Religion in Meghalaya 18002022

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#religion #hindu #islam #meghalayareligion #religiongrowth #dataeye • Meghalaya is one of three states in India to have a Christian majority. Around 75% of the population beliieves in Christianity, with, Baptist and Catholics the more basic sections. The religion of the general population in Meghalaya is firmly identified with their ethnicity. In Meghalaya, religion census 2011 provides good insight of current demography. As per census 2011, Christian are majority in Meghalaya state. Christian constitutes 74.59% of Meghalaya population, while Hindu are 11.53%. In all Christian form majority religion in out of districts of Meghalaya state. There was a slight increase in the Muslim population in the State even as the Christian population rose from 70.25 per cent in 2001, to 74.59 percent in 2011. As per the primary Census data, the Muslim population in the State has gone up by 0.12 per cent. • While the 2001 primary Census put the Muslim population in the State at 4.28 per cent with the percentage being 4.67 in rural areas and 2.68 in urban areas of the State, the latest Census shows that the population has gone up to 4.40 per cent with 4.85 per cent residing in rural areas and 2.58 per cent residing in urban areas. As per the data, the population was highest in West Garo Hills District where 16.60 per cent was Muslim. The Muslim population rose from 99,169 in 2001 to 1,30,399 during 2011, registering the marginal rise. • The Welsh Methodist mission was based in the Khasi Hills, while the American Baptist Mission worked in the Garo, Naga, and Mizo Hills. For the inhabitants of these hills the shift to literacy was mediated by these missions and their message of Christian improvement. The history of formal education in Meghalaya has been a recent one commencing with the formulation of a Khasi Alphabet in 1842 by Thomas Jones, a Welsh missionary. Similarly for the Garo Hills areas, a Garo Alphabet was evolved in 1902 by American missionaries using the Roman script. With requirements for a literate society not being high in colonial times, only a few elementary schools were functioning in what is now known as Meghalaya. • The first missionary, Thomas Jones, from Aberriw, Montgomeryshire, arrived in the Khasi Hills in Assam in 1841. Only around five hundred Khasis were converted in the thirty years that followed, but the extension of imperial control coupled with the growth of a medical mission, under the direction of Dr. Griffiths, led to greater success. The Khasi Christian community grew from 1,796 in 1881 to 6,766 a decade later. By 1901 the figure had reached 15,937 and by 1905, the year of the Welsh Revival, the missionaries had established a following of some 23,000. • The first college in fact was established in Shillong only in 1924 by the Christian Brothers of Ireland. Being a hill station blessed with bracing weather and having a strong colonial influence, several quality colleges and Public schools had been established over the years. The alumni of these schools are spread all over the country and their footprints are also found all over the world. Some of them hold very distinguished positions and occupy high offices in foreign countries, as well. • The first major challenge to Khasi matriliny came with the arrival of Christianity. Christianity came on the scene with its patrilineal values and cultural concepts. Christianity spread among the Khasis mainly during the British rule and presently covers more than 80 per cent of the total population in the State of Meghalaya. Christianity spread through the work of Christian missionaries both in rural as well as urban areas. The Christian Khasis were encouraged by the missionaries to restrain from participation in arrow shooting, traditional dancing, gambling and other cultural programs which were accompanied by animal sacrifices. Each denomination of the Christians imposed its own codes of conduct and religious observances; thereby creating more segmentations/ fragmentation of socio-religious lines. • Thanks for watching • data eye

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