Wikipedia's first sentence called it “second largest religion in the state with 38”. Today it says “second largest religion in the state of uttar pradesh with 38”.
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Muslims of Uttar Pradesh ( ) number about 30,740,158 (18.4961%), according to 2001 census, and form the largest religious minority in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . They are also known as Urdu speakers, on account of Urdu being their native language, and have also been referred to as Hindustani Musalman ( ہندوستانی مسلمان ). In the strict sense, the Uttar Pradesh Muslims do not form a single ethnic community.1They are differentiated by sectarian and Baradari divisions, as well as by dialect and geographical distribution.2Nevertheless, the Uttar Pradesh Muslims possess a sense of group identity based on cultural and historic factors. These include the Islamic religion, a Persian cultural tradition and its Indian offspring, the Urdu language . They are also a disproportionately urban community, reflecting an old historic legacy. Muslims are majority in Moradabad , Sambhal , Rampur , Amroha and Bahraich according to 2011 census. A World Ethnographic Survey edited by Richard Weekes pages 823 to 8283
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Eid al-Fitr in Uttar Pradesh The Muslim population in Uttar Pradesh was estimated to be 43,988,561 (19.3% of total population of Uttar-Pradesh ) in 2018 and forms the largest religious minority in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.Muslims of Uttar Pradesh have also been referred to as Hindustani Musalman ( ہندوستانی مسلمان ).They do not form a unified ethnic community, but are differentiated by sectarian and Baradari divisions, as well as by language and geography.Nevertheless, the community shares some unifying cultural factors.
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Islam in Uttar Pradesh is the second largest religion in the state with 38,483,967 adherents in 2011, forming 19.26% of the total population. Muslims of Uttar Pradesh have also been referred to as Hindustani Musalman ( ہندوستانی مسلمان ). They do not form a unified ethnic community, but are differentiated by sectarian and Baradari divisions, as well as by language and geography. Nevertheless, the community shares some unifying cultural factors. Uttar Pradesh has more Muslims than any Muslim-majority country in the world except Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Iran and Turkey.The Future of the Global Muslim Population .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Islam in Uttar Pradesh is the second largest religion in the state with 38,483,967 adherents in 2011, forming 19.26% of the total population. Muslims of Uttar Pradesh have also been referred to as Hindustani Musalman ( Urdu : ہندوستانی مسلمان ). They do not form a unified ethnic community, but are differentiated by sectarian and Baradari divisions, as well as by language and geography. Nevertheless, the community shares some unifying cultural factors. Uttar Pradesh has more Muslims than any Muslim-majority country in the world except Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Afghanistan. The Future of the Global Muslim Population .
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second largest religion in the state with 38
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second largest religion in the state of uttar pradesh with 38
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