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After the establishment of the British rule in India there were serious attempts to study Indian society so as to know it deep. One of the arenas in which the colonial officials and scholars concentrated their attention was on the Religious studies. The changing vocabulary to denote the non- familiar religious groups of Indian Sub- continent is an indicator of how well these scholars and officials were perplexed pertaining to the religious identity of the native population. It was at this juncture they sorted out to carve a religious identity to the cultural- others of Indian Sub- continent. The changing definitions and modalities for defining the religious population suffice the proof for the confusion on the part of new defining religion.