Hindus

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Hindus (Hindustani: [ˈɦɪndu] ; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism. Historically, Hindu has been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent. It is assumed that the term "Hindu" traces back to Avestan scripture Vendidad which refers to the land of seven rivers as Hapta Hendu, which itself is cognate with the Sanskrit term Sapta Sindhuḥ. (The term Sapta Sindhuḥ is mentioned in Rig Veda and refers to a Northwestern Indian region of seven rivers and to India as a whole.) The Greek cognates of the same terms are "Indus" (for the river) and "India" (for the land of the river). Likewise, the Hebrew cognate hōd-dū refers to India mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Esther, Esther 1:1). The term "Hindu" also implied a geographic, ethnic, or cultural identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent around or beyond the Sindhu (Indus) River. By the 16th century CE, the term began to refer to residents of the subcontinent...

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