Talk:Hinduism in Iran

vedic roots and connections
maybe someone should mention that...--Dangerous-Boy 11:01, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Do you know of any reputable source materials that I can use? Siyavash 19:47, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Andy 18:06, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
This is absolute rubbish. My cousin worked in Tehran and Yazd for more than a decade, returning to India 2 years ago. He told me that he never met any Hindu in Iran who had Iranian citizenship. The number is probably 1000 or less than that... all of them South Asian temporary immigrants working in South West Iran.
 * It may very well be "absolute rubbish", but it's the US State Department's mistake if your cousin's impromptu religious census collection is indeed true. Anyone who converts will be afraid to admit it in public, but even I admit that the percentage sounds a bit exaggerated, and it may be the result of a disinterested fact checker at the US State Department who decided to label every minority religion .1%, or one of us Wikipedians watching Hinduism by country while playing The telephone game minus the prudent exercise of Due diligence. Thank you for your concern. Siyavash 20:41, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * There were some Hindus and Sikhs from India who came in the 19th and 20th centuries in Southern Iran's Persian Gulf coast are, notably Bandar Abbas, for reasons of Business and trade. There might still be some there or in Tehran. Iranian religion censuses are not reliable for many reasons. They are just a door to door census. Many people are unreached, many are double counted, many to not answer or many make jokes with it. Moreover many claim that such censuses are fake. The fact is that those statistics are not based onany registration. Moreover not only citizens, but every body is asked, while large numbers of Iranian citizens in foreign countries are not reported. There are not much Hindus in Iran and have never been. Thease are all Hindu fundamentalist propaganda. They think highly of themselves. That is not necessarily bad, but they have lost the reality.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 16:15, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

the false claim is removed
no such a claim was made in the source http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35497.htm that there were 60000 plus Hindus in Iran. I removed that. I checked the other source., There was indeed mentioned that new Age style Hinduism seems to be the fastest growing religion in Iran. But allow me to doubt if the newspaper "Hindu" should be considered a neutral source for sucha claim.--Babakexorramdin (talk) 11:15, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

warning
Hindu/Indian editors really should provide a source for their claims,. Otherwise the enitre article will be removed. Because nothing here seems credible or sourced. --Babakexorramdin (talk) 09:19, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

An Article with no citation
This article provides no citation for several of its claim. I think this page should be deleted from wikipedia. The word "Hindu" is a Persian/Farsi word used to refer to people of India. The word "Hindu" originally didn't refer to the faith of India, but rather to its citizen. So, to say that 'Hinduism' was present in Iran in Middle Ages is contradictory to itself. --Theotherguy1 (talk) 02:28, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Ganesha
Now what's the relevance of this sentence:
 * "In 1993, a metal plate depiction of an elephant-headed figure, reminiscent of Ganesha, was discovered in Lorestan Province, Iran, dating back to 1,200 BCE"

An elephant-headed figure holding a quill, who is reminiscent of Ganesh as he wrote the Mahabharata (Nandita Krishna, Sacred Animals of India]. Regarding the Mahabharata:
 * "The oldest preserved parts of the text are thought to be not much older than around 400 BCE, though the origins of the epic probably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE"

Skip the nonsense, this is WP:OR. Joshua Jonathan  -  Let's talk!   16:44, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Many old cultures including Olmec, Mayan and also Indus Valley Civilization(seals) seemed to have provided importance to Elephant, any different thoughts are indeed possible after these few researches. Bladesmulti (talk) 17:09, 1 January 2015 (UTC)