- CULTURE CUISINE Vegetarianism VEGETARIANISM IN INDIA Though no country in the world is as strongly associated with vegetarianism as India, a number of recent studies have purported to establish that by far the greater majority of Indians are non-vegetarians. The history of vegetarianism in India begins not with the Aryans, as is commonly believed by Hindus, but in the aftermath of the ...www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/Cuisine/vegetar.html