A much later phenomenon in Hindu history, though ironically claimed to be of antiquity.
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Avatāravāda, i.e. the doctorine of incarnation.
No other religious group uses it as extensively as the as the Vaiṣṇavas. In Vaiṣṇavism almost everyone is an incarnation of either Viṣṇu or some other god, sent by Viṣṇu. And other than that it has a long history of appropriating rivalling religious figures as incarnations into its canon.
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A List of different Gītās
Bhagvad Gītā is just one of the many Gītās that are there in the Hindu/Indian literature. There are around 60 more Gītās other than the BhagvadGītā, 14 of them being from the Mahābhārata alone, the text which the BhagvadGītā is a part of.
Hindutva and Hindu Nationalism Now this is one of the most if not most mispercieved concepts in contemporary India. Hindutva is “originally: the state or quality of being Hindu; ‘Hinduness’. According to Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of World Religions, Hindutva is a concept of “Indian cultural, national, and religious identity”. The term “conflates a geographically based religious, […]
Hinduism in its current form though bereft of many things which were once its part, is still much diverse and nuanced.
How old is the term Hindu? Was it given by the Mughal Invaders or is it more archaic than most people assume it to be??