Hi. I need to learn more about Hinduism, I don't know nearly enough about it. But a Hindu is someone who considers themselves either culturally or ethnically Hindu.
Yes. They consider themselves Hindu and they are also Buddhist for religion.
In history, the word Hindu has been used to identify people from South Asia or whose cultural identity is in South Asia.
Yes, but essentially those who live in the Indian peninsult.
geographic, ethnic or cultural identifier for people living in the Indian subcontinent around or beyond the Sindhu (Indus) river. By the 16th century, the term began to refer to residents of the subcontinent who were not Turkic or Muslims.
The historical development of Hindu self-identity within the local South Asian population, in a religious or cultural sense, is unclear. Competing theories state that Hindu identity developed in the British colonial era, or that it may have developed post-8th century CE after the Islamic invasion and medieval Hindu
whether they are practising or non-practicing or "Laissez-faire". The term does not include those who identify with other Indian religions such as Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism or various animist tribal religions found in India such as "Sarnaism". The term Hindu, in contemporary parlance, includes people who accept themselves as culturally or ethnically Hindu rather than with a fixed set of religious beliefs within Hinduism. One need not be religious in the minimal sense, states Julius Lipner, to be accepted as Hindu by Hindus,