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Book: Hinduism in Five Minutes

Chapter: 9. Where and When did Hinduism Originate?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.41676

Blurb:

The chapter’s title elides two concerns. First, there is a question about the temporal and geographical origins of the term, “Hinduism.” Second, there is a question about the temporal and geographical origins of the practices we associate today with Hinduism. The term appears to be several centuries old, the practices several millennia old.

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