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| Total population | |
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3,369,976 (2021) [1][2]1% of U.S. Population 2016 Public Religion Research Institute data[3] 0.7% of the U.S. Population 2015 Pew Research Center data[4] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 California | 778,804 |
 New Jersey | 278,600 |
 New York | 202,157 |
 Massachusetts | 140,027 |
 Illinois | 128,125 |
 Ohio | 117,800 |
 Texas | 112,153 |
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Hinduism in theUnited States is a religious denomination comprising around 1% of the population, nearly the same asBuddhism.[1]American Hindus in the United States largely include first and second generation immigrants fromIndia and otherSouth Asian countries, while there are also local converts and followers.[5][6] Several aspects related to Hinduism, such asyoga,karma, andmeditation have been adopted into mainstream American beliefs and lifestyles.[7][8][9]
Hinduism is one of theDharmic religions that adheres to the concept ofdharma, acosmic order, and includes the principle ofreincarnation. According to the Pew survey of 2018, around 33% of Americans believe in reincarnation, an important concept in Hinduism and Buddhism.[10][11]Om is a widely chantedmantra, particularly amongmillennials and those who practice yoga and subscribe to theNew Age philosophy.
Historically, the 19th-century AmericanTranscendentalist philosophers such asEmerson andThoreau got interested inHindu philosophy and read theBhagavad Gita. In 1893,Swami Vivekananda's address to theWorld's Parliament of Religions inChicago was one of the first major discussions of Hinduism in the United States. In 1925,Paramahansa Yogananda became the firstKriya Yoga teacher to settle in America. In the 1960s,Beatles memberGeorge Harrison played songs that included HindumantraHare Krishna, and helped popularize Hinduism in America.
After the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, theHindu community in the US began to grow with immigrants from South Asia.[12] As a result of US immigration policies that favored educated and skilled migrants from India,[13] Hindu Americans are the more likely to hold college degrees and earn higher incomes than other denominations. Recently, Hindu Americans have also become active in state and national politics, including formerpresidential candidates such asTulsi Gabbard andVivek Ramaswamy.
In the 19th century, Americans engaged with Hinduism through literary, philosophical, and missionary encounters.[14]Transcendentalist philosopherRalph Waldo Emerson got interested in Hindu philosophy through Vedic texts such asIsha Upanishad and works byRaja Ram Mohan Roy, founder of the Brahmo Samaj, which inspired rethinking on the concepts of self, God, and the cosmos.[15][16][17] Roy translated Hindu scriptures which challenged missionary reports of Hinduism as an idolatrous tradition and shaped earlyUnitarian views of Hinduism as a legitimate and evolving religious tradition.[18][19] Although initially sceptical, Emerson later regardedVedantic non-dualism as deeply resonant with his belief in an inner, divine essence, and he encoded these views in essays likeThe Over-Soul and poems such as "Brahma."[20][21]
Henry David Thoreau was another Americantranscendentalist and an Emerson protégé, who had keen interest inHindu sacred texts.[22] In his 1854 book,Walden, Thoreau detailed his spiritual retreat at theWalden Pond,Massachusetts, where he read theBhagavad Gita daily and didyoga.[23][24] He also called himself as "yogi" and noted that his simple living was inspired by the Gita.[25][26]
However, early engagement between American thinkers and Hindu ideas in the 19th century was shaped byOrientalism, often reducing the religion to mystical abstraction or primitive superstition.[27][28][29] In 1875,Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott established theTheosophical Society which popularised Hindu ideas among American audiences through constructing a universalist spiritual system centred on karma, reincarnation, and divine wisdom.[30][31][32] In 1879, Blavatsky visited India and met with Dayanand Saraswati, founder of the Arya Samaj. Saraswati opposed both Christian evangelism and popular Hindu ritualism.[17] While Blavatsky had hoped to enlist Saraswati in the Theosophical movement, Saraswati rejected the Society's reinterpretations of the Vedas.[33]
