Bengali Hindus: Difference between revisions

[[File:Debi Durga Sculpture by Sandalwood Murshidabad WB 30 01 2018.jpg|thumb|Devi Durga Sculpture by Sandalwood. Found in Murshidabad, West Bengal. Now kept in [[Indian Museum, Kolkata]].]]

 

The Hindus are a religious group,<ref name="tagore1">{{cite web |url=http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr.org/node/14858 |title=Atmaparichay |last=Tagore |first=Rabindranath |publisher=Society for Natural Language Technology Research |access-date=8 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320151334/http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr.org/node/14858 |archive-date=20 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Hindu (ethnicity)|url=http://www.indopedia.org/index.php?title=Hindu_%28ethnicity%29|access-date=5 June 2011|publisher=Indopedia}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Hindus ethnic groups|url=http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Hindu+%28ethnic+group%29|url-status=live|access-date=5 June 2011|work=The Hindu|publisher=Fairlex|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512233829/http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Hindu+(ethnic+group) |archive-date=12 May 2013 }}</ref> native to the [[Indian subcontinent]], speaking a broad range of [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] and [[Dravidian languages]] and adhering to the native belief systems, rooted in the [[Veda]]s. The word Hindu is popularly believed to be a [[Persian language|Persian]] [[exonym]] for the people native to the Indian subcontinent. The word is derived from [[Sindhu]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of the Hindu world (Volume I) |last=Garg |first=Ganga Ram |year=1992 |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |isbn=81-7022-374-1 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9pmo51lRnYC |access-date=5 June 2011}}</ref> the [[Sanskrit]] name for the river [[Indus]] and it initially referred to the people residing to the east of the river. The Hindus are constituted into various [[ethno-linguistic]] subgroups, which in spite of being culturally diverse, share a common bond of unity.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sharma|first=Arvind|author-link=Arvind Sharma|date=1 January 2002|title=ON HINDU, HINDUSTĀN, HINDUISM, AND HINDUTVA|journal=Numen|language=en|volume=49|issue=1|pages=1–36|doi=10.1163/15685270252772759|issn=1568-5276}}</ref>