Hi. I need to learn more about Hinduism, I don't know nearly enough about it. But a Hindu is someone who considers themselves either culturally or ethnically Hindu.
Yes. They consider themselves Hindu and they are also Buddhist for religion.
In history, the word Hindu has been used to identify people from South Asia or whose cultural identity is in South Asia.
Yes, but essentially those who live in the Indian peninsult.
It's unclear how Hindu self-identity developed in local populations to South Asia, in the religious and cultural sense.
They have such a long and interesting history. Really a great civilization.
The term Hindu shows up in a few documents going back to between the 13th and 18th centuries, but they are in Sanskrit and other languages.
Yes Sanskrit is an old language share by many other countries is south asia.