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
Hindoo mythology has also a three-fold Isis, or moon-goddess; namely, Bhu on earth, Swar in heaven, Pátála, below the earth.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge
But, at any rate, I wish there was nothing worse to be said of the Hindoos than their mode of treating the forms from which life has departed.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
Now, the fact is that the followers are generally not Hindoos.
From March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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
Millions of Hindoos go every year on pilgrimages.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
It is lined with temples and palaces, which descend to the water by flights of steps, or ghauts, which at this hour are thronged with devout Hindoos.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
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