In 1893,Swami Vivekananda's address to theWorld's Parliament of Religions inChicago was one of the first major discussions of Hinduism in the United States. He lectured on Hinduism in several cities, includingDetroit,Boston, and New York, from 1893-1895.[34][35] He also introduced Yoga philosophy and a mixture of yoga breathwork (pranayama) andmeditation.[36] Starting in 1902,Swami Rama Tirtha spent two years speaking on the philosophy ofVedanta in the United States.[37]
In 1920,Paramahansa Yogananda was India's delegate to the International Congress of Religious Liberals held in Boston.[38] He embarked on a successful speaking tour in the US before settling inLos Angeles in 1925, where he trained disciples inKriya Yoga.[39] Yogananda was among the first Indian Yoga teachers to settle in the US, and the first prominent Hindu scholar to be hosted in theWhite House in 1927.[40][41] He published hisAutobiography of a Yogi in 1946, which was recognized as one of the best spiritual books of the 20th century.[42]
Around 1857, the American poet-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, who led theTranscendentalist movement of the mid-19th century, studied the Hindu scriptureBhagavad Gita.[43] The Bhagavad Gita is a central text in Hinduism and a synthesis of various strands of Hindu religious thought, including the Vedic concept ofdharma (duty, rightful action);samkhya-basedyoga andjnana (knowledge); andbhakti (devotion).[44] Emerson noted that Gita's message was an allegory for the inner battle between good and evil in the human soul.[45]
In the late 19th century, Swami Vivekananda's speeches in America contained numerous references to the Gita, and the four yogas – bhakti, jnana, karma, and raja ,[46] and through the message of the Gita, Vivekananda sought to re-emphasize the core tenets of Hindu thought both in India and America.[47]
In the 20th century, an American scholar ofHindu philosophy,Gerald James Larson,[48] who was a Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilization atIndiana University, Bloomington as well as Professor of Religious Studies at theUniversity of California, Santa Barbara,[49] stated that "if there is any one text that comes near to embodying the totality of what it is to be aHindu, it would be the Bhagavad Gita."[50][51]
During the 1960s, Hindu teachers found a receptive audience in the U.S.counter-culture, leading to the formation of a number ofNeo-Hindu movements, such as theInternational Society for Krishna Consciousness founded bySwami Prabhupada.[52] People involved in thecounter-culture such asRam Dass,George Harrison, andAllen Ginsberg were influential in the spread of Hinduism in the United States.[53][54][55]
Ram Dass was aHarvardprofessor known asRichard Alpert who traveled to India in 1967 and studied underNeem Karoli Baba.[53] He returned the West as a Hindu teacher and changed his name to Ram Dass, which means servant ofRama (one of the Hindu gods).[53] Jeffery Kagel commonly known asKrishna Das, went to India in the sixties and returned to America as a practitioner ofBhakti yoga and singer of Hindu devotional music known askirtan (chanting the names of God), described by the New York Times as "the chant master of American yoga".[54]
Beatles member George Harrison[56] became a devotee ofSwami Prabhupada. Harrison started to record songs with the words "Hari Krishna" in the lyrics and was widely responsible for popularizing Hinduism in America in the 1960s and 1970s. His song,My Sweet Lord, became the biggest-selling single of 1971 in the United Kingdom. In 1967, theHuman Be-In event held inSan Francisco'sGolden Gate Park[57][58] as a prelude to San Francisco'sSummer of Love, a symbol of Americancounterculture, and involved chanting of "Om" byAllen Ginsberg, a follower of Hinduism.[55]
In the 1970s,Maharishi Mahesh Yogi developed a popular meditation technique, theTranscendental Meditation (TM), and became known as the "Guru" who brought meditation to America.[59][60] In 1974,Alfred Ford, the great-grandson ofHenry Ford, joinedISKCON and helped establish the first Hindu temple inHawaii and the Bhakti Vedanta Cultural Centre in Detroit.[61] Other influential Indians of Hindu faith in the counter-culture movement areMata Amritanandamayi andChinmoy.[62]
