Religion
| Year | Christian | Hindu | Muslim | Buddhist | Others | Total No. |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | ||
| 1981 Census | 44,689 | 42.07% | 28,895 | 27.20% | 29,161 | 27.45% | 3,363 | 3.17% | 127 | 0.12% | 106,235 |
| 2012 Census | 56,932 | 57.48% | 23,464 | 23.69% | 16,553 | 16.71% | 2,066 | 2.09% | 36 | 0.04% | 99,051 |
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“People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The cloister and the observatory saint
Take comfort in about the same complaint.
So science and religion really meet.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)