- 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
This picture is more spirited, is more like art, than any other yet copied from Hindoo originals.
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton
Although Bombay is a city of Hindoos, yet the stamp of English rule is everywhere impressed upon it.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
Besides the Hindoos and the Egyptians, there were many nations more ancient than the Hebrews.
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
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 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
A very singular people, found in Bombay, and nowhere else in India, are the Parsees, who differ from the Hindoos both in race and religion.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
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