Hindu (disambiguation)
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The word Hindu occurs as:-
- Adherents of Hinduism
- A person from the Republic of India (see Culture of India and Hindu philosophy)
- commonly confused with Hindi, an Indian language
- Inhabitant of Hindustan (Hindustan is a colloquial term for India; it means "the land of the Hindus")
- Persian name for the river Indus River, From Sanskrit Sindhu
- The Hindu, an Indian English language newspaper
- The Hindu Kush, the main mountain range in Afghanistan
- In Canadian English, a derisive term for Indo-Canadians (typically Sikh and not Hindu)
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