations of this spot are not all of Hindooism and idolatry.

From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

Buddhism disappeared gradually from India, and Hindooism took its place.

From The Critic in the Orient by Fitch, George Hamlin

In Asia Islam disputes the sway of Hindooism in India, where the Queen has more Moslem subjects than the Sultan himself, and of Buddhism in the islands of the Malayan Archipelago.

From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

Hindooism however has the higher conception of Brahma, the pure unity of thought in itself, where the empirical everything of the world, as also those proximate substantialities, called Gods, vanish.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich