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Hindus

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Hindus 

followers of the Hindu religion, found throughout India and in certain other areas of the world where Indians have emigrated (some Indian Ocean islands, South and Southeast Asia, Africa, Fiji, and Guyana). Despite the significant differences between sects, Hindus are united by common religious doctrines, their unique culture and way of life, and their observance of caste restrictions. Sometimes the entire population of India (Indians) is incorrectly referred to as Hindu.
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They encountered --sometimes in whole villages--Chinese, Japanese, Italians, Portuguese, Swiss, Hindus, Koreans, Norwegians, Danes, French, Armenians, Slavs, almost every nationality save American.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
He could see the evening gatherings, held on the circle of the threshing- floors, because that was the only level ground; could see the wonderful unnamed green of the young rice, the indigo blues of the Indian corn, the dock-like patches of buckwheat, and, in its season, the red bloom of the amaranth, whose tiny seeds, being neither grain nor pulse, make a food that can be lawfully eaten by Hindus in time of fasts.
The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
The Hindus dreamed that the earth rested on an elephant, and the elephant on a tortoise, and the tortoise on a serpent; and though it may be an unimportant coincidence, it will not be out of place here to state, that a fossil tortoise has lately been discovered in Asia large enough to support an elephant.
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