Fewer Hindus in Nepal’s Latest Census
Source: www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/210502/detFOR07.asp KATHMANDU, NEPAL, June 11, 2002: A six-percent drop in Nepal’s Hindu population in the last decade has evoked a mixed reaction in the sole Hindu kingdom. The recently published census report for 2001 shows Hindus make up 80.6 per cent of the population as against 86.5 per cent in 1991. Compared to this, the number of Buddhists rose…