Hindu
A Hindu is a person who regard themselves as adherents of some aspect of Hinduism.
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2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindus Retrieved:2021-5-10.
- Hindus (Template:IPA-hns) are persons who regard themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.[1] Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent.
The historical development of Hindu self-identity within the local Indian population, in a religious or cultural sense, is unclear. Competing theories state that Hindu identity developed in the British colonial era, or that it may have developed post-8th century CE after the Islamic invasion and medieval Hindu-Muslim wars. A sense of Hindu identity and the term Hindu appears in some texts dated between the 13th and 18th century in Sanskrit and Bengali. The 14th- and 18th-century Indian poets such as Vidyapati, Kabir and Eknath used the phrase Hindu dharma (Hinduism) and contrasted it with Turaka dharma (Islam). The Christian friar Sebastiao Manrique used the term 'Hindu' in religious context in 1649.In the 18th century, the European merchants and colonists began to refer to the followers of Indian religions collectively as Hindus, in contrast to Mohamedans for Turks, Mughals and Arabs following Islam. By the mid-19th century, colonial orientalist texts further distinguished Hindus from Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains, but the colonial laws continued to consider all of them to be within the scope of the term Hindu until about mid-20th century. Scholars state that the custom of distinguishing between Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs is a modern phenomenon. At more than 1.2 billion, Hindus are the world's third largest group after Christians and Muslims. The vast majority of Hindus, approximately 966 million (94.3% of world Hindu population), live in India, according to India's 2011 census. After India, the next 9 countries with the largest Hindu populations are, in decreasing order: Nepal, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, United States, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. [2] These together accounted for 99% of the world's Hindu population, and the remaining nations of the world together had about 6 million Hindus in 2010.
- Hindus (Template:IPA-hns) are persons who regard themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.[1] Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent.
- ↑ Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, Template:ISBN, pages 35–37
- ↑ 10 Countries With the Largest Hindu Populations, 2010 and 2050 Pew Research Center (2015), Washington DC