1. hindoo - Noun
2. hindoo - Adjective
Alt. of Hindu
Source: Webster's dictionaryJames Joyce, in his novel Finnegans Wake, in 1939, punned on the word "Hindoo” (as the British used to spell it), joking that it came from the names of two Irishmen, Hin-nessy and Doo-ley: "This is the hindoo Shimar Shin between the dooley boy and the hinnessy. Wendy Doniger
...On reaching Mooltan, Mahomed Kasim also subdued that province; and himself occupying the city, he erected mosques on the site of the Hindoo temples. Firishta
After his return the King proceeded to reduce the fortress of Dewurconda, strongly situated on the top of a hill, which after a long siege was taken, and the Hindoo palaces and temples, by the King's orders were consumed to ashes, and mosques built in their stead. Firishta
the Hindu faith Source: Internet
But when Europeans started to use the term Hindoo, they applied it to the non-Muslim masses of India without those scholarly differentiations. Source: Internet
Chesterton wrote The Feud of the Foreigner in 1920 saying that the Jew "is a foreigner far more remote from us than is a Bavarian from a Frenchman; he is divided by the same type of division as that between us and a Chinaman or a Hindoo. Source: Internet