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daggerdrone
1599 days ago
I wonder why they didn't just call it the "Indian Switcheroo". Why would it be named after a religion?
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boojing
1599 days ago
Probably because "Hindu Switcheroo" rhymes
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csomar
1599 days ago
India is derived from "Hindu". It rhymes and in some languages, it is the same.
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chupchap
1599 days ago
India is derived from the river Indus. As in the land around and beyond the Indus. Hindus came later as a way to describe the people and religion of the people in the region. Now it refers to the religion alone and not the people.
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the_snooze
1599 days ago
It rhymes.
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augusto2112
1599 days ago
Because it rhymes :)
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kumarvvr
1598 days ago
I guess it was a bit of a rhyming play.
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