Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Palestine

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:01:32 -0700

In a message dated 7/26/06 2:06:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

I would bet Hindus would consider India their traditional homeland.

Dunno. Of the world's 900 million Hindus, about
890 million live in India, so clearly the vast
majority would. But there are also other countries
(albeit much smaller, obviously) with traditional
Hindu cultures.

From Wikipedia:

Significant numbers of Hindus reside in Bali, Bangladesh, Bhutan,
Fiji, Guyana, Nepal, Mauritius, Suriname, Singapore and Trinidad and
Tobago. In Nepal and Bali, Hinduism is the major religion, and is
still reflected in the traditional culture and architecture. There
are also sizeable Hindu populations in Sri Lanka (1.42 million)[25],
Pakistan (2 million)[26], Malaysia (1.5 million)[27], United States
(766,000)[28], South Africa (654,714)[29], the Middle East (1.4
million)[30] and the United Kingdom (558,342)[31].

Would Nepalese and Balinese Hindus consider India their
traditional homeland? I don't know.

It seems to me the "homeland" issue arises mainly when
there's been a major diaspora of a tribal or ethnic
group with an associated religion.

I've heard Hindus outside of the Indian Subcontinent such as in Bali referred to as expatriates. In other words they or their ancestors migrated from India. Just as Jews migrated from Israel. But India is considered the ancestral homeland. India also at one time incorporated more than what we currently call India. Pakistan all the way to Burma was at one time referred to as Bharat, or India. The very word Hindu came from what people were called that came from the Indus river civilization. They were called Indus. 
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