sorry for mixing up your pronouns, hope you can get over the offence.
i have little idea of what you're rambling on about. it is you morons falsely claiming the entire heritage of the subcontinent based on things like sharing the same religion as people who originated from what land currently constitutes PAKISTAN. also, that definition of "idol" just confirms what i said.
ah, so now they are
our ancestors? make up your mind before we continue. and cause the downfall of our Indus Valley Civilisation has not been determined though most scholars agree that it was a gradual decline, not even close to being primarily due to foreign invasion. what does 1971 have to do with this? when did india enter east pakistan and make it a part of its own? do you think it's difficult to separate a nation with land mass on either side of its much larger neighbour and conspiring enemy?
following site provides sources:
https://www.stephen-knapp.com/about_the_name_Hindu.htm
The location wherein the word "Hindu" occurs for what some people feel the first time is in the
Avesta of the Iranians in its description of the country of India and its people. As their state religion of Zoroastrianism grew, the word seemed to take on a derogatory meaning. And of course as Islam spread in India, the words "Hindu" and "Hindustan" became even more disrespected and even hated in the Persian arena, and more prominent in the Persian and Arabic literature after the 11th century.
Another view of the source of the name Hindu is based on a derogatory meaning. It is said that, “Moreover, it is correct that this name [Hindu] has been given to the original Aryan race of the region by Muslim invaders to humiliate them. In Persian, says our author, the word means slave, and according to Islam, all those who did not embrace Islam were termed as slaves.” (
Maharishi Shri Dayanand Saraswati Aur Unka Kaam, edited by Lala Lajpat Rai, published in Lahore, 1898, in the Introduction)
Furthermore, a Persian dictionary titled
Lughet-e-Kishwari, published in Lucknow in 1964, gives the meaning of the word Hindu as “
chore [thief],
dakoo [dacoit],
raahzan [waylayer], and
ghulam [slave].” In another dictionary,
Urdu-Feroze-ul-Laghat (Part One, p. 615) the Persian meaning of the word Hindu is further described as
barda (obedient servant),
sia faam (black color) and
kaalaa (black). So these are all derogatory expressions for the translation of the term
hindu in the Persian label of the people of India.
haha, this infantile troll comes here to spread his misinformation and then calls upon mods when he's outed for it.
and yet you still do because modi ji has rammed his great long propaganda stick down your hungry mouth.
oh my... it's worse than i thought here. really can't read can you? i said "in it's entirety".
no, we're speaking english here. learn to read a text in it's entirety before commenting.