Blades the claim that Hinduism is is synthesis of various traditions is as anti WP REDFLAG as it gets in fact the article gets it wrong IMO in positioning this as a Western understanding and also is supported for example by Flood p 16 The many traditions that feed into contemporary Hinduism and frankly the rest of the book section I don t think we should be complaining of close paraphrasing which I agree is a concern while simultaneously objecting to fair paraphrasing just because a single word synthesis is not found in a particular source