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Hinduism is a type of religion and Hindus is the name of the people who follow it...

I.e. Christianity is a religion and Christians is the name given to people who follow it.

Sindhu is the Aryan name of River Indus. Central Asians and Iranian Aryans could not pronounce the consonant 's', and changed it into 'h' (Hendu for Sindhu and 'Hapta-Hendu' for 'Sapta-Sindhu'; the land of seven rivers, the states of Punjab in Pakistan and India, and Haryana in India). And they addressed the people who lived in regions near River Indus or East of it as 'Hindus'. And the Europeans termed religion of hindus as 'hinduism'.

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