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SUNLIGHT: in modern world, if you are living in it, the term 'Hindu' reffering to the people those faith and religious practices based on 'Veda, upanishad, Puranya, etc.' which known as 'sanathan dharma' or 'vedantist'.
the term 'HINDU' was used as a geographical term for the inhabitants of ancient India (for people of Hindustan), Hindustan was made of modern Afganistan pakistan india bangladesh srilanka nepal bhutan tibbet, the peoples of all these country were known as HINDU, in early 18th century the western scholars used the term Hindu as a religious term.
the word Hindu is derived from the river 'sindhu' (indus river) and so even the word India, which now flows in modern pakistan.
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