The Christian friar Sebastiao Manrique used the term 'Hindu' in religious context in 1649. The 14th- and 18th-century Indian poets such as, and used the phrase Hindu dharma (Hinduism) and contrasted it with Turaka dharma (Islam). Competing theories state that Hindu identity developed in the British colonial era, or that it developed post-8th century CE after the Islamic invasion and medieval Hindu-Muslim wars.Ī sense of Hindu identity and the term Hindu appears in some texts dated between the 13th and 18th century in Sanskrit and regional languages. The historical development of Hindu self-identity within the local South Asian population, in a religious or cultural sense, is unclear. By the 16th century, the term began to refer to residents of the subcontinent who were not Turkic or Muslims. Starting with the Persian and Greek references to the land of the in the 1st millennium BCE through the texts of the medieval era, the term Hindu implied a geographic, ethnic or cultural identifier for people living in the around or beyond the Sindhu () river. The historical meaning of the term Hindu has evolved with time. It has historically been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people indigenous to the. Adherent of Hinduism Hindu ( ()) refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of.

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