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hinduismo
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Set of Vedic religions practiced in South Asia, which has its origin in the Indus Valley around 4000 BC. of C . and evolved into a syncretism that only in the nineteenth century was baptized as 'Hinduism' by the Indian intellectual Ram Mohan Roy, as a socio-political reaffirmation during the British occupation; although in India it is named in Sanskrit as 2360; 2344; 2366; 23( 2344; 2343; 2352; 2381; 2350; ( Sanaatan Dharm "Eternal Religion") . The etymology comes from 'Hindu', which Spanish takes from the French Hindou, but has a pre-Islamic Persian origin, for the name given to the region of the Sindhu River (jindu "Indus").

  



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