- a variation of Hindu.
Hindoo
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Hindoos
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As he wrote about the 1777 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, it contained "within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohametan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination."
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2023
Evelyn Waugh called Hindoo Holiday “radiantly delightful” and its accuracy of human perception “intoxicating”.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2020
I thought JR Ackerley’s Hindoo Holiday was the most enjoyable book I’d ever read when I discovered it belatedly 10 years ago, and it seems to me even better now.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2020
In reaction to British diatribes about "Hindoo immorality" a new generation of British-educated Hindu reformers began critically to re-examine their own traditions.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2014
What must be the effect on the Hindoo mind of such a system, founded in justice, and enforced by a power which they cannot resist?
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
The Hindoos have even learned to make pilgrimages by steam, and find it much cheaper, as well as easier, than to go afoot.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
The food of the Hindoos is rice, and rice cannot be cultivated except in fields well watered.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
In all these wanderings, I have met no rudeness in word or act from Turks or Arabs, Hindoos or Malays, Chinese or Japanese; but have often received kindness from strangers.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
A great body of men were thus very often assembled together, who resolved themselves into hostile classes, separated as any two castes of the Hindoos.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper
The religious ideas of the Hindoos show themselves in other ways, which at least challenge our respect for their consistency.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
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