Countries based on religion which isn't an Abrahamic religion

Here are some ideas I had:

Bangabhumi: This is IOTL movement for Hindus in Bangladesh, and in 2003 some declared independence for the "Hindu Republic of Bangabhumi". If you manage to make it independent in your TL it might become the world's first Hindu Republic.

Khalistan: A movement for a Sikh republic which claims all of Indian Punjab as their own. It was actually a thing in the 1980s and 1990s before dying down. If you manage to become independent in your TL it will become a Sikh Republic, I think.

Any other ideas?
 
Tibetan nationalism would probably mesh quite well with Tibetan Buddhism.

Some would argue that India is heading towards this. Give the Hindu nationalists a wank and they could be.

Maybe if Indonesia breaks apart Bali could become a Hindu country?
 
An independent Tibet fulfils this scenario quite nicely.

Maybe if Indonesia breaks apart Bali could become a Hindu country?

I don’t really see why, considering Bali would constantly be scared about Muslim (or majority-Muslim) Java invading it, and so would have a really good reason to treat the Muslims well so as to avoid an invasion by its much stronger neighbour.
 
I don’t really see why, considering Bali would constantly be scared about Muslim (or majority-Muslim) Java invading it, and so would have a really good reason to treat the Muslims well so as to avoid an invasion by its much stronger neighbour.
They could still treat their Muslim minority well whilst claiming to be a Hindu country. They could probably work in something about Hindu values of religious tolerance and coexistence.
 
Some would argue that India is heading towards this. Give the Hindu nationalists a wank and they could be.

The flaw in this plan is that most Hindu nationalists claim to be secularists, and they claim that the other side is giving Muslims too many benefits. Furthermore, any Hindu nationalist government has to be fairly moderate due to India’s massive Muslim minority - Vajpayee was very much on the moderate side of the BJP, and even Modi has been forced to moderate as PM despite his inaction in an anti-Muslim riot as Governor of Gujarat.

As for the RSS itself taking power, that’s highly implausible. Even during the Emergency, when they became the democratic resistance, they didn’t gain more than a small minority of Indian support and reluctant support from other quarters of Indians who soon jumped to supporting the likes of Desai and JP once they were freed.

They could still treat their Muslim minority well whilst claiming to be a Hindu country. They could probably work in something about Hindu values of religious tolerance and coexistence.

I dunno. Bali has a real issue existing as an independent nation with a much larger, richer, and Muslim neighbour right next to it. Unless you give it a protector - say, the US supports it against Communist Java, or India protects it much like how it protected the Maldives.
 

CaliGuy

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Here are some ideas I had:

Bangabhumi: This is IOTL movement for Hindus in Bangladesh, and in 2003 some declared independence for the "Hindu Republic of Bangabhumi". If you manage to make it independent in your TL it might become the world's first Hindu Republic.

Khalistan: A movement for a Sikh republic which claims all of Indian Punjab as their own. It was actually a thing in the 1980s and 1990s before dying down. If you manage to become independent in your TL it will become a Sikh Republic, I think.

Any other ideas?
For what it's worth, it looks like Buddhism is the official religion in Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Thailand, and Cambodia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_religion
 
For what it's worth, it looks like Buddhism is the official religion in Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Thailand, and Cambodia:

In Sri Lanka, Buddhism has a "foremost place", and is not the state religion per se.

Honestly, I wonder why a place with a rebellious Hindu minority would even say that.
 

CaliGuy

Banned
In Sri Lanka, Buddhism has a "foremost place", and is not the state religion per se.

Thanks for this information.

Honestly, I wonder why a place with a rebellious Hindu minority would even say that.

Well, hasn't the Sinhalese leadership of Sri Lanka been hostile to the Hindu Tamils in general?
 
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