LARGEST CONCENTRATIONS OF MUSLIMS IN INDIA

                        Assam                                                        24.0%

                        West Bengal                                               21.5%

                        Kerala                                                        21.3%

                        Uttar Pradesh                                             15.9%

                        Bihar                                                          14.1%

                        Karnataka                                                  11.0%

                        Andhra Pradesh                                           8.5% 

Muslims tend to be concentrated in urban areas--for example, Hyderabad (38%), Lucknow (29%), Varanasi (26%), Allahabad (24%), Kanpur (20%) and concentrations above the national average in Calcutta, Bombay, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Agra, Jaipur, Indore and Jabalpur. Roughly two-thirds of all Muslims in India are followers of Sunni Islam (approximately 65 million); one-third follow Shi'a Islam (about 35 million).  There is also a small community (less than 200,000) of the heretical Ahmadiyas (a dissident Shi'a group in the Punjab region, founded in l889, with a following also in Pakistan as well as outside the subcontinent in Africa and the United States).