ABSTRACT
India and the United States share some common characteristics that provide the enabling environment for the flowering of religious faith and devotion. Jains form a very small minority in India closely allied with Hindus, and they are renegotiating that relationship in the United States. Sikhs have roots in the Punjab region of India and occupy a space between Hindus and Muslims - both geographic and religious - and they maintain an intricate amalgam of Sikh religious practice and Punjabi ethos. Pakistan was created as an independent Muslim state in 1947 at the same time that India was also granted independence by the British. Asian Indians and Pakistanis will continue to establish religious organizations and to build temples, mosques, gurdwaras and churches. Migration from India and Pakistan takes place in a radically different context of rapid mobility and communication that brings profound changes to the experience of both the immigrants and other citizens.
