--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 7/26/06 2:06:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: <snip> > > 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.
Well, OK, but that would apply to anyone who migrated from a home country elsewhere, wouldn't it? 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. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
