This article is from a series of Questions asked on the internet and answered by Shekhar Bodhakar
If "Hindu" is a geographical term, then how do
non-Muslim Indians prefer to be called?
What terms are there for defining them?
There is a term that defines all Indians and that is..
INDIAN !!
Hindus were the citizens of a land called Hindustan.
“Hindu” is no more anyone's geographic identity. It WAS, once upon
a time, a geographic identity. That was until the disintegration of Hindustan
into Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal etc. The citizens of the disintegrated
Hindustan are now called Pakistani, Indian, Nepalese, Burmese etc
Just as, once there was a Soviet
Union and its citizens, the Soviets;
So was Hindustan with its
citizens called Hindus.
Just as the Soviets ceased
to exist as soon as there was no more a Soviet Union after its split into several
independent states;
So did the Hindus too cease
to exist as soon as there was no more a region /country /land called Hindustan as it split into several
independent states.
Just as the Soviets of
Soviet Union became Russians, Ukrainians etc,
So did the Hindus of
Hindustan became Pakistanis, Indians, Nepalis etc
There are no more Hindus as a geographic identity just as there
are no more Soviets as a geographic identity.
Soviets and Hindus ceased to exist as soon as the Soviet Union and
Hindustan ceased to exist.
THE PEOPLE OF INDIA ARE NOW CALLED INDIANS
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ALSO
READ:
1. What is the meaning of the word Hindu?
2. Why should Hindu Identity be given up?
3. Why the scheduled castes and tribes are not Hindu?
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