Hinduism The term Hinduism refers to the civilization of the Hindus (originally, the inhabitants of the land of the Indus River).Introduced in about 1830 by British writers, it properly denotes the Indian civilization of approximately the last 2,000 years, which evolved from Vedism the religion of the Indo- European peoples who settled in India in the last centuries of the 2nd millennium BC. ... It is axiomatic that no religious idea in India ever dies or is superseded-it is merely combined with the new ideas that arise in response to it. ... This fundamental ...

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There are 750 million+ Hindus in the world, most concentrated in India (pearls.org). ... These stories allow " people in every class, caste, and stratum of Hindu society, literate or illiterate [illiteracy is very high in India] [to be] at home in the same universe- (Earhart, p. 780). ... The legend of the "man who woke up" is generally as follows adapted from Smith (p. 83-4) When Siddhartha Gautama was born his parents commissioned a future seer who said if he remained in the world he was destined to unite all of India. ...

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The most dominant belief in Hindu is that one's social status/caste CasteLatin, castus, "pure," "segregated," or "cut off" one of five extremely rigid social classes based on a system utilized in India from ancient times through the present day. ...

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