Hindus | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-10

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00:04:26 1 Etymology
00:10:18 2 Terminology
00:10:28 2.1 Medieval-era usage (8th to 18th century)
00:13:26 2.2 Colonial-era usage (18th to 20th century)
00:18:08 2.3 Contemporary usage
00:24:05 2.4 Disputes
00:25:49 3 History of Hindu identity
00:30:38 3.1 Hindu identity amidst other Indian religions
00:33:44 3.2 Sacred geography
00:37:45 3.3 Hindu persecution
00:39:19 3.4 Hindu nationalism
00:45:01 4 Demographics
00:47:54 5 See also



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Hindus (pronunciation ) are persons who regard themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism. Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Hind (Indian subcontinent). However, the term was popularized by the Colonial British government after the 1871 census of colonial India, the term was used to create divisions in the Indian society on religion lines, especially in the aftermath of the 1857 revolution. The term "Hindu" is not used in any of the religions texts of India including the Vedas.The historical meaning of the term Hindu has evolved with time. Starting with the Persian and Greek references to the land of the Indus in the 1st millennium BCE through the texts of the medieval era, the term Hindu implied a geographic, ethnic or cultural identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent around or beyond the Sindhu (Indus) river. By the 16th century, the term began to refer to residents of the subcontinent who were not Turkic or Muslims.The historical development of Hindu self-identity within the local South Asian 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 regional languages. 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 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. Hindoo is an archaic spelling variant, whose use today may be considered derogatory.At more than 1.03 billion, Hindus are the world's third largest group after Christians and Muslims. The vast majority of Hindus, approximately 966 million, 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 Kingdom and Myanmar. 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.