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According to the 2023–24 Pew Research Center Religious Landscape Study, Hindus comprise approximately 0.9% of the U.S. adult population, increased from 0.4% in 2007.[63] The Hindu population of the United States is theeighth-largest in the world.[citation needed] Most Hindus in the United States are of Asian Indian origin, and about 80% of Asian Indian immigrants practice Hinduism.[64] The US Hindu population has been growing over the recent decades.[64] In a 2025 survey, The approximate Hindu population in the US in 2025 is around 3.6 million and 84% of Hindus reported their ethnic origin fromAsian countries.[65]
Earlier in a 2015 survey, most Hindus in America were immigrants (87%) or the children of immigrants (9%), while the remaining were converts.[66] The majority of Hindus are immigrants fromSouth Asia.[65] There are alsoHindus from theCaribbean,Southeast Asia,Canada,Oceania,Africa,Europe and theMiddle East. In the U.S. there are also about 900 ethnicCham people fromVietnam, one of the few remaining non-Indic Hindus in the world, 55% of whom are Hindus.[67]
From 2008 to 2017, around 90000 HinduBhutanese refugees were resettled in the United States.[68][69] Earlier in 1988, a census inBhutan resulted in ethnic and linguistic tensions against the Nepali-speaking HinduLhotshampa ethnic group, leading to them becoming Bhutanese refugees in Nepal.[70][71][72] ManyAfghan Hindus have also settled inUnited States, mainly afterSoviet–Afghan War and the rise of theTaliban.[73][74] A number of Hindu-Americans immigrated twice, first from former British colonies ofEast Africa, the Caribbean, Fiji to the United Kingdom, and then to the United States.[75][76]
According to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, in 2017 Hindus were the largest minority religion in 92 of the 3143 counties in the US.[77] Although Hinduism is practiced mainly by people of South Asian descent, a sizable number of Hindus in United States are converts to Hinduism. According to the Pew Research Center, 9% of Hindus in United States belong to a non-Asian ethnicity:White (4%),Black (2%),Latino (1%) and mixed (2%).[5]
As per the 2020 census, the median age of Hindus in the United States was 36 years, which is lower than the national average of 47 years. Hindus are the second youngest religious group, after Muslims (33 years).[78] While as per 2023, the median age of Hindus have increased to 42 years.[79]
American Hindus have the highest rates of educational attainment and highest household income among all religious communities, and the lowest divorce rates.[80] In 2008, according to Pew Research Center, 80% of American adults who were raised as Hindus continued to adhere to Hinduism, which is the highest retention rate for any religion in America.[81]
Due to the U.S. immigration policies, most of the Hindu immigrants have been educated and highly skilled professionals, most likely to hold college degrees.[13]
Historically, some notable Hindus came to America for education in the late 19th and 20th centuries.Anandibai Joshi is believed to be the firstHindu woman to set foot on American soil, arriving in New York in June 1883 at the age of 19, graduating with a medical degree from theWomen's Medical College of Pennsylvania in March 1886, becoming the first female of South Asian origin to graduate with a degree in Western medicine in the United States.[82]
According to a 2014 Pew Research survey, 88% of the American Hindu population believed inGod (versus 89% of adults overall). However, only 26% believed thatreligion is very important in their life. About 51% of theHindu population reportedpraying daily.[5]
According to thePew Research Center, only 15% of the Americans identified theVedas as aHindu religious text. Roughly half of Americans knew thatyoga has roots in Hinduism.[83][84]
Since Hindu Americans come from a diverse linguistic background, they speak many languages including the following:English,Hindi andits varieties,Telugu,Gujarati,Bengali,Tamil,Punjabi,Nepali,Marathi,Malayalam,Kannada,Sindhi,Kashmiri,Assamese,Dogri, andOdia.
Further, smaller groups of Hindu Americans also speak the following:Tulu,Angika,Maithili,Bhojpuri,Magahi,Newar,Konkani,Gondi,Kurukh,Kokborok,Meitei,Limbu,Gurung,Tamang,Magar,Rai,Boro,Santali,Nagpuri,Khandeshi,Pashto,Hindko,Saraiki,Rajasthani languages,Pahari languages,Bhil languages,Tharu languages,other South Asian languages,Hinglish,Caribbean English,Caribbean Hindustani,Fiji Hindi,Mauritian Creole,Dutch,Polish,French,Malay,Russian,Balinese,German,Tenggerese,Cham,Romani,Spanish and other languages.
