Hindu (disambiguation)

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The word Hindu may refer to:

  • An adherent of Hinduism
  • An adherent of any Indian religion
  • A person with ethnic roots in the Indian subcontinent
  • Historically, Epic India or a person or attribute thereof
  • Inhabitant of Hindustan (Hindustan being a colloquial term for India, literally "the land of the Indus")
  • Persian name for the 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 term for Indo-Canadians
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