- 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
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
Evelyn Waugh called Hindoo Holiday “radiantly delightful” and its accuracy of human perception “intoxicating”.
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
The strongest frontier line which could be adopted would be along the Hindoo Khosh, from Pamir to Bamian, thence to the south by the Helmund, Girishk, and Kandahar, to the Arabian Sea.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
I ask, What idea do the 272 Hindoos attach to bathing in the Ganges?
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
Among the old Hindoos the seven stars represented the seven Rishis.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
India has three capitals—Delhi, where once reigned the Great Mogul, and which is still the centre of the Mohammedan faith; Benares, the Mecca of the Hindoos; and Calcutta, the capital of the modern British Empire.
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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