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n. - A body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth;

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  • Dermot Killingley, however, cites a reference to "Hindooism" by Rammohun Roy in 1816.
  • The Oxford English Dictionary traces "Hindooism" to an 1829 reference in the Bengalee, Vol 43, and also refers to an 1858 usage by the German Indologist Max Müller.
  • Hindooism is more fantastic, and less pleasingly endeared to us, than the paganism of
  • -- The city here represented is the religious centre of Hindooism, and one of the oldest cities on the globe.
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