Many of the early Hindu emissaries to the United States drew on ideological confluences between Christian and Hindu universalism.[85] Hindu temples in the United States tend to house more than one deity corresponding with a different tradition, unlike those in India which tend to house deities from a single tradition.[86] Yoga become part of many American's lifestyle, but its meaning has shifted. While Hindus in the United States may refer to the practice as a form of meditation that has different forms (i.e. karma yoga, bhakti yoga, kriya yoga), it is used in reference to the physical aspect of the word.[87]
In 1966 B.K.S. Iyengar’s "Light on Yoga" was published in the United States, where it became a guide for yoga asana practice, and Iyengar was invited to teach Yoga in US.[8] In 1975, the first issue of "Yoga Journal" was published, which has since become the magazine of record for Yoga in America.[8] By 2016, according to anIpsos study, 36.7 million Americans were practicing yoga.[88]
The principle ofreincarnation, which is an integral part of Hinduism and otherDharmic religions, has been increasingly accepted with around one-third of Americans believing in re-birth including 29% of American Christians.[11] The Pew survey of 2018 found increasing influence of “New Age” beliefs such as reincarnation, and the presence of spiritual energy in physical objects like mountains or trees, with 33% of Americans believing in reincarnation.[10] The practice ofvegetarianism, often associated with Hinduism,[89] is also gaining acceptance, though mainly for health reasons.[90]
In the 1980s,Deepak Chopra, a medical doctor of Hindu background, established anAyurvedic holistic health center,[91] which also conductedTM meditation sessions.[92] In 1990s, Chopra gained recognition for his books on Mind-Body health such asQuantum Healing andPerfect Health,[93] along with his appearances onThe Oprah Winfrey Show.[94] In 2009,Lisa Miller, aWilbur honored American writer and journalist[95][96] noted the contemporary influence of ancient Hindu concepts of religious pluralism: "Truth is One, but the sages speak of it by many names", and "there are many paths to God".[97][98]
In 2016,Sadhguru, an Indian guru of Hindu heritage, published a spiritual self-help book,Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy, which became aNew York Times bestseller.[99] Around 2020, Sadhguru traveled across America, addressing audiences and gaining celebrity followers such asWill Smith andMatthew McConaughey.[100] Sadhguru has since raised awareness of Yoga, environment, and spiritual principles such as "karma" in talks with multiple American podcasters, includingJoe Rogan.[99][100]
In 2019, a Pew survey noted that 71% of Hindus believed thathomosexuality should be accepted, which is higher than the general public (62%).[5] The same study also said that about 68% of Hindus supported same-sex marriage, vs. 53% of the general public.[5] The 2019 Pew survey also noted that Hindus in the United States supportabortion rights (68%). Further, the same survey indicated that about 69% of Hindus supported regulations to protect theenvironment andnature.[5]
Hinduism has influenced several Hollywood movies such asEat Pray Love, which is a movie about a "modern American woman’s journey towards peace through Indian spiritual practices,"[101] including spending time at a Hindu ashram in India and practicing yoga.[102] The science fictionInterstellar, directed byChristopher Nolan is considered to be inspired by the central notion of universal super-consciousness that transcends space and time from the ancient Indian philosophical texts, the Upanishads.[101][103]Oppenheimer, a biographical thriller by Christopher Nolan based on the life of the American physicist who helped develop the first nuclear bomb, shows the lead character,J. Robert Oppenheimer, reading and quoting from the Hindu scripture andBhagavad Gita.[104]
Several Hollywood actors follow Hindu traditions, includingJulia Roberts, who is a practicing Hindu and played the role of a spiritual seeker inEat, Pray, Love.[6][105]Hugh Jackman,Shawn Mendes, andVin Diesel hold theBhagavad Gita in high regard.[106] ActorWill Smith is also known to follow Hindu rituals including a visit to India and participating inGanga aarti prayer.[107]
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In September 2000, a joint session ofCongress was opened with a prayer inSanskrit (with someHindi andEnglish added), byVenkatachalapathi Samudrala to honor the visit of Indian Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee. The gesture was an initiative by Ohio CongressmanSherrod Brown, who requested the U.S. Congress House Chaplain to invite the Hindupriest from the Shiva Vishnu Hindu Temple inParma, Ohio.[108] A Hindu prayer was read in theSenate on July 12, 2007, by Rajan Zed, a Hindu priest from Nevada, who served as the Senate guest Chaplain.[109] His prayer was interrupted by a couple and their daughter who claimed to beChristianpatriots, which prompted a criticism of candidates in theupcoming presidential election for not condemning the interruption.[110] In October 2009, PresidentBarack Obama lit a ceremonialDiwali lamp at the White House to symbolize victory oflight overdarkness.
In April 2009, President Obama appointedAnju Bhargava, a management consultant and pioneer community builder, to serve as a member of his inaugural Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnership. In collaboration with the White House, Hindu American Seva Communities was formed to bring the Hindu seva voices to the forefront in the public arena and to bridge the gap between U.S. government and Hindu people and places of worship.
