Simple answer is No.
Yes
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no, Hinduism is a religion, where as hindu is the person who follows Hinduism. it is like christian and christianity.
No. They are incredibly different.
A modern Hindu is the exact same as a modern person of any other religion.
Bhatia's are Descendants of the Rajput's, But are considered in the same category as Khathri's.
Usually a person follows a religion his or her parents and family follows. So its natural for all of us to follow certain religion from our childhood. Same is applied to a Sikh. But if a person wants to be baptized as a Sikh then he or she has to go through Amrit Sanskar after which a person follows certain practices.
The Upanishads are a collection of more than 200 philosophical texts of the Hindu religion. In the same way that the Torah, Bible and Qur'an shape the Abrahamic faith's sects, the whole of the Upanishads shape the Hindu religion through canonical statements. It would be difficult to identify the beliefs from them without quoting them in their entirety.
About 43% of Canadians are Roman Catholic, about 30% Protestant, and 16% have no religion. The remainder are mostly Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, or Sikh.
Sikhism as a religion is not a proselyting religion and as such there is not condition or any particular ceremony for it. However, if a person wishes to join Sikhism, he or she follows the same principles what a Sikh follows :According to Article I of "Sikh Rehat Maryada" (the Sikh code of conduct & conventions) a Sikh is defined as "any human being who faithfully believes in One Immortal Being; ten Gurus, from Guru Nanak Dev to Sri Guru Gobind Singh; the Sri Guru Granth Sahib; the utterances and teachings of the ten Gurus and the baptism bequeathed by the tenth Guru; and who does not owe allegiance to any other religion"
Because being vegitarian Is apart of the Sikh faith and that is were we practice are religion so the same conditions apply there.
Akshay Kumar is Hindu Punjabi Hindu by religion Punjabi by culture
There are various schools of thought as far as the answer to this question is concerned. According to the most liberal school of thought, a Sikh boy or a girl can marry a member of the opposite sex belonging to any faith/religion. According to an extremist school of thought, a Sikh boy or a girl must marry a member of the opposite sex belonging to the same faith/religion. Some Sikhs are also so strict that they say a Sikh boy or girl must marry some one of the opposite sex belonging to the same faith/religion and caste. Although other Sikhs don't believe in caste.