- a variation of Hindu.
Hindoo
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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
Around these summits gathers the whole Hindoo mythology.
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
In another part of the city is the Golden Temple, devoted to the god 270 Shiva, which divides with that of the monkeys the homage of the Hindoos.
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
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 Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
The food of the Hindoos is rice, and rice cannot be cultivated except in fields well watered.
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
He admitted Hindoos to a share in his government, and endeavored by complete tolerance to extinguish religious hatreds.
From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
The Vedas, the sacred writings of the Hindoos, according to Sir William Jones the Orientalist, “cannot be denied to have an antiquity the most distant.”
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.
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