In the2020 elections,Tulsi Gabbard became the first Hindu to run in thepresidential race fromDemocratic Party,[111] though later she endorsedJoe Biden.[112] In 2021, the State ofNew Jersey joined with the World Hindu Council to declare October as Hindu Heritage Month.[113]
In recent years, the political participation of Indian-Americans has increased withVivek Ramaswamy being Hindu of Indian background running for the position ofpresident in the2024 elections fromRepublican Party, though he later endorsedDonald Trump.[114]
In 2025, Tulsi Gabbard was sworn in as thedirector of national intelligence[115][116] taking the role of PresidentDonald Trump's top intelligence adviser, and became the firstHindu American to hold aCabinet-level position.[117][118]
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In the 119th US Congress, there are four Hindu Congressmen (0.8% of total).[119]
TheVedanta Society was responsible for building the earliest temples in the United States, starting in 1905 with the Old Temple inSan Francisco,[121][122][123] but they were not considered formal temples.[124] The earliest traditionalmandir in the United States is ShivaKartikeya Temple inConcord, California. It was built in 1957 and is known as Palanisamy Temple. It is one of the few temples run by public elected members.[125] The Maha Vallabha Ganapathi Devastanam, owned by theHindu Temple Society of North America in Flushing, New York, was consecrated on July 4, 1977.[126]
According to some estimates, there are over 1000 Hindu temples across the United States.[citation needed] The New York and New Jersey region has the majority of the temples[citation needed]; Texas is reported to have around 128, and Massachusetts has 127 temples.[127][citation needed]
Other temples include theMalibu Hindu Temple, built in 1981 inCalabasas, California, and owned and operated by the Hindu Temple Society of Southern California. In addition,Swaminarayan temples exist in almost 20 states.[citation needed]
The oldest Hindu temple in Texas is the Shree Raseshwari Radha Rani temple atRadha Madhav Dham,Austin.[128] The temple was established byJagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj. It is one of the largest Hindu temple complexes in theWestern Hemisphere,[129] and the largest inNorth America.[130][131][132]
Parashakthi Temple[133] inPontiac, Michigan, is aTirtha Peetham for Goddess "Shakthi," or the "Great Divine Mother" in Hinduism. The temple was envisioned in 1994 by Dr. G. Krishna Kumar in a deep meditative Kundalini experience of "Adi Shakthi".[134]
Akshardham inRobbinsville, New Jersey, is one of the largest stone Hindu temples in the United States.[135]
In 2010, the Bharatiya Temple of Northwest Indiana temple was opened[136] next to the Indian American Cultural Center in Merrillville, Indiana. The Bharatiya Temple allows four different Hindu groups as well as aJain group to worship together.[137]
TheSri Ganesha Temple of Alaska inAnchorage, Alaska, is the northernmost Hindu temple in the world.[138]
As a result of theBellingham Riots inBellingham, Washington, on September 5, 1907, some 125 Indians (mostlySikhs but labelled asHindus) were driven out of town by a mob of 400-500 white men. Some victims of the riots migrated toEverett, Washington, where they received similar treatment two months later.[139]Riots occurred during this period inVancouver,British Columbia,[140] andCalifornia.[141]
In the 1923 caseUnited States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, the Supreme Court ruled that Thind and other South Asians were not "free white persons" according to a 1790 federal law that stated that only white immigrants could apply for naturalized citizenship.[142] TheImmigration Act of 1924 prohibited the immigration of Asians such as Middle Easterners and Indians.[143]
The first wave of South Asian immigrants in America was predominantlyPunjabi Sikhs, who migrated to the West Coast in the early 20th century due to economic hardships in India. They typically labored in agriculture, railroads, and lumberyards, establishing communities and the first Sikh temple in California by 1912. In the early 1900s,White Americans labeled all South Asian immigrants “Hindoos,” regardless of their religion, labeling them as an economic and cultural threat and leading to hostility, violent attacks, and forced expulsions by white workers in towns like Bellingham, Washington. Sentiments intensified through organizations like theAsiatic Exclusion League and widespread media portrayal of an alleged "Hindoo invasion."[144]
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In February 2015, Hindu temples inKent and the Seattle Metropolitan area werevandalized, and in April 2015, a Hindu temple in north Texas was vandalized with xenophobic images spray-painted on its walls.[145][146] In January 2019, the Swaminarayan Temple in Kentucky was vandalized. Black paint was sprayed on the deity; the words "Jesus is the only God" and theChristian cross was spray painted on various walls.[147][148]
