| Muhammadans | 2,398,320 |
| Hindus | 690,390 |
| Buddhists | 36,512 |
| Sikhs | 31,553 |
The Hindus belong mostly to the Jammu province, where nearly half of the population professes that faith. The people of Kashmír, Báltistán, Astor and Gilgit, Chilás and Hunza Nagár, are Musalmáns. The Ladákhís are Buddhists.
Religions in Panjáb.—The distribution by religions of the population of the Panjáb and its native States in 1911 was:
| Muhammadans | 12,275,477 or 51 p.c. |
| Hindus | 8,773,621 or 36 p.c. |
| Sikhs | 2,883,729 or 12 p.c. |
| Others, chiefly Christian (199,751) | 254,923 or 1 p.c. |
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Fig. 36. Map showing distribution of religions.
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The strength of the Muhammadans is in the districts west of the Biás and the Sutlej below its junction with the Biás. 83 p.c. of the subjects of the Nawáb of Baháwalpur are also Muhammadans. In all this western region there are few Hindus apart from the shopkeepers and traders. On the other hand the hill country in the north-east is purely Hindu, except on the borders of Tibet, where the scanty population professes Buddhism. While Hinduism is the predominant faith in the south-east, quite a fourth of the people there are Musalmáns. Sikhs nowhere form a majority. The districts in the eastern part of the Central Plains where they constitute more than one-fifth of the population are indicated in the map. In six districts, Lahore, Montgomery, Gujránwála, Lyallpur, Hoshyárpur, and Ambála the proportion is between 10 and 20 p.c.