Most Indian philosophical traditions, including the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and Jain systems, believe in reincarnation. People who have done good deeds and led moral lives are reborn into higher social classes; those who have not are doomed to return as members of the lower classes or as animals. So animals have the right to live as people.

Pictures of people and animals that we saw during the trip to India.

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