Around 2022, there were several cases of vandalism of Hindu Temples inNew York byKhalistan separatists, including the destruction ofMahatma Gandhi's statue outside Shri Tulsi Mandir in South Richmond Hill, New York, which was vandalized two times, first on August 3, 2022, and then on August 16, 2022, wherein 5-6 miscreants smashed the Gandhi statue with sledgehammers and spray paintedKhalistan on the statue.[149][150] In September 2022, a man named Sukhpal Singh was arrested and charged with a hate crime incident at the Hindu temple in Queens, New York, in which he destroyed the Gandhi statue and spray painted derogatory words.[151]
In October 2023, there was a burglary at a Hindu mandir in Sacramento, California, with six suspects stealing a donation box from the premises, some Hindu groups alleged that the theft was motivated by religious hate.[152] The incident, which took place at the Hari Om Radha Krishna Mandir in Sacramento, was condemned by theCoalition of Hindus of North America (CoHNA) as a potential hate crime.[153][154]
In January 2024, a Hindu temple in California was defaced with proKhalistan graffiti.[155]
In 2000, the firstHinduopening prayer was offered in theU.S. Congress by Venkatachalapathi Samuldrala, a priest ofShiva Hindu Temple inParma, Ohio.[156][157][158] This prayer coincided with the visit of Prime Minister of IndiaAtal Bihari Vajpayee to U.S. in 2000.[156] Under the rules of theUnited States House of Representatives, RepresentativeSherrod Brown ofOhio invited aHindupriest, Samuldrala.[156][157][158] This prayer prompted criticism from some conservative Christian groups such asFamily Research Council, who protested against it in conservative media, in turn generating responses from their opponents and leading to discussions over the role of legislative chaplains in a pluralist society.[158][159]
On July 12, 2007,Rajan Zed, a Hindu priest, offered a prayer in the U.S. Senate as its guest priest. The proceedings were interrupted by three self-professed Christian protestors, who were arrested by Capitol Police and charged with a misdemeanor for disrupting Congress.[160] The conservative Christian groupAmerican Family Association objected to the prayer,[161] citing the loss of the "Judeo-Christian foundations" of the United States.[162]
In 2005, the Texas-based Vedic Foundation and the American Hindu Education Foundation filed a complaint to California's Curriculum Commission, arguing that the coverage ofIndian history and Hinduism in 6th grade historytextbooks was biased against Hinduism.[163] Points of contention included a textbook's portrayal of thecaste system, theIndo-Aryan migration theory, and thestatus of women in Indian society.[164]
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Dalits form 1.5% of all Indian immigrants to the United States, according to a University of Pennsylvania study carried out in 2003.[165][166] While a 2019 survey conducted by a Dalit rights group, Equality Labs[167] claimed that the majority of Dalits living in the US reported facing caste-based harassment at the workplace,[168][165] the survey results were questioned by the Carnegie Endowment researchers, who pointed out that the study used a non-representativesnowball sampling method to identify participants, which might have skewed the results in favor of those with strong views about caste.[169][167]
In 2021, the student body ofCalifornia State University system passed a resolution seeking a ban on caste-based discrimination.[166] The campaign was spearheaded by a Nepali origin Dalit student, who came to the US in 2015 escaping social exclusion in his home country, and claimed that he faced discrimination in the US as well.[166] The resolution cited the survey by Equality Labs where a quarter of Dalits reported having faced verbal or physical assaults.[166]Al Jazeera noted that the resolution was backed by students from different racial and religious groups.[166]
Around 2023, several Hindu-American organizations successfully opposed the SB 403 bill, which aimed to introduce caste laws inCalifornia that could have unfairly targeted Hindu Americans.[170] In 2023, California legislature proposed a bill to add “caste” under California laws, but the bill was vetoed by GovernorGavin Newsom noting that such measure was “unnecessary” because discrimination based on caste was already prohibited in the state, stating that "California already prohibits discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other characteristics".[171] Many Hindu American groups welcomed Governor's veto as they argued that the proposed bill attempted to unfairly malign their community.[170][171]
Several organizations have been formed to combat discrimination against Hindus in the United States and raise issues impacting Hindu Americans. Some of these organizations include:
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Krishna Das is an unassuming icon of this trend. A practitioner of Bhankti yoga, the devotional limb of mystical Hinduism, he has fashioned himself into akirtan wallah, or traveling singer, bringing divine praises
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Roberts affirmed her Hinduism in the wake of Eat, Pray, Love – a movie that tells the tale of a modern American woman's journey towards peace through Indian spiritual practises
Elizabeth Gilbert is not the first author to write about a personal transformation resulting from time in an ashram and the practice of yogic disciplines. Nor is Eat Pray Love the first film to depict India's primary religious tradition in a positive way
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